The longer the right keeps up the whole stolen election lie and the more info that comes out with each new criminal and civil proceedings it's obvious why trump is so adamant about the "stolen" election. Him and his team did so much to cheat, lie, and steal the election and still lost that they believe that it had to be rigged. Instead of facing the obvious fact that people actually voted against trump instead of for Biden. It wouldn't have mattered who was on the democratic ballot in 2020 whoever it was was going to win. Because that's how horrible defendant trump ppl and his maga co-conspirators are.

Good points. My husband will sometimes say things like "we didn't wear bicycle helmets when we were kids, and we survived". My reply is that yes, we did. Not everyone else did.

The Arabs found a more accurate version and calculated the length of an orbit (edit: fact checked myself sorry)

The real word was "brioche" but she didn't say ir either.

There are horns on bronze age ceremonial helmets from Scandinavia, but that's thousands of years before the Vikings. 19th century opera gave us horned helmets.

And if they had found the Fountain of Youth, Governor DeSantis would have had it banned.

The whole “Noble Lost Cause” narrative is manufactured propaganda. A passing glance at the various Articles of Secession makes it abundantly clear that the entire purpose was to protect slavery, and the massive economic clout it provided.

lol one of my wife's best friends believes that dinosaurs are fake and that humanity is only 2000 years old. She went to the same school as the rest of us and got good grades lol

I guess that first part explains the Elizabeth Swan scene.

Beyond just the pyramids, there’s no evidence that there was ever a large population of Jews in Egypt, enslaved or otherwise. Coincidentally, I just watched a Nova rerun episode detailing the archaeological investigations into the construction of the Great Pyramid. Their conclusion was that much of the work was done during the flood season, by farmers and farm laborers who would otherwise have been idled by their workplaces being underwater. They were reasonably paid, well treated, and well fed. No evidence of slave quarters in the semi-temporary city where they lived.

Joseph Smith, the founder of Mormonism, was a con man, a shyster, and just a terrible person in general. He made up the principles of Mormonism in order to get what he wanted.

Judging by recent narratives, it’s ongoing

There's a pretty simple explanation as to how this false fact came to be: Einstein was born in Germany and went to school there for a few years. Later, in his youth, he moved to switzerland. Germany and Switzerland have the same grading system, that goes from 1 to 6 with halfes and sometimes quarters. The thing is, the scales are inverted: In Switzerland 6 is the best grade and in Germany it's 1. So when he had ones or grades close to one, it would look like he failed math horribly in school, if you didn't know that he went to school in Germany.

It's also not a good one. I'd rather say "If you can handle my worst, you also deserve my best." We all can't always be sunshine and rainbows, but if someone sticks with us through it all, they deserve that we also give our best for them <3

Same goes for the idea that they were "old" at 30, and died by 40. The average lifespan, is calculated by adding up all of the ages of death, then dividing by the number of people. Yes, there was high infant mortality, but if they survived childhood, there was a good chance they'd reach their 60s or 70s.

When you consider the moron (Petr III) she was married to, it doesn't surprise me that she had lovers, but the rumors about being hyper-sexed were started by people who couldn't handle a powerful woman ruler, because it upset their gravy train. Weak Emperors left all sorts of room for nobility graft.

One of the problems was the translation between French units, and UK units. 5'4" (French) is roughly 5'8" (English) or 1.72m, But the most significant part was propaganda - Napoleon was satirised as being short; it fitted the propaganda of his enemies to depict him as a silly little man with ideas above his station in life.

Also, contrary to claims by the Chinese government, Tibet was never part of China. The two countries had a trade agreement.

A Neanderthal man definitely wouldn't believe in QAnon.

There’s no evidence that biblical Jesus ever existed at all, and plenty of reasons to think it extremely unlikely. The total absence in Roman historical record of someone who is portrayed as an epic spit disturber and massive thorn in the hide of the Roman rulers of Judea being the most obvious one.

TIL There's such thing as a vomitoria, and it is not used for vomiting

Republicans claiming Democrats only “tax and spend”, and republicans are “fiscally conservative”. What a bunch of horseshit. Republicans spend and spend like shopaholics, yet vastly reduce the amount of incoming tax revenue by letting their billionaire one-percenter huge corporation owning puppet masters/a*****e buddies off the hook to pay their fair share of taxes, and passing the burden of supporting the entire country on the middle class for forty years. Every time there’s a republican majority, the deficit grows by leaps and bounds. It takes a Democratic majority to clean up the republicans’ mess and get the budget balanced—-and even in surplus!—-once more. Of course Democrats increase taxes. They HAVE to, in order to have enough revenue collected to keep the government, and therefore the country, running the way it’s supposed to, after the republicans raid the treasury to finance their bacchanalia, and spend like there’s no tomorrow. Oh, and fight needless wars (not the necessary and declared wars like WWII, but the needless undeclared “wars”, like Iraq and Vietnam—-anyone remember Reagan unnecessarily sending troops to invade Grenada to get some American medical students out of the country, even though they weren’t in any kind of danger?). that further bankrupt the country, usually to deflect from the looming scandals about their dirty backroom dealings and make themselves look like heroes, when they’re actually just petty thieves.

Only the very rich married as teens, usually ally for alliances, or money. If they were too young, they'd generally wait a few years before consummation. (I'm sorry, but Henry VIIs father, was a pedo) The poor would usually marry in their 20s or 30s. After, they had saved up money for their own household. The peasants were lucky, in a way. At least, they could marry someone they actually knew, and liked.

The sugar merchant Hermann Bahlsen created a butter cookie in 1891. He named the product »Leibniz Cakes« in honor of the most famous citizen of his home town, Hanover ➡️ Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz...

The reason they’re called dark is because of the lack of written documentation of the times, so we don’t know a lot about life back then, except for whatever the few literate people of the time may have set down on paper, and that would most likely only happen in the case of a huge event, like a war or a plague. Anything else written down would have been poetry or fiction, and even that would have to be spun to please whatever monarch was on the throne in your country that particular day. So not a whole lot that tells us what everyday life was like. Remember, this was pre-Gutenberg and his printing press, so books were made by hand, mostly by monks with a talent for writing and art, since many pages were highly illustrated. That meant books, and therefore education, was only affordable by the very very tiny upper crust wealthy percentage of the population, who apparently thought it was a sacrilege to take that knowledge and pass it on to the masses. Because the uneducated are easier to fool into thinking they can’t have any better life than whatever “his lordship” doles out to them. There could have been parish schools set up for the children of the lower classes, but there weren’t—-there never could, and still never can be today, if it depended solely on the benevolence of a wealthy patron to fund them. Privatization of public institutions never ever works.

Yes, people knew who they were, but also they were usually seen as "unclean" and, for example, weren't allowed to live within the city walls and when they died they had to be burried separately, etc. This, of course, varied by region and era.

He never made it to America, he just sailed around the Caribbean islands looking for non-existent gold and persecuting natives. It was Washington Irving who wrote up all the lies about him.

Ussher used scientific methods. Just not good data set

Of course we all know now that they were built by humans for the aliens to land their spacecraft.

It was "unsinkable" because of the watertight rooms, but there was only 4 at the forward and 4 at the aft and they were useless because the huge tear was above those levels.

The Inquisition was real and there were much worse things than witch burnings going on, the slaughter of the Cathars and the burning of so many of the Temple Knights are just 2 that don't get much air time, there were many villages and church groups that were persecuted en masse at that time.

I hate these ones that just say a fallacy, but not the "truth"

Is this written by AI? The name of the ship was "Queen Anne's Revenge", so why would someone substitute synonims, especialy while also making weird gramattical errors? "Sovereign Anne's Vengeance" sounds like a cheaper off-brand store version...

Something isn't a myth just because you think it sounds odd. Houses were built without plumbing, and in manly places the only drain was in the street itself. People back then were just as lazy as now, so living on the upper floors of a tenement with a full pot, it was the easy action. You can find ordinances in many cities trying to clamp down on it