The first transorbital lobotomy, in which a picklike instrument was forced through the back of the eye sockets to pierce the thin bone that separates the eye sockets from the frontal lobes, was performed in 1946 by Walter J Freeman II
Fact: The Anglo-Zanzibar War of 1896 is the shortest war in history. It lasted between 38 and 45 minutes before the Sultan of Zanzibar surrendered to the British.