30 Radical Bits of Historical Trivia That Would Leave Bill and Ted Feeling, Like, Way Dubious

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30 Radical Bits of Historical Trivia That Would Leave Bill and Ted Feeling, Like, Way Dubious

The American education system really does not do history any favors. There’s so much cool stuff happening everywhere, all the time, and all we learn about is which pungent drunks signed which parchments. Here are a few historical facts that may just help you appreciate the world, and your place in it…

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AND A DE GUARDE SH Nintendo existed while Jack the Ripper was terrorizing London. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

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Interracial marriage was banned in South Africa for 36 years. It was illegal in the US for 5 times longer. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

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The last Civil War widow died the year Barack Obama won his first presidential election. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

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ATOGRAPHE LUMIÈRE The first erotic film was screened less than a year after the first non-erotic motion picture screening. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

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CRACKED Homo sapiens were alive at the same time as hobbits. Homo floresiensis were 3 feet 7 inches ancient humans who lived around 100,000 to 50,000 years ago in Indonesia. Homo sapiens emerged 300,000 years ago in Africa.

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CRACKED The United States had 14 presidents during Queen Elizabeth's reign The Queen met with 13 of the sitting Presidents, starting with President Harry Truman. (But, for an unknown reason, didn't meet with Lyndon Johnson.)

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CRACKED Woolly mammoths were alive when Egyptians built the pyramids. The last known group of woolly mammoths survived until 1650 B.C, about a thousand years after the Pyramids of Giza were built.

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