History Memes

Vikings generally did a lot of trading and in some cases just kinda started to focus on trade instead of raiding taking advantage of the width and breadth of the Norse world. It wouldn't be impossible for goods from North America to be sold in a Syrian market, though I don't know if that did happen but we have found Norse Chainmail in an Inuit grave cache.

Terrorism used to be cool. It wasn't about killing as many people as possible, but was aimed at wealth and wealthy

The last American Civil War pensioner passed away in May 2020.

Her father served. He fathered her at 82, in 1930.

The last mammoths died out at roughly the same time as the Giza pyramids were built. Albeit they being in the Arctic and being shrunk by insular dwarfism, had the Egyptians traveled to Wrangels island and captured some they could have had them as work animals while building the pyramids.

This mean that the movie 10,000 BC accurately portraited at least one thing correctly.

Danny Trejo and Anne Frank were alive at the same time.

WWi's end and WWII's start were 21 years apart. This is not what it seemed like to me at all, I thought they were like 8 years apart or something.

Greenland sharks have incredibly long lifespans due to their large size (6m+), environment, and very slow metabolism estimated up to 500 years. There could be a shark that is still alive today that was alive during Shakespeare's life and the switch to the Gregorian calendar.

@LadyButterfly@piefed.blahaj.zone ...King Louis XIV had an anal fistula and required a doctor's attention and horrific chair that would frighten anyone, the entire court began using the tortuous device unnecessarily...

Sharks are older than the moon

Actually, that thing with Kleopatra is only to the Great Pyramid.