1. Saddam Hussein was given the key to the city of Detroit.

2. Roman Emperor Gaius made his beloved horse a senator.

3. Ice age Britons used skulls of the dead as cups.

4. In ancient Egypt, servants were smeared with honey in order to attract flies away from the pharaoh.

5. After Pope Gregory IX associated cats with devil worship, cats throughout Europe were exterminated. This sudden lack of cats led to the spread of disease because infected rats ran free. The most devastating of these diseases, the Bubonic Plague, killed 100 million people.

6. Mexican General Santa Anna had an elaborate state funeral for the amputated leg that he lost during war.

7. Peter the Great executed his wife’s lover, then forced her to keep her lover’s head in a jar of alcohol in her bedroom.

8. Albert Einstein was offered a presidential seat in Israel. He declined.

9. Civil War General Joseph Hooker brought prostitutes along to keep his soldiers sexually satisfied. Some believe this is how his name is now synonymous with the profession.

10. The Anglo-Zanzibar War lasted only 38 minutes, making it the shortest war in history.