Barbarossa,Mohammad Ali,Henry Cavendish....

1. Henry Cavendish measured the strength of electricity used in his experiments by shocking himself.
2. Soto and Rinzai are the two main branches of Zen Buddhism.
3. In 1974, Anders Svedlund of Sweden first rowed across Pacific Ocean, in 118 days.
4. It takes 5 seconds for a healthy heart to pump a gallon of blood if a normal person is running for a bus.
5. E.E Cummings, Walt Disney, Ernest Hemingway and Somerset Maugham were all ambulance Drivers in World War I.
6. The World War II German Invasion of Russia was code named Barbarossa.
7. The cockroach is also known as "Croton Bug"in New York,USA.
8. In 1967, Mohammad Ali was stripped of his world heavyweight title and barred from professional boxing because he refused to drafted into the US army.
9. British General Charles Gordon helped to abolish slavery in China and Sudan.
10. Until 1975 mules were part of the British Army.