did you know that during World War II the British deceived the German forces by spreading the myth that eating carrots enabled them to see better at night when it was actually radar technology here are some more crazy history facts a tablet discovered in ancient Babylon dates back to about 1500 BCE and bears the world's oldest recorded joke a quip about a mother John Quincy Adams the sixth President of the United States was known for his morning ritual of skinny dipping in the pomac river he believed it was his essential for his health in 1783 Louis
Sebastian lenorman coined the term Parachute by jumping from a tree with two umbrellas it was designed as a way to flee burning buildings