funfact.wiki
AboutGuidelinesTermsPrivacyContact

Content is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

In China's Spring and Autumn period, chef Yi Ya served hi... | funfact.wiki | funfact.wiki
In China's Spring and Autumn period, chef Yi Ya served his own three-year-old son to the duke, who had joked he'd "tasted everything but human flesh." Statesman Guan Zhong warned: "One who kills his own child can abandon his lord." After Guan Zhong died, Yi Ya starved the duke to death.
  • Spring and Autumn period
  • Guan Zhong
  • China
  • History
0
DiscussionHistory

Related Cards

The word 'ketchup' comes from '膎汁' (kôe-chiap) in the Chinese Min Nan dialect, meaning 'fish sauce.' It was originally a fermented fish and shellfish sauce—tomato ketchup was not invented until 1812.
  • Ketchup
  • China
  • Fish
  • Tomato
  • Food
  • Language
0
The barbershop pole originated from a time when barbers in Europe also performed surgery. Red represents arteries and bleeding, blue represents veins and shaving, and white represents bones and bandages.
  • Barbershop
  • Europe
  • Surgery
  • Medicine
  • History
0
The earliest recorded spam was a dental advertisement sent by telegram in 1864 in Britain. The furious recipient wrote to The London Times: "By what right do they send me a telegram that is plainly, purely an advertisement, to disturb me?"
  • First
  • Spam
  • Britain
  • Telegram
  • History
0
In the 18th century, American businessman Timothy Dexter was tricked into shipping warming pans—used to heat beds—to the year-round tropical West Indies. But local molasses producers bought them all at a 79% markup, finding them perfect as large ladles.
  • West Indies
  • History
  • Molasses
  • Ladle
  • Luck
0
In 1800, Paris enacted an ordinance banning women from wearing trousers. The law was technically enforced until 2013, with amendments in 1892 and 1909 allowing trousers only while holding bicycle handlebars or horse reins.
  • Paris
  • Woman
  • Trousers
  • Bicycle
  • Law
  • History
  • France
0