If you know your way around the weirder side of history, then this quiz should be no challenge for you. However, if you, like me, never heard of these bizarre facts, then this becomes a game of logic - what sounds most plausible to YOU?
He was a Tuxedo cat nicknamed 'Unsinkable Sam', though his real name was Oscar. He died in Ireland at the age of 14, having survived numerous torpedo attacks and the sinking of 3 boats.
A cat was made mayor of a town in Texas for 3 years straight
Cats were used by the CIA successfully to spy on people in public places
A cat on a Nazi ship survived 3 sinking ships and became a cat in the British Royal Navy
Cats were the only thing Napoleon was truly scared of
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Which one of these things actually happened?
Her name was Khutulun and she must have been quite the wrestler.
A descendant of Genghis Khan refused to marry unless beaten in a wrestling match. She never was.
Julius Caesar had a liking for older women, and would not sleep with a woman younger than 30
Alexander the Great was incredibly fond of goats and wanted to make them his family symbol
King George III had a pet baboon from Africa that he kept in his bedroom
Sydenham's chorea, also known as chorea minor and historically and occasionally referred to as St Vitus' dance, is a disorder characterized by rapid, uncoordinated jerking movements. A plague could have caused crowds of people to seem as if they were 'dancing'.
During the Middle Ages and after, there was a disease where crowds of people 'danced' until collapsing or dying
The Maori people of New Zealand used to sacrifice a boy and a girl each year to be eaten by sharks
In Poland, during the 1800s, a bizarre disease caused people to hug each other until death from suffocation
The Native American Apaches believed the top of trees held up the skies and they should never be cut down
Robert Liston was known for his speed, unfortunately, while amputating a leg, he accidentally sliced two fingers off his assistant's hand, who later died of gangrene, and another doctor in the room died of a heart attack, thinking he was injured as well (he was not).
Doctors in WWII army camps loudly refuted their Hippocratic oath to avoid treating Nazis
A surgeon in the 1800s accidently killed 3 people while operating on one patient
A doctor in 1969 tried to transplant the leg of a horse on a human. He failed.
In ancient Egypt it was believed that the smell of roses can cure lung diseases
Indeed he did, and Queen Elizabeth LOVED Shakespeare's plays, by the way, and had much influence over his work
Martin Luther was born Jewish before converting to Christianity
Queen Elizabeth I hated Shakespeare's plays and considered trying him for treason
Lord Byron brought a pet bear to university as protest for not being allowed a dog
King Louis XIV kept 2,000 peacocks roaming the palace gardens
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