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Of all the sciences created by humankind, history is probably the most flexible and ambiguous. As you may know, history is written by the winners, and you are unlikely to have any doubts that if, say, the South won the Civil War, today we would study from slightly different history textbooks. Yes, and "Gone with the Wind" would hardly have been written, let alone filmed.

And yet, even with all the relativity of historical assessments of different events, there are facts which, upon hearing them for the first time, we will definitely say "You cannot be serious!" However, any more or less careful fact-checking will confirm that this is indeed the case. History - you know, she's a very capricious old lady.

A few weeks ago, a new thread appeared in the AskReddit community, the topic starter of which asked people "What is a historical fact that seems unbelievable?" As of today, the thread has over 700 upvotes and almost a thousand and a half comments as well, containing both obvious fakes and really incredible but true things - as well as fierce disputes over how to separate the first from the second.

Bored Panda has carefully done everything ourselves. First, we thoroughly went through the original thread, selected the most popular and incredible facts and stories told in the comments, and then just as carefully and meticulously checked each fact apiece. If at least some doubt arose, the fact was mercilessly sent to the wastebin.

So now, meet our selection of the most incredible, but 100% true random and not only historical things. Please feel free to scroll to the very end and, of course, add some similar facts you know - but fact checking is definitely a must! Just have a good and amazing read!

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42 Historical Facts Which Appear To Be Too Bizarre To Be True Yet They Are, As Told By Folks In This Online Thread If we held a minute of silence for every victim of the Holocaust, the world would be silent for 11.5 years. It’s crazy to visualize the mass amount of human loss from this event.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Every victim was their own person with their own story which ended long before it should’ve. So many stories and chapters of life were gone. So many children lost their chance of living a childhood, so many people never got the chance to better themselves, so many love stories ended, so many things could’ve potentially happened which never did. Once you stop seeing things as statistics and instead focus on the emotions, it becomes terrifying and tragic

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42 Historical Facts Which Appear To Be Too Bizarre To Be True Yet They Are, As Told By Folks In This Online Thread Ancient Thebes once assembled an elite military force consisting of 150 pairs of gay male lovers. They were believed to fight better because they wouldn't want to act cowardly or unmanly in front of their boyfriends. They went undefeated in war for years.

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42 Historical Facts Which Appear To Be Too Bizarre To Be True Yet They Are, As Told By Folks In This Online Thread Elizabeth II was on the throne for over a quarter of the United States' existence.

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42 Historical Facts Which Appear To Be Too Bizarre To Be True Yet They Are, As Told By Folks In This Online Thread There were archaeologists in *Ancient* Egypt studying about *even more* ancient Egypt.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

To put this into context: There was more than a thousand years between the Pyramids being built (around 2630 BC) and Tutankhamun being Pharaoh. (1332 BC) and another more than a thousand until Cleopatra ruled Egypt (51 to 30 BC) which means Cleopatra was alive around 2050 years ago. meaning as of 2023 she lived closer to our modern time than she did to the pyramids being built.

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42 Historical Facts Which Appear To Be Too Bizarre To Be True Yet They Are, As Told By Folks In This Online Thread Read about this a few years ago:

In 1943 a group of German sailors on a U-Boat emplaced a weather station on the Canadian coast (Labrador) so the Germans could more accurately predict the weather for military operations (since weather in the Northern hemisphere generally moves west-to-east.) The weather station was marked with fake signs indicating that it was a Canadian military facility and for unauthorized personnel to keep out.

The weather station was eventually discovered by the Canadians....

...In 1977.

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42 Historical Facts Which Appear To Be Too Bizarre To Be True Yet They Are, As Told By Folks In This Online Thread The first battle of the American Civil War was fought on land owned by a Mr. Wilmer McLean. After the battle he decided to move further out in the country to avoid the war...where four years later Gen. Lee surrendered to Gen. Grant in Mr. McLeans house. The war started and ended on his property.

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I raise you One better, ( i dunno the dates by head now, neither the name of the gentleman in question, but any of you interested can Google him ) there was a Japanese gentleman that was in Hiroshima when the Americans droped the 1st Atomic bomb, the man in question survived and decided to go to his family house in..... Nagasaki lol, and Guess what, he survived again, its the only man on the Guiness book of world records to have survived 2 Atomic bombs.

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42 Historical Facts Which Appear To Be Too Bizarre To Be True Yet They Are, As Told By Folks In This Online Thread University of Oxford is older than the Aztec Empire.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The yoghurt in Nathaniel's fridge is older than the Aztec Empire, too. 🤎

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42 Historical Facts Which Appear To Be Too Bizarre To Be True Yet They Are, As Told By Folks In This Online Thread We live closer in time to TRex than TRex did to Stegosaurus. Dinosaurs were here forever.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Weren’t the dinosaurs here wayyy longer than we have, we could go extinct like they did 0-0

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42 Historical Facts Which Appear To Be Too Bizarre To Be True Yet They Are, As Told By Folks In This Online Thread King George III known as the ‘Mad King’ apparently suffered severe mental illness the majority of his life. He was tied to chairs, gagged, bled, left in freezing rooms to try and ‘treat’ him.

In 2005, DNA testing on his hair found extremely high levels of lead and arsenic. Medications he was being given for other ailments sent him insane for a slow likely painful death

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42 Historical Facts Which Appear To Be Too Bizarre To Be True Yet They Are, As Told By Folks In This Online Thread The entire country of Malta was awarded the George Cross for its efforts in WWII. It's still on their flag.

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42 Historical Facts Which Appear To Be Too Bizarre To Be True Yet They Are, As Told By Folks In This Online Thread The rings of Saturn are younger than Stegosauruses.

Stegosauruses roamed the earth ~150-180 million years ago. Saturn's rings have only existed for ~100 million years.

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Bobby Leach was the second person to ever go over Niagara Falls in a barrel. He survived, but his injuries kept him hospitalized for six months.

He died 15 years later from injuries sustained after he slipped on an orange peel.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Imagine surviving all that just to go out by a orange peel. Hospitalised for 6 months, came out alive from a f*****g waterfall fall, all to get injuries, from an ORANGE peel.

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42 Historical Facts Which Appear To Be Too Bizarre To Be True Yet They Are, As Told By Folks In This Online Thread The first 200 000 years or so of being highly sentient human beings are lost in history. We only know the last circa 2000-4000 years from texts.

The first recorded joke - a fart joke that is 4000 years old - uses the term "since time immemorial" (or the sumerian version). Even though one should not take that literally, it suggests that you could travel back in time to find people consider their civilization ancient already.

And it was. When that joke was written down in cuneiform, the pyramid of Djoser had already been standing for 700 years. And when **that** pyramid was built, the city of Catal Höyuk was 3000-5000 years old!

And still, that was built during *the latest 2.5% of human history*.

We have lost so goddam much that it hurts to think of it.

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42 Historical Facts Which Appear To Be Too Bizarre To Be True Yet They Are, As Told By Folks In This Online Thread Sharks have been on earth far longer than trees. The first sharks arose over 100 million years before the first tree.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

So they appeared around the time Saturn got it's rings... Coincidence, I THINK NOT!

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There are funguses that cover entire forest floors that work like a neural network, for both themselves and the trees. If the fungus is say, ingured by a dog on one end, trees on the other end will increase their bark for additional protection.

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42 Historical Facts Which Appear To Be Too Bizarre To Be True Yet They Are, As Told By Folks In This Online Thread The head of German military intelligence during WW2 was providing the Allies with intel.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Thank goodness for people like this who had incredible courage during this terrible war.

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42 Historical Facts Which Appear To Be Too Bizarre To Be True Yet They Are, As Told By Folks In This Online Thread Between the 16th and 18th century, slave ships from Africa raided the Mediterranean and enslaved up to a million people. Sometimes entire islands were captured and taken away. Raids were made on seaside towns of Italy, France, Spain, Portugal, England, the Netherlands and as far away as Iceland, capturing men, women and children. It was so bad that people stopped living on long stretches of coast in Spain and Italy.

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Australian Prime Minister Harold Holt went for a swim in the ocean and just disappeared. To honour him we now have the Harold Holt Memorial Swimming Centre.

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42 Historical Facts Which Appear To Be Too Bizarre To Be True Yet They Are, As Told By Folks In This Online Thread In 90 years from 1841 to 1930 Ireland's population halved, from 8.4 million to about 4 million. The Famine started the decline, but emigration sustained it - Ireland's population didn't start growing again until the 1960s, and there are still about 2 million fewer people living there (Eire and NI) than in 1841.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is why there are so many Americans who claim to be of Irish descent - because Ireland was so badly affected by the famine that millions left the country. My grandmother on my mother's side and my great-grandmother on my father's side both left Ireland years ago.

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42 Historical Facts Which Appear To Be Too Bizarre To Be True Yet They Are, As Told By Folks In This Online Thread Albert Einstein turned down the presidency of Israel.

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42 Historical Facts Which Appear To Be Too Bizarre To Be True Yet They Are, As Told By Folks In This Online Thread The great wall of China has existed longer than Christianity

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Carrots don't improve eyesight, that's World War Two propaganda made up by the British to cover up the existence of radar

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If your diet is deficient in Vitamin A, then yes, eating carrots will help. But it's a fine line. The misunderstanding may also arise because there is a source of Vitamin A called carotene.

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42 Historical Facts Which Appear To Be Too Bizarre To Be True Yet They Are, As Told By Folks In This Online Thread Joe Biden was born closer to Abraham Lincoln’s assassination than he was his own inauguration.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Joe Biden was born 5 years after Amelia Earhart went missing so he's in the clear.

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42 Historical Facts Which Appear To Be Too Bizarre To Be True Yet They Are, As Told By Folks In This Online Thread It took 60 million years for nature to develop bacteria that could digest trees. In fact that is where coal comes from

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This seems badly worded to me. The fact is that 300 million years ago, the bacteria and fungi that today help break down dead trees, didn't exist. As a result, dead trees didn't decompose but became coal due to being buried and exposed to millions of years of heat and pressure.

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42 Historical Facts Which Appear To Be Too Bizarre To Be True Yet They Are, As Told By Folks In This Online Thread That there was a molasses flood in Boston in 1919 that was 25 feet high and killed 21 people.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I remember reading about beer flood in England when a fermentation tank burst. People died from alcohol poisoning. I'm not sure if it's true, but it always makes me think of this joke: Kelly Fitzgerald was late getting home from his job at the brewery one night and his wife was worried. He was supposed to be home at 5pm, and it was 9pm when she heard a knock at the door . When she opened the door it was the brewery owner. The owner said " Kelly had an accident at work, he fell into one of the fermentation vats, and now he is at St Peter's gate, I'm so sorry" His wife cried and said: "I hope he didn't die in pain" The owner replied: "I doubt it, he got out 4 times to take a p**s"

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There was a convent of French nuns that just began meowing one day for no particular reason.

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42 Historical Facts Which Appear To Be Too Bizarre To Be True Yet They Are, As Told By Folks In This Online Thread The last execution by guillotine was in the 70s

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I feel like method of execution is determined more for the sensitivity of the people not being executed. Guillotine supposed to be 'barbaric' but in reality is probably painless or close to. Quick - catastrophic - fatal. Body goes into shock (I assume) and dead before it figures out what happened. I kind of don't get the current problems with injections. Just put them under like for an operation - then take them deeper. I've had my intestines removed from my body (temporarily of course) and never felt a thing. Not speaking in favor of execution. Just saying the modern methods seem weird to me.

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42 Historical Facts Which Appear To Be Too Bizarre To Be True Yet They Are, As Told By Folks In This Online Thread The last "official" civil war widow died in 2020.

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42 Historical Facts Which Appear To Be Too Bizarre To Be True Yet They Are, As Told By Folks In This Online Thread It’s estimated between 70-85 million people died in WW2. It’s been estimated 300-500 million people died of smallpox in the 20th century alone.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You know what stopped smallpox? A vaccine. Some people are fortunate to be alive and have the choice not to take them.

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42 Historical Facts Which Appear To Be Too Bizarre To Be True Yet They Are, As Told By Folks In This Online Thread The Universe is unfathomably young at 13.8 billion years old. Humanity is actually very early to the party and there is a good chance we may be one of the first intelligent life forms in the universe if not the first. This chance increases if we find Red Dwarves with habitable planets because unlike Sol, Red Dwarves will last up to 10 trillion years.

On a Universal scale we are right at the birth of our Universe and it could be why we have yet to find evidence of other intelligent life, outside of just sheer size.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You have to wonder if they see us like that spider in the corner of the porch everybody skirts around making sure it doesn't notice them.

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42 Historical Facts Which Appear To Be Too Bizarre To Be True Yet They Are, As Told By Folks In This Online Thread Human spaceflight, laptop computers and mobile phones all pre-date the creation of the vertically aligned roll-aboard suitcase.

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42 Historical Facts Which Appear To Be Too Bizarre To Be True Yet They Are, As Told By Folks In This Online Thread Fax machines were invented in 1843, well before the telephone.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yeah, I saw this thing on Bored Panda a while back too, and it said, for the shortest period of time, that there could have been a time where Abraham Lincoln could send a Fax to a samurai Soldier. The concept of time freaks me out.

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Cleopatra lived closer in time to the iPhone than the construction of the pyramids.

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42 Historical Facts Which Appear To Be Too Bizarre To Be True Yet They Are, As Told By Folks In This Online Thread President Teddy Roosevelt was shot at point blank and gave his hour plus long speech.

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42 Historical Facts Which Appear To Be Too Bizarre To Be True Yet They Are, As Told By Folks In This Online Thread The last known pneumonic plague outbreak in the United States happened in 1924 in Los Angeles. It was limited to a small area, hence why it was classed as an outbreak. It was thought to be either an STI, due to the patient zero complaining about a fever and a sore groin.

What happened was patient zero was cleaning out his house and found a dead rat. He dispose of it, not knowing it was infected with pneumonic plague.

However, officials soon discovered a strange increase rate of an unusual form of pneumonia. Given the field of Pathology was around, they requested blood samples and discovered the cause was Yersinia pestis.

With the information provided, measures were finally taken to deal with the outbreak, such as Rat extermination including allowing stray cats and dogs to hunt down any rat. In today's money, the cost would be around 5 to 9 million. There was also mass burning, common to control a disease outbreak.

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42 Historical Facts Which Appear To Be Too Bizarre To Be True Yet They Are, As Told By Folks In This Online Thread In 1972, as much as 26 feet of snow fell on small towns in Iran killing 4000 people.

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42 Historical Facts Which Appear To Be Too Bizarre To Be True Yet They Are, As Told By Folks In This Online Thread John Adams and Thomas Jefferson died on the same day. July 4th. On the 50th Anniversary.

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John Adams’ last words were, reportedly, “Thomas Jefferson still lives!” unaware that he had died hours before Adams passed.

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Wooly Mammoth were alive when the first Egyptian pyramids were built.

The cotton gin was a commercial failure for Eli Whitney.

During the Siege of Castle Ritter, American and German troops fought together against German SS troops.

In WW2, the Italian navy independently broke most of the major powers encryption codes, including their allies codes. They even broke the German enigma code before the British did.

Stalin knew about the American nuclear weapons before Truman.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

One imagines the Italians found it rather easier to get their hands on an Enigma machine than the Allies did.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"The cotton gin was a commercial failure for Eli Whitney" because it was so simple and easy to copy, and enforcing the patent proved practically and logistically impossible.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Are yousure it was the Wooly mammoth andmotthe Staten Island Pygmy Mammoth? i always find contradictory facts everywhere I look.

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Wooly Mammoths survived in an enclave on Wrangel Island until just 4000 years ago. Here's a link to a reviewed scholarly article on the topic: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/radiocarbon/article/radiocarbon-dating-evidence-for-mammoths-on-wrangel-island-arctic-ocean-until-2000-bc1/B24BB69C26D3B36B7A6FC1CB1EE1AAD5

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Everyone talking about the Battle of Castle Itter, but nobody interested in operation Cowboy!

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I googled both stories, both are equally fascinating but I agree that Operation Cowboy sounds like a fantastical Disney creation, except that it actually happened! Remarkable and well worth reading up about.

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Why has nobody made a movie about Castle Itter? Jesus, what a story!

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I checked that as it sounded unlikely: "The Germans and Italians were able to crack a few Allied codes during World War II."

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42 Historical Facts Which Appear To Be Too Bizarre To Be True Yet They Are, As Told By Folks In This Online Thread Rudy Guiliani passed the bar exam.

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Back in the day when he still had ll his marbles. He’d probably use his melting hair dye to doodle d***s or something on it now. The only “bar exam” he can pass now would be him drinking everyone else under the table in an actual bar

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Pope Gregory IX declared war on cats.

He believed that cats were agents of devil worshippers.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

As a result of that, felines nearly went extinct in Europe and the population of rats increased which probably led to the plague

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Andrew Jackson, while being president, said "John Calhoun, if you secede from my nation, I will secede your head from the rest of your body."

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

After Andrew Jackson's presidency, he said his biggest regret was not killing John Calhoun. His own vice president. Jackson is truly one of the worst presidents this country has had.

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Hitler and Stalin both lived in Vienna in 1913.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And if they both had visited Freud, talking about their problems (Hitlers troubled family-history, his failed art studies, Stalins drinking father etc.) this might have changed the 20th century timeline quite a bit. Maybe an idea for an alternate history novel...

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