21.
The United States injected unknowing Puerto Rican’s with cancer cells to see how the illness worked
22.
The ability to tell time (circadian rythm) is an evolutionary reaponse.
Cells that learned to replicate at night and rest during the day ultimately survived.
I’m bastardizing it but I find that amazing.
23.
The founding fathers of the USA didn’t know dinosaurs existed.
24.
Not so much disturbing as it is funny (at least to me).
The Kettle War. Long story short, Spain (The Holy Roman Empire) and the Netherlands (The Seven Republics of the Netherlands) were beefing. One boat from Spain engaged in a fight with a Dutch naval ship. One shot was fired. The only victim of that cannonball was a pot of soup that was cooking. The Spanish ship then surrendered.
25.
If you lined up this history of earth on a 12 hour clock, modern humans making an impact on the planet would be about 1/10 of a second ago.
26.
Adolf Hitler was saved from drowning at age nine in a fountain by a priest
27.
Ireland exported potato’s during the great potato famine.
28.
The baltic states conquest was buried in history (not many people know it) because ww2 and the holocaust happened at about the same time.
29.
That in UK, some time in the 12th century, two children of unusual GREEN skin colour appeared in the village of Woolpit in Suffolk, England.
The girl later communicated she and her brother had come from Saint Martin’s Land, a subterranean world inhabited by green people. This actually happened!
30.
The Germans smuggling Lenin into Tsarist Russia, to bring it down.
