History Shorts

It was not a national crisis of narcolepsy nor a curious phenomenon of unexplainable proportions, but did you know that on the night of Wednesday, September 2, 1752, the inhabitants of Britain and its colonies around the world, went to bed only to wake up twelve days later?

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Nazi crimes need no introduction - with millions of lives lost to Adolf Hitler's regime. But did you know that amidst the carnage of World War II, the German propaganda machine of a supposedly benevolent and ordered state had a hard time disclosing the fact that a Nazi serial killer was on the loose among its own people?

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The impact of Peter the Great on Russia was perhaps greater than even the most famous absolute ruler, Louis XIV, had on France. But did you know that as part of his modernization program of the 1680s, Peter forced all Russian men to shave off their beards or face a heavy tax?

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We have all heard their last names, yet many of us do not know much of the men behind them. But did you know that the world's most known temperature scales are based on real men, Anders Celcius and Daniel Fahrenheit?

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One does not need to be an art specialist, nor even like art for that matter, to have heard of the famed artist Pablo Picasso or Leonardo DaVinci's 1507 painting, the Mona Lisa. But did you know that back in 1911, Picasso was arrested and interrogated for potentially stealing DaVinci's most famous painting?

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The term Kamikaze is most commonly associated with a specific type of suicide attack carried out by Japanese pilots during World War II. But did you know the term has historical roots in the context of two attempted Mongol invasions of Japan in 1274 and 1281?

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Sure, there were once proponents of the theory that the earth was flat, but all of those theories were eventually dispelled during the 15th century's age of exploration. Still, did you know that as recently as the 1800s, an American man named John Symmes attempted to convince the world that the earth was hollow? And he almost succeeded!

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In the 1950s and 1960s, there was no bigger male star in Hollywood than Cary Grant. But did you know that in stark contrast to the confident and stylish persona he cultivated on screen, Grant also participated in an experimental psychotherapy program that saw him take LSD more than 100 times?

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Most of us have heard about the infamous, tyrannical, and erratic Roman emperor of all time, Caligula, but did you know that the despotic ruler was so distraught after the death of his sister, Drusilla, that he imposed a year of mourning for all people across the Roman Empire?

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In 1620, the Mayflower embarked on a famous voyage from Plymouth, England, to the New World, carrying a group of English Separatists known as the Pilgrims. It was these people that established the first permanent European settlement in North America. But did you know that the Mayflower also carried with it a man who would become the first person to be lawfully convicted of murder in the new world?

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