"Between 1864 and 1870 Paraguay fought a war with Brazil, Uruguay, and Argentina that by some estimates killed as much as 70% of its population, with up to 90% of its adult male population dying or fleeing the country."
"The Canadian-Denmark Whisky War was probably the most polite war ever. It involved a small island off the coast of Greenland. The Canadians claimed it by putting the Canadian flag and bottles of Canadian whiskey on the rock, and the Danes would replace it with schnapps and the Danish flag. Both sides reached an agreement to split the island in 2022. I’m guessing this is more well known to Canadians and Danes than some of the rest of us."
"More people died during the production of the V2 rocket than were killed by it as a weapon of war."
"A very recent historical fact that is weirdly not talked about as much as it should be — Microsoft had accumulated such a big monopoly over the personal computer market through the 80s and 90s that in 1997 Microsoft was nearly broken apart by the US government.
In an attempt to avoid an investigation, Microsoft invested nearly $150 million into a then-failing Apple Computer to give the US government less ammunition in a potential anti-trust case. This saved Apple from bankruptcy and helped them to become one of the biggest tech companies in history. Microsoft, however, profited off of this investment. In 2003, Microsoft sold their shares in Apple for nearly $600 million."
"The Statue of Liberty is a monument to the abolition of slavery, which is why there is a set of broken chains hidden near her feet."
"Humanity was likely nearly wiped out about 900,000 years ago when our ancestors were reduced to about 1,280 breeding individuals and stayed around that many for 117,000 years."
"Charles Darwin and Steve Irwin had the same pet tortoise."
"Humans developed agriculture around 12,000 years ago. By storing grain, huge numbers of rodents flourished. Cats showed up to eat the rodents, and humans learned that if they took care of the cats, the cats would control the rodents. Therefore, it was the invention of agriculture that led to the domestication of the house cat."
"Mongolian invasion of Japan was stopped by a typhoon. When they tried again, they were stopped by another typhoon."
"The supreme court decided that Tomatoes are a vegetable not a fruit in 1893."
"We have historic proof of the Lewis and Clark expedition because they took with them mercury pills. The mercury passed through their digestive tract and we’ve run into mercury ‘deposits.’"
"Abraham Lincoln’s son, Robert Todd Lincoln was present at three different presidential assassinations. After McKinley, he decided not to accept any more invitations."
"The Roman Emperor Caligula loved his horse, Incitatus, so much that he gave him a marble stall, an ivory manger, a jeweled collar, and even a house. Caligula also allegedly planned to make his trusty steed a senator before his assassination."
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no way how did you notice all the images are different
He's working night shift at the local 7/11 and is pretty scattered on his weed habit.
Plus Grandma's been pressuring him to clean up his room in the basement, otherwise she's gonna start charging him rent.