8 Amazing History Stories July 16, 2012 Noreen Embed This Infographic <a href="http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2012/07/8-history-stories/"><img title="History Stories" src="http://www.todayifoundout.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/8-Amazing-History-Stories-copy.jpg" alt="History Stories" width="620" border="0" class="nopin" /></a>[Source: <a href='http://www.todayifoundout.com' title='Interesting Facts'>Today I Found Out</a>] Expand for References and more Information 1. Christopher Columbus Tricked Native Jamaicans Into Giving Him Supplies by Using His Knowledge of an Upcoming Lunar Eclipse 2. Future U.S. President Andrew Jackson Killed Charles Dickinson for Calling Him a “Wordless Scoundrel, a Poltroon, and a Coward” 3. Julius Caesar was Once Kidnapped by Pirates Who Demanded a Ransom of 20 Talents of Silver. Caesar Insisted They Ask for 50 4. A Ghost’s Testimony was Used as Key Evidence to Convict a Man of Murder 5. During his First Duel, Alexandre Dumas’ Pants Fell Down 6. The Real Life White Whale that Helped Inspire “Moby Dick”, Destroying Over 20 Whaling Ships and Surviving Encounters with Another 80 7. The Tunguska Event, a 1908 Explosion Estimated at 1000 Times More Powerful than the Atomic Bomb Dropped on Hiroshima 8. The United States Once Planned on Nuking the Moon Share the Knowledge! Enjoy this article? Join over 50,000 Subscribers getting our FREE Daily Knowledge and Weekly Wrap newsletters: Subscribe Me To: Daily Knowledge | Weekly Wrap tagged with history, history stories, infographic, infographic facts Featured Facts Infographic
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