26Paris' Pneumatic Post
Paris had a pneumatic post system, where you could send your mail through tubes until 1984.
27. The eternal flame at Arc de Triomphe in Paris has only been extinguished once: by drunken Mexican football fans who urinated it after the final of the 1998 World Cup when France defeated Brazil.
28. Giant Iron Balls were rolled through Paris' sewers to clear blockages.
29. Until 2015, French law prohibited bakers in Paris from taking vacations at the same time, to avoid a bread shortage like the one that helped cause the French Revolution. Bakers meet to decide who would be open in July and who would be open in August.
30. Lafayette’s grave in Paris is filled with dirt from Massachusetts as he wished to be buried in American soil. Additionally, the flag remained in place during World War 2 because the Nazis never looked behind the private cemetery’s walls.
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31Talmud on Trial
In 1240, King Louis IX of France put the Jewish Talmud on trial. Four rabbis defended the Talmud, but to no avail. The trial ended with 24 carriage loads of Jewish religious manuscripts being set on fire in the streets of Paris.
32. Sorbonne University in Paris has a “Teddy Bear Hospital” that introduces child patients to the medical field via teddy bears to help overcome their fears, while also training medical students to adapt their explanations of medicine to young patients
33. It was illegal for women of Paris to wear pants, till February 2013, when France lifted the 200-year-old ban.
34. In 1867, a jar was found in Paris containing a human rib among other artifacts, and a label claiming that they belonged to Joan of Arc. Tests conducted in 2006 revealed that they came not from Joan of Arc, but an Egyptian mummy.
35. Paris has a Counterfeit Museum which displays the most impressive and accurate knock-offs of popular goods that the authorities have confiscated.
