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50 Odd And Interesting ‘Weird History’ Posts From This Account That Makes Learning Fun No Matter How Old You Are (New Pics)
With real-life facts often being far stranger than fiction, there’s nothing like a good history book to get your noggin’ joggin’ and make you appreciate life from a whole different perspective. I might have started my love affair with history as a subject with the amazing Horrible History book series, but I’ve since then graduated to thick and dusty tomes.
However, I still have a yearning for the more fun and unusual aspects of history that first drew me in. And that’s where the Weird History Twitter page comes into play. A page with 172k followers that’s been active since September 2011, Weird History is the brainchild of Andrew Rader who does, well, pretty much everything: from book-writing to cool space stuff.
Have a look through some of the coolest recent posts made by the Weird History project, upvote the ones that you liked best, and later on consider absorbing some more delicious knowledge from Bored Panda's previous articles about the Twitter account here and here.
More info: Twitter (Weird History) | Twitter (Andrew) | Instagram | Facebook | YouTube | Andrew-Rader.com
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Leah Helbig 3 years ago
Our world was built from the back of the horse. They are one of the most important creatures who ever lived.
Andrew has a PhD from MIT in long-duration spaceflight, is an expert in space exploration, and has authored a host of academic and technical papers. What’s more, he’s an avid writer, having published books for adults and children alike, and he creates tabletop games in his spare time.
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François Carré 3 years ago
There has always been women to stand for equality, in every time and everywhere. It's just that men tend to erase their names from history afterwards.
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Madison Sadler 3 years ago
My name's Catherine of Aragon was married 24 years I'm a paragon of royalty my loyalty is to the vatican so if you try to dump me... you won't try that again! (upvote if you know what I'm talking about lol
-alex_the_trans_demon- 3 years ago
(don't know if you wanted anyone to continue it but) I'm that Boleyn girl and I'm up next. See I broke England from the Church. Yeah I'm that sexy. Why did I lose my head? Well my sleeves maybe green but my lipstick's red....
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Ozacoter 3 years ago (edited)
She was a very strong woman. Same as her mother Isabel la Catolica. You can say whatever you want about the bad things that she did (like fighting her arabian neighbours and expelling all non catholics from the country). But she was a extremely strong woman in a mans world. She also tried to implement rules that ensured that the natuve americans were treated properly (for those times standards). But it did not work.
New Prometheus 3 years ago
It would have been so horrible to be a woman any other time in human history except now, and still is in many places. But in her times, for example... God, I would have become so bitter I would have killed myself. So much respect to all women before us.
judy baker 3 years ago
Truly a woman of the Renaissance who helped pave the way for future generations.
GC Rovario-Cole 3 years ago
She would have written it herself, but y'know...she wasn't allowed to learn how to do that.
Daniel Marsh 3 years ago (edited)
She first married Henry VIII's older brother, Arthur... when he was 11. (Arthur the boy king sound familiar?) Her interest in asserting a right to education was perhaps tied to her knowledge she would have many responsibilities? But Arthur died before he was old enough to consummate the marriage, so legally there was no marriage. No boyking took place. Henry VIII divorced her at 40 for producing no male heirs; Women had in fact led several Catholic nations previously, and their daughter, Mary, would claim the throne. Henry could not reasonably seek annulment because he had very vehement in making certain no-one could ever challenge the validity of this marriage to someone who had "attempted" (in legal terms) marriage to his brother.
New Prometheus 3 years ago
She didn't marry when she was 11, she was sold as a child bride.
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Penelope Mays 3 years ago
I read about her! she became a nun to love women, but really wasn't that into the relidges (sorry I'm terrible at spelling) side of things.
The Canadian, who now lives in Los Angeles in California, has also been extensively featured in the media, including in The New York Times and by Vice. And finally, adding to his great list of achievements, he’s a real trivia aficionado (even having taken home awards) and he’s the curator of the Weird Science account, too.
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Otter 3 years ago
That might be because in the 1930s, people were still catching tuberculosis from cow's milk. Sick cows can transmit the bacteria through non-pasteurized milk, so if the hospital had its own herd then they could make sure all the beasts were healthy and not infecting the patients.
Since 2014, Andrew has been working at SpaceX as a Mission Manager, while previously he had got 4 years of experience as a Spacecraft Systems Engineer at COM DEV. One of the coolest things about him (at least for me) is that he was a candidate for the Canadian Astronaut Corps back in 2009 and as recently as 2017.
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What’s more, he was being considered as one of the potential candidates for a one-way mission to the Red Planet as part of the Mars One project in 2014. It should be clear by now that Andrews’s passion for science and history aren’t just for show—he’s dedicated his life to the pursuit of truth, knowledge, and pushing the limits of mankind. And Weird History… it’s just the tip of the iceberg.
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Chris Wade 3 years ago
I mean... As far as prison cells go, that surely isn't that bad, right? lol
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Chris Wade 3 years ago (edited)
Fast forward 82 years later and people moan about having to wear a cloth/paper mask on planes.
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judy baker 3 years ago
They build very few structures today that would last even half as long.
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Ryan Deschanel 3 years ago
Cousins are nice, but when a little horde of bloodthirsty bolcheviks want tu slaughter your family, they are not here to help you.
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Kai Wee Toh 3 years ago
...and then they replaced the cocaine with something more potent and addictive - refined white sugar.
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WilvanderHeijden 3 years ago
And nearly 70 years later he's still waiting for her to step down.
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Julia Atkinson 3 years ago
Combines the pleasure of horseriding with the anxiety of being accidentally blinded by your mount
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MagicalUnicorn 3 years ago
well, that's basically only time of home i could afford, so they weren't that wrong
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Sarah Grape 3 years ago
I thought he said redcoats; though regulars make more sense, red was a popular color for coats
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Kirsten Kerkhof 3 years ago
A tendency to decapitate the pilot. How many people had to die before they concluded it was a design/idea fault and not just bad luck on the part of the pilot?
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Luis Hernandez Dauajare 3 years ago
Fun fact: when Titanic sank, the White Star Company refused to pay officers and crew members for services provided during the sinking. And the family of one of the band members who died actually was charged for the loss of his uniform.
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Wilf 3 years ago
In France they call it the "iron harvest". About 900 tons of unexploded ordnance is recovered every year. If you drive around the battlefields it is perfectly common to see a handful of old hand grenades or mortar rounds sitting on the verge at a farmers' gate, waiting for the bomb disposal people to come on their latest run to pick them up.
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Chris Wade 3 years ago
Surely a while after him the name "sandwich" stuck but people have been putting stuff between slices of bread (or variations of bread) for thousands of years.
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Monday 3 years ago
Let's not forget the Great Molasses Flood in Boston in 1919. A molasses tank ruptured (it was overfilled if memory serves) and the resulting flood of molasses damaged buildings, sucked people under and coated everything in a sticky mess. 21 people died, many of them drowning in the thick molasses.
michael reid 3 years ago
Wich is an old english word for salt and there are lots of places ending with wich in England
Monday 3 years ago
Let's not forget the Great Molasses Flood in Boston in 1919. A molasses tank ruptured (it was overfilled if memory serves) and the resulting flood of molasses damaged buildings, sucked people under and coated everything in a sticky mess. 21 people died, many of them drowning in the thick molasses.
michael reid 3 years ago
Wich is an old english word for salt and there are lots of places ending with wich in England
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