31 Fascinating Little-Known History Facts

‘More people died during the production of the V2 rocket than were killed by it as a weapon’

Probably because of the looming shadow of standardized tests, the history most people learn in school is brain-numbingly boring. It’s all broad strokes and memorized dates, and none of the details that actually make the past interesting. It’s like if a football game was broadcast from a bird’s-eye view from a thousand feet up, and suddenly it’s just some little dots pushing each other back and forth on a slab of territory.

So, an AskReddit thread requested historians’ favorite lesser-known stories from the past. If these tales had been woven into the scantron-friendly syllabus, they would have easily cracked the glassy-eyed expression I wore through most of my history classes. 

Keep reading to probably find out you like history a little more than you thought.

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