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[-] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 33 points 1 year ago

Vikings had horns on their helmets

[-] justhach@lemmy.world 32 points 1 year ago

I like to believe that dinosaurs (especially stegosauruses) had lovely singing voices, because its nice and doesn't hurt anybody.

[-] Num10ck@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

how loud could their operas get? what range of octaves are possible with the range of species? could they beat box? were there ventriloquists?

[-] justhach@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago
  1. three 2) yes 3) only in Portuguese 4) only in Portuguese
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[-] Epicurus0319@lemmy.world 29 points 1 year ago
[-] Mothra@mander.xyz 5 points 1 year ago

He wasn't short? ๐Ÿ˜จ

[-] substill@lemm.ee 29 points 1 year ago

He was short. But so was everyone else then.

[-] Oderus@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

He was 5'10" which at the time was considered 'normal'.

[-] substill@lemm.ee 24 points 1 year ago

Dude 5โ€™ 10 is slightly above average for men today. https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Average_human_height_by_country

Napoleon was 5โ€™ 6โ€, but again, average for the time. https://www.history.com/news/napoleon-complex-short#

[-] Epicurus0319@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

As a 5โ€™11 guy youโ€™ve just made my day

[-] contextual_somebody@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

*5โ€™6โ€, which was actually a little above average.

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[-] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 14 points 1 year ago

He was average for the day. He just happened to be measured in different units than the British and had really tall bodyguards.

[-] SCB@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago

Spartans were a dominant military force. They were actually kind of a shitty military force who was really good at PR.

The Spartan Hegemony only lasted 30 years, and only because they kind of glory-hogged the aftermath of the Greco-Persian war after nearly losing the war due to their refusal to muster.

[-] dudinax@programming.dev 7 points 1 year ago

At Thermopylae 300 Spartans fought to the last man, along with 700 Athenians and more from other cities.

[-] SCB@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Yes that would be the PR campaign I am referencing.

[-] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 4 points 1 year ago

Spartans were good at one kind of military unit, but that was it.

[-] bstix@feddit.dk 25 points 1 year ago

George Washington had wooden dentures.

I learned it from Day of the Tentacle and even if I know now that it isn't true,it still pops into my mind everytime someone talks about him or dentures.

[-] Nahlej@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Also, Betsy Ross originally created a tentacle shaped flag, not a rectangular one.

[-] Doug@midwest.social 5 points 1 year ago

Yeah, he had those wind up teeth instead

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[-] Num10ck@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

i thought he had dentures made of slave teeth?

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[-] Geekocracy@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

That Ben Franklin said beer is proof that God loves us

[-] postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

Ben Franklin got so high he forgot to be president.

[-] dudinax@programming.dev 8 points 1 year ago

Ben Franklin banged so many whores even the French were impressed.

[-] bossito@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Padeira de Aljubarrota killed 7 Castillians by cooking them in her bakery's oven in 1385.

Brites de Almeida das born in 1350 with 6 fingers in each hand, a though lady, could easily kill a man with her hands (and did it a few times), was kidnapped and enslaved in Northern Africa, managed to escape with her bare hands, helped out 2 other Portuguese guys to escape, stole a boat, sailed back with the guys, had a prob with one of them, killed him. Tried to establish herself in a honest way, but crime and murder were always coming her way somehow, ended up moving towns and disguise herself as a man. Met and older lady friend, a baker, that wanted to maker her an honest person. They lived happily as a couple. Older lady dies, she inherits the bakery. Castille tries to occupy Portugal, big battle, Portugal is outnumbered but manages to have a spectacular win. Some castillans are running around and looting. She lures 7 into her bakery, cooks them alive in her oven. Forever a national hero and legend.

Nothing of this is proven, including the Castillans she killed (which is the factoid that made her a hero) but there're even songs about her and whenever Portugal plays against Spain in football you'll see some people dressed as a baker on the stadium.

A lesbian serial-killer who escapsed enslavement to kill Castillans in one of the most important battles of our history? To me nothing can be truer than this, independently of what you can prove or not.

[-] Yellow_Cheese237@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
  • Jewish slaves build the pyramids.

They were build by Egyptians, probably out of loyalty to the pharaohs.

  • Columbus discovered America.

He never reached the mainland. He didn't go any further then the Caribbean Islands.

[-] ReginaPhalange@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Man, this one is infuriating for me, and I'm Jewish.

It's like we based an entire religion out of this lie - every aspect of the old testament is riddled with exodus references.

[-] Num10ck@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

did the Jews ever claim to have built the pyramids?

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Columbus reached the mainland on his third and fourth voyages.

[-] Yellow_Cheese237@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

On his subsequent voyages he went farther south, to Central and South America. He never got close to what is now the mainland of America. Wikipedia

[-] crystal@feddit.de 8 points 1 year ago

South America is not "mainland of America"? What do you consider "mainland of America" if south America is not part of it?

Murica obviously, no other place exists

[-] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago
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[-] match@pawb.social 11 points 1 year ago

Hobby Lobby hired ISIS to steal the Epic of Gilgamesh

[-] T156@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

Ah, Hobby Lobby's Hammurabi Robbing Hobby.

[-] Whimsical@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

"Poor artists imitate, great ones steal"

I have no idea who actually coined this, but I heard once that it was Mark Twain. I'm pretty sure it wasn't, but it sounds like something he'd say and attaching his name to it actually helps convey the message and its tone, so fuck it, Mark Twain said that.

[-] Deestan@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Albert Einstein did badly at school

[-] ada 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Current flows from positive to negative

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[-] BrerChicken@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

The thing about the Pythagorean Theorem and having to cut your tongue out to join the cult that teaches you, so that you can't just blab it all over town. I teach physics and I love to play it up!

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