Unbelievable facts about History

1. The national flag with the most colors in it is Belize (1981), with 12.
2. The first hand-held mobile phone call was made on April 3rd, 1973, in NYC.
3. Buzz Aldrin (the second man to ever step on the Moon, in 1969) actually peed himself while walking on the surface, apparently.
4. In Ancient Egypt, the word for ‘cat’ was actually pronounced ‘mew’, or ‘meow’.
5. The American Revolution (1765-1783) came before the French Revolution (1789-1799).
6. The Anglo-Zanzibar War (1896) was the shortest war everlasting just 38 minutes!
7. The printing press, which revolutionized the sharing of information, was invented by Gutenberg around the year 1440.
8. The largest contiguous land empire in history is The Mongol Empire (13th & 14th centuries).
9. Egypt is classified as the oldest country in the world, dating back to 3100 BCE.
10. Tim Berners-Lee created the first-ever web browser (World Wide Web), in 1990.

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