History facts

#

If a statue of a person in the park on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle.
#

If the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle.
#

If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
#

Mao Zedong of China never brush his teeth in his lifetime.
#

When Elizabeth-I of Russia died in 1762, there were 15,000 dresses in her closets.
#

During World War II, the Japanese used shark liver oil in the engines of their fighter planes.
#

J. P Blanchard, a Frenchman, is credited with having been the first person to use a parachute. In 1785, from a balloon high in the air, he dropped a dog in a basket to which a parachute was attached. Blanchard also claimed to have descended from a balloon in a parachute in 1793