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Go Ahead and Follow These 11 Facts Straight Down the Rabbit Hole

Is there anything better than that moment you read something you’ve never heard before and you hear your brain sort of take off, chasing down all of the other little bunny trails left by the million follow up thoughts and questions that arise?

I think not – rabbit holes might be time sucks, but if you ask me, it’s time better spent than scrolling your social media feeds.

Again.

If you feel the same way, brace yourself for the deep dives that follow these 11 random facts.

11. This man was struck by lightning 3+ times.

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They say lightning never strikes twice in the same place, but Major Walter Summerford would disagree – he was struck three times while he was alive…and then his tombstone was struck by lightning after his death.

No fooling, y’all.

10. The Zodiac Killer really tried to help the police catch him.

The Zodiac Killer continued to send letter and ciphers to San Francisco newspapers a decade after his last (purported) killing, but more than 50 years later, his crimes remain unsolved.

Recently, though, his ciphers have started to be unraveled.

A team of cryptologists solved one that the FBI later confirmed, and a French engineer claims to now have solved the final two – one of which reveals his identity at last.

Here’s what the first one revealed:

“I HOPE YOU ARE HAVING LOTS OF FUN IN TRYING TO CATCH ME
THAT WASN’T ME ON THE TV SHOW
WHICH BRINGS UP A POINT ABOUT ME
I AM NOT AFRAID OF THE GAS CHAMBER
BECAUSE IT WILL SEND ME TO PARADISE ALL THE SOONER
BECAUSE I NOW HAVE ENOUGH SLAVES TO WORK FOR ME
WHERE EVERYONE ELSE HAS NOTHING WHEN THEY REACH PARADISE
SO THEY ARE AFRAID OF DEATH
I AM NOT AFRAID BECAUSE I KNOW THAT MY NEW LIFE IS
LIFE WILL BE AN EASY ONE IN PARADISE DEATH”

The second two are very short and lack context, which has made them tough to solve, but French engineer Faycal Ziraoui claims he’s finally done it – and here’s what they say:

“LABOR DAY FIND 45.069 NORTH 58.719 WEST”

“My Name is KAYR.”

Experts believe the second is meant to say KAYE and is a typo.

One of the primary suspects in the case was Lawrence Kaye, who lived in South Lake Tahoe. Harvey Hines, one of the lead detectives on the case, was convinced Kaye was the killer but they never had enough evidence to arrest him before his death in 2010.

Is it solved? You decide!

9. Another serial killer was once a contestant on a dating show.

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Rodney Alcala murdered 7 women in the 1970s, and in 1978 he appeared on The Dating Game as Bachelor Number One.

Backstage, he told Bachelor Number Two “I always get my girl,” but even though Alcala was chosen by bachelorette Cheryl Bradshaw, she never went on a date with him,

According to producers she backed out, saying “I can’t go out with this guy. There’s weird vibes that are coming off of him. He’s very strange. I am not comfortable.”

He was arrested a year later.

8. Space has a very distinct smell.

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You can’t just stick your nose out and take a big whiff, but astronauts have confirmed that the smell clinging to their spacesuits is very distinct.

That said, they also say it’s “hard to describe,” but say it’s “metallic, like the fumes of a welding torch,” or even like a “seared steak.”

I guess most of us will never smell it for ourselves and it doesn’t sound like something that will be made into a candle anytime soon.

7. African elephants have three times the neurons of humans.

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The average elephant’s brain has 257 billion neurons – our own look pretty puny in comparison!

6. Harriet Tubman led troops into battle.

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You know she led slaves to freedom on the Underground Railroad, but you might not have been taught that she also led a successful raid on Combahee Ferry during the Civil War, freeing 700 slaves in one go.

She also worked as a spy for the Union, and was referred to as “General Tubman” by John Brown.

Tubman was a shrewd and careful strategist whose work was eventually recognized with her induction into the Military Intelligence Hall of Fame.

5. Adolf Hitler and J.R. Tolkien battled each other in WWI.

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They fought on opposing sides at the Battle of the Somme (or the Somme Offensive), one of the largest and deadliest conflict in the first World War.

Other veterans of the battle include Otto Frank, Harold Macmillan, and Ralph Vaughn Williams, all of whom were lucky to survive – close to a million others did not leave the battlefield.

4. The moon was terrifyingly made.

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The most widely-accepted theory on how the moon was formed is called the “giant-impact hypothesis.”

It posits that a Mars-sized object crashed into Earth, shooting huge chunks into space, and forming the moon as we know it in the process.

3. The Ferris Wheel was meant to be a giant middle finger.

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Alexandre Gustave Eiffel built the Eiffel Tower as the entrance to the 1889 World’s Fair in Paris, and nearly 2 million of the attendees came just to see that one attraction.

When the 1893 World’s Fair rolled around, Chicago held an open competition for architects and designers to try to beat its success.

The winner was George Washington Gale Ferris, Jr., an engineer from Pittsburgh, and the rest is history.

2. One headless rooster survived for a full 18 months.

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This might be the most bizarre fact on the list – a rooster named Mike (later Mike the Headless Chicken) was beheaded (presumably ahead of dinner) on his Colorado farm in 1945.

He failed to die for the next 18 months, during which he was fed a liquid diet straight into his esophagus and paraded around the country as a minor celebrity.

America is so weird, y’all.

1. The International Space Station orbits the Earth every 90 minutes.

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It moves at 5 miles per second, which means it doesn’t take long for it to take a spin and enjoy the view.

I just hope anyone taking a ride doesn’t get motion sick.

I’ll see you later – I’ve got some research to do.

Which of these are you going to follow first? Tell us in the comments!

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This is Why the Grapefruit Is One of the World’s Weirdest Fruits

Around these parts, we get stuck thinking that there are only about a dozen “normal” fruits because those are what are accessible to us. We grab bananas, apples, oranges, grapes, berries, melon – maybe a pineapple or a mango once in a while, or a kiwi, but that’s about as wild as we get.

There are some crazy fruits out there in the world, of course, but what if I told you the seemingly innocuous grapefruit was one of the weirdest?

To get there, we need to wander through some facts and history, so bear with me, ok?

Citrus fruits are native to warm, humid climates, and originally resided in those portions of Asia. Climate change pushed species like the citron, pomelo, and mandarin all over the world, and several others spread out over Asia.

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The citron, pomelo, and mandarin are most important, though, because basically all citrus fruits are derived from them still to this day – sort of like the primary colors of citrus fruits.

Grapefruit, for its part, is a mix between a pomelo and a sweet orange (a hybrid of a pomelo and a mandarin). It was also not first found in Asia, but half a world away in Barbados sometime in the mid-1600s.

Europeans had planted citrus trees all over the West Indies and hybrids were appearing willy nilly. No one was documenting them at the time – what they originally planted or what later mixed with which – and no one was taking measures to avoid hybridizing, so it was happening all over the place.

The unintentional fruit that would become the grapefruit wasn’t even called by that name until the 1830s (that we know of), and was before that probably referred to as a “shaddock,” or the simple word for “pomelo” in the area.

Writer Griffith Hughes referred to a shaddock tree that grew a “golden orange,” or the “forbidden fruit” in 1750, and since the grapefruit was the most famous and popular citrus fruit in the West Indies, people imagine it was what he was talking about in his writings.

Some researchers believe a “golden orange” was indeed a grapefruit, but that the “forbidden fruit” was some other hybrid that has since been lost to time.

The name grapefruit is also up for debate, with some believing it harkens back to a 1664 Dutch physician describing the citrus in Barbados as “tasting like unripe grapes” while others point to John Lunan, an 1814 plantation owner from Jamaica, saying the fruit was named “on account of its resemblance in flavour to the grape.”

It’s important to note that grapes as we know them didn’t exist there until the 18th or 19th century – before that they only had sea grapes, which aren’t grapes at all but a kind of buckwheat, and are sour and slightly bitter (just like a grapefruit).

The grapefruit made its way to America in the 1820s, when Frenchman Odet Philippe hopped over to Pinellas County, Florida. He loved the grapefruit and planted huge swaths of it, even gifting grafts to his new Native American neighbors so they could grow it, too.

Then another grapefruit devotee, Kimball Chase Atwood, moved to Tampa bay and planted his own grove of trees – around 16,000 of them, to be exact.

Grapefruits would rather not be contained or cultivated, though, and turned pink all on their own – Atwood patented the Ruby Red grapefruit in 1929, making a fortune even though the fruit had hybridized itself in the wilderness.

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Which is all very interesting, but the innovating breeding properties doesn’t necessarily qualify the fruit as weird.

What clinical pharmacology researcher David Bailey found in his lab in 1989, though, definitely does – because what he discovered is that grapefruit is one of the greatest foes of modern medicine (when it comes to adversarial foods).

“The hard part about it was that most people didn’t believe our data, because it was so unexpected. A food had never been shown to produce a drug interaction like this, as large as this, ever.”

Bailey works for the Canadian government testing various medications to see how humans react to them. He was working on a blood pressure drug in 1989 and trying to see whether or not it reacted to alcohol. The alcohol had to be disguised for the double-blind study, though, and he and his wife found that nothing hid the taste of booze like grapefruit juice.

The control group got grapefruit juice and the experimental group got grapefruit juice and alcohol, but the results were nothing Bailey – or anyone – could have predicted.

“The levels [of the drug] were about four times higher than I would have expected fo the doses they were taking.”

And this was true of both the control and the experimental groups.

The only thing he could imagine affecting his results was the grapefruit juice, which no one had thought to test in reaction with that particular drug (or any drug at all, for that matter).

Bailey decided to test the theory on himself.

“I remember the research nurse who was helping me, she thought this was the dumbest idea she’d ever heard.”

It might have been a dumb idea, but it was right – the grapefruit was screwing with something, somehow quintupling the drug in his system compared to what he had taken.

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When drugmakers start to formulate dosages, they consider the work of an enzyme called cytochrome P450, which basically filters out parts or all of various substances before they can reach your bloodstream. With drugs, it can be as little as 10% of what you ingested.

Grapefruits contain a compound called furanocoumarins, which protect the fruit from fungal infections, and guess what they do to those cytochromes?

Take them out of the game, that’s what.

When you eat a grapefruit those P450’s are destroyed, and it takes your body around 12 hours to make more. So, for those 12 hours, every drug you take will get into your bloodstream with nothing to block some of it.

You can see how this could potentially induce an overdose, since drugmakers assume you have those enzymes taking down your dosage. If you don’t, all bets are off.

There are actually a bunch of very common drugs, like Xanax, Adderall, Zoloft, Lipitor, Cialis, and even things like Prilosec or Tylenol, that can and are easily affected by even small amounts of grapefruit or grapefruit juice.

For some of those, taking a higher dosage once in a while is no big deal, but for others, it certainly can be, according to Bailey.

“There are a fair number of drugs that have the potential to produce very serious side effects.

Kidney failure, cardiac arrhythmia, gastrointestinal bleeding, respiratory depression…”

Basically, there are definitely people who have died because they decided to have a grapefruit for breakfast.

The FDA typically does not place warnings about this potential interactions on the labels of any drugs, though you can find some mention of it if you go to websites dedicated to individual prescriptions.

The interaction extends to all bitter citruses – the ones descended from the pomelo.

Grapefruit contains a bunch of health benefits, like loads of Vitamin C, but if you’re someone who takes drugs every single day, you might want to have a chat with your doctor before you add it to your daily diet.

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13 Crazy Loopholes That Prove Their Are No Rules

Rules can be funny. Some people relish playing by them, others love to flaunt them at every opportunity, and others kind of walk the line, picking and choosing which apply to them based on the moment.

As long as you’re not the first person, you’re open to exploring loopholes in society where you find them – and if you think there aren’t that many, think again – below are 13 that just might surprise you.

13. I could get behind this.

Or, you know. You could just have s^x if you want to, regardless of marital status.

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12. This is genius.

I can’t believe it’s legal, but it is genius.

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11. I expect no less from Disney.

Who has time to wade through all that red tape while you’re busy taking over the world?

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10. It’s hard to be mad at this, I tell you.

That’s using your noggin, Sir.

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9. I honestly can’t even wrap my head around this.

I honestly don’t understand.

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8. Jell-O isn’t technically a beverage.

I wonder if it’s considered a liquid by TSA…

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7. If you believe it you can do it.

Maybe no one will notice.

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6. Did anyone think fruit was in any way involved?

You know what? Don’t answer that.

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5. This is honestly genius.

I would eat the crap out of those fries.

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4. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.

But I appreciate the outsmarting your brother thing.

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3. Sad they had to go to these lengths.

But no more, y’all!

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2. People are complicated.

That’s a lesson everyone should accept and hold close.

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1. It’s not can you, but should you?

I’m just saying.

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Wow, y’all, I really haven’t been living my best life.

What’s a loophole you’ve found and explored? Share it with us in the comments!

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Which “Bad Guys” From History Were Actually Okay? Here’s What People Had to Say.

A lot of men and women have had their names dragged through the mud after they’ve passed on.

Some obviously deserve every bad word that was ever printed about them, but some people have been unfairly judged by history…until today.

Because these folks are gonna set the record straight!

AskReddit users talked about the “bad guys” from history who weren’t really all that bad.

Let’s take a look.

1. A sad story.

“Richard Jewell.

He was an on duty security guard during the ’96 summer Olympics and found a bomb. He notified authorities and helped evacuate people to safety.

He was then accused of planting the bomb, even though it was Eric Rudolph who actually did it.”

2. Never knew that.

“William Murdoch was the guy who sh**ts two passengers and then himself in “Titanic.”

In reality, while there were reports of an officer shooting two passengers and then committing s**cide, there was nothing confirming it to have been Murdoch.

In fact, Murdoch was in charge of launching life boats on the starboard side and had launched more than half of his fully loaded lifeboats before anyone else launched any. No one knows for sure what happened to him aside that he was lost with the ship.”

3. Boxing great.

“The film Cinderella Man portrayed boxer Max Baer as a m**derous psychopath who gladly ki**ed two fighters in the ring.

In reality, he was personally devastated by these d**ths. In the one he was most directly responsible for, he ended up giving his winnings from his next few fights to the fighters family.”

4. Hail to the king.

“Richard III of England is getting another look.

They say he was actually a good king and that after he was deposed it was all the propaganda that ruined his name.”

5. Ancient history.

“Claudius was a decent emperor, in my opinion.

He wasn’t quite Augustus but if you compare him to the men who preceded and succeeded him (Gaius and Nero) he was a saint.”

6. Not a monster.

“Captain William Bligh of the HMS Bounty. Portrayed as a monster in novels and films. He was actually a well thought of Naval Officer who when forced off his ship sailed a small craft 4,000 miles with minimal provisions.

When there was no suitable craft available he and his crew then built their own and sailed from East Timor back to England. He was exonerated by the courts, and had a successful career as Governor of New South Wales.”

7. African leader.

“Thomas Sankara.

When he lead Burkina Faso it was probably the most progressive African nation at the time, and even by todays standards it would be up there when compared to them.

He was also responsible for not only making it less reliant on France, but also it’s name (which used to be ‘Upper Volta’), and interestingly since he was a guitarist he also wrote the new national anthem.

He was a**assinated in 1987 after a coup.

8. Unfair.

“The play Mozart and Salieri (and later the film Amadeus) popularized the idea that Mozart’s rival, Antonio Salieri, was a huge jerk who ultimately ki**ed Mozart.

But in reality there’s no indication that Mozart was poisoned, or that Salieri had anything to do with his d**th.

Also Salieri was a philanthropist and probably a lot more decent than theater/film made him out to be when they needed an antagonist for Mozart.”

9. Notable women.

“Anne Boleyn.

When the king sets his eyes on you, you don’t really get to say no. He’d already had his way with her sister and discarded her and their bastard son. So instead of being another ruined castoff she played her bad hand to the best of her ability and made herself a queen.

Eventually Henry got tired of her, which was his MO, after she “failed” to produce any living sons and he’d already set his sights on Jane. He needed a viable reason to get rid of her, and what better way to do it than rumors of infidelity, incest and witchcraft? He probably would have done something similar to Catherine of Aragon if she wasn’t from a royal house you did not want to f**k with.

Helen of Troy is also similarly maligned. All she did was leave her (probably brutish) husband for another man. Agamemnon didn’t give a single f**k about his brother’s wife (property) but her “abduction” did give him a perfect reason to go to war.

Even if she’d tried to hand herself over – to almost certainly be ki**ed by her enraged husband – it wouldn’t have ended anything because she was just an excuse.”

10. A big one.

“Cleopatra.

A lot of historians for the longest time saw her as Augustus portrayed her. As an evil seductress and ruined perfectly good Romans. It was a lot more complicated and she was a very smart, effective ruler.

Was she perfect? No, no one is but she isn’t this monster people like to portray her as.”

11. Yup.

“Monica Lewinski. Gonna leave it at that.

Pretty messed up how the world blamed the young intern for the s** scandal instead of the powerful, much older president…”

12. A French icon.

“Marie Antoinette.

She was far from perfect, yes, but she was shipped away from home at 14 years old to a country that hated pretty much everything about her home land, with an economy that was already starting to fray at the seams. Yes, she lived extravagantly (Being literally the QUEEN and having to keep up appearances), but she was often falsely accused of major f**k-ups that she had nothing to do with.

She never said “Let them eat cake”. She was impersonated and held responsible for one of the most expensive jewelry pieces in France’s history. The people of France were NEVER going to like her, and took every opportunity to hate her more.”

Now we want to hear from you.

In the comments, tell us who you think has gotten a raw deal in the history books.

Thanks in advance!

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People Share Why Modern Conveniences Trump the Decadence of the Past Every Time

When we look back on history, it can be tempting to see the good parts. The things that seem better than they are now, especially for those who were well off in one way or another.

The times we live in are great, but when you’re living in it every single day, the bad parts tend to shine a little brighter.

That said, when someone on Reddit asked whether or not people would trade our modern comforts for an elevated position in the past, pretty much no one said yes.

15. We have a few questions.

Depends, do I keep everything else?

Knowledge, vaccines I already got (ie immunity) – can I choose where to go back to and prepare? If yes I’d definitely go back and jump start a lot of inventions.

Everyone here is only thinking about how their life would be negatively affected (I do too by making sure I wouldn’t just get sick and die) but no one thinks about how much you could help literally everyone alive right now, the more back you go, the bigger the risk, the bigger the reward.

Staying in the present is the best choice for you, going back could be the best thing for humanity, ever.

14. If you could take your knowledge with you…

I would take a tiny step up for a tiny step back. Industrialist family in the early 1900s instead of a broke family in the early 2000s… I could invest with amazing results…

13. That went downhill fast.

Yes. Go back to 1870 and rob a fucking train with no repercussions.

Other than getting shot without a trial.

Or hung with a trial. Come to think of it, law back then was a lot less law and a lot more like murder.

12. We really do have it pretty good.

No. Never. No matter how much todays society sucks and has it’s flaws, it’s still astronomically better than for example the middle ages.

11. Things weren’t exactly safe.

I’d prefer to be a commoner in the 2020’s rather than a king in the 1020’s
I can still live a long and happy life now vs constantly being at war against disease, the french, and conspirators.

But worst of all…the French.

Also, hello my Kiwi neighbour.

10. It’s just the hard facts.

Hard pass. A average person in a poor country lives better than a Roman emperor. Eradicated disease, vaccine, hygiene, internet…

9. You’ll hear this again and again.

Heck no. As a woman, I have rights in this time.

In the past, even in the recent past, I would be completely at the mercy of men. I don’t care how high up I would be in status, I would still be susceptible to legalized domestic violence and rape with no means of getting a divorce.

Time traveling is not for women or minorities.

8. Who you are definitely factors in.

Hell no. I’m gay, female, Jewish, chronically ill, and a fan of indoor plumbing, electricity, and modern medicine. I’ll stay right here, thank you.

None of those things would go down well in the past. They still don’t go down well for a lot of people today even

Plus netflix!

7. There are a lot of downsides.

Definitely not, women were basically property of men, they were literally second class citizens, gay rights weren’t that great either, and I could go on mentioning racial segregation, etc. Things are not perfect now either, but they used to be way worse, unless you were a straight, white man… This is just from the culture/society point of view, but medicine etc wasn’t that advanced either.

Yeah and talking about how unadvanced medicine was they literally thought in the 80s that babies didn’t feel pain like adults do. So they would do insane stuff like open heart surgery, circumcisions, and other surgery with no anesthesia. No wonder some 80s babies are so messed up mentally they essentially were tortured when they came out the womb.

6. Women have more reasons than most.

Hard no! For one main reason: periods. They’re a nightmare today, so going back to before pads, tampons, diva cups, etc. were invented is a terrible idea.

Also, the whole “women are property/lesser citizens” thing is also a huge detractor.

5. We do have it pretty good.

There are lot things wrong with the world right now but this is the best time to be alive. Better to live in an uncertain future than a terrible past.

No. We never had it as good as today but some people dont see that. Would maybe go back to 2018-2019 before the pandemic

4. Maybe if you didn’t have to go back so far?

If I could go back to the 1990s then yes.

Life was fun and optimistic, limited media was a shared experience across the country and home use of the internet was relatively rare.

People had a better sense of humour and there was no social media to cocoon minority echo-chambers.

3. It wasn’t all bad.

I don’t need to be in a better societal position. Give me a homestead in the Midwest circa 1800 outside a town, and I’d be happier than a pig in shit. I wouldn’t be alienated from my labor. I’d work less and be self sufficient. Communities were stronger. Taylorism hadn’t been invented yet. The industrial revolution and all its consequences had only just begun. Police didn’t exist. No robber barons.

Capitalism was just an idea some guy named Adam Smith wrote about. The climate was stable. Nuclear weapons, predator drones, and Raytheon knife missiles hadn’t been constructed yet. Mass surveillance was impossible. You could build and heat your home with your own two hands and a hatchet.

Basically, what I’m trying to say is, if you ignore the mass murder, the Unabomber had some decent points about industrial society. Not novel ones, mind you — Marx wrote similar things 150 years prior to his deranged killing spree. But perhaps society was better when it was simpler, if you ignore the slavery and lack of plumbing and all that other horrible stuff.

2. We just wouldn’t be able to handle it.

Very few people living in the western world today would be able to handle the loss of modern conveniences.

We live in a world were most people not only do not know hot to fix anything but also don’t know that things can be fixed.

1. Hard pass.

No. Even though I’m working class, life is exponentially better for someone in my position today than even just 150-200 years ago. But to be in a higher class and go back 30-40 years, definitely. I think, financially speaking, that’s what most of us today really want, the security our parents (or maybe grandparents) had.

There was an economist who said all society benefited from innovations of the prior generation. Going back wd erase those innovations. Meaning no travel by plane or car, so basically limited movement. No smart phones or phones for that matter. No television, radio. If you want to hear music basically has to be live. No antibiotics and vaccines, or even aspirin. So minor ailments can’t be treated. No electricity or indoor plumbing. No fridge or microwave. No kindle or access to millions of books.

Not even Alexander the Great who conquered half the known territory lived as well as I do right now. Or, cleopatra. Or, Elizabeth 1st. They got ill w things like consumption. Except for the homeless, even the poor in this country live better than royalty two hundred years ago or more.

I agree with all of these folks, especially as a woman!

Would you go? Stay? Tell us why in the comments!

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People Discuss the “Bad Guys” From History They Think Were Actually Okay

They say that history is written by the victors…

And yes, a lot of history’s “bad guys” have that reputation because they were terrible people, but there are some men and women from the past who have gotten a raw deal in the history books.

What “bad guys” from history are getting a bad rap?

AskReddit users shared their thoughts.

1. Russian leader.

“Khrushchev was actually the bigger man during the Cuban missile crisis.

He initiated the negotiations and even let Kennedy look like the hero by keeping America’s side of the bargain secret.

Not to mention all the measures he took afterwards to prevent something like it from happening again.”

2. Chamberlain.

“This is a complicated one, and not necessarily “okay,” but Neville Chamberlain is a fairly good example of this.

For context, Chamberlain is generally known (notoriously) as being the prime minister prior to WW2 that ‘let Germany rise to power through appeasement.’ Because of this he’s seen as weak, and virtually the poster-child tagged tethered to the quote “all it takes for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.”

In actuality, if you dive into history of the time, in the late thirties the UK was so wildly behind Germany’s war machine that there wasn’t anything they could do that wouldn’t be blatant suicide; their manufacturing was leagues behind, and their front was in no way organized.

So during the time of appeasement behind Chamberlain, the UK was rapidly building up its armies and navies in attempt to compete and, well, not get utterly flattened, which of course ultimately led to victory against the Axis. But during the time of appeasement as the armies were built, yes, he was viewed as weak and cowardly as a result.”

3. Here’s a hot take.

“Brutus.

He’s gone down as committing one of history’s greatest betrayals, but what he actually did was choose his Republican ideals over a man he personally loved (who had sparked a civil war with an illegal invasion of Italy, and was unquestionably acting like an autocrat).”

4. Interesting.

“Draft dodgers in Vietnam.

They have forever been painted as cowards or traitors but let’s be honest they didn’t believe in the fight/want to d**.

I am a combat vet myself and it took me a lot of years to realize this.

Hell I no longer know what the point of Vietnam, Afghanistan, or Iraq were (minus the rich getting richer).”

5. Bombshell.

“Marilyn Monroe.

A lot of people think she was just a vapid s**t, when she was really a kind and powerful woman who used her talents to get to the top.

She was a bit promiscuous, but since when does being s**ual make you a bad person?

She was also against rac**m before it was popular.”

6. Nero.

“Nero has been vilified as an evil tyrant who burned Rome down while he played the lyre, had Christians covered in pitch and set alight to act as torches for his gardens and overall has been portrayed as an insane lunatic who was deeply depraved.

He certainly wasn’t a saint, as he did have his own mother m**dered, but Nero, like Caligula, were both slandered by the Senatorial class, who despised both of them.

Nero was actually relatively well-liked by Roman commoners and while he probably wasn’t the best ruler, he is not the borderline villainous monster he is portrayed to be in the media. And his fiddling while Rome burned is most definitely made up.

It’s funny because Constantine the Great, who is venerated by Christendom, actually boiled his wife alive in a bathtub, but you never hear anything about that… hmm.”

7. Grant.

“Not a bad person, but I feel like Ulysses S Grant is seen as one of America’s worst presidents and I dont know why.

He tried his best to oversee reconstruction and was undermined, hired a lot of black people to his staff, he appointed Sherman General-In-chief, called for better treatment of the native Americans, and signed the legislation for Yellowstone Park. I get the feeling his hatred was disseminated from the South, as was love for Robert E. Lee.

Also, his whole reputation for being an al**holic was bulls**t too. Most accounts was that he wasn’t a drunkard, its just when he would get drunk, he’d get WASTED, because he was a lightweight when it came to drinking.

He was kind of anti-semitic, but he didn’t try to k**l Jews or deny them rights- He had an admittedly ra**st notion that Jews were en masse involved in the slave trade. There were some, but actually more Jews fought for the north than the south. But thats excusable.”

8. Were they extremists?

“Fred Hampton and the Black Panthers.

They’ve been smeared as “extremists” by the usual suspects for fifty years, but I’ve read that the Panthers had health clinics, fed the hungry and did a lot more for their community than the f**king cops.”

9. Abolitionist.

“John Brown.

Usually omitted in American textbooks and all but ignored by modern government (compared to commemorations of other notable Americans), even though he was one of the most famous Americans of his time and the raid he led (Harper’s Ferry) was one of the final straws leading up to the Civil War.

In some textbooks in southern states, he is still referred to as a treasonous lunatic (which he was, if you were a slave owner or fighting on behalf of slave owners).

In reality he was an abolitionist of the highest integrity (even if judged by modern standards), a constitutional literalist, and considered it his mission from god to dismantle the abomination of slavery.

He was the first American ever convicted of and hanged for treason, which should be yet another reminder of this country’s legacy of white supremacy and nightmarish civil rights record.

Frederick Douglass called him “a brave and glorious old man. History has no better illustration of pure, disinterested benevolence.”

In my opinion, the erasure of John Brown from American education is almost as great a crime as vilification.”

10. Times have changed.

“Al Jolson.

Guy was basically the king of blackface in the 1930’s. Although at the time no one saw him as a bad guy, many modern people would consider him as having made a career off of racist portrayals of black people.

While blackface was his schtick, he was actually a big fan of black music and entertainers and would regularly help out black artists in the industry when almost no other white people would do so.”

11. Take some time with this one.

“Benedict Arnold’s name is synonymous with “traitor” but his actual story is pretty complicated.

He was born in Connecticut to a family who was basically American nobility. His great-grandfather had come from England in 1635 and went on to become the governor of the Colony of Rhode Island, and by the time Arnold was born his family was “old money” in America.

Arnold was told for much of his youth that he’d go to Yale. Unfortunately his father drank their entire fortune away, and Arnold himself had to start from scratch and support his family. He obtained apprenticeships with an apothecary and merchant and went on to become a very successful businessman. That was only the beginning.

The Sugar Act of 1764 and the Stamp Act of 1765 put his business at risk and he resorted to open smuggling to save his fortune and publicly protest the extra taxes, solidly on the American side of the debate. He also joined the Sons of Liberty.

In 1775 when the Revolutionary War was beginning he signed on to the militia and was made Captain, and immediately suggested an attempt to take Fort Ticonderoga, which he was instrumental in doing. After the capture he found out his wife had d**d earlier that same month.

He then suggested an invasion of Quebec, but was passed over to lead the expedition in favor of Philip Schuyler (father of the famous Schuyler Sisters for all you Hamilton fans out there), so he pressed to be allowed to join the invasion by moving toward Quebec City.

He was allowed that post, but it was a grueling journey that lost him some men, and their contracts being close to expiring forced him to press an unsuccessful attack that resulted in his left leg being shattered.

Then he was assigned to manage the defense of Rhode Island, and passed over for a promotion to Major General while five of his juniors were promoted above him. He discovered the British were headed to Connecticut and lead a contingent of militia to stop or slow them down, his left leg was injured again.

Due to those actions he was promoted to Major General, but not given equal or senior rank to those promoted before him. He attempted to resign but George Washington refused his resignation.

In 1777 he disobeyed orders and took to the battlefield in the Battles of Saratoga and was considered instrumental in the American’s major victory there. He sustained more major damage to his left leg. Congress gave him the seniority he felt entitled to when initially promoted, but Major Horatio Gates took most of the credit for the victory, even though he’d ordered Arnold not to attack.

Due to the extreme damage it had sustained over the years, Arnold’s leg was poorly set, which resulted in it being 2 inches shorter than his right leg. While recovering from his injuries he was sent to be military commander of Philadelphia, a city that had been strongly occupied, and recently evacuated, by the British. The city was extremely politically divided.

While there he came up with various business propositions in the hopes of encouraging the local economy and maybe building some of what he’d lost during the war. He was publicly accused of abusing his position, and was court-martialed and convicted of two minor charges, despite it being fairly common practice for officers to make business dealings in war trade.

In general all those beneath him thought he was a valiant war hero, and many equal to and above him thought he was outspoken and whiny, but still in many cases a war hero. His constant unreserved politics and self-advocation made him difficult to like, and so there were those who didn’t like him. There were even smear campaigns organized over the years. George Washington was among those who liked him a lot, but Arnold was starting to feel he’d been kicked too many times.

Bitter about his personal lot in life and disenchanted with the direction America was moving in, it was about here that he started to consider changing sides.

Of course it can be hotly debated, but he’s not as black and white as most people think.”

12. Total BS.

“William Bligh, of Mutiny on the Bounty fame.

In pretty much every movie adaption of the story, Bligh is depicted as a cruel slave-driver who has men mercilessly whipped for the slightest infraction, and the crew finally had enough of his tyranny and mutinied.

Utter and complete bullsh**t.

In reality, Bligh was notably easy on his men for the day, and there is no record he ever ordered a flogging. He was known to allow men on watch in bad weather to come and warm up inside his own cabin. He and Fletcher Christian had been long-time BFFs before the Bounty.

The mutiny happened because after long, hard months at sea, the Bounty had a five-month layover in the tropical paradise of Tahiti, where many men in the crew began to live ashore with native women, and military discipline started to come unglued.

Bligh had to enforce increasingly-harsh restrictions, because the natives were eager for any sort of trade, and to get a little native tail, sailors were actually pulling nails out of the ship for trade. He came down hard on Christian because it was his duty to keep the crew in line and he was failing at it.

So Christian and about half the crew mutinied, and set Bligh and 18 followers adrift in a small, dangerously-overloaded boat. In one of the most mind-boggling feats of survival seamanship in history, Bligh managed to navigate the boat some 3,500 miles to safety.”

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People Discuss the “Bad Guys” From History They Think Were Actually Okay

They say that history is written by the victors…

And yes, a lot of history’s “bad guys” have that reputation because they were terrible people, but there are some men and women from the past who have gotten a raw deal in the history books.

What “bad guys” from history are getting a bad rap?

AskReddit users shared their thoughts.

1. Russian leader.

“Khrushchev was actually the bigger man during the Cuban missile crisis.

He initiated the negotiations and even let Kennedy look like the hero by keeping America’s side of the bargain secret.

Not to mention all the measures he took afterwards to prevent something like it from happening again.”

2. Chamberlain.

“This is a complicated one, and not necessarily “okay,” but Neville Chamberlain is a fairly good example of this.

For context, Chamberlain is generally known (notoriously) as being the prime minister prior to WW2 that ‘let Germany rise to power through appeasement.’ Because of this he’s seen as weak, and virtually the poster-child tagged tethered to the quote “all it takes for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.”

In actuality, if you dive into history of the time, in the late thirties the UK was so wildly behind Germany’s war machine that there wasn’t anything they could do that wouldn’t be blatant suicide; their manufacturing was leagues behind, and their front was in no way organized.

So during the time of appeasement behind Chamberlain, the UK was rapidly building up its armies and navies in attempt to compete and, well, not get utterly flattened, which of course ultimately led to victory against the Axis. But during the time of appeasement as the armies were built, yes, he was viewed as weak and cowardly as a result.”

3. Here’s a hot take.

“Brutus.

He’s gone down as committing one of history’s greatest betrayals, but what he actually did was choose his Republican ideals over a man he personally loved (who had sparked a civil war with an illegal invasion of Italy, and was unquestionably acting like an autocrat).”

4. Interesting.

“Draft dodgers in Vietnam.

They have forever been painted as cowards or traitors but let’s be honest they didn’t believe in the fight/want to d**.

I am a combat vet myself and it took me a lot of years to realize this.

Hell I no longer know what the point of Vietnam, Afghanistan, or Iraq were (minus the rich getting richer).”

5. Bombshell.

“Marilyn Monroe.

A lot of people think she was just a vapid s**t, when she was really a kind and powerful woman who used her talents to get to the top.

She was a bit promiscuous, but since when does being s**ual make you a bad person?

She was also against rac**m before it was popular.”

6. Nero.

“Nero has been vilified as an evil tyrant who burned Rome down while he played the lyre, had Christians covered in pitch and set alight to act as torches for his gardens and overall has been portrayed as an insane lunatic who was deeply depraved.

He certainly wasn’t a saint, as he did have his own mother m**dered, but Nero, like Caligula, were both slandered by the Senatorial class, who despised both of them.

Nero was actually relatively well-liked by Roman commoners and while he probably wasn’t the best ruler, he is not the borderline villainous monster he is portrayed to be in the media. And his fiddling while Rome burned is most definitely made up.

It’s funny because Constantine the Great, who is venerated by Christendom, actually boiled his wife alive in a bathtub, but you never hear anything about that… hmm.”

7. Grant.

“Not a bad person, but I feel like Ulysses S Grant is seen as one of America’s worst presidents and I dont know why.

He tried his best to oversee reconstruction and was undermined, hired a lot of black people to his staff, he appointed Sherman General-In-chief, called for better treatment of the native Americans, and signed the legislation for Yellowstone Park. I get the feeling his hatred was disseminated from the South, as was love for Robert E. Lee.

Also, his whole reputation for being an al**holic was bulls**t too. Most accounts was that he wasn’t a drunkard, its just when he would get drunk, he’d get WASTED, because he was a lightweight when it came to drinking.

He was kind of anti-semitic, but he didn’t try to k**l Jews or deny them rights- He had an admittedly ra**st notion that Jews were en masse involved in the slave trade. There were some, but actually more Jews fought for the north than the south. But thats excusable.”

8. Were they extremists?

“Fred Hampton and the Black Panthers.

They’ve been smeared as “extremists” by the usual suspects for fifty years, but I’ve read that the Panthers had health clinics, fed the hungry and did a lot more for their community than the f**king cops.”

9. Abolitionist.

“John Brown.

Usually omitted in American textbooks and all but ignored by modern government (compared to commemorations of other notable Americans), even though he was one of the most famous Americans of his time and the raid he led (Harper’s Ferry) was one of the final straws leading up to the Civil War.

In some textbooks in southern states, he is still referred to as a treasonous lunatic (which he was, if you were a slave owner or fighting on behalf of slave owners).

In reality he was an abolitionist of the highest integrity (even if judged by modern standards), a constitutional literalist, and considered it his mission from god to dismantle the abomination of slavery.

He was the first American ever convicted of and hanged for treason, which should be yet another reminder of this country’s legacy of white supremacy and nightmarish civil rights record.

Frederick Douglass called him “a brave and glorious old man. History has no better illustration of pure, disinterested benevolence.”

In my opinion, the erasure of John Brown from American education is almost as great a crime as vilification.”

10. Times have changed.

“Al Jolson.

Guy was basically the king of blackface in the 1930’s. Although at the time no one saw him as a bad guy, many modern people would consider him as having made a career off of racist portrayals of black people.

While blackface was his schtick, he was actually a big fan of black music and entertainers and would regularly help out black artists in the industry when almost no other white people would do so.”

11. Take some time with this one.

“Benedict Arnold’s name is synonymous with “traitor” but his actual story is pretty complicated.

He was born in Connecticut to a family who was basically American nobility. His great-grandfather had come from England in 1635 and went on to become the governor of the Colony of Rhode Island, and by the time Arnold was born his family was “old money” in America.

Arnold was told for much of his youth that he’d go to Yale. Unfortunately his father drank their entire fortune away, and Arnold himself had to start from scratch and support his family. He obtained apprenticeships with an apothecary and merchant and went on to become a very successful businessman. That was only the beginning.

The Sugar Act of 1764 and the Stamp Act of 1765 put his business at risk and he resorted to open smuggling to save his fortune and publicly protest the extra taxes, solidly on the American side of the debate. He also joined the Sons of Liberty.

In 1775 when the Revolutionary War was beginning he signed on to the militia and was made Captain, and immediately suggested an attempt to take Fort Ticonderoga, which he was instrumental in doing. After the capture he found out his wife had d**d earlier that same month.

He then suggested an invasion of Quebec, but was passed over to lead the expedition in favor of Philip Schuyler (father of the famous Schuyler Sisters for all you Hamilton fans out there), so he pressed to be allowed to join the invasion by moving toward Quebec City.

He was allowed that post, but it was a grueling journey that lost him some men, and their contracts being close to expiring forced him to press an unsuccessful attack that resulted in his left leg being shattered.

Then he was assigned to manage the defense of Rhode Island, and passed over for a promotion to Major General while five of his juniors were promoted above him. He discovered the British were headed to Connecticut and lead a contingent of militia to stop or slow them down, his left leg was injured again.

Due to those actions he was promoted to Major General, but not given equal or senior rank to those promoted before him. He attempted to resign but George Washington refused his resignation.

In 1777 he disobeyed orders and took to the battlefield in the Battles of Saratoga and was considered instrumental in the American’s major victory there. He sustained more major damage to his left leg. Congress gave him the seniority he felt entitled to when initially promoted, but Major Horatio Gates took most of the credit for the victory, even though he’d ordered Arnold not to attack.

Due to the extreme damage it had sustained over the years, Arnold’s leg was poorly set, which resulted in it being 2 inches shorter than his right leg. While recovering from his injuries he was sent to be military commander of Philadelphia, a city that had been strongly occupied, and recently evacuated, by the British. The city was extremely politically divided.

While there he came up with various business propositions in the hopes of encouraging the local economy and maybe building some of what he’d lost during the war. He was publicly accused of abusing his position, and was court-martialed and convicted of two minor charges, despite it being fairly common practice for officers to make business dealings in war trade.

In general all those beneath him thought he was a valiant war hero, and many equal to and above him thought he was outspoken and whiny, but still in many cases a war hero. His constant unreserved politics and self-advocation made him difficult to like, and so there were those who didn’t like him. There were even smear campaigns organized over the years. George Washington was among those who liked him a lot, but Arnold was starting to feel he’d been kicked too many times.

Bitter about his personal lot in life and disenchanted with the direction America was moving in, it was about here that he started to consider changing sides.

Of course it can be hotly debated, but he’s not as black and white as most people think.”

12. Total BS.

“William Bligh, of Mutiny on the Bounty fame.

In pretty much every movie adaption of the story, Bligh is depicted as a cruel slave-driver who has men mercilessly whipped for the slightest infraction, and the crew finally had enough of his tyranny and mutinied.

Utter and complete bullsh**t.

In reality, Bligh was notably easy on his men for the day, and there is no record he ever ordered a flogging. He was known to allow men on watch in bad weather to come and warm up inside his own cabin. He and Fletcher Christian had been long-time BFFs before the Bounty.

The mutiny happened because after long, hard months at sea, the Bounty had a five-month layover in the tropical paradise of Tahiti, where many men in the crew began to live ashore with native women, and military discipline started to come unglued.

Bligh had to enforce increasingly-harsh restrictions, because the natives were eager for any sort of trade, and to get a little native tail, sailors were actually pulling nails out of the ship for trade. He came down hard on Christian because it was his duty to keep the crew in line and he was failing at it.

So Christian and about half the crew mutinied, and set Bligh and 18 followers adrift in a small, dangerously-overloaded boat. In one of the most mind-boggling feats of survival seamanship in history, Bligh managed to navigate the boat some 3,500 miles to safety.”

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A 4,000-Year-Old Dolmen of Guadalperal Stone Henge Emerged from the Depths of a Canal in Spain

Any fan of Outlander can tell you about the value of a good stone circle or megalith.

They are an incredible feat of engineering that evokes imagery of giants and druids and ancient gods and ancient humans overcoming extraordinary limitations (and doing math!) in the service of those gods.

There is something magical about such places, and even more magical when one emerges before our eyes like Atlantis.

 

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The Dolmen of Guadalperal is believed to be about 4,000 years old, built around 2,000 BCE.

Think “Stonehenge’s little sister.”

According to My Modern Met:

The Dolmen of Guadalperal is a collection of 150 large granite stones arranged in a circular structure with what appears to be an entranceway guarded by a menhir (standing stone) carved with snake and cup motifs.

Incredibly, this Spanish structure was first discovered by a German archaeologist named Hugo Obermaier in the 1920s.

In case you were wondering what the difference between a henge and dolmen and a stone circle are, My Modern Met explains:

The term dolmen is typically used to describe an ancient structure where standing stones support a large capstone to create a chamber–a structure often used for early Neolithic tombs.

Whereas a henge is defined as a prehistoric monument consisting of a circle of stone or wooden uprights.

A henge may or may not include the topping capstone, and can be used for many ceremonies and purposes, as opposed to being a burial chamber.

(For extra nerdy readers, a megalith is one single large stone of several composing a henge or dolmen.)

Proving that modern humans are all pretty much alike, the historic structure was not protected for posterity, and in the 1960s, the Spanish government deliberately flooded the area in order to create the Valdecañas Reservoir.

This left the majority of the stones almost entirely submerged, with only a handful of the talest points visible above the water.

 

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Like much of the world, 2019 was a hot dry year for Europe, and Spain found itself in a deep drought.

By the spring of 2021, that drought had persisted enough that even NASA satellites could see the waters of the Valdecañas Reservoir had receded, and the magnificent stones had finally reemerged after decades.

Understandably, the years under water have not been kind to the structure.

Granite is porous, meaning water was able to infiltrate the stones’ interiors.

Those snake carvings which once decorated the megaliths have largely eroded.

But they are still a sight to behold.

 

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Many local residents are now calling to protect the stones, even if that means moving all 150 of them to higher ground and reconstructing the existing structure, so that once the drought is over, the site can be preserved for tourists and researchers.

Moving the stones wouldn’t be quite the same, but it’s better than nothing, and I really hope they can do it.

I’m a sucker for stone circles myself, having visited both Stonehenge in England and the Standing Stones of Stenness on Orkney, and I’d love the chance to see these old stones in person.

What do you think? Planning a trip to Spain to check them out and attempt to travel through time?

Tell us in the comments!

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Treasure That People Found While Metal Detecting

There’s a little show called Detectorists that centers around a couple of old friends and their frequently fruitless hobby scanning the countryside with metal detectors, ostensibly in search of some great unknown treasure.

The show, of course, isn’t really about metal detectors, it’s about friendship and fulfillment and life and love and all that good stuff. But still – it did get me wondering about people who actually spend their time doing these things, and what they might find out there.

Lucky for me, I don’t have to search long. Reddit is here with plenty of answers.

15. Spoils of war

Dang sun, that’s a whole gun!

We found an entire civil war Burnside Carbine, a soldier’s silver spill, two spurs, hundreds of bullets and more at a Civil War river crossing I found! from metaldetecting

14. Dog tags

Very nice of you to return them.

Bob is heading home to Wisconsin tomorrow. from metaldetecting

13. More dog tags!

Godspeed, Junior.

I just sent home "Jr" to California. The family are thrilled and I can rest easy knowing the right thing is done. from metaldetecting

12. The lost ring!

What a nice little story.

Wow, this was really cool. Landlady saw me metal detecting in the yard and told me she had lost a treasured silver ring she got in Bali 5 years ago in her garden. I found it in an hour, she was almost crying. Detectorists are your friends! from metaldetecting

11. VERY old money

I wonder what that’s worth?

Found 320 year old silver today in the Netherlands! from metaldetecting

10. 15th century jewelry

That’s definitely something for a museum.

Update: The ring I found earlier this year has been identified as late medieval dating around 1450. Due to its age and material I am obliged to report it and auction it to museums. from metaldetecting

9. An 1851 dollar

This had the equivalent buying power that about 30 bucks has today.

My buddy threw his detector down and started this wild and crazy dance. I tried to ask him what he found, but he couldn’t speak. He had to point to it. from metaldetecting

8. Beautiful Squidward

Where did this come from and why?

Random find of the day… Squidward! from metaldetecting

7. Hammered coin

Let’s celebrate by getting hammered!

It’s finally happened. My first hammered. Henry III silver hammered coin ~1250, England. from metaldetecting

6. Real old 7up

Hate to break it to you but that’s probably flat by now.

Not gold, but still a really cool find! from metaldetecting

5. The silver metal

It’s first place in my heart!

Found my first bit of silver! from metaldetecting

4. Diamond ring

Look at it shine.

Finally! It wasn’t a pull tab. from metaldetecting

3. Carnival medallion

Was it law for a while that you had to put an eagle on absolutely everything?

Found in my front yard, live about 5 miles from where the carnival was held! One of my favorite finds so far. from metaldetecting

2. The upvote

As the prophecy foretold!

Was about to give up when I found this mega upvote. from metaldetecting

1. A treasure trove

What a weird way to propose.

From 1 beach with my girlfriend the other night. Both rings are 18k, 1 with diamonds. That’s 7 rings in total! All were shallow with the equinox 800 and 15×12 coil from metaldetecting

The real treasures are the friends we made along the way. Also treasure.

Have you ever found anything cool?

Tell us about it in the comments.

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