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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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30 Of The Weirdest And The Most Disturbing Facts From Known History, Shared By People In This Online Group 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

VeseliM , Lars Larsson Report

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30 Of The Weirdest And The Most Disturbing Facts From Known History, Shared By People In This Online Group 40% of all homeless people in America still goes to work every day

Flutfar , (Mick Baker)rooster Report

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Scagsy
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And if that isn't a reflection on a broken society, I don't know what is.

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30 Of The Weirdest And The Most Disturbing Facts From Known History, Shared By People In This Online Group 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.

KnightofDis , muammerokumus Report

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Ozacoter
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Exactly. In medieval spain the moors in Al Andalus actually prefered blond germanic slaves. So much that the word slave in spanish (and likely in english) "esclavo" comes from "eslavo" (as in an slavic person)

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30 Of The Weirdest And The Most Disturbing Facts From Known History, Shared By People In This Online Group Australia went to war with Emus. The Emus won.

LuinAelin , Ed Dunens Report

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There were no human casualties. The "army" just retreated eventually.

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30 Of The Weirdest And The Most Disturbing Facts From Known History, Shared By People In This Online Group Adolph hitler was an animal rights advocate who banned the live boiling of lobsters.

TommyHawking , Chloe Media Report

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30 Of The Weirdest And The Most Disturbing Facts From Known History, Shared By People In This Online Group Sharks have been around longer than trees.

truthsayer2021 , Andrew Kuchling Report

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30 Of The Weirdest And The Most Disturbing Facts From Known History, Shared By People In This Online Group There are books in the Harvard University library which are bound in human flesh

Flaky_Sandwich9353 , Gord Webster Report

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30 Of The Weirdest And The Most Disturbing Facts From Known History, Shared By People In This Online Group 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.

Shirozaru , Ben Schumin Report

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Leo Domitrix
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Gee, you mean nations commit horrible atrocities even on their own citizens? Gasp, shock, faint ----- and, yes, that was sarcasm.

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30 Of The Weirdest And The Most Disturbing Facts From Known History, Shared By People In This Online Group 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.

NagromTrebloc , Gideon Report

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Controlling women's wombs for thousands of years and still nothing has changed

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30 Of The Weirdest And The Most Disturbing Facts From Known History, Shared By People In This Online Group There are more people in slavery today than at any other time in history.

aljoharaalfayez , Nicolas Sanguinetti Report

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Barbara L Bristow
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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).

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30 Of The Weirdest And The Most Disturbing Facts From Known History, Shared By People In This Online Group 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.

Madjack66 , IAEA Imagebank Report

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The fact that some critical decisions that will affect the whole humanity are on the hands of a few people, is scary

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30 Of The Weirdest And The Most Disturbing Facts From Known History, Shared By People In This Online Group 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.

Johndoe448 , Paul Krawczuk Report

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30 Of The Weirdest And The Most Disturbing Facts From Known History, Shared By People In This Online Group Cleopatra lived closer to the moon landing than to the building of the pyramids.

Dragonwithamonocle , Ivan Radic Report

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30 Of The Weirdest And The Most Disturbing Facts From Known History, Shared By People In This Online Group 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.

PhilippTheSmartass , Steve Snodgrass Report

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

TIL how to spell Bazalgette. Always sounded like it should be Basiljet to me. First modern sewer system was in London, before that the River Thames was the sewer!

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30 Of The Weirdest And The Most Disturbing Facts From Known History, Shared By People In This Online Group 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.

Riff_Moranis , amber.kennedy Report

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They also had a violent empire that had slavery and conquered, raped and pillaged their neighbours. Which is completely normal for the time. But everybody talks about the europeans as if we were the only ones to commit atrocities

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30 Of The Weirdest And The Most Disturbing Facts From Known History, Shared By People In This Online Group Russia still has not recovered its population prior to WWII

YNot1989 , Pedro Szekely Report

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ireland hasn't recovered from the potatoes famine. There were 8 million in Ireland in 1841, now there are about 6.

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30 Of The Weirdest And The Most Disturbing Facts From Known History, Shared By People In This Online Group 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.

mukelynnvinton , Kelly Roselle Report

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I will never stip being shocked at the idiocy of doctors. Anybody with half a neuron knows that they feel pain. Since they show it. There was no reason to think otherwise except laziness

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I have encountered many physicians and nurses that are convinced that mentally handicapped people do not feel pain. It made me sick to hear that for the first time.

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Mary Rose Kent
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

As someone with a special needs nephew, I can state unequivocally that this assumption is most decidedly untrue

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H Edwards
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

All those babies circumcised without anaesthesia. They use it now, but it's still a fairly recent addition to the procedure.

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Pooja San
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

People still think that its ok to cut off a piece of a newborn. Thats so fkd up. Poor baby girls and boys. Stupid decisions.

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Lara Verne
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Back in 19th century, it was common belief that black people did not feel pain as much as white people. Probably made up to support racist ideology and justify slavery? Apparently there are still people who believe it now, even though anyone can see it's not true.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Partly for torture. Black women were subject to painful gynecological surgeries and experimentation by "the father of gynecology" without anesthesia. Black people are most numerous sufferers of sickle cell disease, a very painful disease, and docs and nurses are taught to see these patients as drug-seekers and that they exaggerate their pain. Studies have been done that whites are given more and stronger pain meds than blacks who rate their pain the same level for the same conditions. Its so sick. We are literally ALL the same. Every race. Every color. All human. All bleed red. All feel pain.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I actually knew this and i still cant figure out why they thought that.

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Leo Domitrix
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I had profs from that era and it came up in a course Q&A. His answer (the old fart) was "Well, that's what we were taught"... Given his age, he learned it in the 1950s. So who taught him? No idea. And this is why you ask a lot of questions.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The same still applies when it comes to animals. A lot of people don't believe (or want to believe) that they feel pain just as humans do, and that justifies whatever horrendous things humans do to animals.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Finally someone mentions THAT! I was reading these comments and kept thinking - hey, anyone giving thoughts about other creatures???? We humans are not the only ones... but obviously the most stupid ones

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My Name Is Mars
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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I refused to have my son circumcised at birth because the nurse told me they don't give any form of anesthesia, they just cut away the skin. That's not okay. This was in 2004.

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Beth Arriaga
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Same here. Although at 18 months, he has to have it removed because of kidney and bladder issues. But he was put under general anesthesia. I couldn't fathom having it done without. I just thought that is ridiculous and how a doctor could believe that. They scream when they get shots, have blood draws etc etc

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Somebody told me fish don’t feel pain. Don’t think I believe it.

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There is only one group of animals that cannot feel pain. That is sponges. Every other animal - from elephants to fish to lobsters to fleas to intestinal worms - have a fully developed system for nociception. Fear and pain are the two mechanisms that animals use to avoid danger. It would be an evolutionary miracle for a conscious, mobile creature to survive without these mechanisms. It's why C**A (a disorder in humans in which they cannot feel pain) is considered such a dangerous disease. The people that claim this make up whatever anti-science and anti-logic bullshit they want to justify animal cruelty. Don't believe it. It drives me insane!

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Brian Bennett
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

A person who has not felt real pain denies it especially doctors!

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Lynda Jordan
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I was a nurse in a newborn nursery and witnessed to agony of the male babies when they were circumcised without pain meds or anesthesia. I refused to have my two boys circumcised.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I worked in the birthing center of a hospital. Watching little boys being circumcised was traumatic, to say the least. 6 hours old and this boy is strapped to a "form" with a "c-bell" around the top of his penis. The Doc comes over and removes his foreskin, while the kid is screaming bloody murder. Don't try to tell me newborns don't feel pain. They just don't remember it.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Up until TODAY drs think gyno procedures are painless or that women don't feel pain in their reproductive organs. Also no anesthetic is used for DIU implantation, cervix biopsies or colonscopies.., among others...

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is a, but not the main reason I don't use ta**ons. [The main being I have ptsd so.].

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My mom was a caretaker for seriously brain damaged adults in the 90s. One of her residents (who was nonverbal and had the mental capacity of an infant) fell and required stitches at one point. The doctor didn't give her any numbing medication during or pain relievers afterward. I was only 10 at the time and was absolutely appalled that a doctor would treat someone like that.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yup. I had major-life saving surgery when I was 6 months old. I'm currently using EMDR to overcome the trauma.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My guess is, they were afraid of testing the correct amount of anesthetic (really difficult for low body mass subjects) and by saying "they don't feel pain" they were avoiding discussions with parents and lawsuits over overdosed anesthetics at the same time...

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Jeanne Tarver
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My son was circumcised when he was a couple days old and he felt it. He hated it, and he let everybody know it too. That was in the hospital!

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Linda Faix
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I think that was the philosophy Hitler used when he had babies and small children thrown into the gas chambers alive

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E M
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This belief is still held, unfortunately. Some still don't use anesthetic and/or pain meds.

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Meredith Grey
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

See I had an operation when I was born in 1985 and I'm in Australia and I was actually curious if I was one of them, but according to my mother, I was not.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Maybe they were trying to be safe. From what I know, anaesthesia carries risks. (PS: I do not have much knowledge on the subject)

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Pooja San
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yes the babies cried and shouted until they became unconscious. Thats why people say, Heyyy my baby slept through it!! DUMB PEOPLE.

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Gunhild Drage
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

All you have to do to refute that theory is to pinch a baby. You don't even have to pinch it very hard. That child will let you know.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Don’t be too shocked. Deliberate ignorance still walks the earth. One of Trumps cronies believes that a woman who is raped can just decide to not get pregnant. Not by means of an abortion, but simply because her uterus knows that sperm was rape sperm, so she just decides “No”. So rape all you want guys! If she gets pregnant it’s because she wanted to. 😐. Science. Mmiright.

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

To the people saying this is fake, it's really not. I was born - and underwent several surgeries as a baby - only a couple of years after it became commonplace to use anesthesia and pain relief in infants. There was no screaming or thrashing because the infant was still given a paralytic (which is common in surgeries to stop patients shifting in their sleep). Anaesthesia in infants only became commonplace when it was shown that those not given anesthetic were much fussier afterward and had much longer recovery times than those who were given anesthetic. I was only a couple of years away from having my ribcage cracked open and my heart cut and played with while fully conscious, which my doctors had done to many of their previous patients. It is a horrifying thought.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Another way of thinking was that babies and toddlers felt pain, but that they wouldn't *remember* it soon later, so it didn't matter. In the late 70s I almost got an eye procedure done to me without anesthesia or sedation because of this belief. (The procedure was stopped by my mother who couldn't stand to hear my panicked screaming and rushed to halt the operation.)

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I had a son born in '72. The doctor spoke about the pain he was feeling at age 6 months. Is someone making these statements up?

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Male doctors think that newborns, kids, females were inferior to perfect male form, and so they acted accordingly FOR CENTURIES.

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Marie
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Anyone without a voice or rememberence of an event could be declared pain free. Dog, baby, limited cognitive function. All because they honestly didn't want to belive it despite all the obvious evidence. Not believing doesn't make provable facts fake.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Not just babies, young children in general. A whole generation of elderly people are terrified of dentists because of the ridiculous belief that children had no feeling in their baby teeth. Dentists would drill with no freezing.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This to me is really scary to think about. All those babies who just had to suffer through procedures.

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Katherine Heasley
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is actually a misconception. They knew babies felt pain, but believed that anesthesia was more dangerous than the pain.

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Sara
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I wonder what the docs were thinking when the poor babies started screaming??? :'(

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The babies were still given paralytics to keep them still (common practice for surgeries).

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They feel it when you rip their little arms and legs off and call it "choice" but yall ain't ready for that conversation

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You're right. It's very sad that anyone would down vote the truth. People actually think that babies can't feel pain. Even when being aborted? They can and it's very obvious by the down votes that people are not willing to admit or talk about it. Which is sad. I'm all for choosing whatever you want. But to lie or act like pain is not involved in it is just wrong and I will never understand why anyone would lie or deny it?

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30 Of The Weirdest And The Most Disturbing Facts From Known History, Shared By People In This Online Group Rainbow Valley of Mount Everest is named for the rainbow colors of clothing of passed away people there

Ryukotaicho , Sean MacEntee Report

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

oh yeah i've heard of this, there were a lot of people that died there...

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30 Of The Weirdest And The Most Disturbing Facts From Known History, Shared By People In This Online Group Spartans bathed their newborn babies in red wine instead of warm water

FireyorLeafy , Daniella Segura Report

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

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30 Of The Weirdest And The Most Disturbing Facts From Known History, Shared By People In This Online Group The United States injected unknowing Puerto Rican’s with cancer cells to see how the illness worked

captnslog97 , Lorie Shaull Report

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

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30 Of The Weirdest And The Most Disturbing Facts From Known History, Shared By People In This Online Group The founding fathers of the USA didn't know dinosaurs existed.

yuwannano , David Kryzaniak Report

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

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30 Of The Weirdest And The Most Disturbing Facts From Known History, Shared By People In This Online Group 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.

ok-MTLmunchies , vastfield Report

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

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30 Of The Weirdest And The Most Disturbing Facts From Known History, Shared By People In This Online Group 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.

Doc580 , Neil Turner Report

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30 Of The Weirdest And The Most Disturbing Facts From Known History, Shared By People In This Online Group Adolf Hitler was saved from drowning at age nine in a fountain by a priest

DrySky8514 , Mauro Girotto Report

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30 Of The Weirdest And The Most Disturbing Facts From Known History, Shared By People In This Online Group 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.

ImANuckleChut , Jonas Bengtsson Report

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Not correct. Spain was never part of the Holy Roman Empire. But we shared leaders.

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30 Of The Weirdest And The Most Disturbing Facts From Known History, Shared By People In This Online Group Ireland exported potato’s during the great potato famine.

CategoryTurbulent114 , Bryan Alexander Report

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

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30 Of The Weirdest And The Most Disturbing Facts From Known History, Shared By People In This Online Group That in UK, some time in the 12th century, two children of unusual GREEN skin colour appeared in the village of Woolpit in Suffolk, England.

The girl later communicated she and her brother had come from Saint Martin's Land, a subterranean world inhabited by green people. This actually happened!

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's a folklore story passed down generations, like the Bible but believable.

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30 Of The Weirdest And The Most Disturbing Facts From Known History, Shared By People In This Online Group The baltic states conquest was buried in history (not many people know it) because ww2 and the holocaust happened at about the same time.

TayoDaAsian , www.twin-loc.fr Report

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30 Of The Weirdest And The Most Disturbing Facts From Known History, Shared By People In This Online Group The Germans smuggling Lenin into Tsarist Russia, to bring it down.

willubemyfriendo , 7C0 Report

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

imagine like being putting your luggage through the scanner at the airport and inside they find trotsky

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