What is a historical fun fact that you know?

[exitseven]

This question was inspired by @Literalbillionaire17.

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When Ben Franklin was ambassador to France he got drunk one night and sent a toilet seat to his girlfriend that said "for the part of you I like best."

[NathanDavis]

the war for the Independence of Mexico was started by a Catholic Priest... and he did use a banner of Our Lady of Guadalupe ( the Mexican version of the Holy Virgin Mary) as the "first flag ever" to represent our people as a nation... which is partially why she is venerated, loved and respected and celebrated way more than baby Jesus (although not many will accept it openly because you know... it is sacrilegious and blasphemy) and the actions show that... in fact

La Virgen de Guadalupe

every year, Mexico City's Cathedral will be the gathering of almost 8 million (consider Mexico CIty's population being 9 million already) people who will peregrinate (travel) for hours or even days as some sort of tribute and show of devotion and gratefulness, many of them from all corners of the country and this happens every December 12... few weeks before baby Jesus' birthday and celebrations on Christmas day... lol

[Bob92220]

I didn't know that before Whites came over and conquered Northern America, that the Indians were always at war within themselves. They would kill off whole tribes to conquer land.

The US never went to Africa to capture slaves. They would go to Africa and it was the tribal leaders that captures slaves and sold them to the US.

The US civil ward wasn't about slavery. It was about state's rights. Abraham Lincoln had slaves himself at one time.

BLM organization never gave one thin dime to the blacks they helped. The leaders used the money for their own benefits and have gained great wealth.

My grandparents, who are now deceased, were Narcissists.

[Bob92220]

Thank you for the MHO :)

[purplepoppy]

Britain went to war with Spain over an ear (war of jenkins ear 1739 to 1748)

Aristotle wrote flys have 4 legs. For the next thousand years it was accepted scientific fact and nobody bothered to count them.

Llareggub, the fictional village in dylan Thomas's under milk wood spells bugger all backwards. The play was to be called Llareggub Hill but the title was changed to Under Milk Wood because John Brinnin thought Llareggub Hill would be too thick and forbidding to attract American audiences.

[exitseven]

I had to read this over twice but that is a pretty cool story.

[loves2learn]

Let me see if I can get this straight. The brother of the man that was to kill Abraham Lincoln, saved Lincoln’s son’s life months earlier. True story.

[Roseboy]

oh boy where do i start

okay ill do two

both about nazis because i know a lot about them

1. so hitler's nephew actually fought for the americans and against hitler during ww2 and managed to become one of the biggest threats to hitler's power as he revealed family secrets

2. the head honcho of the nazi stormtroopers (these are also what the star wars ones are named after) called Rohm was not only hitler's closest friend (like when hitler's niece who he had okay we aren't talking about this its dark asf and not fun facts he only wanted Rohm by his side after she killed herself) but also gay. yes one of the nazi leaders was often found sipping cocktails with drag queens in bars. Incredible. and on top of that - so that hitler could become both president and chancellor of germany, merging the two positions and making it impossible to remove him from power Hindenburg had Hitler put Rohm to death. so Rohm was given a gun and put in a cell for him to kill himself, he didn't for half an hour so Himmler (the guy who like had a mancrush on hitler or smth) just waltzes on in there and shoots him to death.

istg the relationships of the nazi leaders were fucking ridiculous

[MarkRet]

The top echelon of the Stormtroopers was made up of Rohm and his inner circle, and most of them were gay. Hitler knew Rohm was gay, but didn't really care, and sometimes Hitler would shame Rohm as a way of controlling him. Rohm had aspirations of ruling Germany as a kind of Generalissimo, with a civilian puppet as president of Germany. Hitler finally decided Rohm was too dangerous to be kept alive, and he wanted to replace the Stormtroopers (SA) with the SS and Gestapo anyway, so he had Rohm and the top SA echelon executed.

[Aerissa_Jade]

The emancipation proclamation is often credited for freeing all the slaves, but for those who've actually read it. It only frees the slaves in the southern states that are not currently occupied by the north.

The intent was to get slaves to revolt, while keeping border states that allowed slavery from joining the south.

History is often changed by those who want to see it differently.

[Agagagagaga]

Also, this is so crazy, Tennessee was EXEMPT from the Emancipation Proclamation even though it had sided with the Confederacy. Why?

Lincoln’s Vice President was from Tennessee. 😂

It fucking kills me when people celebrate the emancipation like it freed the slaves. It didn’t. And if you learn about how Lincoln kept the war going in order to keep the states that seceded out of the voting, and all the political favors that were done to get it passed, it was suuuuper shady.

[rachel776]

when archeologists looked in the ocean for shipwrecks from the 1500s in Florida they were covered with debris from the Apollo rockets and space shuttles

[Googlemyahoo]

During the civil war a 19 year old fur trapper accidentally shot himself in the stomach. The guy had to wear a leather flap over the hole directly to his stomach.

A physiologist named William Beaumont studied the guy and recorded what he ate and drank. Then he’d open the flap and examine the contents of his stomach taking it out & returning it.

Thats how they learned about stomach acids.

That and there's only two genders.

[MCheetah]

Napoleon wasn't technically short for his time, but at 5'6", would be considered short by today's standards, meaning the Napoleon Complex over time, as become accurate.

(Although 5'6"/167 cm back then for a Frenchman would be the modern equivalent of 5'9.5"/176 cm, which I'd still consider short on a man for today.)

[Bob92220]

I've read that England's propaganda machine told everyone that Napoleon was short to install confidence in the English army.

[Lliam]

Cecil Rhodes and a handful of Anglocentric British aristocrats, funded by Nathaniel Rothschild, started WWI for profit. They wanted to destroy Germany because it was becoming a trade competitor against the British empire. They used the press to fool the British people while keeping Parliament in the dark.

The idea began in the 1800s when Britain and Germany were colonizing South Africa. It took years of planning, plotting, and high level intrigue.

[Chazmatazz269]

Doctors used to prescribe cigarettes to asthmatics. I luv telling this one to the mindless drones who will do anything someone in a white coat tells them to do.

[KostasKouvalis]

Cleopatra is believed to have made herself a vibrator by putting a swarm of angry bees inside a gord. Talk about creative

[KostasKouvalis]

😂😂😂 at your update

[MarkRet]

I heard that Kaiser Wilhelm had a person whose only job was to keep Wilhelm's mustache trimmed and in perfect condition.

[Cubus]

The common myth is that in past centuries all men had voting rights and no women had voting rights. It's not true, as most men didn't have voting rights too. In the half of XIX century in Great Britain (before Gray's reform) only 3% of men could vote (this reform rose it to 5% - still very little).

[Andres77]

Cleopatra also smuggled herself in a rolled up carpet to see Julius Cesar

[888theGreat]

does anyone know the only Little Rascal that is still alive?

[exitseven]

Is it Robert (Baretta) Blake?

[888theGreat]

yep, you look it up? And he almost got the chair a couple of years ago

[exitseven]

No, I remember him from Baretta and know he is still alive. They still show the old Little Rascals on one of the rerun channels on Sunday morning and I have seen him there too.

[BCRanger10]

John Paul II was not the first Polish pope. Pius X was.

[AviatorTom]

Pope Pius X was born Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto in Riese, Treviso, Lombardy–Venetia, Austrian Empire. How is he Polish?

[BCRanger10]

@AviatorTom because his parents were from Poland.

[Literalbillionaire17]

Why thank you 😂.


Alexander the Great was probably buried alive

[Daniela1982]

I didn't know they had toilet seats back then, or that they could mail them, even if he was Postmaster General.

[888theGreat]

they had kites with keys

[exitseven]

I am not sure about how he got the toilet seat over there. He may have just paid a messenger to do it. That part is unclear. They did have toilets although 'the flush toilet did not come along until the late 19th century.

[loveslongnails]

George Washington started the French_Indian War all by himself, basically because he couldn't read French. Oh, and he killed the French commander's brother. LOL

[OddBeMe]

Holocaust: Majority of killers werent Germans, majority werent killed in Germany.

[CuriousMufuxka]

I know of none that are actually fun - Curious 2022

[AviatorTom]

Mary, Queen of Scots was also the Queen of France.

[AviatorTom]

... and her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I of England, known as The Virgin Queen, was not a virgin. She had a secret romantic relationship with Robert Dudley, an advisor in her court, and possibly even miscarried early in a pregnancy. The moniker Virgin Queen was because she had no children and hence, no heirs to the throne, which opened the door to her successor, James VI of Scotland (James I of England), the son of Mary Queen of Scots.

[Fromdusktilldawn]

You know that the covenants arc had a primitive form of electricity as anti-theft mecanism to shock those who wanna open it?

[Rockstarrrrr]

Che Guevara was a punk ass bitch