Beginning 20th facts

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The the first deodorant for men was launched in 1935 (decades after the introduction of deodorants for women) because, at the beginning of the 20th century, body odour was not considered a problem for men; it was a part of being masculine.

There are as few as 3200 tigers left in the wild, down from 100000 at the beginning of the 20th Century.

In my opinion, it is useful to put together a list of the most interesting details from trusted sources that I've come across. Here are 31 of the best facts about Beginning 20th I managed to collect.

1. Roman poet Catullus' Carmen 16 was censored until the 20th century for beginning with the line Pedicabo ego vos et irrumabo ("I will sodomize you and face-fuck you").

2. Chicago was called "Swedens second biggest city" in the beginning of the 20th century, having the largest swedishborn population in the world after Stockholm.

3. At the beginning of the 20th century, the emperor of Ethiopia bought three electric chairs after hearing about the new invention. However, they didn't work because Ethiopia didn't have electricity, so he decided to use one of them as a throne instead.

4. It wasn"t until the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th century that scientists began to discover subatomic particles contained within the atom.

5. Bryde's whale is named after Johan Bryde, Norwegian who set up the first whaling station in the South Africa at the beginning of the 20th century.

6. At the beginning of the 20th century, blue tits learned to remove the foil from the bottle of milk and collect the cream located on the top. When a practice of milk delivery became obsolete, blue tits returned to their original food sources.

7. A 4.2 magnitude earthquake was recorded on March 20th, beginning a watch for further activity 24 hours a day.

8. Zorse was used for transportation of heavy loads over the mountains and for riding until the beginning of the 20th century when it was replaced with cars.

9. One of the largest, tallest, and fastest-growing trees - the American Chestnut - has nearly gone extinct since the beginning of the 20th century due to blight. The chestnut blight has been called the greatest ecological disaster to strike the world’s forests in all of history.

10. All participants of the Hungarian revolution that took place at the beginning of the 20th century in Budapest were wearing asters. This event is also known as "Aster revolution" today.

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Wolves are much stronger and more dominant predators and they kill coyotes when they meet them in the wild. However, uncontrolled hunting of wolves at the beginning of the 20th century led to drastic reduction in the number of these animals in the wild and they have been forced to mate with their close relatives (coyotes) when they were not able to find the member of their own species.

Term "Bone Wars" refers to a period of extreme competition between two famous paleontologists: Cope and Marsh at the beginning of the 20th century. They both wanted to discover as many as possible new dinosaur species and they"ve used all kind of "weapons" (bribery, accusation of stealing, politics...) to eliminate each other from a "battle".

European immigrants learned about healing potential of coneflowers from Native Americans. They started to sell coneflowers as herbal remedy designed for purification of blood. At the beginning of 20th century, coneflowers became one of the most popular and most commonly used herbal remedy in America.

Roasted chickpeas were used as a substitute for coffee in the Europe during the 18th century and at the beginning of the 20th century (during the WWI).

Since the beginning of the 20th century, global life expectancy at birth has increased by almost 40 years. - source

A Cambridge scientist has developed a computer program to calculate the most boring day since the beginning of the 20th century: April 11, 1954

The Hemoclysm, a term used to refer to the huge numbers of people killed at the beginning of the 20th Century.

Donkey milk is similar to human breast milk, and was used as a substitute until the beginning of the 20th century

Name "Iceberg" originates from the preservation method that was used at the beginning of the 20th century in California. When refrigerators were not available, large quantities of ice were used to prevent spoilage of lettuce in the trains on their trips to the market. Carriages were filled with icebergs that floated on top of the lettuce on their final destinations, hence the name - iceberg lettuce.

Between the beginning of the 20th century and 2006 the Eurasian Beaver population increased by around 53000%

One side of an 10" 78rpm is limited to about 3 minutes, so musicians did not publish long songs from the beginning of the 20th century onward. This limitation existed until 1948 with the invention of the LP, but pop songs are still short.