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30 Of The Weirdest And The Most Disturbing Facts From Known History, Shared By People In This Online Group 40% of all homeless people in America still goes to work every day

Flutfar , (Mick Baker)rooster Report

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314points

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Scagsy 3 years ago

And if that isn't a reflection on a broken society, I don't know what is.

369points

30 Of The Weirdest And The Most Disturbing Facts From Known History, Shared By People In This Online Group That literally ever race of people that have ever existed on this planet have been slaves to another at some point in history and most of them have overlapping time frames with other races.

And this is never talked about.

KnightofDis , muammerokumus Report

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310points

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Ozacoter 3 years ago

Exactly. In medieval spain the moors in Al Andalus actually prefered blond germanic slaves. So much that the word slave in spanish (and likely in english) "esclavo" comes from "eslavo" (as in an slavic person)

137points

30 Of The Weirdest And The Most Disturbing Facts From Known History, Shared By People In This Online Group Australia went to war with Emus. The Emus won.

LuinAelin , Ed Dunens Report

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309points

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Xottel 3 years ago

There were no human casualties. The "army" just retreated eventually.

95points

30 Of The Weirdest And The Most Disturbing Facts From Known History, Shared By People In This Online Group Adolph hitler was an animal rights advocate who banned the live boiling of lobsters.

TommyHawking , Chloe Media Report

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240points

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Mary Rose Kent 3 years ago

Oh, the bitterest of all ironies.

287points

30 Of The Weirdest And The Most Disturbing Facts From Known History, Shared By People In This Online Group Sharks have been around longer than trees.

truthsayer2021 , Andrew Kuchling Report

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235points

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Bacony Cakes 3 years ago

"Long sausage full of teeth" is a good body plan.

85points

Flaky_Sandwich9353 , Gord Webster Report

30 Of The Weirdest And The Most Disturbing Facts From Known History, Shared By People In This Online Group There are books in the Harvard University library which are bound in human flesh

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222points

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Nicolas Schirvel 3 years ago

One is titled : "How to cover a book in human skin and get away with it"

165points

30 Of The Weirdest And The Most Disturbing Facts From Known History, Shared By People In This Online Group The US Government has a literal gigantic dossier of classified operations hidden from the public, no brainer. What's shocking are things they've actually declassified.

Among these documents is the detailing of one of the largest human experiments in history, when the US dropped a bacteria-infused fog on the city of San Francisco to test how well "germ-based" biological warfare could prove by masking it with natural fog, which occurred back in the 1950s.

It was widely successful. A specific case is that of Edward Nevin, who passed away from Serratia marcescens, a bacteria that makes bread turn red. It had spread to his heart from a UTI and he passed away
In 1977, the government released a thoroughly detailed report at the testament of Nevin's grandson. Nevin's grandson tried to sue the government for wrongful death, but the court held that the government was immune to a lawsuit for negligence and that they were justified in conducting tests without subjects' knowledge. According to The Wall Street Journal, the Army stated that infections must have occurred inside the hospital and the US Attorney argued that they had to conduct tests in a populated area to see how a biological agent would affect that area.

Imagine what they're hiding.

Shirozaru , Ben Schumin Report

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221points

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Leo Domitrix 3 years ago

Gee, you mean nations commit horrible atrocities even on their own citizens? Gasp, shock, faint ----- and, yes, that was sarcasm.

118points

30 Of The Weirdest And The Most Disturbing Facts From Known History, Shared By People In This Online Group Some ancient cultures knew that they could control population growth by denying fertile females both fats and carbohydrates. This process guaranteed that embryos would not mature in the womb due to the lack of food energy derived from carrying mothers. The embryos would self-abort. A certain ratio of body fat is required for successful pregnancies.

NagromTrebloc , Gideon Report

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215points

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Vicky Z 3 years ago

Controlling women's wombs for thousands of years and still nothing has changed

340points

aljoharaalfayez , Nicolas Sanguinetti Report

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30 Of The Weirdest And The Most Disturbing Facts From Known History, Shared By People In This Online Group There are more people in slavery today than at any other time in history.

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206points

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Barbara L Bristow 3 years ago

here's a list: As of 2018, the countries with the most slaves were: India (18.4 million), China (3.86 million), Pakistan (3.19 million), North Korea (2.64 million), Nigeria (1.39 million), Indonesia (1.22 million), Democratic Republic of the Congo (1 million), Russia (794,000) and the Philippines (784,000).

138points

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30 Of The Weirdest And The Most Disturbing Facts From Known History, Shared By People In This Online Group That we've been on the brink of a global nuclear exchange several times. And that in one case (Cuban blockade), it was only because a single man (Vasily Arkhipov), disagreed with standing orders, that a nuclear exchange was likely averted.

Madjack66 , IAEA Imagebank Report

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202points

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Vicky Z 3 years ago

The fact that some critical decisions that will affect the whole humanity are on the hands of a few people, is scary

149points

#12

30 Of The Weirdest And The Most Disturbing Facts From Known History, Shared By People In This Online Group Due to Fresh drinking water being so scarce on the Galápagos Islands, some bird species, such as the Galapagos Hawk, have adapted by drinking the blood of other animals.

Johndoe448 , Paul Krawczuk Report

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202points

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Mary Rose Kent 3 years ago

Forced Vampirism

86points

#13

30 Of The Weirdest And The Most Disturbing Facts From Known History, Shared By People In This Online Group Cleopatra lived closer to the moon landing than to the building of the pyramids.

Dragonwithamonocle , Ivan Radic Report

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197points

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Mary Rose Kent 3 years ago

That’s insane. I remember watching Neil Armstrong stepping onto the moon.

53points

PhilippTheSmartass , Steve Snodgrass Report

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30 Of The Weirdest And The Most Disturbing Facts From Known History, Shared By People In This Online Group From the fall of the Roman empire up until the mid 19th century, not a single city in Europe had a sewer system to dispose of human feces.

City planners didn't build sewers until it was proven in 1855 that the cause for all the cholera epidemics was drinking water contaminated by human feces.

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186points

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Robert T 3 years ago

TIL how to spell Bazalgette. Always sounded like it should be Basiljet to me. First modern sewer system was in London, before that the River Thames was the sewer!

49points

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30 Of The Weirdest And The Most Disturbing Facts From Known History, Shared By People In This Online Group The Mayans partied hard. They would take alcohol and hallucinogenic enemas.

In Social Studies they had us watch a special on them and I vividly remember an artists rendering of a Mayan doing a handstand while getting an enema.

The original keg-stand.

Riff_Moranis , amber.kennedy Report

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180points

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Ozacoter 3 years ago

They also had a violent empire that had slavery and conquered, raped and pillaged their neighbours. Which is completely normal for the time. But everybody talks about the europeans as if we were the only ones to commit atrocities

70points

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30 Of The Weirdest And The Most Disturbing Facts From Known History, Shared By People In This Online Group Russia still has not recovered its population prior to WWII

YNot1989 , Pedro Szekely Report

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173points

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Tim Pillinger 3 years ago

Ireland hasn't recovered from the potatoes famine. There were 8 million in Ireland in 1841, now there are about 6.

174points

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30 Of The Weirdest And The Most Disturbing Facts From Known History, Shared By People In This Online Group Up until the early 1980s doctors did not think newborn babies could feel pain. They didn't use anesthetic only used muscle relaxers on newborns.

mukelynnvinton , Kelly Roselle Report

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165points

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Ozacoter 3 years ago (edited)

I will never stip being shocked at the idiocy of doctors. Anybody with half a neuron knows that they feel pain. Since they show it. There was no reason to think otherwise except laziness

208points

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30 Of The Weirdest And The Most Disturbing Facts From Known History, Shared By People In This Online Group Rainbow Valley of Mount Everest is named for the rainbow colors of clothing of passed away people there

Ryukotaicho , Sean MacEntee Report

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156points

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Thistle 3 years ago

oh yeah i've heard of this, there were a lot of people that died there...

26points

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30 Of The Weirdest And The Most Disturbing Facts From Known History, Shared By People In This Online Group Spartans bathed their newborn babies in red wine instead of warm water

FireyorLeafy , Daniella Segura Report

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145points

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Otter 3 years ago

And the babies slept very quietly after their baths! But seriously, water was often contaminated in the ancient world, and alcohol killed bacteria so it might actually have been a good idea. Did you know that Roman army was able to conquer much of the known world because they carried huge vats of low-quality wine and mixed it with whatever drinking water they found? It killed enough pathenogenic microbia that the armies didn't get sick en masse in dubious areas.

219points

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30 Of The Weirdest And The Most Disturbing Facts From Known History, Shared By People In This Online Group The United States injected unknowing Puerto Rican’s with cancer cells to see how the illness worked

captnslog97 , Lorie Shaull Report

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138points

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Mary Rose Kent 3 years ago

In the Tuskegee Study, the U.S. government injected African Americans with syphilis so that they could find how it spreads and works its way through the body. And they just left them infected rather than giving them penicillin afterwards.

145points

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30 Of The Weirdest And The Most Disturbing Facts From Known History, Shared By People In This Online Group The Dutch once ate their Prime Minister.

ioconnor94 , waferboard Report

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137points

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Melissa Boatman Linebaugh 3 years ago

Clearly they used a Dutch oven.

231points

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30 Of The Weirdest And The Most Disturbing Facts From Known History, Shared By People In This Online Group The founding fathers of the USA didn't know dinosaurs existed.

yuwannano , David Kryzaniak Report

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137points

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Mary Rose Kent 3 years ago

And it took even longer from that point to now to work out that we still have dinosaurs in the form of birds and reptiles.

71points

#23

30 Of The Weirdest And The Most Disturbing Facts From Known History, Shared By People In This Online Group The ability to tell time (circadian rythm) is an evolutionary reaponse.

Cells that learned to replicate at night and rest during the day ultimately survived.

I'm bastardizing it but I find that amazing.

ok-MTLmunchies , vastfield Report

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133points

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Eli Rockwell 3 years ago

One way that chronobiologists and sleep researchers have used to identify and study circadian rhythms is to spend extended periods isolated from natural light, temperature fluctuations, or other stimuli that could signal the time of day. Today, some laboratories have special facilities to achieve this isolation, but early researchers used caves. Nathaniel Kleitman conducted the first cave experiment in 1938 when he and a graduate student spent 32 days isolated from the outside world in Mammoth Cave, Kentucky. The researchers imposed a 28-hour cycle on themselves consisting of ten hours of work, nine of leisure, and another nine hours of sleep. Bedtime shifted four hours later each day during the Mammoth Cave study. Despite the alternative schedule and the absence of external cues, Kleitman found that body temperature continued to fluctuate in an approximately 24-hour cycle, suggesting the existence of an endogenous clock.

46points

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30 Of The Weirdest And The Most Disturbing Facts From Known History, Shared By People In This Online Group If you lined up this history of earth on a 12 hour clock, modern humans making an impact on the planet would be about 1/10 of a second ago.

Doc580 , Neil Turner Report

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125points

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Aroace tiger (any pronouns) 3 years ago

We have done so much evil in such little time

141points

#25

30 Of The Weirdest And The Most Disturbing Facts From Known History, Shared By People In This Online Group Adolf Hitler was saved from drowning at age nine in a fountain by a priest

DrySky8514 , Mauro Girotto Report

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114points

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Vicky Z 3 years ago

If only he knew

132points

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30 Of The Weirdest And The Most Disturbing Facts From Known History, Shared By People In This Online Group Not so much disturbing as it is funny (at least to me).

The Kettle War. Long story short, Spain (The Holy Roman Empire) and the Netherlands (The Seven Republics of the Netherlands) were beefing. One boat from Spain engaged in a fight with a Dutch naval ship. One shot was fired. The only victim of that cannonball was a pot of soup that was cooking. The Spanish ship then surrendered.

ImANuckleChut , Jonas Bengtsson Report

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114points

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Ozacoter 3 years ago

Not correct. Spain was never part of the Holy Roman Empire. But we shared leaders.

47points

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#27

30 Of The Weirdest And The Most Disturbing Facts From Known History, Shared By People In This Online Group Ireland exported potato’s during the great potato famine.

CategoryTurbulent114 , Bryan Alexander Report

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107points

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Otter 3 years ago

Someone won a Nobel Prize by doing large-scale research on large historical and current famines, and found the same pattern in every one: There was always enough food to feed everyone, but in a famine, large numbers of people just had no access to the food. They were either deprived of food, or weren't given enough resources to afford food.

171points

#28

30 Of The Weirdest And The Most Disturbing Facts From Known History, Shared By People In This Online Group That in UK, some time in the 12th century, two children of unusual GREEN skin colour appeared in the village of Woolpit in Suffolk, England.

The girl later communicated she and her brother had come from Saint Martin's Land, a subterranean world inhabited by green people. This actually happened!

Mulks23 , Ines Hegedus-Garcia Report

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98points

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NeonDisco 3 years ago

It's a folklore story passed down generations, like the Bible but believable.

72points

Rebekah Tracy 3 years ago

*WARNING* there’s is not a single ounce of hate in this comment!!! But I do realize that some Christians could be very offended that you think that a folklore story is true but something they’ve based their lives on is false. It’s totally okay for you not to believe in the Bible. That’s fine, you do you. However it’s not something that’s beneficial to anyone when you bash other peoples religion.

16points

M.T. Noah 2 years ago

there is a nutritional deficiency situation that turns people's skin green. so it actually could have happened. esp if the kids' parents were dying and they put their kids in a cave and told them not to leave. the 12th century was hell for a lot of people who weren't seriously wealthy. there are entries attesting to these kids, also and the girl got healthy, grew up and had kids. there are descendants of her living today, last i checked. so my money is on NUTRITIONAL DEFICIENCIES that were not understood at the time which the little boy did not survive. additonally, the next region over from the place the children were FOUND was called after St Martin. So. . . But it doesn't matter who is right. It's a fascinating thing, either way.

3points

VesselTrenchBlurryface 3 years ago

really? you had to go there?

1point

quinn 1 year ago

omg all the hate comments im screaming lmfao

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Larissa Mobley 2 years ago

Actually, there were firsthand accounts, and reports made from when it happened, then the stories given by the actual witnesses were passed down for generations. The children were actually most likely from Fornham St Martin.

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Jinetlee Luciano 2 years ago

This joke gets old

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Laura Roney 3 years ago

The Bible is not (sadly for you) is not folklore

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Gloria Julian 3 years ago

The Bible is not folklore.

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olx 3 years ago

this explanation is not true. they were the children of foreign cloth dyers, didn't speak English, and mostly preferred vegetables out of the food they were offered, which, for whatever reason, confused the townspeople. the boy died of malnutrition and they eventually worked out what happened when the girl learned English then worked as, I believe, a maid.

33points

Firefoxy3121 3 years ago

It was eventually found that they were a dyers children, I think, and were coated in vegetable based green dye

22points

Kona Pake 3 years ago

Is the boy with the green hair related to them?

4points

Agnes Jekyll 3 years ago

They were green because their father was a wool merchant. The green came from dye. Their parents died, and the children eventually made it to a town. They didn't speak English. The little boy died from starvation, and the little girl survived. I wonder if this was the inspiration for Hansel and Gretel?

3points

Penelope 2 2 years ago

Actually. And I don't quite remember all the details. But for some reason parents would leave their children in the woods. Said children would be eaten by cannibals. Which. I don't know much about the history of cannibalism in Germany. That's just what I've read regarding that story I may be incorrect.

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H Edwards 3 years ago

I wonder if this or a similar story inspired the character of Rosa in Isabel Allende's novel The House of the Spirits?

2points

R Carson 3 years ago

Yep I've read about them.

2points

Apollo Ghosh 2 years ago

the incredible hulk children

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sunflower bunny 3 years ago

that's so cool! in primary school, we had a drama prompt that to green children had come to our town!

1point

MikeWheelerFan 3 years ago (edited)

I don’t believe this. It’s possible to have blue skin due to genetics, but not green (I think). There’s actually an infamous family called the Fugate family that had this condition.

1point

Kim Lorton 3 years ago

You can also get blue skin from ingesting silver home remedies. Or silver in medications, or use silver based products on a regular basis.

2points

Pascale Pierloot 3 years ago

An condition caused by eating too many Mars bars.

1point

Bacony Cakes 3 years ago

Did they have corkscrew chimneys, perchance?

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L.a. Williams 2 years ago

Weird so I love ❤ it.

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Rider 2 years ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_children_of_Woolpit

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Hugh Cookson 2 years ago

I lived near Woolpit many years ago - this is probably correct.......

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Viv Hart 3 years ago

Not true.

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Draga Millani 3 years ago

Elphaba, is that you?

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Yehudit Hannah Cohn 3 years ago

There are actually blue people in Kentucky.

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Loraine MacGinness 3 years ago

What green skin ??

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An Co 3 years ago

You mean multiple people wrote down a stupid story and believed it. Happened all the time and people still do. Ever hear of the National Inquirer? Or Facebook?

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Thomas MacLean 3 years ago

Sure it did ... can I sell you some oceanside real estate in Florida??

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Aidy Shaw 3 years ago

I bet you it didn't.

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backatya 3 years ago

prove it happened

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Christine Temple 3 years ago

Elven changelings.

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I I 3 years ago

green giants kids HOHO HO

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Kim Lorton 3 years ago

So that's bizarre. Might Be some truth to it! Never know!

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j miller 3 years ago

Since when has the Bible been considered believable?

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Tunk 3 years ago

David Icke must of been right

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Penelope 2 2 years ago

must of?

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cheers, cassidy 3 years ago

elphiba, is that you?

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Mazer 3 years ago

Greenish staining of human skin may result from a gamut of causes, such as chlorosis, exogenous copper, resolving ecchymosis, drugs, green textile dyes, green tattoos, apocrine and eccrine chromhidrosis, hyper biliverdinemia, chloromas, use of green dyes during tube feeding in patient with multiorgan failure, Pseudomonas infections, and Wells’ syndrome in its second stage. Physicians may rarely encounter patients with green skin, hair, nails, or mucosae.

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buttonpusher 3 years ago (edited)

Reminds me of that Papa Smurf guy who's skin turned blue from that silver stuff he was drinking. He had argyria or something.

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~oatmeal.rat~ 3 years ago

to all the people who are being rude to people who believe in the bible- stop? It is their choice to believe what they want to and not be shamed because of it.

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Betty Vanderhooven-SchmaaSchmaa 3 years ago

Except when they believe that ppl who don't believe couldn't possibly live without breaking commandments. Or sit around thinking everything is God's will. Being ignorant wont get you out of a speeding ticket.

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Seabeast 3 years ago

More likely they came from a family of wool dyers.

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Tee Witt 3 years ago

True, but there is a simple explanation for it, something to do with food I think. It is easily found on the net.

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Shelli Aderman 3 years ago

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_children_of_Woolpit

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Mary Jeffries 3 years ago

Like the blue people in the Appalachians.

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Dying Inside Rachel 3 years ago

I remember this, I learned about it in a weird history book.

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Don't Look 3 years ago

... the blue people in the Appalachian mountains...

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AzKhaleesi 3 years ago

All you bashers are sad. Really speaks volumes to where this world is headed. You guys take things WAY to literal. No one actually thinks that a wall was brought down by a trumpet, unless you are literally believing in the miracle. Open up your minds. Back then, they didn't know how to tell stories other than what they KNEW for the time. So maybe there was some kind of weapon that was invented, but it made a "trumpet" noise. Therefore, much like the game of telephone, eventually as passed down it was a trumpet. (even though it wasn't) The one loaf feeding many, wasn't actually one loaf, it was a "pay it forward" thing. One person shared, the rest shared too. The great flood has been proven by science. I can keep going but you get the idea. They told the events as they could describe in the times. And how it was passed down. It's that simple.

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Kaseylulu 3 years ago

So what parts do you take literally and what parts are open for interpretation?

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N S 3 years ago (edited)

Where their names Aoife and Paddy?

-1point

Effin Fred 3 years ago

There is nothing to claim that this even remotely occurred. This is fiction, much like the bible, jesus, ghosts, and moral politicians.

-3points

#29

30 Of The Weirdest And The Most Disturbing Facts From Known History, Shared By People In This Online Group The baltic states conquest was buried in history (not many people know it) because ww2 and the holocaust happened at about the same time.

TayoDaAsian , www.twin-loc.fr Report

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97points

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lunar eclipse 3 years ago

Unrelated but the picture is beautiful

50points

#30

30 Of The Weirdest And The Most Disturbing Facts From Known History, Shared By People In This Online Group The Germans smuggling Lenin into Tsarist Russia, to bring it down.

willubemyfriendo , 7C0 Report

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75points

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Bacony Cakes 3 years ago

imagine like being putting your luggage through the scanner at the airport and inside they find trotsky

63points