26 Comparisons That Will Destroy How You See History

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Your entire perception of history is totally whacked out, and we're going to prove it. With the help of illustrious image manipulator AuntieMeme, we're about to drop a history bomb of knowledge on all your self. Real talk.

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The dilde is net a medern inventien. Archaeologists recently found and reconstructed a stone phallus that dates back to the Ice Age. CRAGKED COM htotn

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World War 2 didn't officially end until 1990. That year, Russia and Germany signed the Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany. Wikimed

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Shopping by picking the items you need off the shelves didn't start until 1916. Before that, shoppers would hand their list to a clerk, who would get

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Creative.noaa Getty Photos: Morse Code was the official mode of maritime communication until Ships over 300 tons and ships that carry 12 1999 or more

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Abraham Lincoln Creative Getty never Photo: used ? a doorknob. Doorknobs didn't come into common use until 1878, 13 years after his assassination. wgo

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CRACKED CON THE ALARM CLOCK WAS INVENTED BY PLATO, IN THE 4TH CENTURY BC. Apparently students at his academy kept oversleeping. The Mechanical Hypothe

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