10 Interesting and Entertaining Facts From Yester Years That Your Child Must Know

It is common witnessing children finding history as a subject boring and tiring to learn and understand. Not because of its very nature but the way it is presented in our education system. Students often find it illogical to study history when it is not even relevant as a subject anymore and fail to understand why these past incidents should be learned and memorized for future, says a veteran teacher from one of the top senior secondary school in Gurugram Haryana. 

 

The simple answer lies in the fact that these incidences that have taken place over the centuries have shaped the heritage, cultures, and societies, impacted the policies and politics of modern society that children should be aware of, explained one of the history faculties at a popular senior secondary school in Gurugram Haryana. Studying history enables future generations comprehend and get a perspective of what happened in the past how and why.

 

Below are few  interesting and entertaining  facts and incidents from  the past that  are bound to interest  children and should  definitely ignite their interest  in history, shared  a Principal of one of the most renowned and senior secondary schools in Gurugram Haryana: 

1.       The numbers that we count today in English were invented by Indian mathematician and force to reckon since time immemorial. Also known as Arabic numerals as they were translated by mathematicians in the Middle East and introduced to Europe via them.

2.      It is amusing to   know that in the movie, ‘The Mummy’, there was a Book of the Dead which comes with a curse and a warning not to open it .In reality also the book existed and is believed to help the dead in their life after death, fact brought by a history faculty at a best senior secondary schools in Gurugram Haryana.

3.      In history, the recorded shortest war   was fought between UK and Zanzibar Sultanate and lasted for only 38 minutes.

4.      Before the alarm clocks, there were special people who used to wake up the workers by shooting peas at their windows to alert them of the time to get up and go to work.

5.      Ben Kingsley, the actor who played the role of Gandhi in the movie Gandhi was known as Krishna Pundit Bhanji at birth and was born to an English mother Anna Lyna Mary and Indian father Rahimtulla Harji Bhanji.

6.      It is known that English love their tea so much that there is no reason why they should miss out on their beverage while fighting a battle or a war. So much so that after 1945 all British tanks came equipped with facilities to make tea.

7.      It is known by many that famous Kohinoor diamond which is a part of the British crown jewels comes from India; however, few know that India was the only source of diamonds till 1896.

8.     Cats are supposed to be smart animals. So much so that CIA believed them to be so smart that they made spies out of them and actually deployed them for spying on Russians   surgically inserting antennae and batteries into cats in the 1960s and this program was named as Acoustic Kitty.

9.      Elvis Presley the music superstar actually scored a C in music in 8^th grade who later became the heartthrob of the millions, quite a revelation made by one of the English faculties at popular senior secondary schools in Gurugram Haryana.

10.  The first casualty of WWII when Allies bombed Berlin was actually an elephant at the Berlin Zoo. 

 

These are few of interesting historical facts that might instigate children to flip more  pages of their history books. Creating interest in history among students is in our hands. All the best!