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I am your most amazing host, Rebecca Felgate and today we are talking a few things your
teachers left off your lesson plans at school!
Join me as we talk about the Top 10 scariest facts about history you weren’t taught in
school.
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Okay, scary facts you weren’t taught at school….
10 - Heroin used to be used as a Children’s cough syrup.
German drug company Bayer made a heck of a lot of money off selling heroin to parents.
Get a load of these babies.
Heroine was a prescription drug in the US until 1914 and was then banned in 1924.
Can you imagine how the children would be after a sweet dose of bayer Heroine.
Christ.
9 - Hugo Boss Designed Nazi Party Uniforms Hugo Boss is a luxury German Fashion house
that now sells its product globally and is frequently seen on runways.
The designer brand started up in 1924 and originally supplied the Nazi Party before
and during World War 2.
Comedian Russell Brand was ousted from the GQ Men of the Year Awards after making Nazi
jibes at the brand in 2013.
Remember Thomas Edison from your history lessons…you know… the light bulb guy…
well he had a Very Dark Side… your teachers didn’t tell you he murdered an elephant,
now did they!
That is coming in to number 8.
Thomas Edison devoted his life to working with electricity.
Unfortunately he got pretty brutal when he needed to prove a point.
In 1903, the American inventor murdered an elephant to prove that alternating current
was a bad idea.
He invited 1500 people to watch him murder Topsy the Elphant at Luna Park Zoo on Coney
Island.
He also filmed it and released the footage to the public.
It is heartbreaking.
coming in at number 7 – Remember that song you used to sing as a kid in the play ground-
Ring a Ring of Roses …. Yeah well ….it’s a death song.
Ring a Ring o Roses is a song about people dying from the plague.
Ring o roses refers to the rash that plague victims
would develop, the pocket full of posies refers to herbs that people would carry to protect
themselves from plague…and the atisho atisho bit is the sneezing of a sick person…and
the we all fall down bit is where…you know….people physically drop down dead and die.
Fun.
In Europe, a lot of us are very proud of our monarchy and the centuries of history behind
it, but not one taught us at school that King Charles II of Spain was severely inbred.
King Charles the II was the last Hasburg ruler of Spain.
He was the product of 16 generations of rulership in Europe, but also 16 generations of inbreeding.
The Hasburgs were a lot like the fictional Lannisters; they were very concerned in keeping
their bloodline pure.
Awkward.
In school, I was taught a lot about the Roman Empire, but I was never taught this….
6 Romans Used Humane Urine as Mouthwash and crushed mouse brains as tooth paste …
Blimey.
Well.
What a treat.
I guess they had to keep their breaths fresh somehow!
They also used urine to clean their clothes.
This is basically because ammonia, which is found in pee, takes out stains…so…they
were more concerned with having white teeth than fresh breath!
I personally would pass on cleaning my teeth with pee and brains….
Just a personal choice.
5 - Saddam Hussein was given the key to the city of Detroit
History paints Saddam Hussein as a bad guy, mainly because he was indeed a bad….er…guy.
None the less, after making a donation to a church in Detroit in 1979 because a Reverend
praised him, he was handed the city keys.
The American history books aren’t so proud of that one.
4 - Christopher Columbus raped children Oh.
Well that kind of extinguishes the yey for Columbus and his explorations party.
In some places, people even goes as far as to celebrate a Christopher Columbus day.
The problem is, not only was he awful to the indigenous people he also raped them, including
the kids.
He would often give his lieutenants sex slaves and wrote that girls from 9 to 10 years of
age were the most desirable….
Urm.
3 – Nazi Twin Experiments I don’t know how much history has shielded
people about the kind of experiments Nazi War Lords did on concentration camp victims;
obviously we know that they gassed innocent people, but the school history books leave
out a few choice facts.
I know a lot about the Josef Mengele experiments because I have done extensive research on
that area of history , but a lot of people don’t about the veteran Nazis sick experiments
on twins and other such horrific medical tests.
Mengele would inject chemicals into their bodies, especially their eyes to try and change
their colours.
Another Nazi, Isle Koch allegedly made lamps from human skin.
2- The Extent of Japanese Cruelty in World War Two
Possibly because Hiroshima and Nagaski were so horrific to humanity and the pain echoed
throughout Japan for a great deal of time, the extend of Japanese killing in world war
two is somewhat brushed over by history.
Of course all countries involved inflicted pain and suffering, but did you know that
Japanese torture methods were considered to be the most severe, that the Japanese killed
more Chinese soldiers than the number of Jews killed in the Holocaust , and that Japan wounded
more American’s in Alaska than at Pearl Harbour?
There were also swathes of reports of Japanese cannibalism.
Of course, this far in the future, we have to live and let live, but Nazi Germany got
the lions share of the blame for atrocities, and Japanese war crimes are largely glossed
over.
Finally….just when you thought we were sort of semi living in a time of peace….
You may not know that Russia and Japan are technically still at war.
Two powerful countries who are still sour post World War Two.
Eeesh.
Even though the countries haven’t been engaging in hot war for over 70 years, they never signed
a peace treaty officially indicating peacetime.
The pair still disagree over the Kuril Islands.
SO that was the top 10 scariest facts about history you weren’t taught in school.
I actually really enjoyed this list.
Love me a lil bit of history!
Did any of you guys already know some of this stuff?
What did you find the most shocking ? Let me know in the comments section below.
The teeth brushing with mouse brains and urine was a personal highlight I think.
I think that is a good note to end this video on?
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