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Educational Tumblr Thread Of Messed Up History Facts Escalates Quickly

Are we DOOMED to repeat history? Say it ain't so! This educational Tumblr thread of potentially true history facts escalates for the dark and disturbing quickly. Just the way you guys like it! 

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    Text - confirmance Follow perks-of-being-chinese gilbertbielschmidt seduce me with ur history knowledge simaraknows vikings made their woman handle the finances because they thought math is witchcraft danray002 During a military campaign, Vlad the Impaler, the basis for Dracula, once pulled his troops out of a major engagement in a valley at dusk so that the sun was in their enemies' eyes. Once they were over the hill, they set loose a bunch of rabid bats who flew away from the sun (towards the
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    Text - en пу) away and attacked them, leading to significant infection in their ranks, and Vlad's eventual victory. Because of how the bats appeared from where Vlad's soldiers appeared to be at dusk, myth stated that the soldiers turned into bats at night, which is where the "Dracula can change into a bat" thing came from. asexualmagneto raphael, the renaissance painter, literally fucked himself to death sirl33te during the Ottoman Empire, the Sultan lbrahim I had 280 of his concubines drowned i
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    Text - thing-for-ferryboats The earths carbon levels fell by 700 million tons because Genghis Khan killed so many people stitch-n-time King James (the one known for revising the Bible) liked to watch women give birth. That's where the "tradition" of women laying on their backs to give birth comes from. Previous to that it was common for women to have chairs with holes in them and straw underneath, so they could sit on this special chair and let gravity help with the birthing process. kanthia Spi
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    Text - To prevent kids from touching themselves at night, a man named Kellogg invented the blandest combination of cereals, marketed it at kids, and called it Corn Flakes james-wessley At the Battle of Gettysburg during the American Civil War, a small group of Union soldiers had run out of ammo against a large group of the Confederate Army. In a panic, the Union soldiers sprinted at them, screaming, with only bayonets drawn. The entire Confederate Army that was present turned and ran away in fea
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    Text - coast of Gaul with his army and suddenly declared war on Neptune, God of the Sea. He had his men collect sea shells from the shore as "spoils from the Ocean" Oh and he appointed his horse to the senate. i-run-a-trash-blog During the Austro-Prussian war of 1868, Liechtenstein sent over an army of 80 people, but ended up coming back with 81 people because they befriended a guy on the other side. castiel-knight-of-hell People refused to send art and sculptures to be displayed at the Chicago
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    Text - fireproof the Fine Arts building to get people to agree to loan them their art. A year after the fair closed most of the grounds were destroyed by fire but the Fine Arts building survived. It's now the Museum of Science and Industry. naphula The carbon emissions thing from Ghenghis Khan is not the whole story. He also planted trees wherever he conquered land because he liked trees and thought they were important. He conquered enough to make an impact on the global climate. givemeunicorns
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    Text - chambers. Radu, seemingly unaware that the offer was sexual in nature, was startled when Mehmed embraced and then tried to kiss him. Radu stabbed the prince in the leg, then ran and hid in a tree. They later became lovers, and maintained a relationship for the rest of their lives ushistorytrash Just googled the last one because holy shit that's magnificent and seemed to good to be true, but not only did it actually happen, but I also learned that radu was known as "radu the beautiful" afe
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