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eadanke
I can be clueless, but not "mistake sexual advances for an assassination attempt" clueless. Probably. Alright, maybe I could be.
noyougofuckyourself
Kellogg also popularized circumcision. He was a dick head.
danymuresan91360
Yeah the Dracula one is pure BS, I'm not sure where that guy got it from or if he made it up. Also not sure about the rest.
Yasumibi
Marvelous
theyar
I can promise you that most if not all of these are complete bullshit.
gabbagabbaray
If we don't learn from the history channel, we're doomed to repeat history channel
Shoujo
That explains all the re-runs
1954aWebSmuggler
That crap about Gettysburg was all wrong. Check your facts!
ZombieZooZombieZoo
Caligula didn't actually appoint his horse to the Senate
ItsAGameOfSchlongs
Nah, he only joked about being able to
Feralkyn
A lot of these are bullshit. I hate that.
BigPharma
I'm no scientist, but i dont think that killing people makes less carbon on earth...
BigPharma
Also, Kellogg made his Corn Flakes to serve to patients at his family's mental hospital, not originally marketed at kids...
YourFriendlyNeighborhoodJackass
I've always thought this was interesting. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pig_War_(1859)
YourFriendlyNeighborhoodJackass
Don't know why it keeps removing the closing parenthesis from the link
AntaNce
There's (or was) an actual museum for this. I was there. It was so camp. literal bags of cloth for bodies in the dioramas, 50s manikin heads
phobos535
I dont believe half of them because so many of them are obviously wrong . For example, the austro-prussian war was 1866.
ASwordTurtle
This one was actually true though. They went to war, received no injuries or casualties and made an Italian friend, 1/2
ASwordTurtle
It was in the austro-prussian war in 1866 like you said 2/2
phobos535
Thing is, if they cant even get the year right, which is 1min of wiki research, how credible is the rest of the info?
ThisIsJustMySecondNSFWAccountMoveAlongOrPMmeIDontCare
We'll, I don't know about gilbertbielshcmidt, but my panties are wet.
Berethian
I hear they make special linings for incontinence issues, FYI. (Also many of these facts are wrong or misleading)
DancesWithHippos
And then hide in a tree to seal the deal.
AbeFromen
Why would you never see batman hiding in a tree?
INeedMoreGifMeMoreJustOneMore
K-i-s-s-i-p-p-i
Shoutrr
S-T-A-B-B-I-N-G
magnuPlanetLifter
You sell seals?
SwankyPotato
It said seal the deal, not deal the seal
Mumalot
yzark01
Caligula didnt 'suddenly' declare war on the ocean. His army was too scared to sail to britain so he humiliated them by making them fight
yzark01
The ocean they 'feared' and collect spoils of war from their great enemy. He was mocking them.
dragontrove
There are literally so many strange and odd moments in history that make no sense whatsoever and everyone just kinda seem like crazy people
dragontrove
Like that time the military tried to weaponize bats and wouldn't let the idea go after causing millions in damages
dragontrove
Orthe Bal Des Ardents where a bunch of French dudes dressed in costumes for a wedding n ended up catching fire by the king's drunken brother
dragontrove
The king survived by hiding under the Duchess of Paris' skirt, and another dancer put himself out with a wine barrel. The others burnedalive
dragontrove
One historian described the event by vividly describing how the dancers' burning genitals fell to the floor. Fun party overall.
EvilMadMonk
Guy i have a plan to counter global warming... i just need a couple million volunteers.
valen00
To put that 30? odd years of killing in perspective, that's about 2 weeks of emissions today.
IndyAndyJones
Better raise the couple million to 8 billion or so
Woestkonijn
The cornflakes one: Will Kellogg also advised to stitch foreskins and throw acid on vaginas as measure against masturbation.
StellarJay77
Ya, Kellogg was weirdly obsessed with masturbation.
justforbread
The Graham and Post families were in that same mix
Woestkonijn
"Stuff you should know" has a whole podcast about it
Erumun
Kellogg is practically the reason circumcision is a thing in the US.
titaniumsnail
I will never understand why the Americans do it. As a woman I prefer them dicks uncut. Foreskin is fun damnit! And more sensitive.
Erumun
because a madman who sold cereal used that money to tell people it was better that way and brainwashed a generation or two with propaganda.
titaniumsnail
Just don't understand why they keep doing it? There is really no benefit and you get desensitivised which is kinda backwards.
Erumun
Education and information is better in some places than others. Also there's money in it so greed from some doctors.
GodzillaBoomingMarketOfDiabetes
I came
spattr
I saw
AlamoArsenal
I Conga-ed.
spattr
I conquered
coffeeeyedrops
Veni
vorodar
Vidi
ITalkAboutGoats
Vici
Jemolk
Vici
Codox3000
Holding a boom box under the tree with a wounded leg "I just want to be your lover" blasting
maninthedarkness
"In Your Legs"
Sexius007
"Baby I can't fight this feeling anymore"
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TheManInTheWall
I feel like a lot of these are bullshit
rooik14
I pretty much automatically believe every Vlad story because he was a crazy motherfucker.
RagingRomaineLettuce
Radu Bey is real
Tarabot
Yep. Gravity does not help with childbirth (at least not in the pushing part of labour) so I call bull on that one. Source: gave birth twice
Feralkyn
Your feeling is correct. The rabid bats & Raphael are bull so I stopped reading there.
Rutskarn
Romanian bats are tiny and eat insects. If you somehow managed to capture thousands of them, they'd be zero harm to *one* soldier.
oprahslovechild
Typically that would be my reaction, But I found a few that I looked up to be accurate.
GeminiSprk
Google and find out, but I'm certain that the Corn Flakes one is real.
casbott
https://youtu.be/reD7eb6GhQs. Adam ruins everything. Also made circumcision mainstream as anti masterbation …
davebeastly
I thought it was for mental patients.
BigPharma
it was. originally, John Kellogg wouldnt even let his brother sell the cereal to people outside the sanitarium.
Nefel
Kellogg was extremely anti-masturbation. One of the procedures he advocated for was applying pure carbolic acid to the clitoris of girls
Shoujo
This is just horrifying. I take it there were actually some that did this then? Puritans loves god so much they start to act on his behalf.
Nefel
I don't know, and I honestly do not want to. I know what he believed and that's already enough for me
laestrella
Excuse me.. Please tell me this is made up
titaniumsnail
It's not. He was a monster.
Nefel
He thought masturbation was the cause of a shitload of illnesses, physical and mental. So extreme measures were more than okay for him.
iWantedAcoolNameButTheyOnlyHadThisOne
The carbon level one doesn't sound right. If you kill many people, carbon does not disappear. It's still in the earth's carbon cycle.
sadbtdru
If they were buried then a good bit of the carbon would get locked up in the soil. Plus a later post said Khan also planted trees.
gaenaralhonk
Dead people don't burn firewood though
titaniumsnail
It's more like he halted the production of more by resetting the number of humans present.
NinjaCongo
Yes, meaning it gets trapped back into vegetation, particularly trees, that grow in the dead people's fields, villages etc.
iWantedAcoolNameButTheyOnlyHadThisOne
Yes, that's what I mean. So he did not reduce earth's carbon levels. It's just relocated.
NinjaCongo
Of course it's relocated, from the air into plant life. To reduce earth's carbon levels you need to literally ship carbon out in space.
iWantedAcoolNameButTheyOnlyHadThisOne
Which deems the statement wrong, which was my point in the first place. Thanks.
ItIsStillWater
Can't find sources for the viking one, but a huge portion of men was traders, so I find that hard to believe. Having different work tasks 1
hoistedbymyownpetard
Viking men were traders as a last resort when pillaging wasn’t a feasible option...
Brhino
My understanding is that women ran the households because the men went off raiding, and often didn't come back. Women had more stability.
ItIsStillWater
That might be true, though a lot of people never went raiding and to my knowledge women ran those households too.
Gonnaderpya
Ok how bout this. Vikings and English peeps invented rap battles https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flyting
ItIsStillWater
on a farmstead was common, and women keeping track of household finances is not exclusive to Scandinavia or the time period. 2
AlamoArsenal
The menfolk would just spend it on candy and whores.
Berethian
I mean once you eat all the candy you have to do something with all that sugar fuelled energy.
ekzeko
Vikings were the name of the raiders, they struck for roughly 400 years. To different regions and from different regions. Without details...
ItIsStillWater
It depends a bit on the definition, as it changed from just raiders to all seafaring Scandinavians around 1850. But I catch your drift.
WhatExactlyIs
most of these are complete bs.
HistoricallyMinor
At the end of the Civil War, a bunch of Confederates (mostly former slave owners) fled to Brazil believing they could either start a (1/2)
HistoricallyMinor
new Confederacy there or raise support to start a second one in the states. They didn’t succeed but their culture took hold and now (2/3)
HistoricallyMinor
This town in Brazil, which they called Americana, has a yearly Festa Confederada filled with Confederate symbols.
unsweetmelissa
Off to Google that and find out where in the Yee haw hell that is.
ReginaKasteen
You think they have a rivalry with the Argentinian Nazis?
maninthedarkness
Telling the Nazis off, "Why kill em when you can use em?"
RaymondChoppard
Europeans bats don't bite, even when they are rabids. And rabies incubation is between 2 and 8 weeks, which makes it a very slow weapon.
titaniumsnail
They do try to bite you if you catch them. You can also get rabies from their fecal matter.
ItIsStillWater
To be fair, it just says infections, of which bats carry quite a few zoonotic pathogens, especially viruses. Not that it makes it likely.
SteamyVents316
So many likes for incorrect information, sad King Arthur.gif
eggmuffin
When king Lycomedes wanted to offer a gift of cloth to Achilles, he had to ask his wife for permission. It was she who carried the keys.
eggmuffin
We find this custom around the world in many cultures. The women manage internal affairs of marriages and hiring and firing help.
eggmuffin
The men's sphere involving more external matters to do with other families and communities. Common in Northern Europe's bronze age.
leahrachel
I too believe math is witchcraft.
Cranbananarama
Friendship is witchcraft. Math is some sort of elvish text made to confused people.
Pedobearus
Fun Fact: Calculus is the basis of AOE magic.
ImgursLibertarian
To divide fractions you may flip them and then multiply.
PandaLord200
So am I a witch then?
OkramTheBarbarian
If you have a boy/man-friend who earns Money, and you are the bookie, yes
JHawke
Math is witchcraft. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abgP70D9FCU
Dogium
It is, my fellow viking.
GreaseMonkeyOfLove
I mean, have you seen a chalkboard covered in algorithms? Straight out of a Book Of Shadows!
damogen
Please remember that Vikings didn’t call them witches but “wise women” and they were not considered evil. So basically math was a job for
damogen
Women because they were witches i.e. because they were wise
carolinecochran
I believe witch is mathcraft
iputthefiresout
It wasn't King James, it was King Louis XIV of France, but still creepy, nonetheless
clayman318
Mothers out here know more than doctors i guess
PitWolf87
Yes mostly antivaxer moms.
InTheDistanceAPlaintiveEnglishHorn
How would this French king change how women give birth all over the world? Surely other countries would have their own customs?
Jantessa
I have an interesting story about European colonization for you...
Lolzorski
I mean did he wank to it or did he like, appreciate the miracle of life?
imcurrentlyatabar
Probably to certify that there was no trade when the baby was born. Lots of weird shit done to secure heirs.
thelonesurvivorsactofvalor
But aint it easier to help with birth in the „modern“ position anyway? I am not sure if this guy was the only reason it changed.
ToriJoanne
It was my understanding that it's easier for the doctor to do their business, but as one who's given birth, I suspect a squat could help :p
Sidewinder1018
Imagine a doctor doing a birthing like a guy doing an oil change on a car. Oil pouring out running down his arms... squirting on his face.
ToriJoanne
A. I think you're changing your oil wrong. B. Doc doesn't need to stick their head under there, haha. Just sorta peek and reach...
Reinette
No. Flat on your back with your legs raised is probably the worst way to give birth.
ToriJoanne
Worse than standing on one's head? Kidding. At least they push your legs up into you in a sort of faux-squat
thelonesurvivorsactofvalor
I appreciate all your answers as I frankly didn’t know better. Thank you.
tangybreath
Perhaps if you need a lot of help, like the baby is breech or something. But in most deliveries, itd be easier just squatting.
meganly
I couldn’t stand being on my back either time I gave birth. Only comfortable position was squatting.
LeCalabrone
Not AT ALL. In fact it’s harder, more painful and increases risk of tearing and c-sections. Current obstetric guidelines are beyond wrong.
MistressLyda
It makes it easier to help due to it being easier access, gods forbid that the doctors and midwives have to stand awkwardly.
LeCalabrone
Which is ironic considering that if women were allowed to labour and birth in different positions there would be far less need of ‘help’.
clk62
when birth was becoming imminent, women would spend their days laying in their bed. Giving birth while laying on your back is the simplest
clk62
position to adopt while in a bed.
carolinecochran
“while in a bed” is doing a lot of work there
clk62
explain
temujin9
Spoken like a guy who's never spoken to a mother about this.
clk62
Spoken like a clueless idiot.
temujin9
Tell me: what extensive medical background to you derive your clue from, oh grand non-idiot?
iputthefiresout
What are you, a doctor from the 1700s?
clk62
Do you really believe the bullshit above that women give birth on their backs since several centuries because a king decided it? Really?
rooik14
I mean engagement rings only came about because of a corporation less than several centuries ago so not that far-fetched.
ToriJoanne
Pregnant women don't usually lay on our backs much actually, as the baby can compress nerves which can cause issues.
zombiskunk
Women don't lie completely on their back anyway. Categorically false. Sitting upright would also create a "bend" in the birth canal.
Reinette
No no that isn't true. Have you given birth?
Reinette
https://youtu.be/URyEZusnjBI
Reinette
Okay so from your account I'm guessing you're a young male. Sitting on a birthing stool or squatting is the best position because gravity
Reinette
Can help and the womb can contract down on the baby rather.
MrA007
I'm not sure about those ghengis khan facts. But I know he picked up the black plague during his travels ordered the corpses loaded into
MrA007
Catapults to fling over a port cities wall he was sieging. The nobles saw the peasants dying and fled by ship spreading the plague to Europe
MrA007
While ghengis khan was a powerful and influential force. The depopulation of Europe caused the climate dip.
MrA007
This would later be mirrored when the Portuguese introduced plagues to the Americas. The dense trading network allowed the disease to wipe
MrA007
Out +98% of the population. This caused the little ice age which caused crop failures that led to the European witch trials and more.
Anapollosun
The Varangian Guard of the Byzantine Empire had the right to, upon the night of the emperor's death, go into the treasury and take 1/2
GhostofBillyMays
One of my favorite groups in history, almost entirely Vikings in service of a country they had no loyalties to. Even viking kings were in it
RoutemasterFlash
Yep. Actually a lot of Anglo-Saxon noblemen took service there and after 1066 they made up the majority of it.
Blrp0
I assume you mean former Varangian Guard members became kings.
GhostofBillyMays
Harold Hadrada if you'd like to read, but yes.
Anapollosun
2/2 as much gold as they could carry, for their service to the empire.
Doumdidoum
Probably the most loyal guard unit in Roman history. Never betrayed an emperor. All barbarians. Take that, Gibbons, you bullshiter.
vorodar
There was that time there was a coup and they aligned with the usurper. Or stayed loyal to *the person in power* from another perspective.
ReginaKasteen
One wonders if the Praetorian Guard of Rome and their habit of overthrowing the Emperor when he refused to pay them were any influence...
TheThingsTheyCarried
"Had the right." Ha. What city guard would dare try to stop one?
AxelTenveils
The very well equipped Tagmata of the imperial army?