"Marco Polo brought noodles to Italy.
In his writings, he compared different noodles to different shapes of pasta, so his readers must have known these pasta shapes."
"Corsets were not typically tight laced. They were only tight laced by the highly fashionable women, and usually only for particular events or portraits. Corsets were designed to be comfortable. Women wore a cotton layer underneath the corset, so it didn’t rub against the skin.
The corset was more like a bra, but instead of using the shoulders to support it used the whole torso. Some people claim they are much more comfortable than modern bras. The intense proportions of the past were achieved with Corsets AND padding. Tight lacing was uncommon, but layers of petticoats or hoops or bum rolls or whatever else at the time was very common to give women the trendy body shape at the time."
"Marie Antoinette never said “Let them eat cake”. There’s actually multiple layers to this one. Not only is it questionable whether or not she uttered the infamous line at all, originally it was meant to display her utter disconnection from the plight of the working class, not highlight some sort of sadistic cruelty.
Initially, she was meant to have 100% seriously suggested this as a solution to having no bread to eat, as to a sheltered noblewoman the concept of having no food at all was simply inconceivable. So if you’re out of bread, just eat something else!
tl;dr the quote was originally meant to make her look stupid, not evil."
"That Johnny Appleseed was a poor, benevolent wandering hobo who planted apple orchards across America so that people would have access to healthy fruit.In reality, he was a wealthy, calculating businessman who was planting orchards to make hard cider — and he was doing so to keep up with the Westward
Expansion, so he was always staying ahead of the curve.He was also an eccentric who would walk barefoot and used a cooking pot for a hat, that part of the myth is actually true."
"Ninjas dressed in all black to stay stealthy in the night or something like that. Ninjas dressed like normal people to blend in, the all black look stemmed from Japanese theatre to make it more obvious to the audience who the ninjas were."
"William Howard Taft never got stuck in a bathtub. It was slander by his political opponents. He did, however, have a specially made bathtub that was large enough for him installed on a boat for his trip to Panama."
"Napoleon wasn’t actually short. He was of average height, but pretty much all of his generals were tall, so he seemed short in comparison."
"The Irish famine was caused by a failure of the potato crop and subsequent lack of food.
In fact, the potato crop failed throughout Europe but only in Ireland was there a famine. The famine was caused by a perfect storm of inhuman English laws and practices designed to market-capitalize every square inch of the country, forcing Irish people to adopt a subsistence diet. Also, we were shipping literally tons of food out of the country while the famine was going on."
"Paul Revere did not make the midnight ride alone. There were several others that rode around alerting the militia men of the coming attack (including POSSIBLY a teenage girl but there’s some controversy as to the validity of that story). The reason we know of Paul Revere and not there other riders is because his name was easy to rhyme with in a poem."
"A lot of Canadians seem to think during the war of 1812, it was Canadians (or British colonials at the time) who attacked and burned the white house.
It wasn’t. It was a Regiment from Britain who’d just came from Battling Napoleon in Europe and were in Bermuda until they were dispatched to attack Washington."
"The Dark Ages, where everyone lived miserable lives, science was heresy, and you ate dirt or starved.
It’s mostly a Victorian era myth of Medieval life. While things weren’t always rosy, they weren’t unlivable, people were generally as intelligent then as we are today, and the church invested heavily in science, especially architecture and farming.Also this ignores the fact that places like India and the Middle East were experiencing a bit of a golden age."
"Girls were not commonly or routinely married off at 12 or 13. Child marriages were typically only for royalty or some nobility. The median age for marriage and first pregnancy has been 19-22 for much of history."
"Pythagorean theorem was not discovered by the Greeks. Although it was named after Pythagorus, it was actually used in Babylon 1000 years earlier."
"George Washington and the goddam cherry tree. A LIE which is supposed to be a story about not telling lies."
"Catherine the great did not have sexual contact with a bull. It was a lie made up by her enemies."
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Turbo capitalism. Pure and deadly.
Irelands population is still lower than before the famine
Tell this Mohammeds youngest wife Aisha!