History lessons in school may have seemed boring to some, but it is useful to know how far we’ve come and where we came from. It may seem boring because the events took place a very long time ago or they just don’t seem relevant to us personally. But the history that is taught at school isn’t the only truth and doesn’t encompass all the things that happened in the past.
There are so many events and people that we don’t get to hear about and maybe they didn’t have a big impact on the world, but those stories are so interesting to listen to or read about. Today you will find out some history facts that you may not have heard of before, and they come with a twist, as Redditor Doyouareisstupid asked, “What is the weirdest/most disturbing fact about our world’s history that you know?” It’s a perfect read for the spooky season we are now in because people have knowledge about some unbelievable things that occurred years ago. So enjoy and upvote the answers that surprised you the most.
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#1
Most people have 16 great great parents, Cleopatra had 2. She's lucky to have developed working lungs, let alone be competent enough to accomplish anything. That was a family tree was a wreath
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#2
Australia went to war with Emus. The Emus won.
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#3
40% of all homeless people in America still goes to work every day
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#4
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.
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#5
Adolph hitler was an animal rights advocate who banned the live boiling of lobsters.
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#6
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.
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#7
Sharks have been around longer than trees.
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#8
There are more people in slavery today than at any other time in history.
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#9
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.
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#10
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.
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#11
There are books in the Harvard University library which are bound in human flesh
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#12
Russia still has not recovered its population prior to WWII
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#13
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.
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#14
Rainbow Valley of Mount Everest is named for the rainbow colors of clothing of passed away people there
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#15
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.
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#16
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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#17
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.
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#18
The Dutch once ate their Prime Minister.
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#19
Cleopatra lived closer to the moon landing than to the building of the pyramids.
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#20
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.
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#21
The United States injected unknowing Puerto Rican’s with cancer cells to see how the illness worked
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#22
Spartans bathed their newborn babies in red wine instead of warm water
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#23
Adolf Hitler was saved from drowning at age nine in a fountain by a priest
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#24
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.
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#25
The founding fathers of the USA didn't know dinosaurs existed.
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#26
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!
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#27
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.
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#28
The baltic states conquest was buried in history (not many people know it) because ww2 and the holocaust happened at about the same time.
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#29
Ireland exported potato’s during the great potato famine.
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#30
The Germans smuggling Lenin into Tsarist Russia, to bring it down.
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#31
Ho chi minh was an OSS intelligence asset during the Japanese occupation of Indochina. He was almost executed by nationalist Chinese in 1943 for promoting Leninist teachings in southern China; until Washington threatened to withdraw American support for Chiangs kai shek. You made the man what he was and gave him the resources to throw off the Japanese, French and Americans.
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#32
I find it disturbing that there have been multiple natural disasters that have cause mass extinctions.
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#33
The Dulles brothers were at the Treaty of Versailles.
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