Silly little facts... II

Now some interesting little historical trivia...

Every queen named Jane has either been murdered, imprisoned, gone mad, died young, or been dethroned.
In the 1700's you could purchase insurance against going to hell, in London England.
Leonardo da Vinci spent twelve years painting the Mona Lisa's lips.
The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.
The Ice Man, found in the Italian Alps, is now thought to have been murdered. Scientists have just found an arrowhead stuck in the man's back. He is now known as the oldest murder victim on record.
During the 1600's, boys and girls in England wore dresses until they were about seven years old.
There are 47 czars buried within the Kremlin.
In 200 BC, when the Greek city of Sparta was at the height of its power there were 20 slaves for every citizen.
In the Great Fire of London in 1666 half of London was burnt down but only 6 people were injured.
It has been calculated that in the last 3,500 years, there have only been 230 years of peace throughout the civilized world.
At the height of inflation in Germany in the early 1920s, one U.S. dollar was equal to 4 quintillion German marks.
Louis XIX was King of France from breakfast until tea-time on 2 August 1830, at which point he abdicated.
In 887, Charles the Simple, the heir of Charles the Bald, acceded to the French throne by overthrowing Charles the Fat.
Early Greek calculations had determined that pi is approximately 3 1/7. In 190 the Chinese calculated pi to five places: 3.14159. Modern computers have calculated pi to more than 100 million decimal places.
The guillotine was last officially used as recently as September 10,1977 by the French.