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Henry III of France reportedly kept 2,000 lap dogs and regularly wore a basket of puppies around his neck.
What 1900 people thought life would be like in the year 2000: personal flying machines.
What 1900 people thought life would be like in the year 2000: balloon-supported lake-walking.
In WW2, British soldiers were issued 3 pieces of toilet paper a day. American soldiers got 22.
Oxford University was founded over 300 years before the Aztec Empire.
When Mongols attacked Russian cities with fireworks, the Russians thought they were being attacked by Dragons.
People once thought Earth was full of deep caverns, and possibly entire underground worlds (which it actually is, but only for around 1% of its crust).
George Armstrong Custer was the youngest ever General in the US army at 23. A bit like the army's Justin Bieber.
Marie Therese, daughter of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, was Queen of France for 20 minutes.
The biggest landslide in American history: Roosevelt won 98.49% of the electoral vote in 1936. Poor Alf.