Historical Facts That Are Rarely Spoken

Historical facts are not always known by the mass. Some of them are rarely spoken, and this makes them fade away with time.

We have decided to speak up about them and remind people of some upsetting and other interesting historical facts that they might not know.

Viral Strange has collected 30 historical facts that are rarely spoken.

1. “The Second Congo War, where almost 5 million people died, was the worst battle since World War II. Even though it ended less than 20 years ago, most people are unaware of it.”

2. “Approximately one-third of Puerto Rico’s female population was sterilized between the 1930s-1970s.”

3. “The teeth of the fallen soldiers were among the most prized items of ‘loot’ during the Battle of Waterloo. It was quite ordinary 200 years ago to make dentures from the teeth of deceased persons.”

4. “With 445 days, 45 BC has been the longest year in history. The Romans formerly permitted the Senate to command the calendar, allowing them to extend or reduce their tenure as they saw fit. Primarily, the calendar got mixed up, therefore they had an exceptionally long year just to fix it up so that summer coincided with the true summer, and so on.”

5. “The history of West Virginia coal workers and also the civil war which resulted.”

6. “The emergency authority granted on 9/11 continues to be renewed.”

7. “During the Nuremberg trials after WWII, Karl Donitz, the leader of the Nazi navy as well as the state’s head after Hitler’s death, was convicted of war crimes regarding his use of unrestrained submarine warfare and also the killing of unarmed civilian ships.”

8. “Egyptian mummies are so scarce because people used to consume them or employ them as medicine.”

9. “Comfort women: During WWII, the Japanese military abducted women from Asian nations they attacked and compelled them to be sex slaves to pleasure innumerable Japanese soldiers.”

10. “After yet another series of defeats, Marcus Lucullus Crassus developed (EDIT: nope, resurrected) decimation. He slaughtered every tenth soldier in his cohorts to build morale among the others. It was successful.”

11. “Belgium’s King Leopold II was an all-around bad guy, and what he did in Africa isn’t for the faint-hearted or the weak of stomach.”

12. “Over the last 200 years, America has indeed been implicated in almost 100 wars.”

13. “One of the most vocal supporters of Prohibition were suffragettes who discovered a link between alcohol intake and domestic violence.”

14. “When people killed a bear in the Stone Age, the very first thing they did was cut open its stomach and eat the meals the bear had eaten before being murdered.”

15. “From the 1930s until the 1970s, Sweden sterilized/castrated around 300,000 (possibly more) defective individuals, often as early as childhood.”

16. “Hobby Lobby supported terrorism by trading plundered items for the Museum of the Bible. This money was given to ISIS, which purchased the paintings and treasures from the Baghdad Museum.”

17. “In Northern Ireland, the English government encouraged terrorism against Catholics.”

18. “President George Washington is frequently misidentified as having wooden teeth. Quite revolting. He did have dentures, but they were constructed of slave teeth.”

19. “The entry hole in the back of JFK’s head was measured as smaller than that of the caliber of bullet Lee Harvey Oswald was alleged to have fired by Dr. Pierre Finck, the only ballistics specialist of any consequence to examine his remains.”

20. “For Americans, the Dole Fruit Company was accountable for more overturned governments than the KGB or CIA; consider that the next time you snack on some bananas or pineapples.”

21. “Tulsa Race Massacre-1921”

22. “Wonder how France has gained the most military conflicts in history? But, please, keep the ‘Haha France surrenders’ joke to yourselves.”

23. “If a beautiful woman died in ancient Egypt, their bodies were left to rot for a few days so that the fellas mummifying them wouldn’t, YK, do it with their dead bodies. I’m not sure if this has already been said, but there you have it.”

24. “Anne Frank, Martin Luther King Jr., and Barbara Walters all were born in the same year (1929), however, they are all remembered in a very distinct timeframe.”

25. “Elon Musk did not create Tesla or PayPal, and he has made no substantial creative contributions to any programming or engineering field. Even though it is recent years, not enough people want to discuss it.”

26. “Mount Rushmore is being built on property that the US government has sworn will never be touched. They slaughtered the indigenous peoples to whom they had promised this and then carved the faces of that same US government into the mountainside. It’s quite revolting.”

27. “The ban on whaling in Oklahoma was certainly quite helpful in making whaling illegal. Anyone who has heard of it considers it to be one of the “pointless state laws.”

28. “For the period, Napoleon was of average height.”

29. “The vast majority of countries have perpetrated atrocities or violations of human rights.”

30. “When he was in his twenties, Edgar [Allan] Poe married his 13-year-old cousin.”

Did you know any of these historical facts? What is something new that you learned? Tell us in the comments below.