The destruction of the Berlin Wall began when private citizens began to demolish entire sections of the Wall without interference from government officials on November 9, 1989.

Approximately 25,000 workers died during the building of the Panama Canal and approximately 20,000 of them contracted malaria and yellow fever.

In1770, a bill proposing that women using makeup should be punished for witchcraft was put forward to the British Parliament.

AMAZING FACTS