#TenThingsLearnt w/c Dec 30
1. Dominican Republicans claim Haitians used to enslave them - this is not true.
2. The city of London is 1500 yrs older than Genghis Khan.
3. The Ottoman Empire was still around when Walt Disney released his first cartoons.
4. In the 14th century, men accused midwives of being witches because they wanted to dominate the midwifery industry as well.
5. Swifts fly for ten continuous months. They eat, sleep and mate in the air.
6. The Earth isn’t floating, it is falling towards the sun, which is falling towards the center of the galaxy.
7. Rather than face judgement, waves of suicide swept Germany in the final months of WWII. In April, 3,800 people took their own lives…
8. …whole families walked into rivers tied to each other; the kids with rocks in their school bags.
9. Apple seeds contain a natural form of cyanide; half a cup of them is fatal to humans.
10. Fritz Haber was a German Jew who led the first chlorine gas attack killing thousands. He threw an epic party to celebrate his resulting promotion, but his wife shot herself with his gun in protest and died. Fritz created Zyklon A, and died fleeing Nazis on his way to Palestine.