18 Little-Known But Highly Important Historical Events
‘The discovery of beer. It’s believed to have led to agriculture, civilization and writing’

Look, there’s a lot of history. It’s been happening since, well, the very beginning. So it’s understandable that it can’t be completely covered over the span of standard schooling — or even a lifetime. For the most part, your eighth grade history teacher is just going to play the hits.
That doesn’t mean that there aren’t some actually incredibly important history facts that often fall to the wayside. Whether because they’re more complicated to understand, were overshadowed by other happenings or simply didn’t have enough funny-looking guys screaming in them, they didn’t make it onto the lesson plan.
Below, Redditors fill in the blanks by sharing history facts that are little-known, but absolutely crucial…

















