If Earth's history was condensed into twenty-four hours, life would've appeared at around 4am, land plants at 10:24pm, dinosaur extinction at 11:41pm, and human history would’ve began at 11:58:43pm.
21
In 1897, Bayer, who is the maker of Aspirin, marketed the drug heroin.
56
February 1865 is the only month in recorded history to not have a full moon.
83
The flushing toilet was invented in 1596, not by Thomas Crapper as most people think, but by Sir John Harington.
98
The first bomb dropped on Germany in WWII killed the only elephant in the Berlin zoo!
166
In ancient Greece, tossing an apple to a girl was a traditional proposal of marriage. Catching it meant that she accepted.
29
Pilgrims did not eat with forks. They only used spoons, knives and their fingers.
44
In 1958, a nuclear bomb was lost somewhere along the swampy coast of Georgia. Its whereabouts remain a mystery to this day.
29