10 History Facts They Didn’t Teach You At School<br />The Leaning Tower of Pisa was never straight.<br /><br />During the Great Depression, people made clothes out of food sacks.<br /><br />Lord Byron kept a bear in his college dorm.<br /><br />Iceland has the world’s oldest parliament in history.<br /><br />Since the end of WWI, over 1,000 people have died from leftover unexploded bombs.<br /><br />46 BC was 445 days long and is the longest year in human history.<br /><br />100 million years ago, the Sahara Desert was inhabited by galloping crocodiles.<br /><br />During the Victorian period, it was normal to photograph relatives after they died.<br /><br />One man survived both the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and then later Nagasaki.<br /><br />The shortest war in history lasted 38 minutes.<br /><br />Before the 19th Century, dentures were made from dead soldiers’ teeth.
