42 Historical Facts Which Appear To Be Too Bizarre To Be True Yet They Are, As Told By Folks In This Online Thread

Yes! Those that forget history are destined to repeat it.

Thank you for remembering ALL the souls, including all those who were brainwashed into hatred and murder. I, too wonder how many would have led peaceful lives without killing anyone if Hitler and his puppet masters had not come into being. It's why I always steer people from even the most minor seeming hates, I couldn't stand a good person becoming a killer, eyes glazed with fanatical beliefs and not recognising the evil they are doing.

I’m going to get downvoted for this, but Hitler didn’t exist in a vacuum. There was antisemitism before him and there has been antisemitism after him and there is still antisemitism to this day. The blame is not only on him, the blame is on his supporters, and those who stood by and did nothing. He didn’t brainwash everyone, and he didn’t have to brainwash as much as your comment leads people to believe. Stop shifting the blame, as it rests also on his supporters, not just him.

should be a law everywhere.

In France, too. My uncle was in the 101st cavalry which liberated camps in Poland. He was useful to his unit because his parents (my grandparents) emigrated from Poland before wwI, and he was fluent in polish and could talk to the prisoners. Not to change the subject, but my dad served in the marines in the Pacific, his unit (the best of the best) landing before US troops and paving the way for American invasion on Iwo Jima all the way into China. So here's the kicker-neither my dad or uncle ever wanted to talk about what they experienced. When my dad died, he was given a full honors military funeral, horse and all. My uncle, who told his story to Melanie Moisan for her book "Tracking the 101st Cavalry" preferred not to receive the full military funeral because he was appalled by what he witnessed.

There’s a flower named after a greek myth abt when apollo accidentally killed his boyfriend bcs the west wind got jealous and decided to blow apoolo’s discus (some sort of disc thingie thingie that is thrown) back at apollos boyfriend and it killed him and now there’s a flower named after him.

Hercules was fond of having lots of sex with as many people as possible. Mostly they were women, but he did also take young boys as lovers. Achilles only real love was Patroclus, though he also had sex with a number of women enslaved by the greeks as "war brides". Theseus, as far as I know, only like raping women, but was also known to rape and kidnap girls as young as 10. I'd say classical Greek poetry contained a lot of heterosexual and pedophilic content, more so than really homosexual. Certainly Achilles and Patroclus was an exception, as they were both men. Lesbianism was also themed with goddesses like Artemis/Diana and the Amazons (although the latter did take men to bed for the purposes of producing children). That said, sex between male friends or comrades was considered commonplace as well, and even expected.

That’s actually really cool! I never knew that!

Zeus was prob. pan/omni

Man, I forgot how much I enjoyed Classical Mythology.

No more than today. They just weren't being shamed or murdered.

You should read the song of achilles

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Wait what? Can you elaborate