
People have been sharing the historical facts they weren’t taught in school – 17 pieces of the past that might have passed you by
10.
‘Christopher Columbus never set foot in America. America was likely ‘discovered’ by Eric the Red long before Columbus. Or maybe it was Leif Erickson.’
-challengefull3538
11.
‘Much about Welsh history at all really beyond a few bullet points. Welsh history is fabulously rich and storied.’
-TaffWaffler
12.
‘Federal highways were purposely built through affluent black neighborhoods. Looking at you, Oklahoma.’
-Downtown31415
13.
‘The Great Wall of China wasn’t built all at once; it’s a patchwork of different walls from different dynasties.’
-emokitten_xoxo
14.
‘A lot of people are taught that England’s flag (White background, red cross) comes from St. George’s banner.
But its often left out that George actually got his banner during his veneration as a warrior-saint by the Templars in the Crusades. A lot of the Templar banners were based on the flags of The Knights of The Round Table from Arthurian Legend.
So George actually got his banner from Sir Galahad, The Knight who found the Holy Grail, according to the legend.’
-killingjoke96
15.
‘When we learned about prohibition, it was presented as kind of this silly historical mistake. It was years later when I learned that in the 19th Century people were drunk basically all the time in part because very few people had access to clean drinking water and would drink booze instead which was often cleaner/safer to drink. So a big part of the anti-booze movement was providing safe drinking water and we owe a lot of our drinking water infrastructure (like available public drinking fountains) to teetotalers.’
-seanofkelley
16.
‘One piece swim suits became bikinis in the second world War not because of a song but because it was “more patriotic” to wear them due to more fabric being used for the front lines.’
-sergeantswiftie
17.
‘That Lyndon Johnson called his penis “Jumbo”.’
-RhondaTheHonda
Depends which TV shows you watch.
100% you’ll never hear of the Battle of Schrute Farm.
Darren_oakenbear
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