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For every eye-rolling “the Titanic’s pool still has water in it” fun facts, there are still good ones out there, for example, did you know that Victorian era painters ground up mummies to make paint? “Mummy brown” wasn’t just a euphemism.
We’ve gathered some of the best, craziest facts from this online comment thread, from rather concerning facts about where the world is headed, to the random shenanigans folks got up to in the past. So get comfortable as you read through the list, upvote the ones you didn’t know before and be sure to share your own thoughts and examples in the comments section down below.
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#1
The ancient Egyptians existed so long that the ancient Egyptians were studying ancient Egypt like it was ancient
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#2
The median life expectancy in the 1800s was around 40 and people were eating organic food, but they didn’t have modern medicine. The median life expectancy now is around 77, but weirdly people want to romanticize that era by avoiding medical advances.
Floeckchen 3 weeks ago (edited)
mostly because of high child mortality. Thanks to RFK jr. je good ole times are slowly coming back
amy lee 3 weeks ago
I don't think he started this. The parents were already on board. He is however, going to be the nail in a small person's coffin
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Wyrdwoman 3 weeks ago
Operative word here is 'median'. The life span figures are dragged down by a high birth death-rate. Once you reached adulthood you had as good a chance to reach your 70s as we do now. The only thing modern medicine is helping with is us living longer, and that's not always a good thing. However, agree with the overall point that people who avoid proven medicine are complete idiots.
Tyranamar Seuss 3 weeks ago
No. Because women also died in childbirth at high rates.
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Zig Zag Wanderer 3 weeks ago
And all of the benefits that the industrial revolution has brought us
David 3 weeks ago
if you lived past age 10, average life expectancy was between 58-62. The 40 is misleading
Peeka_Mimi 3 weeks ago
I am very pro modern medicine and science. However I will wait until I'm dying before I go to the Dr. In fact I was dying when I was hospitalized a couple weeks ago. I need to be better about that.
UnclePanda 3 weeks ago
This is evolution in action. It's hard to watch because of the kids, but that's how evolution works.
#3
There have been multiple Holocaust-scale genocides committed across Africa and still so little recognition for the millions of victims and their descendants
Floeckchen 3 weeks ago
like al-Faschir in Sudan. It is happening right now in this moment and no one talks about it
David 3 weeks ago
no one cares about things if they cant blame Israel, its why over 500,000 people have starved to death since April 2023, with 700,000 children as of last week actively in the highest classification of starvation, and another 3 million children in food shortages. No one cares, and its why Sudan has gotten less food aid than Gaza since 2023, and less overall aid. No Jews, no News
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Ace 3 weeks ago
Yes, genocides have taken place and some continue to this day, but no, absolutely not on the same scale.
Bartlet for world domination 3 weeks ago (edited)
Only Stalin's and Mao's reigns of terror could rival the H0locaust. Neither, I would argue, were genocides.
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Sam Trudeau 3 weeks ago
The Hutu one in Burundi, for example. The US didn't flag it as a genocide because they didn't want to help them
g6fmzpp8d7 3 weeks ago
There’s a Christian genocide happening right now in Nigeria. The free Palestine movement doesn’t care that the religion they want to protect are murdering thousands of Christians.
#4
Africa is the richest Continent on the planet. They are not poor, they are over exploited
Faye Bosworth 3 weeks ago
Makes sense tbh, they have so much natural resources, but western societies (especially europe) really messed them up
amy lee 3 weeks ago
How else do they keep the prices of those minerals cheap. Trade for arms only be needed if they're fighting a civil war
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David 3 weeks ago
corruption is the key. Look at the low corruption nations like Botswana vs high like South Africa or Nigeria. It is corruption from their own leaders that is holding them back, as well as most Western Aid orgs harm more than they help (see William Easterly's work he did with several of his African grad students on the topic, especially his book "White Mans Burden; Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill And So Little Good" which was done with two Nigeran grad students he thanks in his book.
TotallyNOTAFox 3 weeks ago (edited)
I think that's a bit too simple, a lot of the trouble in many nations there stem from their own societies too. A big problem is lack of education, social stigma regarding whole demographics (women for example), corruption and unsustainable population growth. A positive example on the continent would be the Republic of Botswana in regards of stability, to show that it's not the same everywhere there
Michael Largey 3 weeks ago
Oh, they weren't exploited. The Western countries just took all those resources for "safekeeping" - sort of the British Museum plan.
#5
the Titanic swimming pool still has water in it
#6
They erased women inventors, scientists, artists, philosophers, etc, from history to make it look like we ain't smart.
Giles McArdell 3 weeks ago
I think in many cases it's not so much "erased" as a man takes credit for, or simply steals, their work in the first place.
David 3 weeks ago
not erased, just not added. Erased means they were taken out but were there before, not added means they werent included from the beginning. But quite a few did make it, but yes, most were never included and that is being corrected today. But please use terms like erased correctly
Out of chocolate 3 weeks ago
Please broaden your definition of erasure. Narrowly defining it as something that initially included but later removed is incorrect. Contributions are erased BECAUSE they were omitted.
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geezeronthehill 1 week ago
Ain't is acceptable English. Especially in Northern England and Scotland. All the dictionary compilers were originally in London, so they favored southern usage.
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Nicole Weymann 3 weeks ago
THAT is the problem: their names hardly got noted, let alone their achievements - if they were even allowed to actively claim any, rather than being "the help". A quick and dirty Google research with the prompt "science credit women stolen" gave me Rosalind Franklin, Lise Meitner, Susan Jocelyn Bell Burnell, and Jean Purdy, to name but four, and the "Matilda effect", as the practice got called.
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Mel 3 weeks ago
Hello. Were you born yesterday, are you trying to nitpick on the choice of the word "erased" or are you trying to pretend that women never had to struggle when it comes to professional territory? Just making sure.
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The Vietnam war was an absolute waste of time, resources and human life and the fact the United States government was never held responsible for that is absurd
Skogsrået 3 weeks ago
They have never ever been held responsible for any of the many many warcrimes they commited, not only in Vietnam.
Bored Sailor 3 weeks ago
It was not just the USA that went to Vietnam. Many countries did not want Communism to spread, South Vietnam did not want it and wanted assistance. Yes many useless deaths and it was probably not the best course but the reaction by many nations was taken, stop blaming the USA for everything. The USA built back many countries and did not keep colonies, like the Philipines we freed them from Japan and rebuit the country and let them elect their leaders.
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Kaedyn Walsh 3 weeks ago
Hints of future Venezuela 'war' the d*****t in cheif in the usa is trying to pull.
David 3 weeks ago
what do you mean "held responsible"? we were invited by the Democratically elected government of the South, with the Emperor (it was at the time a Constitutional Monarchy) support. Now the government overthrew the Emperor later, and then became corrupt before the military overthrew it and restored the Democracy there, etc. But people forget, we were invited to help, after, like in Korea, the Communist North broke a treaty. Now we did a lot of bad there like Agent Orange, and we are held responsible for that. But being there, we were invited by an ally we had a treaty with. BTW you want to know what was really bad there, of the 11 documented massacres (not alleged ones, but ones proven to have happened) only 1 was the US, Mei Lai, 8 were done by South Korean troops who were brutal when it came to suspected communist sympathetic villages in Vietnam, and 2 by Thailand (who had thousands of troops there). Australia was there too btw, as was New Zealand. BTW on the North's side
David 3 weeks ago
North Korea and Cuba sent troops (there were battles with both North and South Korean troops in Vietnam) not to mention all the weapons, trainers and support from the USSR, East Germany, and other countries. 9 countries sent troops on the ground and another 15 sent trainers, logistics and weapons to either side during that war. It wasnt just the US, but a larger scale proxy war with many parties. THe US did not start it, and the US was invited. And the US did take responsibility for what it did wrong like Mei Lai and Agent Orange (which we still are cleaning up today, paid for by US tax dollars, and rightfully so)
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Giles McArdell 3 weeks ago
Or admitted defeat, despite clearly failing to achieve any of their goals.
#8
we are stuck in this loop of letting rich men make our lives hell. been doing it for centuries and we know it. yet nothing has been done to stop it yet.
Wyrdwoman 3 weeks ago
Well, they tried in 18thC France, but things didn't pan out they way they hoped.
Zig Zag Wanderer 3 weeks ago
You don't think France is a thriving modern democracy (at least by global standards)?
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Andy 3 weeks ago (edited)
There have been lots of things done at various points, the problem is that rather than continue that work, in the last 40 odd years things have been allowed to slip thanks to the "greed is good" culture promoted by the likes of Thatcher and Reagan. Even in the US, it had been realised first half of the 20th century that allowing individual men to build vast fortunes and power was not good for society. That's why Carnagie, Rockefeller, Morgan, Vanderbilt etc are still household names that most people are familiar with, but ask them to name a similar magnate who built an extreme fortune in the 40s, 50s or 60s, and they will struggle. Regulations and taxation were put in place to stop them, but unfortunately those have now been undone.
Rosecrucian Roeth 3 weeks ago
Mainly because power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely!
Betty Spaghetti 3 weeks ago
Something about watering the tree of liberty with the blood of economic tyrants
Giles McArdell 3 weeks ago
Lots has been done, England, France, Russia, America and many many others have revolted against rich powerful oppressors. The problem is that it does not last, the rich powerful ar5eh0les alway find their way back. The magna carta, US constitution, communism etc - all attempts to stop them but these things always get twisted and exploited to work for the power hungry.
Isabella 3 weeks ago
I am sure that the colour of the skin has nothing to do with it.
Load More Replies... Becky Samuel 3 weeks ago
If your life is so great, why are you wasting your time being insufferably miserable in a comments section?
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the roman coliseum had advertisement banners hanging on it just like modern day sports games. but no movies put that in cause they think its to modern and no one believes ancient people did this.
David 3 weeks ago (edited)
It was also built mostly using Jewish sl@ve labor from Jews taken prisoner after the failed Jewish revolt, and the original dedication inscription states it was fully funded by funds loot from the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem. The descendants of those slaves are the origin of Ashkenazi Jews, as the Jews moved up from Italy to Central Europe in the 8th-11th centuries.
Luke Branwen 3 weeks ago
Gladiator: "Are you not entertained? You will be after you play our new game Raid: Chariot Legends!"
KatWitch57 2 weeks ago
Not to mention "Visit Julia's house for the best girls in town" ;>
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Anyone-for-tea? 3 weeks ago
I’m sure they do in video games, in particular the Assassin’s Creed ones.
#10
Christopher Columbus thought manatees were mermaids and called them ugly
Bored Sailor 3 weeks ago
Columbus was a sailor nothing more. Just because he landed in the Caribbean islands leading to more explorers heading east why does that make him evil? I see on here all the time people blaming him for exploration but what about Genghis Khan or every other person that migrated, we hate early migrintes but want to defend current migrants???
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#11
That Lewis, Clark & Sacagawea were not alone and would not have been able to complete their voyage without the help of Clark’s slave York. He was pivotal to the journey & when all was said and done he was SOLD. He mapped America and he was sold.
BrunoVI 3 weeks ago
Dayum. From Wikipedia: York expected to be given his freedom after the expedition was successfully completed, in view of what he called his "immense services", but Clark refused repeatedly and became angry when York would not go back willingly to his pre-expedition role as Clark's body servant. He also expressed irritation at York's insistence on remaining in Louisville, where his wife and possibly children were. He whipped York and eventually sold him.
Siege Rook 3 weeks ago
The pioneering sort do so often seem to be unmitigated a$$holes.
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#12
There are at least 2 times we were a single choice away from nuclear war during the cold war where the choice was decided by a single Russian soldier choosing to disobey a standing order.
Bored Sailor 3 weeks ago
The false alarm that one officer in Russia suspect as wrong and waited it out. Very scary for him I would suspect, but the right move,
Tim Fawcett 3 weeks ago
Operation Able Archer 82 - A NATO military training exercise near the Soviet border, Probem was the Soviet strategists thought that an invasion would happen under the guise of a training exercise near the border......Their suspiscions were increased because of an uptick of encrypted communications between Reagen and Thatcher which they thought was high level planning and e*******n. It was actually a spat between US and UK because the US invaded Greneda
Smeghead Tribble Down Under 3 weeks ago
Boris Yeltsin stopped one in 1995. It's known as ''the Norwegian rocket incident''.
TotallyNOTAFox 3 weeks ago (edited)
There was a missile launch warning in the 70's and the only thing preventing a counter strike by the US was president Carter forgetting the code card in the suit that he did send to the laundry room. That gave the military enough time to realize that the d**n computer mistook the stars in the night sky as incomming ICBMs
#13
That the Kennedy family that has helped run our government had a daughter lobotomized because she was too "wild", and they didn't want her embarrassing the family.😳
Robin Roper 3 weeks ago
A bit simplistic description of the what and why. Sadly and incorrectly, lobotomies were being touted as a "miracle" cure for behaviors being exhibited by Rosemary. We know so much better know. But heck, c*****e was still found in cough syrup until the mid 1950's and we sterilized poor and minority women against their wills into the 1970's.
Lousha 3 weeks ago
Have to agree with you on that. As repulsive as that whole story is, it was not done to punish her. It was a genuine, very misguided attempt to help her. Her father was by any measure a horrible person, and sure, he was embarrassed by her behaviours, but she had actual mental issues that nobody at the time had a very good idea how to fix or even properly explain. He went with what he thought was a good treatment, and ended up causing tragic results.
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Bored Sailor 3 weeks ago
The Kennedy's are a horrible family even back to JFK. He openly cheated on his wife and employed the secret service to bring Marlene in through the tunnels and slept with her in the bed he slept in with his wife. But what ever let us celebrate him.
#14
elon musk is about to become a trillionaire yet only $50 billion a year could cure world hunger… he made $203 billion last year
Faye Bosworth 3 weeks ago
He OFFERED to cure workd hunger for 60 billion i think it was.. unicef stated that they could do it.. and then he CHANGED HIS MIND and cancelled the proposal. Says all you need to know about him.
Andrei Iepure 3 weeks ago
ending world hunger is not about the money or the resources. unless you find a way to abolish corruption and greed, there's no way you're fixing it
TotallyNOTAFox 3 weeks ago (edited)
Yeah, people only account for the price of the food and distribution logistics. Nobody thinks about the military operation scale security measures it would take to protect said food from corrupt governments and insurgents once it arrives in many african countries.
Load More Replies... David 3 weeks ago
paper assets, not cash. His value is in his companies stock, the value is on paper, and he can't legally sell it either. He has about 20 billion in liquid assets, but his paper value cant cure anything, bc he cant legally sell, its just value on paper. Tesla collapses, he loses all that.
Earonn - 3 weeks ago
He could become a gazillionaire and it would still not cure his raging inferiority complex. No, Elon, daddy will never love you. Actually, nobody will. Also, you're not funny.
Michael Largey 3 weeks ago
Don't criticize Musk's inferiority complex. It's the only thing he's ever actually earned by his own merits.
Load More Replies... Judes 3 weeks ago
Elon Musk is, by a fair way, the richest person in the world. So, if Elon Must is not a trillionaire, then no one is. Or if he has just become a trillionaire, then he's the only one.
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Nikki Sevven 3 weeks ago
Elongated Muskrat and his ilk are hoarders and should be treated like the mentally ill people they are.
kiteman 3 weeks ago
It’s not entirely accurate as he doesn’t have all that in his bank account. Most of his money is in the form of stock options with the companies he owns, which continue to profit thus raising the value of his stocks. So even if sold some shares, they would be purchased by someone else therefore as long as his companies are profitable, that money would always stay where it’s at, just change hands. And there is historical evidence companies whose founders/execs start selling their stock then people get worried the company isn’t doing so well and start divesting and the profitability of the company starts to go downhill. All that means is his net worth will likely never fully enter his bank account as his ownership of his company is correlated to some degree of the success of the business.
Rick Murray 3 weeks ago
What does he need all the money for? I mean, he has more than enough now that there's practically nothing out of reach. Does he think it's a high score or something?
Nicole Weymann 3 weeks ago
According to ultra capitalism defenders his money keeps the country running by underpaying swarms of employees and sponsoring companies offering luxury goods and services. It's his money to do as he pleases or not, he earned it fair and square, and every criticism towards any or all of those points are rooted in jealousy. We should be happy we have him and people like him, because otherwise the economy would collapse. I wonder how the world got by before the messiah was born. (SARCASM!)
Load More Replies... Wyrdwoman 3 weeks ago
Then he would have another £200bn the next year, then another £200bn the year after, and so on.... Wages keep going.
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Genghis Khan killed so many people that he lowered the temperature of the earth, and many regions he conquered still haven't returned to their pre conquered population size!
zatrisha 3 weeks ago
That's true, there is a good chance that some pandas are related to him.
Load More Replies... Earonn - 3 weeks ago
That goes for almost everyone, it's simply population dynamics.
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Zig Zag Wanderer 3 weeks ago
Absolutely believable that a single person can change the temperature of the earth...
Nicole Weymann 3 weeks ago
Credit where credit is due! 🏆 Although a lot of out of the box approaches were deservedly not included in that box in the first place - break the rules and you'll break the game.
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Twice as many Natives were killed to found this country than victims of the holocaust, n the fact that I learned it on tiktok is also egregious. Y r we not taught the true history of this country?? Everything we were taught abt our history is a lie.
Eroe Infinito 3 weeks ago
Can't trust a fact that isn't typed properly. Definitely can't trust anything from Tikky Tokky.
Ace 3 weeks ago
It's quite possible you were taught it, you just paid about as much attention to the lesson as you did to the ones where you were shown how to write in English.
Tom Hardeveld 3 weeks ago (edited)
Fact aside, did this person also learned to spell through tiktok?
Faye Bosworth 3 weeks ago
Y'all are ragging this person for their spelling, without taking into account that this is a deliberate truncation of words, probably to fit a word count.. ffs they casually threw in egregious without a thought..
Alex Martin 3 weeks ago
That's inaccurate. The main cause of the massive depopulation of the Americas was contact with diseases from AfroEurAsia. AfroEurAsian populations had been devastated many times by outbreaks of disease (plague, small pox, etc.) and had developed immunities to these diseases. Populations in the Americas did not have immunities and we have no idea how many millions died. 15th century explorers had very rudimentary understanding of disease and had no way of knowing that they would have devastating impact on so many people. The treatment of surviving indigenous populations was terrible and there were many atrocities. The biggest killer was not man, but isolation from the diseases that had frequently devastated populations in AfroEurAsia.
Daisydaisy 3 weeks ago
Like the US, Australia too has an appalling history of treatment of First Nations people which continues to this day. The majority of white Australians couldn't care less
Andrei Iepure 3 weeks ago
Did you think it was just a vast, empty continent? Entire civilizations were wiped out so you can have a turkey diner once a year
#17
Forced adoption in Australia was a government policy that aimed to remove children from single, unwed mothers, and Indigenous families against their will between 1970 and 1980. It is estimated that 250,000 people were affected.
Tucker Cahooter 3 weeks ago
That timeline is way out. The Stolen Generation period started from the early 1900s
Zero Costa 3 weeks ago (edited)
I'm not surprised. the source is f*****g tiktok
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it wasn't "forced adoption" either, they stole children from their families in order to "raise them white" in these schools. watch rabbit proof fence. stellar movie based on real life events that three sisters went through. absolutely heartbreaking things happened to these kids
cheryl kemp 3 weeks ago
It's real for white women too my neighbour is living proof
Load More Replies... cheryl kemp 3 weeks ago
I have a neighbour who is part of this she was taken from her mum in a Sydney hospital and can't find anything about her birth or birth certificate
Min 3 weeks ago
It says "...and Indigenous families," not "...only Indigenous families."
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The sheer number of coupes and collapsed governments that have occurred in direct correlation to CIA intervention.
Hugo 3 weeks ago (edited)
But that's a coupé (meaning cut or sliced). A coupe is a shallow glass dish, or ice cream and fruit served in it. I don't think the CIA is involved in any of those!
Load More Replies... Michael Largey 3 weeks ago (edited)
Isn't that simply by definition true? The interventions are done precisely to cause such coupes and collapses. So the more interventions, the more coupes and collapses.
#19
The fact that Japan is just as bad as Germany but unlike Germany they never faced any consequences
Lousha 3 weeks ago
The statement would be closer to truth by saying that even today, if you hear someone is German, there's often an instinctive shudder. That stain on the nation overshadows everything Germans ever have done before or after. They are still somewhat looked at as you-know-whats-with-an-N. But if you say you're Japanese, people think of all kinds of things, but not that often war crimes as a first thought.
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Zac 3 weeks ago
ironically they werent even as bad of consequences as the firebombing of tokyo which k****d like double the people the atomics did.
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That Persistent Lint 3 weeks ago (edited)
I don't know... I'd say 2 atomic bombs, occupation and no military force is a punishment yet to be seen... All this thread is full of factoids no better that what an auntie would blab between passing the salt and getting the salad... It adds confusion to the noise and there's no added value.
Tabitha 3 weeks ago
More like what a drunk uncle would say than an auntie.
Load More Replies... Nicole Weymann 3 weeks ago (edited)
Nothing like the Nuremberg trials, countless memorials and museums to try and atone for past crimes, a country and a metropolis divided like a toy that siblings squabbled over, or leagues of prosecuted war criminals (even if thousands got away scat free because they were "needed to run the reconstruction and administration" or had "valuable knowledge"). Japan, however, did get two cities wiped out as an example and retribution.
Load More Replies... Rosecrucian Roeth 3 weeks ago
They have always considered themselves civilized and the rest of the world barbarians.
#20
After the attack on Pearl Harbor there was still sailors trapped inside the sunken ships however because there was no way to save them any sailors patrolling the there were ordered to ignore the sounds of pounding and screaming
Bored Sailor 3 weeks ago
And the bodies are still in there. The Navy cut many holes in the ships but could only do so much.
Nik Odongray 2 weeks ago
Three men survived for 16 days, trapped inside a sunken ship. They were guarded day and night and the guarding sailors could hear their banging but couldn’t do anything.
#21
Haiti has been paying the price for revolting against slavery and colonialism. For a long time European nations and the US avoided helping them as France had Haiti paying ransom and restitutions to the former slave owners which stunted their economy.
TotallyNOTAFox 3 weeks ago (edited)
The french demanding payments seems to always cause trouble in history - Major reason why the Nazis were able to took over here in Germany too in the 30's
Becky Samuel 3 weeks ago
You think that you can rebuild an entire country with half a million dollars? Don't make me laugh.
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Egyptians had to let their deceased women marinate for a while before sending them to be mummified so their bodies wouldn't be violated....
Kaedyn Walsh 3 weeks ago
Sigh. Even back then, huh? "not all men, true. But it's always a man"....
Zac 3 weeks ago
yeah thats a fun quote but there is no archeological or anthropological evidence of this ever happening. as a post below me says, the only evidence we have of this is from one line from Herodotus, who was known, literally at the time by people like Plutarch, as "the father of lies" so take it with a grain of salt.
Load More Replies... Andy 3 weeks ago
This seems like a "Facebook" fact, rather than anything real. Searching Google I cannot find any studies or legitimate sources which states this, only social media posts or pages which do not back up what they are saying with any evidence. The closest thing is that Herodotus one wrote a line that made reference to it in his histories
Ashtophet 3 weeks ago
Herodotus was a noted liar who ended up creating much of what we know about ancient history. One of my professors helped us read him in a thoughtful way.
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The Appalachian mountains & Scottish highlands were part of the same mountain range that was called the central pangean mountains. Which makes all the interesting lore regarding both kind of make sense?
anne young 2 weeks ago
I thought the Appalachians were in the states. And apparently there were 3 pangeas.
#24
Anne Boleyn didn’t want to marry the king. She was forced. You could not say no to the king back then.
Lin Juist 3 weeks ago
Bull s**t. Anne was a highly ambitious girl. After seeing what happened to her sister, she would not become Henry VIII mistress, and insisted on marriage. I think the only one that didn't want to marry him was Catherine Parr.
Lousha 3 weeks ago
That said, it still doesn't mean she would've wanted anything to do with him, more that she understood that once she was in his "crosshairs", she did not have the option to walk away. So she made the best of it and at least bargained a marriage out of it, instead of being bedwarmer #938474 who would be tossed aside at some point.
Load More Replies... Norfolk and good 3 weeks ago (edited)
She wasn't forced in the sense that she was dragged kicking and screaming down the aisle. Marriages weren't based on love back then, especially among the upper classes. Marriage was more of a business arrangement for political alliance, wealth, stability etc. So I'm sure Anne would have been quite happy to have married the King and receive all the privileges that came with that. People used their children for their own advancement so no doubt her parents would have been thrilled that the richest and most powerful man in the land wanted to marry their daughter. The marriage seems to have started off fairly well, and started to sour after a while when Anne had not given Henry a son.
#25
During the Unit 731 experiments, scientists found out the percentage of water in the human body. The started by weighing a prisoner, then dehydrating the living shit out of them, then weighing them again and figuring out the math on how much weight the prisoner lost.
TotallyNOTAFox 3 weeks ago (edited)
They also found out how to treat burn victims and frostbite the most efficient way... I think I don't have to mention how
Peeka_Mimi 3 weeks ago
When I had Diabetic Ketoacidosis and was vomiting for over 14 hours, my body was purging itself and I found out we store a lot of water in our body. That was insane.
#26
Julius Ceaser was kidnapped and taken hostage. When he found out how much his kidnappers were asking for his ransom money, Julius Ceaser demanded that they raise it and ask for more.
Tobias Reaper 3 weeks ago
left out the part where after he was released he hunted down and crucified them all
Michael Largey 3 weeks ago
It's "Caesar", not "Ceaser". Julie never ceased at anything, as the women of Rome could attest.
#27
Brazil had millions more slaves in the 1800 then anybody else in the world
Zig Zag Wanderer 3 weeks ago
Well, it was extremely common all over the world.
Load More Replies... Lousha 3 weeks ago
As far as I know this is false when phrased like that. When slavery in the US was at its peak, Brazil had about half as many enslaved people than them. Brazil on the other hand had a much longer, centuries long "tradition" of slavery, so altogether they had more slaves, simply because they kept up the practice much longer.
Anonymouse 3 weeks ago
check it out - the life expectancy of salves sent to brazil was SIX MONTHS. More than 70% of all slaves were sent there, because they died so quickly... TIL dang!
#28
Some of the astronauts survived the Challenger explosion and died on impact.
BrunoVI 3 weeks ago
The point is that people imagined that at least they didn’t suffer even the mental anguish of their coming doom.
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#29
In Ancient Greece older men commonly kept the “company” of young boys bc it was seen as beneficial for their development. This also probably includes your favorite philosopher.
Lousha 3 weeks ago
I mean... That's supposed to be a surprising fact? That is extremely well known. Or so I thought.
Lady Eowyn 3 weeks ago
Again, things that you might think are well known, quite often, aren't.
Load More Replies... TotallyNOTAFox 3 weeks ago (edited)
That was a pretty common practice in nearly every major ancient civilization back then - Same can be said about the romans, celts, chinese, koreans, japanese, persians, egpytians etc. Another fact: Homosexuality wasn't condemned as long as the higher ranked partner was the one sticking it in.
Rinso The Red 3 weeks ago
Correct. Even today you can see this in how people try to portray homosexuals and how gay men are treated so much differently than gay women.
Load More Replies... Becky Samuel 3 weeks ago
Hence the context for the Biblical verse stating that "a man shall not lie with a boy as with a woman/wife)". It was another way of separating Jewish culture from alternative religious groups.
#30
a significant portion of earth's breathable air comes from the oceans. Which are currently dying. Many forests have shown serious stress from the effects of global warming. Stressed plants die.
Zig Zag Wanderer 3 weeks ago
Fortunately, the oceans are not dying, nor are the plankton in them that provide oxygen. I know this will be downvoted because people love to believe in doom, but hey.
Rick Murray 3 weeks ago
To follow up on Zig Zag - the planet has been through more extremes than we could ever tolerate, and a few celestial prods of the big Reset Button. So if the ocean and plant like look like they are dying, it's those particular things that are dying off. In time, something else will come along better adapted to the new conditions. Life on this planet has survived the sky being on fire, and the globe frozen, not to mention atmospheric changes that would be inhospitable for most current life. Life will continue until the oceans boil and the rocks melt, upon which point all that will remain will be tardigrades. We, on the other hand, might not last that much longer. Diddums.
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Well the reason people used to refer to native Americans as “Indians”, is because Christopher Columbus thought he was in India..
Ace 3 weeks ago
Err, yes, and? I thought everybody knew this. Except that no, he didn't think he was in India, as we know it today, The word "Indies" was commonly used to refer to foreign parts in the est, including China and Japan, hence the adoption of "West Indies" as opposed to East.
Lousha 3 weeks ago
Here's something I bet you didn't know then, simply because hardly anyone knows much about Hungary or our language. Since we were so far from the US geographically and mentally, culturally at the time, we adopted words that meant the same in English in different ways. (Sure it happened in other countries as well of course.) So in Hungarian "indián" is Indian as in Native American, and "indiai" is Indian as in from India. They reached our language at different times, from different "routes". So in Hungarian you can't really call it racist if these people are called "indián", because the word has no negative connotations to it, just a word describing a group of people, like saying Belgians. Of course nowadays it's less used out of respect, but it really was never a derogatory term.
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David 3 weeks ago
False. He never thought he reached India. The Islands of Indonesia were called the Indies, as were the Philippines. He thought he reached there
Zac 3 weeks ago
he actually thought he had reached Japan when he was observing the cuban coastline.
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The only reason we know so much about frostbite is because of the human testing done by the Japanese in Unit 731.
Ace 3 weeks ago
Rubbish. There were ghastly things done there, for sure, and it's arguable that some current medical knowledge owes a little to some of the stuff that was discovered, but if you're going to make sweeping statements like this then at least try to find an example that actually has some truth to it. Freezing people to death or near-death is not studying frostbite.
Zac 3 weeks ago (edited)
except thats exactly what they were doing? whats the point in acting morally superior but being wrong? it makes you look like a d*****s. "Yoshimura Hisato, a physiologist in Unit 731, had a special interest in hypothermia and used human subjects to test human's reactions to frostbites. Hisato routinely submerged prisoner's limbs in a tub of water filled with ice and held them there until the limbs were frozen solid and a coat of ice were formed over the skin. He timed the victims to check how long it took for the human bodies to develop frost bites. According to one of the witness to the frostbite testing, the limbs made a sound like a plank of wood when struck with a cane. Then he tried different methods for rapidly thawing of the frozen appendage such as dousing limbs with hot water, open fire, or leaving the subject untreated overnight to see how long it took for the prisoner's blood to thaw it out. Unit 731 was able to prove scientifically that the best treatment for frostbite was to immerse it in water a bit warmer than 100 degrees but never more than 122 degrees." so idk what youre upset with OP for.
Load More Replies... Michael Largey 3 weeks ago
Even if so, would that make what they did worth it? Anywhere close to worth it?
Nicole Weymann 3 weeks ago
Not to my mind (nor Mengele's experiments, nor any of their ilks'). But I didn't read the post as praise, either. More like "are you aware that scientific progress in medicine is based on actively torturing countless people?!"
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As a native, basically all the things not said in history class and the generational trauma that still severely impacts tribes throughout the country. The fact we’re statistically the race most likely to be SA’d in some form even today. That includes men and women.
Anyone-for-tea? 3 weeks ago
It also annoys me when people say “but in my country….” Without saying which country it is?! It’s not as if you’re going to dox yourself and I’m going to come and find you and put your info online - I see no reason to be that evasive when what’s the point in commenting something educational without saying where it is!
Load More Replies... UnclePanda 3 weeks ago (edited)
I did a quick re-re-view (meaning I'm re-re-searching) this issue from about 10 years ago. There were no solid DNA changes due to cultural trauma identified in the research, and they were looking at RNA and other changes. None of the five articles were very sanguine on finding defensible support at the genetic level, but efforts were ongoing. That's how science works.
#34
America has been the “bad guys” in every war since the civil war. Absolutely diabolical and evil things we’ve done and continue to do around the world
Andrei Iepure 3 weeks ago
Who would you suggest to hold them accountable? They are by far the strongest military force on the planet
Load More Replies... TotallyNOTAFox 3 weeks ago (edited)
As german I'd say they were on the good side in WW2 and the Cold War (Of course a lot of s**t happened but in the overall scale still better than the alternative). South Korea also quite benefitted from their military aid when the north invaded them. Helping to fight ISIS is the most recent good example I can think of.
Spannidandoolar 3 weeks ago
History was never my favourite subject but they were surely on the side of the 'good guys' in WW2?!
Becky Samuel 3 weeks ago
Interning innocent Japanese families. The only country to drop a nuclear weapon in anger. Charging extortionate prices for supplies to their 'allies'. Forcing countries to pay them for their military aid (bills that have only just been paid off in many cases). These do not sound like the actions of the 'good guys' from a neutral standpoint.
Load More Replies... Rosecrucian Roeth 3 weeks ago
In any war, there are diabolical and evil things done....................by all sides!
Rick Murray 3 weeks ago (edited)
Americans are the modern day Bad Guys, but they have a lot to do catching up with the mess that Britain made around the world. The Palestine problem? Us. The Pakistan problem? Us. The America problem? Yeah, that was us too. And let's not talk about what we got up to in Africa... I suspect there's a reason the average person's historical knowledge timeline goes: Romans -> Henry VIII -> WW2. Cleverer people might get hung on things like the Tudors, King James and his bible, and the glory of the British Empire along with the Industrial Revolution - but it won't be portrayed as anywhere near as grim as it really was.
#35
They made so many Purple Heart medals in anticipation of a ground invasion of Japan that they’re still being issued today
Tucker Cahooter 3 weeks ago
I'm surprised the Dear Leader hasn't snaffled them all and handed them out like party favours to his buddies
Smeghead Tribble Down Under 3 weeks ago
My father served in the Vietnam war. He used to say they'd hand Yanks a Purple Heart for cutting themselves shaving.
nicholas nolan 3 weeks ago (edited)
Yes, international military rivalry does cause us all to make things up about other services.
Load More Replies... David 3 weeks ago
Operation Downfall at the time estimated 3 million US wounded and half a million lost, post was in 1947 the US and Japan did war games based on all the numbers and data for how severe the war would be, and they upped it to 1.5 million lost and 5 million wounded. US underestimated Japan's defenses. Also 70% or more of Japans population would be lost as well. Its why many look at the Atomic bombs as the least bad option. Imagine if that many people, both Japanese and Americans had been lost in an invasion
#36
Like what would the world be right now if the Library of Alexandria hadnt been burnt
BrunoVI 3 weeks ago
And yet, even still: more myth than reality. The truth is that there was no singular destruction of the Library of Alexandria. Significant portions of it were destroyed at several instances, but it largely faded away. Shortly BC, Ptomlemy VIII expelled the scholars. A battle with Julius Caesar resulted in a major fire which reached the library.... or maybe only a dock near it. Marc Anthony gave hundreds of thousands of scrolls to Cleopatra... Emperor Aurelius burned more about 2 centuries later. Finally, Amar Ibn Al-As ordered its destruction, but by then it was a mere shell of its former glory.
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amy lee 3 weeks ago
No printing the the reason for iteracy amongst the masses
Load More Replies... #37
Marylin Monroe went missing for hours after she was found dead. and then when she was found the man doing her autopsy let people in the room alone with her body as long as they paid him a good price
Kaedyn Walsh 3 weeks ago
First that gross man who was buried upside down so he'd be on top of her for eternity. And now this news. Jfc..... "not all men, true. But always a man...."
Tabitha 3 weeks ago (edited)
Urban legend. I have been to Marilyn Monroe’s crypt. I’m 5’6” tall, and it’s at about shoulder level to me, so the only people buried above her are in a higher crypt in the mausoleum. There’s no shoveling dirt for a burial in a crypt. Additionally, the individual crypts aren’t very high, just the heights of a casket, so no one could be buried perpendicular to any other crypt occupant.
Load More Replies... g6fmzpp8d7 3 weeks ago
My mum works in a morgue. They are not allowed to be in there alone purely because too many cases of men defiling bodies have been reported over the last few decades.
Becky Samuel 3 weeks ago
Because the pearl clutchers want something to get upset about and the man-bashers need their daily fix. Neither 'fact' has any truth to it but ragebait sells.
Load More Replies... Lousha 3 weeks ago
There is no evidence that it had happened. It's a rumour. Maybe it happened, maybe it didn't, the only fact we know is that it took a rather long time for the body to arrive to the mortuary. Personally I'd say it's more likely that it happened because everyone was very busy destroying/looking for evidence pointing to anything awkward, but anything is possible. People can be very sick, so your guess is as good as mine. Still remains a guess though.
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#38
People truly do not understand the horrible lengths the United States went through for Manifest Destiny.
Michael Largey 3 weeks ago
People truly do not understand the horrible things the United States put other people through because they were in the way of that "Manifest" Destiny.
#39
coffin births are documented things that have happened. not sure what that is? keep it that way
Skogsrået 3 weeks ago
Coffin birth is a rare phenomenon where gases from a decomposing pregnant body push a fetus out through the birth canal, often weeks or months after the mother's death, typically expelling a nonviable fetus. - from google
Zig Zag Wanderer 3 weeks ago
I'm a bit concerned about the use if the word 'typically' in this explanation ....
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#40
The man in the crypt above Marilyn Monroe is buried upside down so he can be on top of her forever. He left it in his will and his wife actually did it.
Kaedyn Walsh 3 weeks ago
This is just so repulsive to me. When alive, she wouldn't have wanted that strange man "on top of her" and she would have made it known. But the poor deceased woman has no voice anymore and some strange pervert now "is on top of her". Gross af when not even the dead are allowed to consent or not. I hope this is a rumor/conspiracy.
nicholas nolan 3 weeks ago
It was to "gaze at her" not pretend he's f*****g her.
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#41
mummies are so rare now because many people in Victorian England ate them. they were considered a delicacy. same with Galapagos turtles. they tried multiple times to bring one back to England but they would eat all of them during the trip
Ace 3 weeks ago
No. They were used, across the world including the USA, in all sorts of things from paint to patent medicines. They were not, to any significant extent, used in food preparations.
Tabitha 3 weeks ago (edited)
Well, there were quack medicines claiming healing qualities from ground up mummy. Not to mention they were also ground up and used for fertilizer, so people essentially ate vegetables fertilized with mummies.
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marianne eliza 3 weeks ago
A whole shipload was used as fertilizer. Ground them up and spread them. Have you ever wondered what happened to Cleopatra's mummy? Now you have a clue.
Michael Largey 3 weeks ago
But, but, but, those defenders of the British Museum on BP are always telling us that the colonial powers took away all those ancient artifacts to preserve them from destruction.
geezeronthehill 1 week ago
Mummies were also burned to power steam engines. They burn very hot because they are saturated with resins.
Andrew Read 3 weeks ago
They were also sold as firefighters, because of the fluids in the bandages.
#42
If the history of the universe were scaled down to a calendar year, then all recorded human history would have taken place in the ten seconds before midnight, December 31st.
Apatheist Account2 3 weeks ago
I hate this one. It's so bleeding obvious that we're only just conscious enough to start recording history. In a billion years time, they'll be able to say it started on December 1st. The calculation is approximately 5000 out of 14 billion currently.
CooperDooper81 3 weeks ago
We won't be here in a billion years time. We'll be lucky if we take up one minute of that theoretical day.
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Earth has shifted on its axis and the U.S. is currently about 500 miles further north than it was 40 years ago
Kiki Likes Sweets 3 weeks ago
And about 500 miles further to the Right than they were 40 years ago, too!
Zig Zag Wanderer 3 weeks ago
The Earth certainly hasn't shifted that much. Do you mean the magnetic poles, perhaps? They're always moving around.
Janissary35680 3 weeks ago
You're right. The OP misheard something or misunderstood it. What's slightly more worrisome is magnetic pole reversal. That has happened several times in geological time and statistically we're overdue for one. Wikipedia: Geomagnetic reversal.
Load More Replies... Judes 3 weeks ago
That's nothing. We're all about 300 million km away from where we were 6 months ago.
Janissary35680 3 weeks ago
Yeah but in six more months we'll be back where we started.😄
Load More Replies... Michael Largey 3 weeks ago
The US is 500 miles further north than 40 years ago? My distinct impression is that we've been going downhill.
Floeckchen 3 weeks ago
it is due to pumping of groundwater. So not entirely a natural phenomenon
#44
Look up what the U.S. did to the Marshall Islands in the 1970s
UnclePanda 3 weeks ago (edited)
If atoll you once, atoll you a thousand times...
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#45
That the first humans ever discovered originated from Africa and after all this time most of the countries in Africa are still third world countries
Michael Largey 3 weeks ago
The classification "third world country" was invented by first world people. It's almost like it was ... self-serving.
Betty Spaghetti 3 weeks ago
Love all the BP history buffs glossing over European colonization of the world
Zig Zag Wanderer 3 weeks ago
Because the industrial revolution started in the north, although most innovations came from the north anyway.
Betty Spaghetti 3 weeks ago
Colonization and the Scramble for Africa never happened in your little world, huh?
Load More Replies... Nicole Weymann 2 weeks ago
"After all this time": boyo, as if there always were and always will be the same conditions in that whole continent! Even in little Europe "rich/developed" and "poor/undeveloped" are widely disparate, and immensely mobile - today's #1 being tomorrow's #14, and yesterday's bottom of the league possibly as the next big thing within a couple of decades. Africa hosted the highly developed Egyptian civilization for millennia. 14th century's king Mansa Musa from Mali was so rich that his pilgrimage to Mecca reportedly included upwards of 12,000 slaves, each carrying 1.8 kg of gold bars, and 80 camels, which each carried 23–136 kg of gold dust, which he spent freely enough to cause an inflation in the gold prizes in Egypt. And the Mapungubwe-civilization in South Africa produced iron and did trade with Egypt, India, and even China in 900 AD. To name but three highlights of their "forever third world" history.
Apatheist Account2 3 weeks ago
"Third world" just means not aligned to Russia or America, not necessarily poor.
Andrei Iepure 3 weeks ago
I swear there's a handful of people that know/understand this. Thank you for your comment
Load More Replies... #46
The sharks in the Atlantic changed their migratory patterns bc they were able to eat so many bodies thrown off slave ships. Haunts me, i think about it all the time
Ace 3 weeks ago
Another nope. Yes, some larger sharks may have followed some s***e ships, but no, their "migratory" patterns were not changed.
Ben 3 weeks ago
This seems made up. Were microbiologists in the 1800s following sharks, because tracking devices did not come until much later?
Load More Replies... #47
that hotel Rwanda is based on a true story and most people don't even no that happened at all.
highwaycrossingfrog 3 weeks ago
All that can be extrapolated from this statement is that *OP* didn't know Hotel Rwanda was based on a true story, and is assuming their ignorance is universal
Michael Largey 3 weeks ago
But when Hollywood says "based on a true story", that means "Don't believe a word of this".
#48
madame lalaurie and her house of horrors....not even gonna give details out on that one.
T'Mar of Vulcan 3 weeks ago
No, she couldn't have been, she's dead. Oh, you meant as a character. (I'm sorry.)
Load More Replies... Floeckchen 3 weeks ago
no need to, I've allready heard about that on Hoaxilla (german podcast)
#49
During the time of slavery, enslaved people were often thrown off ships traveling from one country to the next. This made sharks start to follow slave shops and changed their migration patterns.
Andrei Iepure 3 weeks ago
It did not. Also, might want to look up how many slaves there are today. "the time of slavery" is all the time
Apatheist Account2 3 weeks ago
"Sl@ve shops"...that would have made buying them simpler. Apart from that, this is a repeat.
Janissary35680 3 weeks ago
Cue the scene in "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum" where Phil Silvers' character protests saying "But you can't leave a shop without buying *something*."
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The Amazon rainforest is likely manmade and the deep in the rainforest tribes created those rainforest environments using Mulch
Judes 3 weeks ago
I misread it as marmalade and was surprised and confused. I guess that's why Paddington Bear likes marmalade.
Lavender Myst 3 weeks ago
Marmalade is just as believable as the amazon being manmade..
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Soo Albert Einstein actually just stole his wife‘s work and put his name on it
Zig Zag Wanderer 3 weeks ago (edited)
Where did that fantasy come from? Edit: some bizarre conspiracy theory. Get out the tinfoil hats! Thoroughly debunked, of course, but I'm sure someone will believe it!
Floeckchen 3 weeks ago (edited)
not entirely true, at least not proven. Mileva Maric and Einstein most likely co-worked on the theroies and she was said to be significantly better at calculus than him.
Michael Largey 3 weeks ago
At a minimum, she deserved credit for her contributions, large or small, but has never really received it.
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Tucker Cahooter 3 weeks ago
Unsubstantiated assertions, and opinions offered up as "facts". Par for the course these days. But at least we were spared Cleopatra and dinosaurs this time.
TotallyNOTAFox 3 weeks ago (edited)
And nobody mentioned Abraham Lincoln being able to send a fax to a samurai
Load More Replies... Ace 3 weeks ago
The generally poor standard of writing, as well as the so-often repeated misinformation of a lot of these, is at least partially explained if you click one of the links and then realise that these were all lifted from TikTok. Yes, an even worse source of 'facts' than Reddit, it would seem.
Eroe Infinito 3 weeks ago
These "facts" are making me dumber. Probably because most of them are opinions and not facts.
TotallyNOTAFox 3 weeks ago
The amount of BS in the lower entries have to be rage bait at this point, either that or BP doesn't care about fact checking at all
DrBronxx 3 weeks ago
These lists suck for a couple of reasons: 1) There are many in there that are just made up; 2) There are other facts that are so well known that they sound like a 12-year-old just came home and typed in something they learned in history class that day; and 3) the presence of the other two make it that much harder to find the ones that are actually true, especially because none of them are sourced. Also, secret no.4) alluding to something is not stating a fact. If you're going to mention something, describe it; don't expect people to do your work for you.
Tucker Cahooter 3 weeks ago
Unsubstantiated assertions, and opinions offered up as "facts". Par for the course these days. But at least we were spared Cleopatra and dinosaurs this time.
TotallyNOTAFox 3 weeks ago (edited)
And nobody mentioned Abraham Lincoln being able to send a fax to a samurai
Load More Replies... Ace 3 weeks ago
The generally poor standard of writing, as well as the so-often repeated misinformation of a lot of these, is at least partially explained if you click one of the links and then realise that these were all lifted from TikTok. Yes, an even worse source of 'facts' than Reddit, it would seem.
Eroe Infinito 3 weeks ago
These "facts" are making me dumber. Probably because most of them are opinions and not facts.
TotallyNOTAFox 3 weeks ago
The amount of BS in the lower entries have to be rage bait at this point, either that or BP doesn't care about fact checking at all
DrBronxx 3 weeks ago
These lists suck for a couple of reasons: 1) There are many in there that are just made up; 2) There are other facts that are so well known that they sound like a 12-year-old just came home and typed in something they learned in history class that day; and 3) the presence of the other two make it that much harder to find the ones that are actually true, especially because none of them are sourced. Also, secret no.4) alluding to something is not stating a fact. If you're going to mention something, describe it; don't expect people to do your work for you.
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