16 Unexpected History Facts
Nathan Johnson
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08/16/2024
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"In 1908, Bertha Boronda Was Charged With "Mayhem" — For Slicing Off Her Husband's P*nis With A Straight Razor" "She was sentenced to five years in San Quentin, which still housed female inmates at the time. Despite Boronda's gruesome crime, her incarceration was reportedly a "quiet" one" -
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"A Guidance Counselor Once Told Judith Love Cohen To Go To Finishing School And Become A "Lady." Instead, She Earned Degrees From Usc, Became An Aerospace Engineer, Worked With Nasa, And Designed A Computer That Helped Save The Apollo 13 Astronauts" "Meanwhile, she raised a family — including a son who grew up to be actor Jack Black — and wrote children's books encouraging young girls to aspire to careers in STEM" -
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"Advice On Marriage From A Suffragette Pamphlet In The 1910s" -
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"A Megalithic Monument In Spain That's Older Than The Pyramids Was Uncovered From Its Watery Hiding Place By A Drought. At 7,000 Years Old, The "Spanish Stonehenge" Is Actually Some 2,000 Years Older Than Stonehenge Itself" -
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"In 1925, Residents Of The Small Town Of Nome, Alaska Faced A Potentially Fatal Epidemic And Very Few Options To Save Them From Death. that Is, Until Balto Showed Up, A Sled Dog Who Rose To The Occasion And Saved The Small Town From Certain Death" -
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"Jules, This Is Brian. Listen, I'm On An Airplane That's Been Hijacked. If Things Don't Go Well, And It's Not Looking Good, I Just Want You To Know I Absolutely Love You. I Want You To Do Good, Go Have Good Times. Same To My Parents And Everybody, And I Just Totally Love You, And I'll See You When You Get There." "Three minutes before United Airlines Flight 175 crashed into the South Tower of the World Trade Center on 9/11, passenger Brian Sweeney used an Airfone to leave a heartbreaking final voicemail message to his wife Julie. At the time, she was in the middle of teaching a high school class, so she missed his call. Though Julie was soon pulled away from her students to learn that her husband had died in the attacks, she didn't realize that he had left her a message until she got home. " -
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"In December 1997, Julia "Butterfly" Hill Climbed A 1,000-Year-Old California Redwood Tree As Part Of Efforts To Keep It From Being Knocked Down By Loggers" "Initially, she only intended to stay there for a couple of weeks. But instead, Hill didn't touch the ground for 738 days, far surpassing the previous record for the longest tree sit of 90 days. During her protest, she lived on platforms 180 feet above the ground, surviving off of food and water brought up by other environmental activists and enduring the freezing rain and winds of a particularly brutal El Niño season. Hill also faced near-constant harassment and threats from employees of Pacific Lumber Co., the logging company trying to cut the tree down. But despite the many setbacks she faced, her protest was ultimately successful and she was able to save the tree." -
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"A 19-Year-Old Steve Buscemi When He Was A New York City Firefighter In 1976" -
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"Benjamin Franklin Is One Of The Most Renowned Figures In American History — And He Was Also So Obsessed With Farting That He Wrote An Essay About It" "In 1781, Franklin submitted an article titled "Fart Proudly" to the Royal Academy of Brussels, which was one of the most respected scientific organizations in Europe. In it, Franklin demanded to know why the academy was "putting absolutely no effort into figuring out how to make my farts smell better?"" -
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"It Is Amazing To Literally Rewrite What We Know Of History, Adding A New Queen To Our Records." "Archaeologists in Egypt just discovered the existence of a previously-unknown queen named Neith after unearthing a pyramid built in her honor at Saqqara. She was likely named after the goddess Neith, who was worshipped from the Predynastic Period until the Romans took control of the kingdom. She was the goddess of creation, wisdom, weaving, war, and many earlier Egyptian queens were named after her due to her importance" -
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"For Nearly 60 Years, The Small Town Of Centralia, Pennsylvania Has Been On Fire. Neither The State Nor The Federal Government Have Been Able To Figure Out How To Extinguish The Blaze, And The Town Has Been Abandoned Except For Five Remaining Residents" "When they die, the state will seize and raze their homes, as it has done with every other structure that once stood in what's now a ghost town. Today, this abandoned town is covered in a constant blanket of smoke and plagued by plumes of noxious smoke that burst out of enormous cracks that have opened up in the ground. Its environs are so chilling that it inspired the setting of the horror franchise "Silent Hill."" -
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""My Name Is Ralph C. Lincoln And I Am Honored To Be An 11th Generation Lincoln Who Also Shares The Same Great-Grandfather As One Of America’s Greatest Presidents."" "If you visit Fayette County in Pennsylvania, you will find a small, obscure cemetery where members of the Lincoln family are buried, including Abraham Lincoln’s great uncle Mordecai, who served in the Revolutionary War, and his son Benjamin. Mordecai Lincoln is my 5th generation great-grandfather, which makes me a third cousin of the President." -
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"On The Night Of April 22, 1987, Ruthie Mae Mccoy Called 911 To Report That Someone Was Breaking Into Her Apartment Through Her Bathroom Mirror" "She called 911 twice that night, as did two of her neighbors who heard her screams, but nobody came to her aid. McCoy was found two days later in a puddle of blood with one shoe on and one shoe off — m*rdered by two k*llers who had actually come in through the bathroom mirror. In 1992, her story helped inspire a horror classic about a supernatural killer with a hook for a hand who traveled through mirrors in the Chicago projects." -
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"Ringling Brothers' "Congress Of Freaks" Poses For A Photo In 1931, Including Frank Lentini "The Three-Legged Man" And George And Willie Muse "The Men From Mars."" -
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""Mommy, I can't catch my breath. Help me. Help me." Early in the morning hours of December 20, 2009, Brittany Murphy collapsed on the balcony of her Hollywood Hills home. Her mother was on the scene but didn't think much of it at first, knowing that Brittany had been fighting an illness for the last few weeks and had a flair for the dramatic. But then, hours later, Murphy fell for a second — and final — time. After more than a decade, questions still remain about what exactly happened." -
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"André René Roussimoff Was Known By Several Things: André The Giant, The Eighth Wonder Of The World, And Wwf Champion To List A Few. But He Had Another Claim To Fame: "The Greatest Drunk On Earth."" "At 7 feet and 4 inches and 550 pounds, André the Giant's immense size meant he possessed a superhuman ability to consume vast amounts of alcohol that would k*ll almost anyone else. In fact, Hulk Hogan claims that he watched Andre drink 108 12-ounce beers — in just the span of 45 minutes"
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