Caesar kidnapped by pirates, nuking the moon, the real Moby Dick & more: 8 amazing history stories

[Source: Today I Found Out]

From the always interesting Today I Found Out (author of The Wise Book of Whys).  The original stories:

1. Christopher Columbus Tricked Native Jamaicans Into Giving Him Supplies by Using His Knowledge of an Upcoming Lunar Eclipse

2. Future U.S. President Andrew Jackson Killed Charles Dickinson for Calling Him a “Wordless Scoundrel, a Poltroon, and a Coward”

3. Julius Caesar was Once Kidnapped by Pirates Who Demanded a Ransom of 20 Talents of Silver. Caesar Insisted They Ask for 50

4. A Ghost’s Testimony was Used as Key Evidence to Convict a Man of Murder

5. During his First Duel, Alexandre Dumas’ Pants Fell Down

6. The Real Life White Whale that Helped Inspire “Moby Dick”, Destroying Over 20 Whaling Ships and Surviving Encounters with Another 80

7. The Tunguska Event, a 1908 Explosion Estimated at 1000 Times More Powerful than the Atomic Bomb Dropped on Hiroshima

8. The United States Once Planned on Nuking the Moon