History, The More You Know

Salem Witches Never Burned

During the Salem witch trials, the accused witches weren’t actually burned at the stake. The majority were jailed, and some were hanged. But none of the 2,000 people accused ever got burned alive.

In 1912, a Paris orphanage held a raffle to raise money—the prizes were live babies.
The Greeks did not eat beans as they believed beans contained the souls of the dead.
Before alarm clocks were invented, knocker-uppers was a profession where he had to go and wake up by knocking on the doors of the townsman’s houses.
In the thirteenth century, Pope Gregory IX basically declared war on the cats of the world.