34 Lil’ History Facts for a Lil’ History Snack

What do you do when you're between big ol' meals of knowledge and learning, but you’re feeling your brain tummy begin to rumble for a little snack? Good news! We're here with a tray full of individually wrapped little snacks of trivia to sate your hungry brain. Did you know, for example, that Stalin planned a weird Ocean’s Eleven-style scheme for Mao’s poop when they first met? Or that safety standards basically didn’t exist during the Manhattan Project? Or what about the real reason why potatoes were banned in the U.K. for over 100 years?
All these facts and more below…
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Mao's Poop

What's up with all that mercury?

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British Tanks are ready for tea-time

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The Battle of Stalingrad

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Porn followed quickly

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The Civil War

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Warner Brothers has been around for awhile

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The Roman Empire wasn't THAT big

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This dude's real name

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ABBA: Origins

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Napoleon

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King George V

A random kidnapping

What's a reindeer doing here?

WWII landmine legacy

The French village's latrine

Safety? Shmafety.

Normandy by the numbers

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The deadly war record holder

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Yikes, guys. Yikes.

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We fight. A lot.

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A real potato chip on the shoulder

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Retroactive Grading

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The last Civil War Pension

Yuri Gagarin and Potato Farmers

Hurricane Katrina and Coffins

That's a lot of cocaine

The Pony Express didn't last long

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They really wanted this building, huh?

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There's a lot of Nixon Tape

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The Constitution is a freaking mess

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Who was against the Vietnam war?

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So dinosaurs didn't just all hang out together?

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