22 Historical Stories That Left Out The Best Details

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22 Historical Stories That Left Out The Best Details

What we know about the media and history, in fact, is that the people writing that stuff love to sensationalize both. What's funny is that in their efforts to tell a better story, they leave out parts that would've naturally made the tales awesome. We're are NOT going to use the “truth is stranger than fiction” cliche, we're just no…DAMNIT. Well, it applies here. These stories are way, way more rad than the one our stodgy old history teachers told us. We didn't have time here to talk about all the trans and non-binary badass warriors that made history way radder than it had any right to be.We were too busy talking about wild stuff like Abe Lincoln dragging 1,000-pound crates of stones around town. Yeah. That's just a taste.

To help illustrate this, we teamed up with image historian AuntieMeme to bring you some well-known stories that left out key details that would've made them great on their own.

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The deadly 09-11-01 anthrax YOU CAN NOT STOp us. We HAVE THIS letters that You ANTHRAX. DIE NoW. ARE You AFRAIO? killed 5 people DEAT N To Americh. DE

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The Dark Ages were a terrible time to be alive, betweeny the disease, filth, poverty, and the Black Death. WHAT THE HISTORY BOOKS LEFT oUT It was a ti

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The history books teach that Columbus had trouble finding backers because nobody believed the world was round. WHAT THEY LEFT our Pythagoras pretty mu

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In 2011, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reported that the Chevy Volt's lithium battery would catch fire in a 20-MPH collision. WHA

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Hollywood and history books tell us that European settlers defeated the Indians. WHAT THEY LEFT OUT Just two years before the pilgrims landed in New E

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