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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
Back when I was teaching college, I learned one of my colleagues was homeless. He taught two classes and had some kind of side job that wasn't enough to pay rent.
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I was homeless in my 20s. Told a place wouldn't hire me bc they recognized the shelter address. How tf do you think ppl can better themselves if businesses are heartless like that?
I have a section 8 voucher. I pay 30% of my income towards rent. I also have a spare bedroom, but Section 8, a federal housing program, won't let ANYONE live with me. WTF? They won't even let you use my address, as a mailing address. I'd help if I could. 😭
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I don't know the %, but I work in a homeless shelter and many of the folks here have full time jobs.
When I was homeless I was freelancing, but I also put myself through college and got my Bachelor's, Cum Laude. There were also 3 other students I met that were also homeless, living out of their vehicles.
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Regardless of the source or the numbers, America needs to do more to help the homeless. Some are just victim of circumstances, some choose that life and others are mentally ill. We dont offer much assistance in the US for this problem along with the difficulties that are faced due to healthcare issues. It's a sad situation.
Put that in context- In the UK it is estimated that no more tha 5 percent of the homeless population is in any kind of paid employment. Being "working homeless" is simply not a significant phenomenon in most European countries.
The real truth is even more surprising. The average age of a homeless individual in the U.S. is 9 years old. Over 60% of the adult homeless population works, and considering 1 in 3 homeless adults suffer from a mental or physical disability, and/or mental illness, you can assume that if a homeless adult in America can work, he or she probably is.
I was homeless for almost four months in 2010 and I had two jobs and a car.
And when receiving housing assistance, a non blood related person, who otherwise qualifies for assistance, (a friend, an adult child's spouse, cousin, etc) can not reside in residence. Housing assistance would rather pay full rent on another unit. Talk about $$ WASTE!
Worth noting: Australia, New Zealand, and about half the countries in the EU including the UK and Germany have higher homelessness rates than the US. Downvote away. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_homeless_population
This is specifically talking about the issue of homeless people who are IN work and should be able to afford homes though. Homelessness is a massive issue worldwide and many factors come into play - as the article itself states "This is a list of countries (not all 195) by the homeless population present on any given night. Different countries often use different definitions of homelessness. It can be defined by living in a shelter, being in a transitional phase of housing and living in a place not fit for human habitation. The numbers may take into account internal displacement from conflict, violence and natural disasters, but may or may not take into account chronic and transitional homelessness, making direct comparisons of numbers complicated.
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When homebuyers have to compete with “Chinese Investors” who offer $100,000 cash over asking price, who then turn around & rent out the houses they just bought for $1,000 more a month than “normal local rent”, that’s what you get. I know from personal experience. - Tell me again how much our leaders care. … oh wait. .. Merica. Rent/houses through the roof on a $10 an hour before taxes job. (BTW, Americans can buy 1 residential property in China after living there about 5 years. Chinese “investors “ can buy & own unlimited property and businesses in the US without ever having set foot here.). Sounds reasonable. Not. 🤬 - Fact. Look it up.
When I found this out in a college class, I was shocked. Imagine how time consuming it would be, just to keep your clothes and hygiene presentable when you’re living on the street. Then again, being employed would mean you’d have some money for dry cleaning, the laundromat, and maybe a membership (and a locker for your stuff) at the local Y, if only to use their showers—-as long as no one stole it from you.
I was homeless and lived in my car for 7 months I had to lie about where I was living so I could have a job. Once I had saved up enough money to pay rent I notify them of my change of address; someone discovered that I'd been homeless (I didn't receive some correspondence it had been sent back unknown recipient) and I lost my job because I lied on my application form...
I managed to get a live-in job within 2-weeks so I was technically still homeless but at least I had an address...
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In reality, there is absolutely no reason unless it is by choice. There will always be those that do not want to be confined, HOWEVER, most would live happily in a tiny home. Cities and urban designers need to be willing to incorporate tiny, safe communities within walking distance of necessities. I fear I will die before I see ‘Smart’ thinkers doing what can be done for the working homeless.
At least they have jobs. Even worse is being both homeless and jobless.
This is an inevitable result of Capitalism growing into an uncontrollable monster called Corporatism, and Damn’Murica has been a perfect breeding ground. What a great country!
that just show what a good education can do and a decent earning wage
I see this in my hometown quite a bit. There's a lot of people in town that do odd jobs to make a little bit of money. One of these people lives in his car in a field.
There always has, and always will be a percentage of any population that chooses not to be involved in the society they are in--a very simple FACT that is hard to imagine for most people....this is NOT an indication of a sick society, it is a part of the human condition. You may not like it, or you may not care, but it is shown by authors like Dickens, and many, many, others to be a way of life --whether anyone likes it or not. Don't demonize a society because of this--it is, sadly, an integral part of humanity. Please THINK before you spew hatred at me...look around you ...homelessness is EVERYWHERE--literally.....
Sorry.I do t buy it. 4 out of 10 working people in the US are homeless!?!? There's no way that's true.
not 4/10 working people. it's 4/10 homeless people. and if you don't believe this statistic, you really haven't seen the bad parts of america
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Actually, that's just a statistic based off simple numbers. When a company (big medium or small) employs someone for any amount of time, they will report that persons status. The reports are obtained through several means - one of which is journalism. A journalist will have no problem calling up a local shelter and asking the right questions. Then they make the information public. It's really that simple.
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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.
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.
