25 historical facts that are not usually talked about (26 photos)

For one reason or another, these unpleasant facts are rarely talked about. Maybe because such things are not taught in history classes, or because these events were too terrible to discuss. However, they still happened, and Reddit users are not going to hush them up.





1. "The Second Congo War. It was the deadliest military conflict since World War II, killing more than 5 million people. Most people have never heard of it, even though it ended less than 20 years ago."



2. “Between the 1930s and 1970s, about 1/3 of the female population of Puerto Rico was sterilized.”





3. “During the Battle of Waterloo, the teeth of dead soldiers were considered valuable “loot.” ~200 years ago, the teeth of dead people were often used to make dentures.”



4. “45 BC was the longest year in history at 445 days.”

"The Romans gave the Senate the right to control the calendar, and they used this to extend their own reigns or shorten the reigns of others. In short, the calendar was very messed up, so they took a particularly long year to correct it so that the calendar summer coincided with the real summer, etc. .d."



5. "The History of the West Virginia Miners and the Civil War It Caused."



6. "Emergency powers granted after 9/11 are still being extended."



7. “During the Nuremberg trials after World War II, the head of the Nazi navy and head of state after the death of Hitler, Karl Dönitz, was accused of war crimes related to his waging unrestricted submarine warfare and the destruction of unarmed civilian ships.

Dönitz provided evidence that almost all of the ships he attacked were actually armed with anti-submarine weapons and radios, and that the United States was committing exactly the same war crimes against the Japanese. Because of this, the charges were dropped and he only served 10 years before being released."



8. "Egyptian mummies are so rare because people used to eat them or grind them into medicine."



9. “Comfort Women: During World War II, the Japanese military kidnapped women from the Asian countries they invaded and forced these women to be sex slaves and please countless Japanese soldiers.”



10. "Marcus Licinius Crassus invented (corrected: no, revived) execution after several lost battles. He killed every tenth soldier of his legion to boost the morale of the rest. It worked."



11. “King Leopold II of Belgium was a terrible man, and what he did in Africa is not for the faint of heart.”



12. “America has been involved in more than 100 wars in the last 200 years.”



13. “Some of the most vocal supporters of Prohibition were the suffragists, who discovered a link between alcohol consumption and domestic violence.”



14. “In the Stone Age, when people killed a bear, the first thing they did was cut its belly open to eat what the bear ate before it died.”



15. “Between the 1930s and 1970s, Sweden spayed/neutered approximately 300,000 (probably more) disabled people, in some cases as young children.”



16. "The English government supported terrorism against Catholics in Northern Ireland."



17. “President George Washington is often mistakenly said to have wooden teeth. In fact, he did have dentures, but they were made from the teeth of slaves.”



18. "The entry hole in the back of JFK's head, as measured by Dr. Pierre Finck, the only ballistics expert of any significance to examine Kennedy's remains, was SMALLER than the caliber of the bullet believed to have been fired by Lee Harvey Oswald."



19. "That France has won the most battles in military history. But shh, let's keep making the 'Ha ha, France surrenders all the time' joke."



20. “When a beautiful woman died in ancient Egypt, her body was left to rot for several days so that those who mummified the bodies would not, you know, do ‘that’ with their bodies.”



21. "Elon Musk didn't found PayPal or Tesla, or make any significant intellectual contributions to any field of programming or engineering. I know this is recent history, but still not many people want to talk about it."



22. "Mount Rushmore sits on land that the US government promised never to touch. They killed the local people who were promised it, and then carved the faces of that same US government into the side of the mountain."



23. “Napoleon was of average height by the standards of his time.”



24. “Most countries have committed some form of atrocities or violated human rights.”



25. "Edgar Allan Poe married his 13-year-old cousin... when he was 20."