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30 Interesting Facts From History That You May Not Find In Textbooks

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Even the most well-educated of people can’t say they know everything there is to know about history; it’s an endless supply of information, fascinating stories, and curious happenings, that would take forever to familiarize oneself with.

So, while we can’t provide you with all there is to know, we can share some interesting facts, to evoke your curiosity at least. Scroll down to find some of the most fascinating little-known facts, as shared by members of the ‘Ask Reddit’ community, and see for yourself just how enthralling history can be and just how much there is still left to uncover.

Below you will also find Bored Panda’s interview with an associate professor of history at Southern Utah University, Dave Lunt, who was kind enough to answer a few of our questions about it and all sorts of historical fun facts.

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30 Interesting Facts From History That You May Not Find In Textbooks During prohibition, grape concentrate bricks called Vine-Glo were sold.

On the packaging, it included a very specific warning: "After dissolving the brick in a gallon of water, do not place the liquid in a jug away in the cupboard for twenty days, because then it would turn into wine.".

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Agfox 1 month ago

"Amateurs!" - Jesus, probably

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30 Interesting Facts From History That You May Not Find In Textbooks During the Irish famine the Choctaw Nation from the USA sent financial aid to them and while a small amount at the time it was seen as a great gesture in return during Covid many Irish people donated money to the Navajo Nation to help them. There’s a statue in County Cork to commemorate it as well.

here is one source

and another

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Nitka Tsar 1 month ago

I am no expert, so please enlighten me. The Choctaw Nation is not the same as the Navajo Nation, right? Is there no one left of the Choctaw Nation? Or did they not need help during covid? Why not help the Choctaw instead of the Navajo? I’m not complaing, it’s great there was help. I just want to understand

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30 Interesting Facts From History That You May Not Find In Textbooks The Netherlands sends Canada 20,000 tulips every year for liberating them during WW2. The Netherlands also has a cemetery dedicated to Canadian fallen troops.

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Caro Caro 1 month ago

AND hosted the Dutch royal family in exile.

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Insomniac 1 month ago

They did an act of Parliament to turn the delivery ward of a hospital into international territory so the princess born here would properly have Dutch citizenship. My Pops helped in the Liberation. He gave chocolate bars to children and barrels of salt pork to hungry families.

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Alexandra 1 month ago

Oh, This is true. As a nation, we take our liberators seriously. We tend our war cemeteries, many graves are adopted by schoolchildren, we send tulips, we commemorate significant battles such as Operation Market Garden to which we invite any surviving veterans and when, every once in a while, a WWII aircraft is discovered, it will be excavated very carefully and any remains will be buried with full military honours and the next of kin (if possible to find) will be invited to attend.

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Insomniac 1 month ago

My dad told them he was the son of a Canadian Liberator, and he got treated like gold.

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arthbach 1 month ago

The hospital where Princess Margriet of the Netherlands was born was temporarily declared to be extraterritorial by the Canadian government. This allowed her to be born in the Netherlands, not Canada. At the time of her birth she was 4th in line to the throne, after her mother, and elder sisters. If she had been a boy, she would have be 2nd in line.

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Bartlet for World Domination 1 month ago

Wow, I'm Dutch and I had to look that up. It's true, apparently the Dutch had to wait until it was sure that by then queen Juliana wasn't going to have any more children (she was born in 1909 so I guess that was somewhere in the fifties) to know princess Beatrix was going to be the next monarch. Beatrix became queen in 1980 and that law was changed in 1983. Not for her; her eldest was a boy: now king Willem Alexander.

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Shark_a 1 month ago

wow, if this is true, then it just a pure joy to read this. I wish every country treat each other like this. But there are also people in all countries...so...

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Meaghan Stewart 1 month ago

It is true! I’m Canadian. Though we mostly know it as them sending us tulips for hosting their royal family and assisting with the birth of their Princess.

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Rob McLaughlin 1 month ago

To be fair we are currently at war with Denmark over a rock in the North Atlantic We both have declared it our territory So far 0 casualties and our Navies just leave the opposing Navy a bottle of booze the next time they patrol

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Insomniac 1 month ago

It's true. I'm Canadian, with half Dutch heritage. In both World Wars, Canada had the highest per capita rate of volunteers of any nation involved. I wish we still carried that spirit of being good world citizens. We can do more for those in need than we do.

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Agamemnon O'Neill 1 month ago

We also turned away the ship Anne Frank was on, so we're not totally wonderful.

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BarfyCat 1 month ago

My grandfather was a part of the liberation of the Netherlands in WWII (American). After the war, the Dutch government flew him (& his wife) to the Netherlands, all expenses paid, where they had a lovely visit and stayed in the home of a Dutch family in Eindhoven. They kept in touch with this family until they both died (I think my grandparents died before the Dutch couple did, but I'm not sure).

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Caro Caro 1 month ago

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Savahax 1 month ago

My grandmother told me the story. When she was a young girl (Dutch, blonde) an american soldier, after the Dutch liberation, reached out his hand to her. She was scared AF, she'd never seen a black man before xDDD

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Teresa Spanics 1 month ago

I remember my late Dad, who was in the Canadian Army during World War 2 and helped with the cleanup of Holland, saying that the people were shocked to see white Canadian soldiers as they thought they were Indigenous in that they would be similar to the Indian Army from India.

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and_a_touch_of_the_’tism 1 month ago

Upvote for including a source.

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shankShaw deReemer 1 month ago

Thank you for including your source.

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frinny 1 month ago

and the Dutch also spent a fortune recovering a plane and the remains 3 British soldiers from WW2 in the sea! (guy martin documentary if you're interested) Thank you Netherlands

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Insomniac 1 month ago

The Dutch people take meticulous care of those graves. Our fallen fathers and uncles are treated with great respect in the Netherlands, and that is something we appreciate.

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Thatkamloopsguy 1 month ago

They have many, and I have had the honor of visiting every single one of them.

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JoNo 1 month ago

We even have a tulip festival in Ottawa every May.

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David Smith 1 month ago

Not exile - it was refuge from the Germans

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Sofia 1 month ago

they also had a famine in ww2 and ate tulips bulbs

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DogsAreLife 1 month ago

Now that is how we should treat each other!

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Doofnuts 1 month ago

This is pretty cool.

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Nimitz 1 month ago

It's also cause we took care of the kids during the war. Even declared the hospital room where they were born non-Canadian soil so they could be considered Dutch. Basic decency during a time of war

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Baali Venomax 1 month ago

That is beautiful!

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Verena 1 month ago

In my area, each year on the 5th of November, the commemorative Canadian Liberation March is done, from Hoofdplaat (NL) to Knokke-Heist (B). Usually about 1.000 people are walking the full 33 km, many more do shorter parts. https://www.omroepzeeland.nl/nieuws/16015864/honderden-zeeuwen-lopen-canadese-bevrijdingsmars-eren-door-in-hun-voetsporen-te-treden The entire route is marked with small monuments, this is the one near the NL/B border, which is just a white line on the road and everybody can freely cross it without any checks (look our borders up in Streetview) https://www.4en5mei.nl/oorlogsmonumenten/zoeken/2560/retranchement-canadese-bevrijdingsroute-1 An extended route across the Netherlands was opened a short while ago, marked by "Vectors of Memory", starting point is in a neighbouring village, at said border https://www.erfgoedzeeland.nl/nieuws/2024/05/retranchement-onthult-startpunt-nationale-canadese-wandelroute/

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PrettyJoyBird 1 month ago

I dont wanna c**p on this nice parade but why did the Dutch Olympic Counsel okay the child rapist to represent country in upcoming games?

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Paul Macdonell 1 month ago

Not true. The tulips are given as a thank you for giving refuge to the Royal Dutch family who stayed in Ottawa. The tulips are given to displayed in Ottawa. The grave sites are actually Commonwealth Grave Commission sites.

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F.Stanciu Coloring Books 1 month ago

Nice 😊

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BarBeeGirl 1 month ago

They send them to my city which sparked an annual Tulip Festival. It’s a site to see if you ever come to Ottawa

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Lyoness 1 month ago

Yup, cause us Canucks are awesome. Now that I've demonstrated my humbleness (humbility?) can someone tell me how to add the source that way? I just paste the link and this looks so much cooler - I mean cleaner.

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Cindy Brick 1 month ago

Shoot...why didn't the US do it??

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Smitin 1 month ago

Because the Canadians were more than capable of doing it without their help. They were busy on other fronts.

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Raymond Leduc 1 month ago

Totally false, the reason was that Canada hosted the Royals for protection during WWII

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Bartlet for World Domination 1 month ago

Both reasons are true. The Dutch send tulips to thank the Canadians for liberating the country *and* protecting the royal family.

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Discussing the benefits of delving deeper into history, associate professor at Southern Utah University, Dave Lunt noted that there is a common cliché that we learn history in order to understand the present and the future. “As clichés go, it’s a pretty good one since the ancient Greek historian Thucydides suggested this very thing around the year 400 BCE,” he said.

“However, it’s not that history ‘repeats’ (since circumstances can never be truly identical, as Heraclitus noted when he wrote that nobody can step into the same river twice), but rather learning about history trains our minds to interpret events, to identify cause-and-effect, to anticipate ramifications and historical significance.

“Of course, there is no perfect way to predict the future, but the process of evaluating and interpreting facts in order to understand the world is good exercise for our brains, and might help us make good decisions,” the expert said.

“Besides the value of practicing what we call ‘historical thinking’, I believe it is still important to memorize things. I understand that basic facts are often just an internet-search away, but the act of memorizing—whether it’s historical facts or poetry or anything else—has positive effects on our brains.”

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30 Interesting Facts From History That You May Not Find In Textbooks Humans developed agriculture around 12000 years ago. By storing grain, huge numbers of rodents flourished. Cats showed up to eat the rodents, and humans learned that if they took care of the cats, the cats would control the rodents. Therefore, it was the invention of agriculture that led to the domestication of the house cat.

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Nathaniel He/Him Cis-Het 1 month ago

Correction. The invention of agriculture led to the domestication of humans by cats.

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30 Interesting Facts From History That You May Not Find In Textbooks Mongolian invasion of Japan was stopped by a typhoon. When they tried again, they were stopped by another typhoon. To this day these were the only two typhoons recorded in that place.

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Mark 1 month ago

Time to start looking into Japanese mythology…

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“I’m sure it’s different for every person, but I think learning something surprising helps us stay humble and open-minded,” Lunt told Bored Panda, suggesting that browsing random historical facts every once in a while is not a bad idea. “If we are surprised by a new fact or idea, that can help us realize that our assumptions are not always valid, and that we might need to change our minds. In a world full of strong opinions—both informed and uninformed—a little bit of humility and some open-mindedness go a long way.”

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30 Interesting Facts From History That You May Not Find In Textbooks Abraham Lincoln's son (Robert Todd Lincoln) was present at three different presidential assassinations. After McKinley, he decided not to accept any more invitations.

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Nathaniel He/Him Cis-Het 1 month ago

He does seem to be a bad luck charm.

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30 Interesting Facts From History That You May Not Find In Textbooks The Canadian-Denmark whiskey war was probably the most polite war ever. It involved a small island off the coast of Greenland. The Canadians claimed it by putting the Canadian flag and bottles of Canadian whiskey on the rock, and the Danes would replace it with schnapps and the Danish flag. Both sides reached an agreement to split the island in 2022. I'm guessing this is more well known to Canadians and Danes than some of the rest of us.

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justagirl 1 month ago

Okay, we should all fight wars like this. Two countries or more agree on a meeting place, and then every month or whenever, an elected representative of their country brings some of the country's delicacies. First one to completely blow away the other team, wins!

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30 Interesting Facts From History That You May Not Find In Textbooks Ancient Romans would put sandals on the hands of sleeping people then tickle their face so they would slap themselves.

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Spidercat 1 month ago

Is this not a scene from Life of Brian....

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In an interview with Bored Panda, Lunt shared that the facts that fascinate him the most revolve around the things that ancient people believed to be true, which today we no longer hold as factual. “It helps me remember that the things we consider today to be ‘true’ might cause future humans to chuckle at our own ignorance. For instance, there was an ancient tradition that Socrates, the great philosopher, interpreted sneezes as divine messages.”

Another example that the expert gave was the case of the Roman writer Pliny the Elder who recorded a tradition (written by an earlier writer named Caecilius) that the entrails of a hairy spider could be used as a contraceptive, if attached to a woman’s body before sunrise.

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Portugal had a Death Queen and it is an insane real love story.

If you like Romeo& Juliette, search for the story of Dom Pedro and Dona Inês for the real life version of it.

Long story short: Dom Pedro was 1st in line to be the next king of Portugal so his father, the King, arranged a marriage suited for his position with a Spanish noble lady. But the future King fell in love with one of the ladies in waiting of his bride, Dona Inês.

They got married in secret and had a bunch of kids. The King didn't like that and sent his Knights to kill her. Dom Pedro went bat s**t crazy, found the Knights and killed them and ripped of the heart of one of the Knights.

Then he got the corpse of Dona Inês, put it on the throne and made the nobles pay allegiance to her by kissing her hand.

He still became King in the end. There is a lot more too this story but all of it is crazy but true facts. Portuguese Royals history is full of stuff that could be part of Game of Thrones.

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Luis Hernandez Dauajare 1 month ago

Let us not forget that sometimes death does not stop revenge. Pope Stephen IV exhumed the previous Pope, dressed him up, put him on trial, cut off his blessing fingers and dumped in a river. Stephen was later dethroned and strangled in prison.

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The Great Emu War in Australia (1932) - soldiers armed with machine guns fought emus to protect crops. The emus won.

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Michael P (Perthaussieguy) 1 month ago

You just HAD to bring that up again, huh? Sheesh !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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30 Interesting Facts From History That You May Not Find In Textbooks For Americans: the Coal Wars were a series of armed conflicts from the 1890s to the 1930s in which the exploitation of mining workers led to riots and then outright battles between the workers and the armed mercenaries hired by mining companies to terrorize and kill them. It culminated in the Battle of Blair Mountain in 1921, which ended when the United States Army was deployed on domestic soil to eliminate the strikers.

And then our nation collectively memory holed it because we wouldn’t want other exploited workers to get ideas.

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Green Tree 1 month ago (edited)

for more watch the 1987 movie Matewan starring James Earl Jones, among others. 94% on Rotten Tomatoes

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Lunt shared that the things people once believed to be factual information that are no longer true help him remember that, as much as humans are in some ways ‘universal’, the people of the past are very different from the people of the present. “Remembering that the Romans liked to eat dormice, or the Greeks exercised naked—the root of the word ‘gymnastics’ in ancient Greek is gymnos, meaning ‘naked’—helps me remember that ‘the past is a foreign country’, as L.P. Hartley wrote,” he said.

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30 Interesting Facts From History That You May Not Find In Textbooks The Chinese sparrow hunt in 1960. It was to protect crops but it allowed invasions of locusts that no longer had a predator and this caused the great Chinese famine.

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Nathaniel He/Him Cis-Het 1 month ago

Nature knows what it is doing, stop f*****g with it.

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30 Interesting Facts From History That You May Not Find In Textbooks The reason we have coal is because trees weren't biodegradable back then, so it just underwent the geological proces and formed underground under pressure and high temperatures.

The fungus that breaks down trees, only evolved 40 million years ago.

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Nathaniel He/Him Cis-Het 1 month ago

When we run out of coal that will be it, mushrooms do such a good job breaking down wood.

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30 Interesting Facts From History That You May Not Find In Textbooks Richard Nixon conspired with Saigon to win the 1968 presidential election. He interfered with the Johnson administration’s attempt at a peace treaty. This was literal treason and I feel that very few people know about it. The NYT wrote a piece about it in 2017.

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Michael P (Perthaussieguy) 1 month ago

Well, Nixon WAS a Republican

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“I am also interested in less-well-known historical stories that nevertheless show great drama and spark interest,” Lunt continued. “For instance, take the story of Cratesipolis, a woman who was married to a Macedonian nobleman named Alexander (not Alexander the Great).

“This Alexander occupied some Greek cities near the Isthmus of Corinth, including the city of Sicyon. Eager for independence, some warriors from Sicyon betrayed and killed Alexander, thinking they had won freedom for their city. Not so: Alexander’s wife, Cratesipolis, took control of her husband’s army, quelled the insurrection, and crucified those who had betrayed her husband.

“Women are often under-represented and many of their stories are untold in Greek history. I like reading stories like these that have somehow survived for thousands of years, and—like I pointed out above—they upend some of our assumptions (in this case about the role(s) of women in the ancient Greek world). Of course, maybe Cratesipolis was the one exception to the gender roles at the time; or maybe—and this is what I hope to be the case—ancient women had more opportunities than the sources suggest.”

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30 Interesting Facts From History That You May Not Find In Textbooks Morocco was the first country to recognize the United States of America as an independent country.

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Doofnuts 1 month ago

You rock Morocco! (See what I did there?)

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30 Interesting Facts From History That You May Not Find In Textbooks A very recent historical fact that is weirdly not talked about as much as it should be -- Microsoft had accumulated such a big monopoly over the personal computer market through the 80s and 90s that in 1997 Microsoft was nearly broken apart by the US government. In an attempt to avoid an investigation, Microsoft invested nearly $150 million into a then-failing Apple Computer to give the US government less ammunition in a potential anti-trust case. This saved Apple from bankruptcy and helped them to become one of the biggest tech companies in history. Microsoft, however, profited off of this investment. In 2003, Microsoft sold their shares in Apple for nearly $600 million.

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Fred L. 1 month ago

Pretty sure they now wish they'd kept those shares.

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In general, most of the "peaceful" movements that resulted in freedoms we enjoy today (civil rights, labor organizing, anti-war protests, the anti-colonialist movements led by Gandhi and Mandela, etc), required **significant** direct action and targeted political violence in order to succeed.

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T'Mar of Vulcan 1 month ago

Sometimes people have no choice. Even Madiba said that he didn't WANT to use violence, but the ANC understood that only violence would get the apartheid government to listen. It's not like the National Party had a sudden attack of conscience in 1990.

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Discussing the topics and periods in history people tend to be least acquainted with, the expert pointed out that in general, they are—understandably—most familiar with the history of their own locations, homes, and families. “In addition, we have the tendency to slip towards the present in our estimations and evaluations. So, in general, I would suspect that the more ancient in time, and the more remote in geography, the greater the capacity for unknown information and facts.

“I live in the United States, and I would love to learn more about ancient China and India,” he shared. “Occasionally, I have the chance to teach World History and we touch upon the ancient cultures of these places, but we can only scratch the surface of what there is to learn. Of course, I can—and I do—read and learn on my own as I can, but there are only so many hours in a day. Similarly, I wonder if people living in China and India today know less about the ancient cultures of the Americas because of the geographical distance that divides them. I don't know this; I just wonder about it.

“In the world I study, one of the best sources for little-known facts or stories is the ancient Greek writer Plutarch. Plutarch is credited with writing volumes of anecdotes, quotations, essays, and ‘fun facts’ about the ancient Greek and Roman worlds. Collectively, these works are called the Moralia.”

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30 Interesting Facts From History That You May Not Find In Textbooks Stegasaurous died out 145 million years ago, T Rex 72-65 million years ago, the Stegasaurous was as old to the T-Rex as the T-Rex is to us.

Grasses evolved about 70 Mya.

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Bookworm 1 month ago (edited)

In the Making Of clips from the Walking With Dinosaurs series, one of the major complaints from the filmmakers was that as soon as you find a nice open bit of landscape to digitally add a dinosaur to, there's grass in it, and since there was no grass when dinosaurs were alive, they couldn't have any in the film.

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30 Interesting Facts From History That You May Not Find In Textbooks Many people know about Neanderthals, but there were also other human species as well. Homo heidelbergensis and Denisovans the other ones that we know of that existed in the time of Homo Sapiens.

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Nitka Tsar 1 month ago (edited)

I thought this is common knowledge? I’ve learned about these and homo erectus and homo ergaster and homo habilis and what not at school. But especially about the neanderthals and homo heidelbergensis of course, as I live in Germany.

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30 Interesting Facts From History That You May Not Find In Textbooks Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin were born on the same day.

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Savahax 1 month ago

Wikipedia agrees

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“Of course it is entertaining to learn obscure or little-known facts—the so-called ‘fun facts’—and I like the notion that these might spark curiosity and a desire to learn more. But history is more than just assembling esoteric facts. There’s definitely benefit to learning fun trivia (what historians call antiquarianism), but the analysis and interpretation are the true craft of the historian,” Lunt added.

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30 Interesting Facts From History That You May Not Find In Textbooks The Pony Express lasted only a year and a half.

TheAndrewBrown: It does seem to have been marketed heavily, but it was also one of the first ways to communicate across the country. It also went bankrupt because the telegraph was invented and made it obsolete, which led to it being romanticized like a lot of other “old west” stuff was that got replaced by newer technology. But it was a huge deal during that year and a half

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Nils Skirnir 1 month ago

Yeah the Old West was but a blip in US history. Why it’s so popular is still a mystery to me

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The tale of the dancing plague of 1518. In Strasbourg (modern-day France), a woman named Frau Troffea began dancing uncontrollably in the streets. Within a month, about 400 people had joined her. The phenomenon, now believed to be a case of mass hysteria or ergot poisoning, resulted in several deaths from heart attack, stroke, or exhaustion.

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Michael MacKinnon 1 month ago

There was swinging and swaying, and records playing?

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30 Interesting Facts From History That You May Not Find In Textbooks Humanity was likely nearly wiped out about 900,000 years ago when our ancestors were reduced to about 1280 breeding individuals and stayed around that many for 117,000 years.

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Anna Boes 1 month ago

How? What? Why? Huh?

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In the 1920s Liberia had a general election, which the True Whig party won with 243,000 votes.
There were 15,000 registered voters for the election.

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sbj 1 month ago

Sounds like the norm in some countries

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Bicycle face.

"In the 19th century, a mysterious condition called "bicycle face" was created to scare women from riding bicycles - **flushed cheeks, hard clenched jaw, bulging eyes** are just some of the symptoms".

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Nathaniel He/Him Cis-Het 1 month ago

Partly to deter women from having any freedom and to be able to travel relatively long distances. Think how horrific it would be for us men if women were allowed independence! Next the gentle womenfolk will be wanting to wear trousers and vote!

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30 Interesting Facts From History That You May Not Find In Textbooks Coca Cola still uses coca leaves in their formula but just for the flavor. They are the only US company that is legally allowed to import coca leaves. The processed leaves are then sold to a pharmaceutical company.

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Soy 1 month ago

"pharmaceutical company" That's what they tell everyone.

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30 Interesting Facts From History That You May Not Find In Textbooks More people died during the production of the V2 rocket than were killed by it as a weapon of war.

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TotallyNOTAFox 1 month ago

One factor was that the british managed to transmit wrong target and impact information back to the launch sides, resulting in misses of population centers

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#28

Thomas Jefferson created his own version of the Bible by hand that removed the whole first testament and any and all mentions and references to miracles and the supernatural. It’s called a Jefferson Bible and you can still get them.

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Nathaniel He/Him Cis-Het 1 month ago

Like Harry Potter without the magic?

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The magician Harry Houdini hated people who claimed to be psychics and clairvoyants so much that he once testified before congress in an attempt to get fortune readings and things like that made illegal.

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Nathaniel He/Him Cis-Het 1 month ago (edited)

He started his career as a "psychic" and "clairvoyant" at the circus. He learned all the tricks and when spirit readings became popular he was "genuine" psychics use all these same circus tricks.

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#30

30 Interesting Facts From History That You May Not Find In Textbooks In the early 1900s, the Tennessee Children’s Home Society was an illegal orphanage that kidnapped babies from poor households and sold them.

If you're interested, read the book Before We Were Yours.

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Candi Cabaniss 1 month ago

It was a corrupt family court judge (female) and a social worker. They did not physically kidnap, the judge would remove parental rights. Then the pair would split money on "adoption" fees. I have family from that area, during a TV movie on the story, they drove by and showed a mental hospital, implying that woman who gave birth there were used as a baby source. My comment was "hey Grandma was a nurse there."

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Christos Arvanitis 1 month ago

Fact check EVERYTHING claimed in this post.

22points

Michael Largey 1 month ago

Will it be on the test?

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Papa 1 month ago

As usual with this type of article, there are interesting facts, and some of them are even true.

21points

John Nelson 1 month ago

The poll left out Victorian era.. :(

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Jan Castle 1 month ago

The Victorian Era is part of the "Modern History" period of time :)

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Bill Marsano 1 month ago

Long-windedness discourages reading. Both the writer and Lunt should learn the virtues of self-editing.

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Christos Arvanitis 1 month ago

Fact check EVERYTHING claimed in this post.

22points

Michael Largey 1 month ago

Will it be on the test?

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Papa 1 month ago

As usual with this type of article, there are interesting facts, and some of them are even true.

21points

John Nelson 1 month ago

The poll left out Victorian era.. :(

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Jan Castle 1 month ago

The Victorian Era is part of the "Modern History" period of time :)

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Bill Marsano 1 month ago

Long-windedness discourages reading. Both the writer and Lunt should learn the virtues of self-editing.

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