r/HolyShitHistory • u/blue_leaves987 • 17h ago
In parts of the Congo Basin, children were treated as a delicacy, and enslaved children were deliberately fattened before being used as food.
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r/HolyShitHistory • u/blue_leaves987 • 7d ago
We’ve added a new rule for posters. Please read this before posting.
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r/HolyShitHistory • u/Patient-Strike5817 • 4h ago
Ancient human footprints were discovered along a forgotten prehistoric "superhighway" in the UK, revealing a route humans used thousands of years ago.
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r/HolyShitHistory • u/Klutzy_Land_4120 • 1h ago
A 5-foot-tall man spent nearly 30 years moving 1,100 tons of stone alone at night to build Coral Castle. He died in 1951 without ever revealing how.
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r/HolyShitHistory • u/CrippledStripper • 14h ago
In 1970, John Lennon and Yoko Ono cut off their hair to trade it for a pair of Muhammad Ali's boxing shorts, all to raise money for Michael X's Black Power centre in London. Within two years, Michael X had fled to Trinidad. By 1975, he was hanged for murder.
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r/HolyShitHistory • u/ComfortExisting1161 • 21h ago
In 1994, Jack Nicholson anonymously donated 60 acres of oak woodland in Los Angeles where a four-home subdivision had been approved, helping preserve it as public open space instead.
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r/HolyShitHistory • u/Patient-Strike5817 • 1d ago
In 1871, cows were abandoned on a remote subantarctic island. More than a century later, their descendants had grown into a wild herd of thousands, surviving generations of isolation in one of the harshest environments on Earth.
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r/HolyShitHistory • u/Vital_Willie • 6h ago
The five "Marshals of the Soviet Union" (L-R) Konstantin Vershinin, Georgy Zhukov, Kliment Voroshilov, Matvey Zakharov & Konstantin Rokossovsky, 1965. They held the 2nd highest military rank in the USSR, behind only "Generalissimo," a rank specifically created for & used exclusively by Joseph Stalin
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r/HolyShitHistory • u/GustavoistSoldier • 23h ago
On December 6, 1989, antifeminist Marc Lépine perpetrated a mass shooting at the École polytechnique de Montréal, killing 14 people before committing suicide. This incident led to stricter gun control laws in Canada and greater protections for women.
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r/HolyShitHistory • u/akiwi_intherough • 12h ago
Widely distributed newspaper headline following the discovery of the 1919 World Series fix, as eight Chicago White Sox players were implicated and banned from professional baseball for more than 106 years.
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r/HolyShitHistory • u/Express-Ant6341 • 1d ago
In 1959, nine experienced Soviet hikers died mysteriously in the Ural Mountains. They tore open their tent from within, fleeing into freezing temperatures in undergarments. Some succumbed to hypothermia, while others suffered severe internal trauma. The tragedy fueled decades of conspiracy theories.
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r/HolyShitHistory • u/Ok-Shallot-2623 • 1h ago
This 2-legged, beak-mouthed reptile looked like a tiny dinosaur, but it lived 100 million years before dinosaurs
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r/HolyShitHistory • u/TheExpressUS • 3h ago
The Fugate family of Troublesome Creek, Kentucky, became known as the "Blue People of Kentucky" after generations of inbreeding caused a rare hereditary condition called methemoglobinemia to spread widely through the family - turning their skin a striking shade of blue
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r/HolyShitHistory • u/Zestyclose-Horse-712 • 1d ago
The Longest War in History: The 335- Year Conflict Between the Netherlands and the Isles of Scilly (1651-1986)- Not a Single Shot Was Fired! (Full Story in the comments)
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r/HolyShitHistory • u/Klutzy_Land_4120 • 23h ago
In 1970, NASA sent two bullfrogs into orbit for six days, fitting them with sensors to study how microgravity affects the vestibular system.
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r/HolyShitHistory • u/The-Union-Report • 20h ago
7 Dead Black Cats Buried Beneath Their Pitch Were Blamed by Many as the Reason a Legendary Professional Soccer Club Had Incredibly Bad Luck for 30 Years.
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r/HolyShitHistory • u/blue_leaves987 • 1d ago
In 1891, the U.S. government spent $7,000 testing whether explosions could make it rain, sending a team to Texas to fire mortars, detonate dynamite and blow up hydrogen balloons in the sky.
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r/HolyShitHistory • u/SteveNtheseagulls • 1d ago
Dr. Serge Voronoff (2nd left) performing testicular extraction on an ape for implantation in a human. He made millions in the 1920's transplanting Monkey Testicle Tissue into the ballsacks of Millionaires. Voronoff claimed it slowed down aging and improved memory.
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r/HolyShitHistory • u/GustavoistSoldier • 1d ago
In February 1982, the Syrian Arab Army and Rifaat al-Assad's Defense Companies murdered over 25,000 civilians and forcibly disappeared over 15,000 in the Syrian city of Hama. Furthermore, 100,000 Syrians were arbitrarily detained, and two-thirds of Hama was destroyed.
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r/HolyShitHistory • u/Express-Ant6341 • 2d ago
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 vanished on March 8, 2014, with 239 people on board flying from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. It dropped off radar and disappeared. Despite the largest search in history, the main fuselage remains unfound in the ocean, making it a baffling modern aviation mystery.
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r/HolyShitHistory • u/Ok-Shallot-2623 • 1d ago
In 1905, a copper rush built a thriving town of 2,000 people in Death Valley. By 1909, the mines had closed and Greenwater had become a ghost town, leaving little behind in the desert.
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r/HolyShitHistory • u/Zestyclose-Horse-712 • 1d ago
The Shortest War in History: The Anglo-Zanzibar Conflict (August 27, 1896), (Full Story in the comments)
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r/HolyShitHistory • u/Difficult-Cream-5267 • 2d ago
Leonard Knight spent over three decades hand-building "Salvation Mountain" in the California desert using adobe, straw and donated paint.
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r/HolyShitHistory • u/Patient-Strike5817 • 2d ago
Australia released 24 rabbits for sport in 1859. Less than a century later, an estimated 600 million were devastating the country's ecosystems.
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