40 Lesser-Known Historical Tidbits That We Extracted From Your Textbook’s Fine Print

Why is history trying to hide these?

After checking out these wild historical facts, youll wonder why your history teachers spent so much time on boring stuff like the Revolutionary War. Like, cool, some guys fought to govern themselves. Big whoop. They couldve easily trimmed a few pages of fluff out of that chapter to make room for some of these fun tidbits. 

It definitely wouldve kept us more interested in class!

Beer

Joan of Arc

Civil War Fistfights

Abandoned Subway System in Cincinnati

The Miss America Pageant

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Tesla

PBS 

Martin Luther

Antoine Lavoisier

Disney and the Nazis

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Mozart and James Joyce

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A Different Kind of POW

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