Heard about "millihelens" in 1958! That's what I get for being a dinosaur.

The whole site is full of funnies, some more than others. Did you realize that the whole thing is an ad for a humorous book? Here's the Introduction page, where it is made clear: http://www.besse.at/sms/smsintro.html .

It's reminsicent of "It All Started With Columbus," (Richard Armour; American "history") and "1066 and All That" (Sellar, Reatman, Muir, and Yeatman, English "history") , which you might also enjoy if you can find them, probably in your public library by now as I suspect they're long out of print. Or eBay, or maybe even Amazon.com.