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Godzilla did 9/11.

It was foreshadowed.

back in the day, they sold Geiger counters to little kids--complete with real radioactive elements!

The cesarean cut was named after Julius Caesar, because people believed he was the first baby to be born by this cut. The fact is that this is not possible. How do we know? Because it was not possible to perform a cesarean cut in a way the mother would survive until recent history... very recent history. And we can be sure that Caesar's mother survived his birth, since she played a very crucial role in her son's political career.

Yeah, I doubt that. The ancient Egyptians could perform brain surgery thousands of years before it became 'possible'.

The first story of a cesarean cut which caused the mother to survive dates back from the year 1500 A.D. which is a very long time after Caesar's death, however the story is deemed unreliable as the reports were written more than 80 years after that surgery was performed, so the first successful surgery in which the mother survived the operation is most likely later. Historians are (according to the sources I could check) all in agreement that Caesar was NOT born by the cesarean cut, even though this operation was named after him.

When it comes to your claim about Egyptians and brain surgery, I could not find documentation on that, only that brain surgery may be thousands of years old, making it possible the Egyptians could do it. I did find reports about the Incas being able to do this, although it appears that it's only a speculation, and no solid evidence. It is said, however that it being advanced enough to produce really good results is only approx a hundred years old.

Of course when it comes to surgery, it's a very wide area of science, and knowledge about one area of surgery tells us very little about knowledge about the other. So knowledge about brain surgery tells us little to nothing about surgery in which somebody belly has to be cut open. So one area does neither confirm nor rule out any other.

So, people throughout history, when presented with a situation where a woman would die because she couldn't pass a child through traditional means, would let them both die? I severely doubt that. The ancients weren't as dumb as you think.

Fact is that women not surviving giving birth to a child was a very common event, actually. Even when the child was born the natural way. More women surviving than dying is actually something of the recent years, particularly because of stricter hygiene rules for doctors helping women giving birth. So yeah, you'll have to face reality, what you doubt is something I already knew to be true, mother and child would likely die... The cesarean cut could often be performed when the mother was already dying making sure that at least the child would survive.

It has nothing to do with being dumb, by the way.... Many things that hardly claim lives today, were hardly survived in ancient times, this merely being one out of many. Pneumonia for example caused many deaths in the past, and it was not before long that being diagnosed with is was the same as "you're gonna die soon" and only due to recent discoveries make it possible to cure or even prevent it. This has nothing to do with stupidity... Intelligence and knowledge are not related to each other.

Albert Einstein was asked to be president of Israel on November 17, 1952, after Chaim Weizman, Israel's 1st president died. He said no, saying he lacked "the natural aptitude and the experience to deal properly with people" to do the job. Today, he is known to have autism, inspiring special children around the globe.

They told me, although I could never check this fact, that Balthasar Gerard wore a swimming tube when he murdered William of Orange, the founder of the Netherlands. This because he couldn't swim, and he knew that after the kill, leaving the castle by the front door was not an option, so he jumped out of the window and would float in the water of the surrounding moat. Didn't help though, as the guards awaited him at the shore and got him out of the water anyway, and the punishment for Gerard was cruel even for the times in which it all took place.

Is this a nice fact?

The first time bombs here dropped on us citizens was in 1922 during a coal mining strike

the year 2019, was the first and only year called 2019 between now and the last two thousand-twenty years

When flagellants use to whip their backs, pieces of flesh would enter their blood stream and get them high or euphoric.

ok so the facts need to be sfw

Sorry to bore you.

Sleep is the only thing you've done properly.

The FitnessGram™ Pacer Test is a multistage aerobic capacity test that progressively gets more difficult as it continues. The 20 meter pacer test will begin in 30 seconds. Line up at the start. The running speed starts slowly, but gets faster each minute after you hear this signal. [beep] A single lap should be completed each time you hear this sound. [ding] Remember to run in a straight line, and run as long as possible. The second time you fail to complete a lap before the sound, your test is over. The test will begin on the word start. On your mark, get ready, start.

When they invented all in one packet cake mixes (Betty Crocker company I think) they didn't sell as well as the projections had figured. After a period of not improving sales they took groups of housewives and put them into a group discussions about the product.
What they found was that the women felt quilty for not making the cake from scratch as they had always done and this was a predominant theme in non purchase of the product.
The solution they found was to remove the powdered egg which was in original product. So they would then have to crack an egg and add water or milk to the mix. Sales soared as a result and of course boxed all in one cake mix is common place on supermarket shelves today.

Did u know that George Washington didn't actually chop down a cherry tree

yeah,actually

How about that Genghis Khan killed four million people in his lifetime

didnt know that

It's true

The person who took the picture of Iwa Jima took other pictures and i have one of them in my house. Also my grandfather knows the man who painted the presidents pictures. These aren't really history facts, but they are how history is closer than everyone realize.

Puritans would not grow tomatoes as they viewed them as "love apples" (aka fruits of the devil), which allegedly promoted sexual arousal and promiscuity.

Hitler wanted to kill everyone but the Germans with blonde hair and blue eyes.
Hitler had neither of these things.
Hitler's goal was to not kill Germans,and he kill himself.