For every eye-rolling “the Titanic’s pool still has water in it” fun facts, there are still good ones out there, for example, did you know that Victorian era painters ground up mummies to make paint? “Mummy brown” wasn’t just a euphemism.
We’ve gathered some of the best, craziest facts from this online comment thread, from rather concerning facts about where the world is headed, to the random shenanigans folks got up to in the past. So get comfortable as you read through the list, upvote the ones you didn’t know before and be sure to share your own thoughts and examples in the comments section down below.
#1
The ancient Egyptians existed so long that the ancient Egyptians were studying ancient Egypt like it was ancient
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51points
#2
The median life expectancy in the 1800s was around 40 and people were eating organic food, but they didn’t have modern medicine. The median life expectancy now is around 77, but weirdly people want to romanticize that era by avoiding medical advances.
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44points
#3
There have been multiple Holocaust-scale genocides committed across Africa and still so little recognition for the millions of victims and their descendants
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41points
#4
Africa is the richest Continent on the planet. They are not poor, they are over exploited
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36points
#6
They erased women inventors, scientists, artists, philosophers, etc, from history to make it look like we ain't smart.
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34points
#7
The Vietnam war was an absolute waste of time, resources and human life and the fact the United States government was never held responsible for that is absurd
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34points
#8
we are stuck in this loop of letting rich men make our lives hell. been doing it for centuries and we know it. yet nothing has been done to stop it yet.
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33points
#9
the roman coliseum had advertisement banners hanging on it just like modern day sports games. but no movies put that in cause they think its to modern and no one believes ancient people did this.
33points
#10
Christopher Columbus thought manatees were mermaids and called them ugly
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32points
#11
That Lewis, Clark & Sacagawea were not alone and would not have been able to complete their voyage without the help of Clark’s slave York. He was pivotal to the journey & when all was said and done he was SOLD. He mapped America and he was sold.
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32points
#12
There are at least 2 times we were a single choice away from nuclear war during the cold war where the choice was decided by a single Russian soldier choosing to disobey a standing order.
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32points
#13
That the Kennedy family that has helped run our government had a daughter lobotomized because she was too "wild", and they didn't want her embarrassing the family.😳
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31points
#14
elon musk is about to become a trillionaire yet only $50 billion a year could cure world hunger… he made $203 billion last year
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24points
#15
Genghis Khan killed so many people that he lowered the temperature of the earth, and many regions he conquered still haven't returned to their pre conquered population size!
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24points
#16
Twice as many Natives were killed to found this country than victims of the holocaust, n the fact that I learned it on tiktok is also egregious. Y r we not taught the true history of this country?? Everything we were taught abt our history is a lie.
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23points
#17
Forced adoption in Australia was a government policy that aimed to remove children from single, unwed mothers, and Indigenous families against their will between 1970 and 1980. It is estimated that 250,000 people were affected.
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20points
#18
The sheer number of coupes and collapsed governments that have occurred in direct correlation to CIA intervention.
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19points
#19
The fact that Japan is just as bad as Germany but unlike Germany they never faced any consequences
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17points
#20
After the attack on Pearl Harbor there was still sailors trapped inside the sunken ships however because there was no way to save them any sailors patrolling the there were ordered to ignore the sounds of pounding and screaming
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17points