History Facts

The shortest war in recorded history lasted well under an hour.

Cleopatra lived closer in time to the Moon landing than to the building of the Great Pyramid of Giza.

The Eiffel Tower was originally built to be torn down after 20 years.

The Great Fire of London destroyed most of the city in 1666 but killed only a handful of people.

The Great Wall of China cannot actually be seen from space with the naked eye.

The Mongol Empire was the largest contiguous land empire in history.

Napoleon Bonaparte was of roughly average height for his time, not notably short.

The University of Oxford is older than the Aztec Empire.

The Great Pyramid of Giza was built mainly by paid laborers, not slaves.

Vikings reached North America roughly 500 years before Christopher Columbus.