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30 Of The Weirdest And The Most Disturbing Facts From Known History, Shared By People In This Online Group
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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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
40% of all homeless people in America still goes to work every day
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.
Adolph hitler was an animal rights advocate who banned the live boiling of lobsters.
There are books in the Harvard University library which are bound in human flesh
One is titled : "How to cover a book in human skin and get away with it"
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.
Gee, you mean nations commit horrible atrocities even on their own citizens? Gasp, shock, faint ----- and, yes, that was sarcasm.
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.
There are more people in slavery today than at any other time in history.
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).
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.
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.
Cleopatra lived closer to the moon landing than to the building of the pyramids.
That’s insane. I remember watching Neil Armstrong stepping onto the moon.
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.
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.
Russia still has not recovered its population prior to WWII
Ireland hasn't recovered from the potatoes famine. There were 8 million in Ireland in 1841, now there are about 6.
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.
Rainbow Valley of Mount Everest is named for the rainbow colors of clothing of passed away people there
Spartans bathed their newborn babies in red wine instead of warm water
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.
The United States injected unknowing Puerto Rican’s with cancer cells to see how the illness worked
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.
Actual text "proving this", form the 1930s, Dr. Cornelius Rhoads: Then Rhoads apparently lost his mind, writing, "They [Puerto Ricans] are beyond doubt the dirtiest, laziest, most degenerate and thievish race of men ever inhabiting this sphere. It makes you sick to inhabit the same island with them. They are even lower than Italians. What the island needs is not public health work but a tidal wave or something to totally exterminate the population. It might then be livable. I have done my best to further the process of extermination by killing off 8 and transplanting cancer into several more. The latter has not resulted in any fatalities so far... The matter of consideration for the patients' welfare plays no role here — in fact all physicians take delight in the abuse and torture of the unfortunate subjects." The letter was written when he was demonstrably drunk, based on its date. Investigation showed no actions he took caused deaths of his patients, b/c, yes, it was investigated.*
OMG so not only the nazi's did these kind of experiments with a total lack of empathy.
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And tested birth control without telling the puerto rican women what they were doing to them, and drafted men into the us military all without the ability to vote for the president of the usa. Same to this day
And police are still murdering black ppl in cold blood.
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The US government has honestly been the biggest asshole in the history of all assholes everywhere.
Eh, it's pretty messed up, but not "round up and euthanize all the jews" messed up. "Just" "round up and torture/indoctrinate all of native decent"
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I wonder under what pretext they delivered the injections? I can only think the Puerto Ricans accepted the shots in the belief it was something that would do them good.
Like "vaccines". No wonder why A LOT of people can't trust in goverment vaccination politics
Load More Replies... Dont forget mass sterilization of women. Also the us is illegally occupying it, have squashed several pushes for independence, and puerto ricans are governed and controlled by the us but have no citizens right and cant vote in American elections. Basically a slave state. When Hitler did this it was horrible. Its ok if America does it though....
The USA also invaded Hawaii and overthrew its leaders. Yeah, we've got ALOT to be ashamed about. No wonder so many nations hate us.
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Also the USA injected radioactive materials into Eskimo people to see the reactions. Watch Radioactive Eskimo movie. Sad.
And spread HIV in Africa claiming to be giving vaccinations. What evil ppl.
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This example would benefit greatly by using proper grammar!!! Right now it begs the question, "Puerto Rican's WHAT!?! This site is in DIRE NEED of an EDITOR and PROOFREADER!!
Look at how many Mexican women were sterilized while held hostage by Trumps goons...
And tested birth control pills without explaining it's possible dangers ( this was the 40s-50s before the pill, when they were still inventing it. The side effects were catastrophic, because of the wild doses of hormones given, often intravenously.
There are volumes of material showing the experiments conducted on people by governments. Long twisted experimentation for the sake of "knowledge" - no matter the damage to human beings or animals. We do things because we can, not whether or not we should.
So many times I find that it wasn't just Hitler or Goebbels. All humans have a likely chance of being insanely cruel to others.
I feel a deep anger at all of the atrocities committed by our government. And they are still doing who knows what.
That is akin to the doctors in the death camps experimenting on the Jews! And that Eisenhower had to approve of it, and if he didn't I don't even want to Kai either the thins done, that they never to,d him about! Or what's done today, that they don't tell the president!
They also tested birth control pills on Puerto Ricans to control the population of what they considered a poor and unworthy population
And so many sheep trust the US government. How is beyond me!!! They really think the billions they pay in taxes is for their protection and the good of the People...sad
*Read the text of the letter if you google it and you realize he was a sh*tty person, but it's very probable he never "injected" cancer. Also, he studied anemia. Just an FYI there.
and in the decades to come, the history of 2020/21 is going be oddly similar.
We have a dark past but I believe we can have a bright future. I'm sorry things like this were allowed to happen.
ARE allowed to happen. They still happen. They ARE happening.
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Ignorant ppl like you is exactly why this s**t happens. And you'll only care if it happens to you.
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The founding fathers of the USA didn't know dinosaurs existed.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Adolf Hitler was saved from drowning at age nine in a fountain by a priest
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.
Ireland exported potato’s during the great potato famine.
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.
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!
The baltic states conquest was buried in history (not many people know it) because ww2 and the holocaust happened at about the same time.
The Germans smuggling Lenin into Tsarist Russia, to bring it down.
imagine like being putting your luggage through the scanner at the airport and inside they find trotsky
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I usually like this type of lists but this one is seriously lacking credible sources and some entries are downright false.
I always have this thing that if I find it interesting, I look it up to find out more about it. Cleopatra and the Dutch eating their prime-minister for instance. And those seem to check out. The latter a little less click baity as it is put there, but still very gruesome. The not anesthesising babies is sadly true. Homeless people still having jobs is a fact that's easily checked (not every homeless person is carless or roofless). And the rest just didn't really resonate. I mean, someone saved Hitler from drowning? Yeah. Well. Great. Whether it's true or not, it doesn't impact history.
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The only thing that stood out from this article was the appalling spelling mistakes.
The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster was a 2011 nuclear accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Ōkuma, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. The proximate cause of the disaster was the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami. Clouds of radiation were released and the Pacific water was contaminated. The US had Navy ships that went through the radiation contaminated clouds. We had a family friend whose son was on one of those ships.
With all these very modern government experiments and deprivation of their subjects, it amazed me that people today actually trust their politicians and will argue that the government knows what's best. Their advisors know what's best. Behind every despotic action in history is a scientist Dr type with a god complex to justify atrocities and societal breakdown
In fairness, it would be nice to have a post where people shared all of the accomplishments and advances from world history.
I usually like this type of lists but this one is seriously lacking credible sources and some entries are downright false.
I always have this thing that if I find it interesting, I look it up to find out more about it. Cleopatra and the Dutch eating their prime-minister for instance. And those seem to check out. The latter a little less click baity as it is put there, but still very gruesome. The not anesthesising babies is sadly true. Homeless people still having jobs is a fact that's easily checked (not every homeless person is carless or roofless). And the rest just didn't really resonate. I mean, someone saved Hitler from drowning? Yeah. Well. Great. Whether it's true or not, it doesn't impact history.
Load More Replies... The only thing that stood out from this article was the appalling spelling mistakes.
The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster was a 2011 nuclear accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Ōkuma, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. The proximate cause of the disaster was the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami. Clouds of radiation were released and the Pacific water was contaminated. The US had Navy ships that went through the radiation contaminated clouds. We had a family friend whose son was on one of those ships.
With all these very modern government experiments and deprivation of their subjects, it amazed me that people today actually trust their politicians and will argue that the government knows what's best. Their advisors know what's best. Behind every despotic action in history is a scientist Dr type with a god complex to justify atrocities and societal breakdown
In fairness, it would be nice to have a post where people shared all of the accomplishments and advances from world history.
