An underwater forest off the coast of Alabama that is 50,000 years old was uncovered by Hurricane Katrina.
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Napoleon Bonaparte thought torture should be abolished because the information obtained from it is worthless.
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The first chocolate eggs were made in Germany in the 19th century and remain one of the most popular Easter candies today.
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Chunosuke Matsuyama, a Japanese Seaman, sent a message in a bottle in 1784 that his ship had wrecked. It washed up in 1935 in the village where he was born.
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In ancient Athens, the worlds first democracy, they had a process called ostracism, where once a year the people could vote on the politician they thought was most destructive to the democratic process. The “winner” was banished from Athens for 10 years.
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