ODD HISTORICAL FACTS

During medieval times animals were put on trial and sometimes

sentenced to death

Throughout the 1800s people were buried alive so often that coffins

included mechanisms to allow those people to ring a bell in the graveyard.

The Mongols would light the fat of their enemies on fire and proceed

to shoot it at their other enemies.

In ancient Egypt, when a ruler would die all of his servants and animals

were buried alive with him

The last time a cavalry charge was used on the battlefield was during

WWII when a Mongolian cavalry division charged a German infantry

division. 2,000 Mongolian units were killed and not a single German died.

Gorgias of Epirus, a Greek teacher was born in his dead mother's coffin.

The pallbearers heard him crying during the burial.

Alexander the Great is famous for a spying technique still used today.

He had all his soldiers write home to their families and then intercepted

the letters. Whoever didn't have something nice to say was executed.

King Goujian of Yue placed a row of convicted criminals at the front of

his army. Before the battle they would all cut off their own heads to

show the other army how crazy King Goujian's army was.