20 Little-Known History Facts

There is, like, so much history. It goes back so many years that, even in all that time, your brain hasn’t evolved enough to grasp it. Fortunately, we don’t have any documentation of most of it because the sort of things we would recognize as documentation didn’t exist, so we’ll never know about those parts and don’t have to worry our pretty little heads about them. But even the comparably tiny knowable parts of history are just, ugh, so much.

It’s simply not possible to learn that much history, which means a lot of fascinating little stories fall through the cracks of your education. It’s a real tragedy, especially because so many of them involve weird sex cults. When user GenPepper asked r/AskReddit, “What is your favorite ‘little-known fact’ about history?,” we learned just how many, as well as some non-sex-cult-related facts that are, sure, pretty cool, too.