Top 10 Strangest facts in history

Top 10 Strangest facts in history
As the old saying goes, "Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it." (Or something like that). Yes, it's important to know your history—not just the big names and key dates, but the little details that help us better understand a historic figure or era in which they lived. Maybe it's a surprising fact that makes you rethink conventional wisdom. Maybe it's a wild anecdote that seems too crazy to be true. Whatever the case, it's the little, surprising bits of history are perhaps the most fun bits of history—the type of info that's so wacky and out there it could never be repeated even if someone wanted to. Here are 10 such tidbits, in no particular order.

CHAPTERS:
00:00 INTRO

00:05 Turkeys Were Once Worshipped Like Gods

00:28 Paul Revere Never Actually Shouted, "The British Are Coming!"

00:52 The Olympics Used to Award Medals for Art.

01:27 One Time, 100 Imposters Claimed to Be Marie Antoinette's Dead Son

02:05 Napoleon Was Once Attacked By a Horde of Bunnies

02:40 Women Were Once Banned from Smoking in Public

03:43 The Government Literally Poisoned Alcohol During Prohibition

03:11 Captain Morgan Actually Existed

04:12 Using Forks Used to Be Seen as Sacrilegious

04:35 The Titanic's Owners Never Said the Ship Was "Unsinkable"

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