Thursday, September 25, 2008

Did you know that...?

At the age of 12, Martin Luther King became so depressed he tried committing suicide twice, by jumping out of his bedroom window.

The Turk’s consider it unlucky to step on a piece of bread.

Peter the Great had the head of his wife’s lover cut off and put into a jar of preserving alcohol, which he then ordered to be placed by her bed.

Car czar Henry Ford was awarded Hitler’s Grand Cross of the Supreme Order of the German Eagle for his invention of the assembly line, which Hitler used to ramp his war manufacturing.

The warriors tribes of Ethiopia used to hang the testicles of those they killed in battle on the ends of their spears.

1 comment:

Karenkool said...

So does the bread have to be a entire piece to be unlucky, or are even dried crumbs taboo?