Wednesday 11 June 2008

Top Five Secret Historical 'Facts'



1.Between the ages of 9 and 13 Shakespeare ate three pencils for breakfast, this is why he was so good at writing.

2.King George the fourth was not mad, just very, very hungry.

3.Shortly after the Great Fire of London, when killing and raping were highly fashionable, there were approximately three million sharks released into the Thames in an attempt to "clean up the streets".

4. The Holocaust never happened.

5. During the start of the Tudor period there was a branch of the military whose job it was to go around the towns giving people more appropriate hair cuts. When questioned about this, King Henry proclaimed: "Listen here brother, don't wave that goddamn thang in ma face, i wouldn't come all up in your crib waving no goddamn dictaphone in YOUR face."

words: Matthew Hamblin

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