1. In the army of Napoleon, soldiers could turn to the generals for "you."



2. In Russia dragonflies were called grasshoppers.
3. The punishment of rods was abolished in Russia only in 1903.
4. "Hundred Years War" lasted 116 years.
5. What we call the Caribbean crisis, Americans call the Cuban crisis, and the Cubans themselves - the October crisis.
6. The shortest war in history was the war between Britain and Zanzibar on August 27, 1896. It lasted exactly 38 minutes.
7. The first atomic bomb dropped on Japan was on an airplane named Enola Gay. The second is on the Bock's Car
8. In Peter I in Russia, a special agency was created for petitions and petitions, which was called ... racketmaking.
9. On June 4, 1888, the New York State Congress adopted a bill to abolish the execution by hanging. The reason for this "humane" act was the introduction of a new method of the death penalty - the electric chair.
10. According to the contract concluded between the engineer Gustave Eiffel and the city authorities of Paris, in 1909 the Eiffel Tower was to be dismantled (!) And sold for scrap.
11. The Spanish Inquisition pursued many groups of the population, but more than other Cathars, Marranos and Moriscos. Cathars are followers of the Albigensian heresy, the Marranas are baptized Jews, and the morays are baptized Muslims.
12. The first Japanese to enter Russia was Denbei, the son of a merchant from Osaka. His ship was nailed to the shores of Kamchatka in 1695. In 1701 he reached Moscow. Peter I determined him to teach Japanese to several teenagers.
13. Only in 1947 in England, the post of a man who was supposed to fire at the entrance to Napoleon Bonaparte of England (!) Was shot from a cannon.
14. Guy de Maupassant, Alexandre Dumas, Charles Gounod, Leconte de Lille and many other cultural figures signed a famous protest against ... "the disfigurement of Paris by the Eiffel Tower."

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