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Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, was accused of single-handedly ruining France’s finances. Official estimates claim court expenses alone were 7% of France’s total budget but the real figure was a lot higher. She was given the name “Madame Déficit” during the French Revolution.
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In mid-18th century France, eating potatoes was considered cruel and unusual punishment: potatoes were thought of as feed for livestock, and they were believed to cause leprosy in humans. The fear was so widespread that the French passed a law banning them in 1748.
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One of the coolest things about reading history is realizing just how bananas all those real people were.
Kings, military leaders, pioneers of art, and explorers—there are countless examples of people who, if they’d been dreamed up in a book or a movie, would be too far-fetched to even believe.
And yet they were very real.
But with all those stories come the tendencies to over-hype, omit key details, or just buy into false narratives entirely.
Redditor ReallyRealMaoZedong apparently was in the mood for skepticism when he asked:
“Who is the most overrated person in history?”
“King Tut. He didn’t really do much, he was just a boy who unfortunately died young. We just happened to find his tomb and that made him famous lol.”
“The tomb itself, while amazing and much to learn from, is a result of his culture and the line he happened to be born into, not really anything HE chose to do.” — barbaramillicent
“King Arthur. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.”
“Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.” — bozwold
“I don’t know about ‘most overrated’ but MaoZeDong was a brilliant guerrilla leader who transitioned into be very good at retaining power while being very bad at running a country.”
“I would not hang giant portraits of the guy all over my country.” — dieinafirenazi
“Gandhi.”
“I can go on…” — 00__starstruck__00
“Not in all history, but Chris McCandless was a f’king moron who does not deserve to be romanticised.”
“Against all advice, he strolled out into the Alaskan wilderness with no idea what he was doing, with no map, underprepared, undersupplied and with no research into seasonal dangers, smashed up some cabins, shot a moose despite not being able to preserve or store the meat…”
“…thought he could teach himself to identify edible wild mishrooms, didn’t look beyond the river crossing he initially used where he would have found a hand-operated cable car half a mile away and died – probably from eating strange seeds – in an abandoned bus on a known hunting trail.”
“He was not pioneering, or inspiring, or bold, or free, he was f’king stupid and somehow this inspires people!” — Mischief_Makers
“Hitler. Hear me out!”
“National Socialism and Antisemitism was not something he invented and I am pretty sure that if it wasn’t for him somebody else like Goebbels or Hess would have become German dictator.”
“When people say, oh if only Hitler wasn’t born then WW2 or the Shoa would not have happened, that’s utter bullsh*t. I wish while teaching about the Holocaust, people would put it into context.”
“The climate of polarization in the 1920s in Germany is very similar to what is going on now in the USA. People were and are seeking out extremists with conspiracy theories to follow because they look for scapegoats.”
“The man on the top is just a symptom for a systemic problem which lies much deeper.” — marlenshka
“Ben Bradlee. He was lionized for going after Nixon as editor of the Washington Post.”
“But he lied under oath during the trial of a Black man who was accused of murdering one of Kennedy’s mistresses, all because he was friends with JFK and wanted to cover up his indiscretions. An innocent Black man nearly went to the electric chair.”
“He only pursued the truth when the president was a Republican.” — The_Bee_Sneeze
“Charles de Gaulle. MF was an officer of the army that lost half of France in 2 weeks to the Germans in WW2. Flees like a cockroach to the UK where somehow embodies the spirit of the resistance, somehow receives the title of General, even though his tasks were not dangerous nor fundamental.”
“When the allies take over France, he is not in any of the strategic discussions among generals of different armies, nonetheless he walks into Paris as their great liberator. Couple of years later gets elected president (because somehow he has managed to keep his popularity??).”
“While president, North African colonies declare war (and independence) from France. Many people die, and the french economy and territories takes a huge blow. Also he managed to dismantle the oldest European university of the world (Université de Paris)…”
“But nooooo! His name is on an airport, many avenues and countless plazas accross France.” — KarmaWhoreRepeating
“Ayn Rand. Elitist prick, complete nutbag, husband abuser, most likely committed infidelity. Moreover, her ideas are terrible. So dumb.”
“She clearly thinks poor=dumb and useless, when she doesn’t realize how privileged education is what makes someone ‘productive’ in the way that she imagined.”
“She even says it in Atlas Shrugged, John gault and Francisco wouldn’t have become who they were if they hadn’t had that one philosophy teacher who became a short order cook because the world is so mediocre and undeserving of his genius.”
“And the saddest part is so many people after reading Atlas Shrugged are like ‘yeah, selfishness is the best, anyone who is poor is weak and stupid. My life is good and it’s impossible to have a good life unless you won it for yourself so I must be the best person ever and all you plebs can eat my sh**.’ “
“Randian economics is a conflict in terms.” — Begotten_Glint
“John F. Kennedy.”
“Pill-popping, booty-slaying, trust-fund, back alley politician who conveniently only took an interest in civil rights in preparation for re-election.”
“He was handsome, charming, and his tragic death made him seem much better than he actually was.” — Way_2_Go_Donny
So there you have it.
Hope this list didn’t deflate any of your heroes.
But if it did, consider the value of being in the know.
Everyone who has gone through a history class in the United States likely learned about things like dictators, leaders and Presidents of the past. Teachers will tell you about World War I and II.
You might learn about people like Benjamin Franklin, Ivan the Terrible or Catherine the Great.
However, you might not know some of the not safe for work details omitted from the classroom about these famous historical figures.
“What are some NSFW history facts that don’t get taught in school?”
Now that we’re adults, there’s plenty of facts to still learn about outside the classroom.
“If you look up Edward Russell in history books or even Wikipedia, you learn about his military service, including Admiral of the Royal Fleet for some famous battles.”
“What they don’t teach is that he threw a party so epic it’s still being talked about 300 years later.”
“In 1694, he threw a party for officers, and with 6,000 guests coming, wanted to make it special. So, he made the world’s largest cocktail.”
“Drained the garden fountain and used that as a giant punch bowl with hundreds of gallons of liquor, over a half ton of sugar, thousands of lemons, etc.”
“He hired bartenders to paddle around in boats, scoop it up, and serve it to attendees.”
“At some point, it began to rain, so they put a tent up over the fountain to prevent it getting watered down.”
“About a week after they started, they had drank every last drop, the fountain was dry, and the party was over.” – MyNameIsRay
“Damn must have been one hell of a week.” – mattisdabezt
“Not a single person in attendance remembered any of it.” – Abbhorase
“If you remember it, you weren’t there.” – RabSimpson
“Powdered wigs were invented to cover up head sores caused by syphilis.” – buddywilson2828
“Syphilis also eventually destroys your nose, which is why old timey writing frequently refers to how prominent a person’s nose is while expounding on their moral character. Essentially, ‘this guy is super great, he doesn’t even have syphilis!’” – SteamboatMcGee
“And small pox scars too. and lice. and all kinds of nasty things because while population was booming, indoor plumbing and clean water were not things yet.” – Makabajones
“The ‘Father of Microbiology,’ Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek, was the first to examine semen under a microscope immediately after ejaculating in his wife.” – misein-anthropos
“The ‘Daddy of Microbiology.’” – ExplainLikeImAnOtter
“He actually made a point to emphasize that he got it the sanctioned way because, you know, normal guys don’t spank it.” – gertalives
“In his defense, he could have been trying for the most accurate environment next to still being inside her; he knows that he doesn’t know everything, and so keeping conditions of the test as close as possible to the conditions of the events he’d like to understand is sensible.” – Beard_of_Valor
“When he presented his discovery to his fellow scientists, they had to pronounce the obligatory ‘NO HOMO’ to preserve their hetero-ness.” – churros4burros
“Alexander the Great had 361 concubines (official prostitutes), 4 more and he would have one for every day of the year.” – Redditor
“Yeah but that would be excessive.” – bigblueh
“Then we’d have to call him Alexander the Excessive.” – nakiron
“During the age of sail, any time a large ship would come into port, the men often wouldn’t be allowed shore leave for a few days. So you would see small boats packed with prostitutes heading out to the ship at mooring.”
“Larger ships of the line would have over 500 men aboard so there could definitely be a couple hundred ladies brought aboard ‘behind the captain’s back.’ and with virtually no privacy aboard, you would have spaces in the ship with hundreds of couples going at it at once.”
“There were definitely a lot of captains that didn’t allow any women aboard, so the sailors on those ships would just have to wait until they could go ashore.” – strengthof10interns
“Also a reason why piracy was, in the long term, an unsustainable economy: because most of the crew would blow their entire take of a prize with women (and to a lesser extent booze) the next time they went ashore. Did wonders for the economy of Kingston though.”
“I love pirates but goddamn they had no long term plan.” – wakattawakaranai
“I doubt most guys in that line of work back then didn’t expect to make it to old age anyways. Might as well live it up while you’re hearts still beating.” – strengthof10interns
“Look at Blackbeard. The most famous pirate of all time – was only a pirate for 2 years and was dead by 38.” – RudolphClancy88
“There was a Greek general who was supposed to lead a major expedition to Sicily. The night before he left he got wasted and walked around Athens with his other drunk friends and knocked all of the penises off of the statues in Athens.”
“This caused him to be arrested, he missed the expedition and they lost almost all of the men they sent to Sicily because only he knew the plan well enough to pull it off.” – izlanda_
“My classics teacher in college LOVED to talk about Alcibiades. He called him the ‘Sterling Archer of Ancient Greece.’” – ParaplegicFish
“Alcibiades. Probably a false accusation. Which got him to defect to Sparta. Where he showed them how to defeat the Athenians and had an affair with one of the king’s (Sparta had two) wives.”
“So he ran to Persia, learned Persian, had an affair with the king’s female relative, showed Persia how to defeat Athens and Sparta. Went back to Athens and got his rank back, then quit.”
“Years later he owned a vast estate where he hosted the Athenian fleet warning them they had their ships positioned where they could be attacked. The fleet officers dismissed his concerns and the enemy burned their ships.” – Oknight
“Ben Franklin was a super sex freak and loved to tell younger dudes to have sex with older (old) women.” – ericb67
“Ben Franklin was a playboy. He was the US Ambassador to France and slept with the daughters of many French nobles. And when he arrived his clothing would influence French fashion.” – BourbonBinge
“Dude also enjoyed taking ‘air baths.’”
“Which meant that, while he was in France, he would just sit naked in front of an open window in his living room while he did his morning paperwork.” – Gemmabeta
“Catherine The Great had a parlor room filled with explicit, erotic furniture she commissioned personally. We’re talking blow jobs carved into chairs, an end table where giant dicks’ torrential cumshots were holding up a marble countertop, a woman getting eaten out by a demon on a throne… homegirl had taste.” – OnWarmLeatherette
“It’s all been destroyed but holy sh*t look at this lol.” – fullofpaint
“French President Félix Faure went out via death by blowjob from a mistress.” – Ascribed_innovation
“He had a stroke or massive bleeding of some sort, it’s a bit unclear what exactly. Presumably the increased strain was too much for his circulatory system.”
“That’s what happens when you’re banging chicks in their twenties while you’re almost sixty.” – AntiChr1st
“If you die while nutting you are both cumming and going.” – Watamote_lover
“Anne Frank’s diary talked a lot about masturbation, but most of it was edited out.” – waxmygwbush
“And about her lesbian crush on one of her friends.” – xandrenia
“‘Once when I was spending the night at Jacque’s, I could no longer restrain my curiosity about her body, which she’d always hidden from me and which I’d never seen. I asked her whether, as proof of our friendship, we could touch each other’s breasts. Jacque refused. I also had a terrible desire to kiss her, which I did. Every time I see a female nude, such as the Venus in my art history book, I go into ecstasy. Sometimes I find them so exquisite I have to struggle to hold back my tears. If only I had a girlfriend!’”
“Writing about her crushes on her female friend and the experiments she had with her.” – Ybuzz
We definitely won’t find any of this information in a text book, but thank goodness we have the internet!
There’s so much we don’t know that we don’t even know.
Someone born in 55 BC who died in 35 AD (at the age of 90) would have witnessed the rise and fall of Julius Caesar, the reign of Augustus and founding of the Roman Empire, Cleopatra’s whole reign and the fall of Egypt to Rome, and the birth, life, and crucifixion of Jesus.
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Humanity, for all its faults, is pretty amazing. We’ve learned a lot of really cool things in our time on this planet.
But how did we learn some of it?
Like… who thought it’d be a good idea to prepare a venomous or otherwise dangerous creature for consumption? Didn’t the thought of some rather deadly trial and error frighten them away?
The answer to that is “nope,” in case you’re wondering, and we are referring to fugu, a dish prepared from a pufferfish that can be lethal for human consumption and can also sting when its spines enter the skin.
Fugu’s tetrodotoxin can be so lethal, in fact, it must be carefully prepared to remove the toxic parts and to avoid contaminating the meat.
The Japanese and other countries have strictly regulated fugu’s preparation, just in case you’re feeling adventurous.
But how did that first person grab the stinging, spiky fish blown up like a balloon and discover how to eat it without dropping dead?
Well, we don’t have an answer for that.
And what about other curious things human beings discovered?
“What fact makes you think ‘What the f**k were they doing to discover that?’”
“My mum was diagnosed with glaucoma a while back. She had to use eye drops which she said were derived from bull semen. She wasn’t too disgusted.”
“She was a nurse, she was just endlessly baffled with HOW anyone ever came up with that idea.”
“Like, you’d have to know a fair bit about semen to even think of its uses beyond the obvious one.”
“How do these people describe themselves on LinkedIn?” ~ SuzyJTH
“Hákarl.”
“You know, that shark that is usually poisonous unless you leave it to rot for months.” ~ ObscuraNox
“Coffee can be explained. Chewing the nuts gets you hyper, so someone distilled it.”
“Now black ivory coffee… that had to have been a prank, dare, or the most confusing chain of events for a bean farmer.”
“For those that don’t know, black ivory coffee is coffee made from beans passed through the digestive tract of elephants.”
“The enzymes in the elephant break down the protein in the bean, giving it a less bitter taste.” ~ chocki305
“I have an acquaintance who worked as a dog handler, showing purebred dogs in dog shows.”
“She swears that putting the tip of a wooden match into a dog’s anus is the preferred method for making the dog defecate before going into the show ring.”
“All I can think of is: Who was the drunk idiot that discovered that? How much alcohol was involved?”
“Why did they tell anybody what they’d done? (“Hey, you guys wanna see a trick? Here, Fido!”)” ~ NightmareGerbil
“I never understood why people started eating onions. I mean, I’m glad they did, but if I’m a caveman and try to eat a ‘food-like substance’ that if I break open makes me cry, I’m probably not ingesting it.”
“I mean, it doesn’t even want me to look at it and punished me for breaking it open. I don’t eat aggressive vegetables.”
“Just to clarify, I really love onions. I just wouldn’t have been the first one to try them.” ~ CanEyeBshy
“Anything involving baking soda. In the past two weeks, I’ve used it to make banana bread and pretzels, as well as to disinfect a litter box and clean silver.” ~ _solarmax
“Toast. It had to be an accident, surely.”
“I mean, they figured out to grind the right grains, the right ratio of yeast and water and sugar, etc., and how to cook it to make beautiful beautiful bread.”
“I swear, it must have been an accident that someone was too close to a fire and because of, I dunno, poverty or ignorance, it got eaten and the nirvana that is toast was achieved.
“Who would ever think, ‘This bread is great, I’ll cook it again’?” ~ kiki73
“The ancient/medieval alchemists left a lot of records of the substances they studied.”
“They cataloged all the properties they observed for each one – including the taste. One presumes that for the data to be passed on, one had to record the taste test promptly.” ~ schleppenwolf
“Chocolate. The process to make it properly is incredibly finicky and takes a long time from start to finish.”
“What’s more, it’s not like a lot of things mentioned here that were probably just the result of being desperately hungry.” ~ mechanate
“The complex chemical processes to make certain drugs.”
“Maybe I don’t understand chemistry well enough, but how would they have known the effect that certain drugs, like cocaine, would have on a person?”
“Or was it made for some other purpose and someone said, ‘Hey, this looks like a good thing to crush up so that I can snort it up through my nose.’”
“It just seems weird.” ~ goodietwoshoe
“Casu marzu.”
“For those who aren’t familiar with it, it’s a cheese made from sheep’s milk with live maggots in it.”
“It’s actually illegal under EU regulations but there is still black market production because apparently, people want to eat live maggots.” ~ adeon
“When saccharine was first synthesized, the creators didn’t know it was going to be safe to consume.”
“And yet, against the most basic law of the chemistry lab (do not under any circumstances eat that thing you just created, everything can and WILL kill you), they decided that meh, a little bit couldn’t hurt.”
“They were lucky and it was sweet and safe, but seriously don’t eat the stuff you just made from tar – it literally didn’t exist an hour before.” ~ coelicolored
The funny thing about a lot of these responses, at least to me, is the number of people who rest on the assumption that starvation wasn’t a common way to die for many millennia.
You’d be surprised what human beings will eat—and certainly figure out is okay to eat—when they are hungry and there is no other option.
I suppose we should thank them for their discoveries.
Oh, and while we’re at it, be even more thankful we didn’t have to be the ones to do all of these experiments.
In our primary school years, many of us took great pride in the weirdest, most fun facts we could spout out to our friends and family members on command.
Some of us, though, never lost that passion and continued collecting factoids about the world around us.
“Reddit, what is the weirdest FACT you know?”
“Maine is the closest U.S. state to Africa.” – Donald_Keyman
“[Maine] is also the only state with one syllable in its name.” – BatskyStarman
“Ohio is the only state to not share a letter with the word ‘mackerel.’” – hunter07100
“I know that sea cucumbers, to protect themselves from enemies, will hurl their own internal organs at anything threatening them.”
“Pretty wild, I think, but it doesn’t hurt the critter none. The sea cucumber can regrow whatever organs he lost with ease.” – aintyourma
“Penguins have a gland above their noses that removes salt from seawater.” – Servb0t
“Otters have a secret pocket where they carry their favorite rock.” – theoldraven
“[Otters] also hold hands when they sleep.” – jellyshoes11
“[Otters hold hands]…so they don’t drift apart. We can’t forget the adorable reason!” – biospark02
“LEGO is the world’s largest producer of tires.” – UncensoredChef
“In the LEGO Movie, they put fingerprints and scratches on pieces to make the legos looked like they were well played with.” – hannakah_ham
“If you put your finger in your ear and scratch, it sounds just like Pac-Man.” – Donald_Keyman
“Bonus Fact: If your throat is itching, you can make it stop by scratching your ear.” – Rywell
“Cleopatra lived closer to the invention of the iPhone than she did to the building of the Great Pyramid.” – Donald_Keyman
“More time has passed between 9/11 and today, than 9/11 and the fall of the Berlin Wall.” – chicochic
“The Tyrannosaurus Rex was more likely to have gone to a Miley Cyrus concert than to have ever fought against a Stegosaurus (chronologically).” – Baldybeardy
“Astronomer here! If you look at the large-scale structure of the universe, it looks an awful lot like a brain cell.”
“I always thought that was really weird, but also a neat coincidence.” – Andromeda321
“We are more empty space than we are solid matter.” – its_the_peanutiest
“There are more stars in space than there are grains of sand on every beach in the world…” – hotbuk**ke
“Russia has a larger surface area than Pluto.” – Swaily_P
“You can fit 3 Jupiters in the space between the Earth and our Moon.” – Question_4_you_guys
“A tomato plant was found on a 40-year-old volcanic island by the name of Surtsey. Scientists were baffled about how it got there.”
“Turns out a scientist took a dump which contained tomato seeds, and the plant grew.” – speeds_03
“Antarctica has two ATM machines. However, only 1 of them is working…” – Nebih
“Here are some interesting and odd facts:”
“Mammoths went extinct over 1000 years after the building of the great pyramid in Egypt.”
“A strawberry isn’t a berry, but an avocado is.”
“The can opener was invented 50 years after the can. They used bayonets or smashed them open with rocks in the intervening time. The rotating can opener that we’re familiar with took over 100 years to finalize.”
“The spikes on a stegosaurus’ tail are known by paleontologists as the thagomizer, which is a term coined by none other than Gary Larson in the Far Side cartoons.” – techniforus
“The world’s deepest postbox is in Susami Bay in Japan. It’s 10 meters underwater.”
“Light doesn’t necessarily travel at the speed of light. The slowest we’ve ever recorded light moving at is 38 mph (miles per hour).”
“In 1567, the man said to have the longest beard in the world died after he tripped over his beard while running away from a fire.”
“There are more fake flamingos in the world than real flamingos.”
“[Until 2016] the last time the Chicago Cubs won the baseball World Series, the Ottoman Empire still existed, and women did not have the right to vote in the United States.”
“John Tyler, the 10th president of the United States, has a grandson who’s still alive today.” – Donald_Keyman
“Abraham Lincoln created the Secret Service on the day he was fatally shot. At the time, it wasn’t charged with protecting the President, but still…”
“John Wilkes Booth’s brother once saved Lincoln’s son’s life.”
“Furbies are banned from the NSA’s offices — as they may be spies. (They’re not really spies, but the NSA is being extra-careful.)”
“If your name is Richard Parker, stay the hell away from boats.”
“In March of 1951, both the US and UK were introduced to Dennis the Menace comics. But the two Dennis [characters] were totally different and their creators didn’t know about the other one across the Atlantic.”
“The US Civil War started on Wilmer McLean’s farm. He left the area shortly thereafter but couldn’t avoid the war, as it ended at the home he fled to.”
“The code names of the beaches used for the D-Day landings appeared in crossword puzzles before the campaign.”
“The people who make government pens will never see the words those pens write because all those people are blind.”
“Mountain Dew once admitted that mice would dissolve into a jelly-like substance in order to win a lawsuit.”
“There’s a massive, burning pit of natural gas aflame in Turkmenistan which has been burning since the early 1970s.”
“The US once considered nuking the moon, and Carl Sagan worked on the project.” – MrDNL
From facts about space to the strangest finds on Earth, combined with animal oddities and surprising timeline overlaps, these facts left many a fellow Redditor stunned, as well as wondering what other odd trivia they could uncover.
*The following article contains discussion of suicide/self-harm.
Cartoons have a special place in our memories.
The tinkling sound of the cereal hitting the bowl. The calm of the house settling around us.
There is something brightly nostalgic about those memories, something almost too good to be true.
Of course, if something seems too good to be true…
Before we dive into the darkness, a content warning. There will be mentions of suicide, murder and domestic abuse.
“What are some dark facts about cartoon shows?”
“There was a Smurfs PSA that was made for UNICEF I believe where their entire village is carpet-bombed.”~Djangolives
“Ren and Stimpy was an absolute nightmare for the people who worked on it. John K ordered them not to make the same face twice.”
“Pretty, but it was hell for the workers because they were constantly drawing things.”
“John K was a nightmare boss.”
“One of the producers had a sign on his wall labeled ‘John’s knees’ and invited people to kick it.”
“By the time he left it was reduced to a hole.”
“They made several episodes that were just the animators ranting about how much of an asshole that John K was.”~CrazyCoKids
“A literal dark fact: Batman: the Animated Series had their backgrounds drawn on black paper instead of white paper, to make Gotham appear darker.”~PianoManGidley
“The creator of Skeletor was inspired by a corpse in a haunted house that he was 100% sure was real. Turned out he was right.”~Scodo
“In Disney’s Gargoyles, Goliath believes his entire clan is either dead or turned permanently to stone, and he asks the Magus to turn him to stone forever as well.”
“Yes, there were improbable terms to break the curse … but effectively, he was committing suicide.”
“He knew he was among the last of his kind and did not know if he would ever wake up again.”
“He left behind a rookery full of eggs (the next generation) when he did so.”
“Also, in City of Stone, Demona smashes statues that are humans turned to stone — she kills people on screen in a Disney cartoon.”
“Lots more examples from Gargoyles, but those two stick out.”~mynonymouse
“There’s no normal animals in Pokémon, yet you see the characters eat meat all the time”~t00nland
“Not so much about the production, but there is an obscure animated movie called The Adventures of Mark Twain that is stop motion animated, and in one pretty f*cked up scene Tom Sawyer, Huck Finn and Becky are greeted by an angel who says his name is Satan.”
“Except he looks nothing like a traditional angel, he holds a mask on a stick for a face which contorts into a demon and skeletal face at times.”
He then has the kids sculpt a village with people and a castle out of sand, and Satan then brings them to life.”
“The sand people get along but soon start fighting and Satan kills them by summoning lighting, causing an earthquake, etc…”
“The kids are horrified, but Satan just nonchalantly says they can make more and waxes poetic about how life is a vision and we don’t matter.”
“I can’t really do justice describing how eerie it is, but if you look up disturbing kid’s cartoons on YouTube, it’ll pop up.”~Lrehcsa1926
“When the Wind Blows is a movie that uses a bright palette and pleasant childhood aesthetic to tell the story of nuclear attack aftermath could-bes.”
“It follows an awfully gullible elderly couple with an overzealous trust in their government as they go on with their lives after the strike, which progressively gets worse as they succumb to radiation poison.”
“Sounds bad?”
“The pamphlet they seem to rely on is real and it’s just as out of touch and unsettling.”
“It has been suggested that it’s actual purpose is allowing for a better clean-up after you’re f*cking dead.”
“See also here.”~SoCriedtheZither
“The studio had to get someone else to sing ‘Soon You’ll Come Home’ in All Dogs go to Heaven because the voice actor, Judith Barsi, had such a traumatic home life because of an abusive, alcoholic father that she couldn’t sing the song without having a breakdown.”
“She and her mother were murdered by him before the movie was released in a double-murder/suicide.”
“She was only 10.”
“She was also the voice of Ducky from Land Before Time.”
“Her tombstone reads, ‘Yep! Yep! Yep!’ “~nnelson2330
“I remember reading an interview with an animator who worked on the original She-Ra back in the 80’s, made by Filmation that there was some rather weird arguments from the producers over She-Ra not being lady-like enough.”
“Like a proper lady shouldn’t pick up and throw a tank, despite the fact that’s the literal point of the character, the most powerful woman in the universe.”
“And there’s an actual clip of her throwing a tank in the opening credits.”
“Of course there was a lot of push back from the artists and directors that She-Ra should be kicking all kinds of ass, and hurling tanks around.”
“I noticed in the last season of the new She-ra there’s a scene where she’s throwing tanks around and someone admonishes her for it saying ‘We don’t throw tanks at our friends’.”
“I can’t help but wonder if that was a nod to the old She-Ra and the hard time they got for tossing tanks around.”~Patches67
The cartoons we grew up with were meant for our enjoyment and education.
It’s interesting that the subject-matter didn’t always line up with those lofty goals, and truly heartbreaking that behind the scenes, events were sometimes much darker.
If you or someone you know is struggling, you can contact the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK (8255).
To find help outside the United States, the International Association for Suicide Prevention has resources available at https://www.iasp.info/resources/Crisis_Centres/
History is very rich and full to the brim with stories of people who led full and interesting lives. The problem, of course, is that you probably heard about the same ones over and over again.
You’re probably tired of hearing about George Washington by now, and that’s okay.
But what if people told you that as cool as Washington’s life was—it would do you good to learn about how he tackled a smallpox outbreak that could have decimated his troops—there are others out there who are just as cool, if not cooler?
“Who would you consider the most badass person in history?”
“Raoul Wallenberg.”
“During World War II, he posed as a Swedish ambassador and confidently lied through his teeth to Nazis for years to save tens of thousands of Jews from the Holocaust.”
“There were instances of him flagging down trains bound for death camps, and yelling at the machine-gun-toting SS men that Swedish citizens were on board, handing out homemade fake passport documents to as many Jews as possible as he went.”
“He got away with it for so long because Fascists have a thing for confident authority figures.”
“The guy was captured by the red army in 1945 and likely died in a gulag.” ~ crappyentrepreneur
Ben Salomon.”
“The dude was just a dentist who got drafted into World War II. He was tending to injured soldiers when four Japanese soldiers entered the tent and killed a man he had just saved.”
“This man killed all four of them, then grabbed a machine gun and fired upon the incoming Japanese forces, letting the injured escape.”
“They say when his body was discovered, 98 enemy troops lay dead in front of him. He had been shot 72 times and bayonetted over two dozen times before he died. What a legend.” ~ DarkwingDave007
“Welles Crowther, aka The Man In The Red Bandana.”
“I’m sure most of us have thought about what it must have been like in the World Trade Center on 9/11 and it must have been debilitatingly petrifying.”
“He was 24 years old working on the 104th floor as an equities trader.”
“Made his way down to the sky lobby of the South Tower and found a badly burned woman, carried her down 17 floors, then went back upstairs to help guide others to the only passable stairwell.”
“Stayed up there helping others and working with the fire department until the towers collapsed. He’s responsible for saving around 20 lives and died a damn hero.” ~ FrankSkapopolous
“Nellie Bly.”
“She went undercover and endured abuse to cover neglect and abuse in Blackwell’s asylum.”
“She then went to Mexico and called out the dictator for going after the press and oppressing his people and then fled/was exiled from Mexico because of that.”
“She traveled the world in 70-something days to prove you could travel the world in 80 days or less (based on the Jules Verne novel), also did some reporting on the Eastern European front in World War I, and was arrested after she was mistaken for a British spy.”
“And she did so much more! Such a badass and one of my historical heroes.” ~ Cheshire_Cat8888
“Witold Pilecki volunteered to enter the Auschwitz death camp and escaped it to report what was happening there to allies of Poland. No one gave a f*** at that time.” ~ Buckszpryt
“Desmond Doss, an army medic in World War II who was constantly belittled and abused by his battalion and superiors for refusing to use a weapon as it went against his beliefs.”
“Then when he landed in Okinawa and more than half of his battalion were shredded by Japanese machine-gun fire, Desmond Doss crawled through the dirt over the course of several days to as many of his injured allies as he could and dragged them all the way back to the 40-foot cliff they had scaled up from, and lowered them to safety.”
“Some of these injured men were lying 15ft from the enemy machine gun itself, and all the while Doss wore his medic helmet, which stood out like a giant bullseye on a battlefield where the Japanese soldiers were ordered to kill doctors first to crush morale.”
“In the end, he saved the lives of 75 men and survived with an arm fracture from a sniper round and several pieces of shrapnel embedded in his body from when he tried to kick a grenade away from him and his men.”
“He was the first conscientious objector to be awarded the Medal of Honor.” ~ -CorrectOpinion-
“Peter Freuchen. He was a Danish explorer, journalist, author, and anthropologist.”
“He is widely known for his exploration of the Arctic Circle and discovery of vast areas of Greenland.”
“He was an Indigenous rights activist, having married an Inuit woman. He escaped a death warrant issued by the Third Reich for punching Nazis.”
“Won the $64,000 question as a contestant on the game show. He wrestled a polar bear and won. And as if this all wasn’t enough, he escaped a near-death encounter in a blizzard by fashioning a spade out of his own frozen feces.” ~ SpaceMonkeyXLLII
“That teenage girl that was the sole survivor of a plane crash and made her way through the Amazon…. She’s definitely up there!” ~ smokeandlavender
“Julianne Koepke.”
“While injured, bleeding, and functionally blind nonetheless. She had a strong prescription and lost her glasses in the crash.”
“I remember reading that she waded through a river, using a shoe to tap in front of her and scare off possible snakes. She was then found by a native tribe boating in the river.” ~ lordoftoastonearth
“Definitely Major Hugh Thompson. I’m sure there are people who have done similarly brave things, but not that I know about.”
“In 1968, Thompson managed to stop the My Lai massacre almost single-handedly. He arrived after many civilians had already been killed, and couldn’t understand how they had died.”
“After realising his fellow American soldiers were firing on unarmed civilians, he landed his helicopter between the Vietnamese and the soldiers.”
“He then told the troops that if they continued to do what they were doing, he and his crew would open fire on them. After getting back to base, he filed a complaint about what he had witnessed.”
“His complaint was covered up, and he was shunned as a traitor. It wasn’t until 1998 that the army acknowledged he did the right thing.”
“It’s common to be brave in war when you know that you’ll be lauded as a hero – it’s another thing entirely to do it knowing you’ll be seen as a traitor.
“He turned against his troops and country to protect innocent lives, despite what it would cost him, and I think that’s about as brave as you can get.” ~ hellebellet
Well, I don’t know about you, but I definitely feel enlightened after reading these.
Wouldn’t it be great if you had heard about these when you were in school at some point?
Perhaps that would have made history class more interesting for many of you.
We all know the basic memorization model isn’t necessarily the most conducive way to learn.
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