HISTORICAL OR HYSTERICAL?

If a Roman army failed in battle then 10% of them would be executed. This was called decimation

During the Blitz (London being bombed) people had to eat 3 carrots a day to see in the dark

Ancient Mayans built huge pyramids (like the Egyptians) except these ones were under the sea

Romans believed that the City of Rome was founded by two boys raised by a giant wolf

In the 1800s rich Englishman paid Indian children to cover themselves in jam to attract flies

In the 1936 Berlin Oylmpics Hitler replaced a jewish, female athlete with a disguised man

During the English Civil War one army had a poodle that was thought to be sent by the devil

People were found guilty of being witches if they floated and innocent if they sank

There were over 600 different attempts to kill a Cuban man called Castro.

Chimpanzees were banned from giving the Nazi salute under Hitler. (some were trained to do so!)

The Mongol empire used cats to forecast the weather

Ronald Reagan, US President in the 1980s, thought he could read people's minds with jelly beans

There is a road in Russia mostly made out of the bones of Josef Stalin's victims

At Henry VIII's banquets even the plates were edible as they were made from sugar!

Some ancient carvings show the Egyptians had something similar to the iPad

Vikings wore horned helmets and would dig the horns into the ground to make a toilet

The Roman army would march backwards towards their enemies to limit distractions

Pokemon is roughly based on an ancient Greek sport of catching animals in ball shaped cages

In medieval times ground up hedgehog was fed to lepers to cure them of their disease

The Chinese stopped exporting Rhubarb to Britain in 1840 hoping we would die of constapation