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khalifahsparkles:
happened recently at a cousin's wedding. it wasn't funny at all

They should expect that if they fix the wedding between may and October.

Sleekyshuga:
No 5. This can slow/increase the heart rate .. Haaaah!!! Abeg oo especially when the whispers becomes so loud with people gesturing with their hands..

I'll always suggest an event planner carries out his/her duty than a committee of friends..

No 6. LWKMD .. I remember my aunt's wedding.. When the pastor got to that question, she was so uneasy, blinking her eyes severally..

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nairalandbuzz:
I refuse to believe this... I saw a video on Youtube and


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLlsjLLsqXc

How could you possibly hold a hook and line straight up in the so called river in the ocean (0:30) and the current wont at least move the line from being a straight line? I doubt it!

check this one: http://www.boredpanda.com/cenote-angelita-underwater-river-mexico/

28. Jimmy Williams, 16, Thomas Rios, 18, and Leah Johnson, 18, vanished in November 1970 after telling friends they were going to a football game but never returned. November 20, 1970.

About 40years later, they were discovered as police tested out sonar equipment in Oklahoma lake.

Skeletal remains found in two rusting cars at the bottom of the Oklahoma lake belong to six people who vanished in two separate incidents more than 40 years ago, DNA tests have confirmed.
The discovery made accidentally as police tested out sonar in Foss Lake in September 2013 brings an end to two cold cases, stretching back to 1969 and 1970. More than a year after the discovery, the state Medical Examiner's Office confirmed the identities of the bodies, and said they alldied from drowning in accidental deaths.

27. In the middle ages, people believed that sperm coming from the left testicle produced girls. Men who wanted sons only had it removed.

26. In the Great Fire of London in 1666, which destroyed 13,200 houses, 87 churches, the cathedral of St. Paul and left 70,000 homeless, only 8 people were killed.

24. The Ottoman Empire’s Sultan Ibrahim I had 280 of his concubines drowned in the ocean after one of them slept with another man.


25. In medieval times people were put to death for being witches. One anthropologist conjectures as many as600,000 “witches” lost their lives.

23. Soviet biologist Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov attempted to impregnate a chimpanzee with human sperm, but failed in his quest to make a “humanzee.”

22. After finding a 36,000 year old steppe bison preserved in the ice, Alaskan zoology professor R. Dale Guthrie and his teamate some of its flesh. Guthrie said “the meat was well aged but still a little tough.”

21. Between 1525 and 1866, 12.5 million Africans were kidnapped and sold into slavery in the United States, Caribbean, and South America.

20. Animals were put on trial in medieval times and routinely sentenced to death.

19. . People were buried alive so often in the 19th century that inventors patented safety coffins that would give the “dead” the ability to alert those above ground if they were still alive.

18. This sudden lack of cats led to the spread of disease because infected rats ran free. The most devastating of these diseases,the Bubonic Plague, killed 100 million people.(13th Century).

17. The Mayans also made sacrifices. The most common involved pulling astill-beating heartout of a victim’s chest.

15. 15. In ancient Egypt, servants were smeared with honey in order to attract flies away from the pharaoh.


16. Upon dying, some pharaohs were sealed into their tombs alongside their living servants, pets, concubines and treasures.

14. The "Spanish Donkey" was a torture device, not a dance move.

This form of torture involved having people sit naked on a board many feet in the air. Torturers would then tie increasingly heavy weights to their feet. This was obviously uncomfortable.

13. At the start of World War I, the US Airforce (then a component of the US army) had only 18 pilots and 5 – 12 airplanes.

12. Ancient Egyptians used slabs of stones as pillows.

11. Officially, the longest war in history was between the Netherlands and the Isles of Scilly, which lasted from 1651 to 1986. There were no casualties.

10. A river under Mexico ocean.

Cenotes are actually deep natural pits, or sinkholes, characteristic of Mexico, resulting from the collapse of limestone bedrock that exposes groundwater underneath. It is arguably the most unique formation of this kind, a thin layer of hydrogen sulfate separates the saltwater from the fresh water above it.


http://www.boredpanda.com/cenote-angelita-underwater-river-mexico/

9. This is Laika, the first animal ever to be sent up into orbit. She was a Moscow stray before she was a Cosmonaut. Nobody expected her to survive the trip, and she didn’t. There’s now a monument erected to her in Moscow, of a dog standing on a rocket. 1957.

8. The Guanajuato Mummies probably died horrible deaths.


Guanajuato Mummies are famous for being the most frightening mummies ever found. Their twisted, anguished expressions lead many to believe that they were buried alive.

7. When we didn't have alarm clocks, we used "knocker-ups."

Before alarm clocks were invented, people were hired to shoot peasat workers' windows to wake them up for their shifts.

6. There was a giant Argentinian bird.


This bird is thought to be the largest bird ever to fly. It had a wingspan of roughly 21 feet, and it loomed over our planet approximately six million years ago.

you dont need this bro, pls modify Thanks.
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5. Grigori Rasputin endured multiple murder attempts in one day in 1916. He was shot, stabbed, and poisoned by numerous people, and he managed to survive. After all that, the cold waters of Russia are what eventually killed him.

4. Muhammad Ali was the greatest boxer in history. Before he was Muhammad, he was Cassius Clay. This photo shows him training and posing underwater at the Sir John Hotel, Miami in 1961.

3. The shortest war ever lasted less than an hour.


The Anglo-Zanzibar War lasted only 38 minutes, making it the shortest war in history.

2. Fingerprints.


These two men look nearly identical, they had the same name, and they were sent to the same prison. Before imprisonment, they had never met. They are the reason why fingerprints are now used to identify people.

1. Einstein could have been president.

Albert Einstein was offered a presidential seat in Israel. He declined.

History is a very broad subject. Most of the time, it has to be broken up into several different classifications to make it more manageable. Since this topic is so broad, there is absolutely no way you can cover it all, especially not in great detail. But sometimes those details, the little fun facts are the most interesting things of all. That's why we went ahead and compiled a list of historical facts that your teachers probably failed to mention.



Source: http://www.viralnova.com/weird-history/

http://list25.com/25-strange-facts-from-history-you-probably-didnt-learn-in-school/

https://www.buzzfeed.com/mikespohr/51-historical-facts-that-are-totally-messed-up?_e_pi_=7%2CPAGE_ID10%2C9336137370

Adesiji77:
Keep it coming Explorers...travel on my mind

Lol, me sef no mind. No 4get me o....