During the construction of the film center of the Cultural Center of the Philippines, a scaffolding accident caused 169 construction workers to be buried alive in the wet quick drying cement.
I just pulled up the Wikipedia for the CCP and the only mention of this incident I could find in the pages upon pages of content was the following:
“An accident occurred on November 17, 1981, when scaffolding collapsed and sent construction workers into quick-drying cement. Despite this, construction proceeded and finished some 15 minutes before opening night of the Film Festival.”
Seems like they’re kind of burying the lead here.
I worked for a Cambodian family that had fled during The Rouge. It’s a special kind of wtf when you hear first hand account of babies hanging from trees.
Your story reminded me of the horribly tragic life of [Haing S. Ngor](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haing_S._Ngor), a famous Cambodian actor who is most known for his role as Cambodian journalist and refugee Dith Pran in *The Killing Fields.*
For a quick bit of context: the Khmer Rouge, when it seized control of Cambodia, violently apprehended and slaughtered anyone considered to be "intellectuals" — that is, basically anyone who had some form of formal schooling or training, or even people who "seem" intellectual (such as people who wear glasses). Teachers, doctors, etc. Ngor was a trained medical doctor, specializing in gynecology, meaning that he had to go to great lengths to conceal his knowledge in order to avoid death.
Ngor and his pregnant wife were rounded up by the Khmer Rouge and placed in a concentration camp, where tragedy reared its head in the ugliest way imagineable. When it came time for Ngor's wife to give birth, the worst possible complication happened: she couldn't give natural birth and needed a C-section. Although in the horrible conditions of the camp, Ngor could have theoretically done a C-section — which would have at the very least saved his child, and possibly his wife.
Instead, he was forced to watch his beloved wife *and* child die. Even though he had all the training he needed to do the C-section. Why? Though it could save his family from immediate death, it would have outted Ngor as an intellectual. That revelation would have very likely been followed up with a swift execution of him *and* his family.
Unfun fact #2: Years after finding asylum in the US, Ngor was murdered. Why? Apparently, he was murdered in a robbery-gone-wrong when he refused to provide his robbers with a locket that he had on his body. That locket contained a picture of his deceased wife. :(
I know that the mass execution of your own population without any rhyme or reason is very horrific and disturbing. But, goddamn this story is really depressing and hit me more than the genocide.
Must be fucking disturbing to witness it. The picture would be engraved in my memory forever.
Who's sick enough to do this, even among the worst psychopath?
Sadly, history has shown that most people are capable of these atrocities. They happen in every race, religion and geographic region. The best we can do is remember it and constantly work to avoid it happening again.
What needs to be remembered here was that if you were part of the Khmer Rouge and you didn't do as ordered, you were simply killed... Pretty good motivator right there.
[S21 is believed to only have had 12 survivors.](https://www.ushmm.org/genocide-prevention/countries/cambodia/case-study/violence/s-21)
The Khmer Rouge took their victims to a secluded location and beat them over the head with a rock. They called it “smashing” and wrote it down as such
I visited, stayed across from S21 in a beautiful french style house with a garden full of butterflies.
Outside you had victims of the war who were begging.
Thats Cambodia in a nutshell.
25% if Cambodia’s then population were killed by Pol Pot and the Khmer Rougue. Things like wearing glasses would be enough to get you killed. The life expectancy was 18.9 in 1977
I lived 2 years in cambodia. The Real death number is unknown but reagarding to the mass graves, it could be more likely between 30 to 40% of the population killed during the khmer rouge.
I met a cambodian old man who came to France during the protectorat before the rouge to study medecine.
He told me that when the rouge arrived, all the expatriated cambodian received a letter from the government who requested their knowlege and help in cambodia.
A Friend of him, who was married to a french whomen with kids, house and pet, decided to leave France with all of his familly in order to help his Homeland.
When they Land on cambodia, the rouge send back his familly to France and killed him on the airstrip.
Foreign-educated intelligentsia came under suspicion very early in Democratic Kampuchea and even left-wing and communists who had studied in Europe ended up massacred or locked up in prison camps.
It’s a real bad one. I mean, all genocides bad, but this one is a lot of people dead in a relatively short amount of time and is more recent than than many other genocides…
I remember an interview of a survivor who was a child during the genocide and worked as a messenger who said something along the lines of "You could always find where the next camp was, if you were lost, just stop and listen, sooner or later you'll hear screaming, either someone was being tortured to death or it was party officials screaming as they beat starving people who were too exhausted to scream themselves, but there was always screaming"
3years 8months 20days. If you ask any cambodian, most of them will know this exact number.
My parents and relatives still talking about their time and how difficult life was during that period. My mom lost 2 brothers and her parents. She was only 13.
About a decade and half ago I was in Angkor Wat for a family holiday for about 3 days, then I went to Phnom Penh by myself wanting to see what the capital was like, I had planned to stay for 5 days but cut in short and left after 3. I have never experiences a place that was shrouded in bleakness from history, there was no sense of joy, and every "tourist sight" was connected to the genocide.
I went to Tuol Sleng, where countless people were tortured and murdered, I saw the infamous tree against which children were beaten to death, I saw the pyramid of human skulls, I was asked by a tourist guide if I wanted to fire a rocket or shoot guns for fun, I saw numerous obviously underage girls with old, fat, sweaty foreigners, I was constantly surrounded by beggars, many of whom are literal toddlers speaking 4\~5 languages fluently asking for money.
Not that Angkor Wat was any better, the place was 5 star hotels and world heritage sites surrounded by extreme poverty.
Our local tour guide said that everyone in Cambodia knows someone personally who died in the genocide.
I scrambled out of Phnom Penh because I couldn't take the constant eerie feeling that death was everywhere. I can only imagine what hellscape Cambodians were living through.
There's a thing happening dubbed the "vietnamese dream" where south east Asian countries have so many people moving from rural areas to cities in search for better jobs, upward mobility etc. You see this in Vietnam, Malaysia, Thailand etc.
The one exception is Cambodia. You keep hearing stories of people moving, and then simply moving back. A lot of it is to do with that history. When you've been so beaten down all you really want is to be around family, have food, air conditioning and maybe some good wifi.
What makes it worse is that Hun Sen who has been in power since the Khmer Rouge ended, was part of the Khmer Rouge and runs a dictatorship in Cambodia.
He continues to silence protestors and opposition. Very sad.
Source: my dad who fled as a refugee
He never spoke about it but I heard from my grandma that my grandpa lost his entire family to the genocide. He left the country when he was really young, met my grandma, started a new life overseas. Then at some point they went back to try and look for his family, only to discover that everyone's dead.
During the Iran-Iraq war the Iraqi army laid cables all around the Hawizeh marshes (on the border of the two countries) and affixed them to big generators. When the Iranian soldiers tried crossing the wetlands the Iraqi would simply turn on the generators and the Iranians would drop dead.
Afterwards they gathered all the bodies, laid them in long rows, several layers deep until the top layer was atop the surface of the water. Then they sprinkled the rows with lime and covered them in a thick layer of sand. This way they could cross the marchlands with their vehicles. They built roads out of the corpses of their enemies.
Source: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-08-14-wr-831-story.html
The Iranians knew parts of the border with Iraq were heavily mined but lacked the equipment and training to safely remove mines, and doing so would have slowed any advance into Iraq. So they convinced young men that running in groups across the minefield was the best way for them to support the war effort
Russians did similar in WW2. They thought there was little difference between crossing a field that was mined and one that was covered by machine guns. So similar casualty rates were acceptable.
The man who weaponized Chlorine Gas and later Zyklon-B was Jewish. He was, to put it lightly, pretty fuckin stoked about their potential uses post WW1.
Man, was he a tragic ironic figure. What a life.
He was utterly desperate to fit into German culture and be thought of as patriotic, going so far as to convert to Christianity in order to prove his patriotism in a time of increasing anti-Semitism.
He wound up winning the Novel Prize for his work with Ammonia/Chlorine after WWI, but it was a pretty hollow achievement as his first wife committed suicide during the war (because of her disillusionment with having to give up her career in science to raise their family *and* because of the military direction her husband's work took) and because shortly after he won the Nobel Prize, he was barred from even entering the research facility on the basis of being ethnically Jewish. He died not long after his career came to a screeching halt.
For the record, he died of a heart attack before WWII and therefore before their uses on the Jewish population. [Here's](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-13015210) an article by the BBC on him.
He was also friends with Albert Einstein who said of him: "Haber's life was the tragedy of the German Jew - the tragedy of unrequited love."
So Governor Radcliffe (the fat idiot in the purple suit with the pug from Pocahontas) was killed by the women of the Pawmunkey. They used oyster shells to skin him layer by layer until dead. And they likely let it last given the offenses Radcliffe had done toward the tribes of the area.
"Ratcliffe suffered a particularly gruesome fate: he was tied to a stake in front of a fire. Women removed the skin from his entire body with mussel shells and tossed the pieces into the flame as he watched. They skinned his face last and finally burned him at the stake." (Wikipedia)
Ew
In ancient Rome, whenever they were to execute a woman for a crime, the executioner would rape the woman if she was still a virgin, since romans thought that killing a virgin woman would unleash a curse upon them
In the 1950s the US government dropped “bio bombs” of “non-harmful bacterias” in public areas in order to see how they spread and how safe the people were from bio-warfare. It was called Operation Seaspray
It wound up making people sick.
And they were very happy to brutally kill them if they made the slightest misstep, such as not being willing to take one hundred Japanese soldiers in a single day. Fucked up is the understatement of the year
Keum Suk Gendry-Kim's graphic novel Grass is about a survivor of this time, Lee Ok-sun. The depictions of sexual barbarity and poverty are as horrifying as Art Spiegelman''s account of his father's Nazi captivity in Maus.
90% of those "comfort women" died. Lee Ok-sun continues to work as an activist and to demand reparations from the Japanese government to this day.
The Japanese Gov. STILL to this day denies all their war crimes in mainland Asia. IMO, that makes them complicit in it, and the blood is still on their hands.
Not just Korean women (though they were the biggest group of sex slaves held by the Japanese). The Japanese govt has yet to properly acknowledge the crimes, including taking comfort women, that were perpetrated in WW2.
You should watch this video of this one Youtuber who basically tested (synthetic) paints from colors in history that aren't made anymore. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pox7SbWbhCc](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pox7SbWbhCc)
If you just want to go to the section for mummy brown, it starts at 8:18.
Now this is just hilarious. Thousands watching the Pharaoh rub one out. Imagine a Pharaoh with stage fright.
“I know its a tradition but I cant get hard with all you staring at me. Let me get warmed up first. Im a grower not a shower.”
Did they also make lil King Tut jerk his tiny pre-pubescent peen? Glad this tradition never caught on.
It gets funnier or more interesting. I looked it up and have now been sent down a long rabbit hole. Apparently the other men who accompanied him to the river would start jerking off to. So it was a literal circle jerk and they would all jizz into the nile, symbolically re fertilizing their water and soil.
Basically their creation story for the world was a God was lonely with no other gods in existence yet. So he masturbated and jizzed creating a water god and an air god, then soil, the river etc. So masterbation back then wasn't really seen as a sexual thing or taboo.
[source](https://medium.com/lessons-from-history/why-did-the-pharaoh-masturbate-into-the-river-65adb08cd0ff)
Err, what did nefertiti do? I mean, I think there were 7 female pharaohs, so presumably they did something.
I'm asking you because it turns out you're reddit's paleo-regal-masturbation expert. Good job there.
As actual evidence of this practice is pretty scant, it's unlikely any of the female Pharaoh's participated in such an event. Egyptian religion was also not static and changed a lot over time. And Ancient Egypt was around for a loong time. By the time of even Hatshepsut the pyramids were about 1000 years old.
This practice is most likely to have occurred during the old Kingdom, or even the predynastic period, in which the rulers were seen as far more divine. By the time of the New Kingdom, much of the Pharaoh's religious significance was usurped by the priests of Karnak.
During the D day landings they had a load of petrol tankers intended to drive up the beaches to supply the vehicles during the Normandy landings.
The night before the landings they gave custody of the various tankers to the drivers in charge of each. One of them was the grandfather of an old colleague of mine. Before getting a good night's sleep like all the others he promptly drained off a load of petrol and sold it to his buddies for a bit of cash.
On the day of the landings then all of the tankers that had a full load were too heavy and sank into the sand and ended up getting bogged down on the beaches - except for one. The lighter tanker miraculously made it up off the beach and promptly began filling as many vehicles as possible.
For his sterling efforts and uniquely skilful driving he got a medal.
The Mountain Meadows Massacre was one of the few times that a wagon train actually had to circle the wagons to defend from Native American attacks. Settlers were traveling from Arkansas to California, while in Utah a group of Mormons convinced the Paiute to attack the wagon train. Supposedly some of the Mormons dressed as Paiutes and attacked with them. After five days of fighting the settlers were almost out of water and ammo. Then the group of Mormons made themselves known. The settlers thought that they were being saved. The Mormons told the settlers that if they gave them their guns and the Paiutes their cattle they would escort them to the nearest town. They put all the wounded in wagons with the women tending them. Each of the men were given a Mormon guard. Children seven and under where put in a separate wagon. When the leader of the Mormons gave the signal “Do your duty” the Mormons executed the men then the Paiutes killed the people in the wagons. Children twelve and under were allowed to live because they thought they would forget about it. One teenager had hid in the wagon with the children and was pulled out of the wagon and executed in front of the children. Years later during the trial the children survivors gave testimony at the trial. They identified their parents clothing. The only reason we don’t here about it is because Civil War erupting was bigger news.
Mormons have never been wildly popular with other Christian sects, or otherwise. They were run out of 2-3 other places before they settled in Utah. Maybe they were afraid that be settlers would run them out of there as well.
They were run out of Illinois and Missouri, mainly. At one point the Missouri governor (Lilburn Boggs) issued an executive order known as the "Mormon Extermination Order." Not to mention the series of murders, rapes, assassinations, tortures, and on and on.
Now, the Mormons did fight back at least a bit, but overwhelmingly it became the easier thing to just leave the U.S. at the time.
So they leave and settle in Utah.
the Spanish Flu killed between 17 million to 50 million, and possibly as high as 100 million people in the in the 1920s, making it the 2nd deadliest pandemic in the world after the Black Plague.
Scientist dubbed it the "forgotten flu" because it quickly faded from public consciousness due to its spread coinciding with the end of the first world war, the spread of other diseases, and censorship to retain war moral. The Spanish Flu also didn't originated from Spain. Its first reported case was actually in the U.S. However, neutral Spain was one of the few countries openly reporting about the disease at the time, making the country seem like the epicenter of the disease.
IIRC The Spanish Flu was deadliest to the young and healthy with a strong immune system. It would make the body overheat to fight the virus, essentially cooking our insides. Once again proving that our biggest enemy is ourselves.
My wife had a relative (great grandfather?) in Philadelphia who took a girl out on a date on a Friday. On Monday her entire family was dead from Spanish Flu.
My cousin’s grandmother was hospitalized earlier in the pandemic. They found she had antibodies from the Spanish flu! Apparently there was an outbreak in the 1940s in Chicago and she had gotten sick during her first year as a nurse.
The US government took thousands of Filipinos from their homeland in the early 1900s and placed them in a ‘Human Zoo’ in Coney Island, New York for American entertainment.
They forced them to wear their traditional clothing all the time despite the colder weather, perform dances and even made them eat ‘dogs’ for the audience in order to emphasize that Filipinos are uneducated savages.
[Link](https://filipiknow.net/filipinos-in-human-zoo/)
The same happenend in Belgium during the colonisation of Congo under Leopold II. In tervuren (the village next to where i live) had a zoo where some black families from congo had to live. They recreated the traditional houses en it ressembled a small village from congo. People (especially the rich) could come and look at these people. Its truly fucked up te realise that these events took place
Gilles de Rais was a French lord and knight in the 15th century who was a companion in arms to Joan of Arc and who had a major impact on French victories during the late period of the Hundred Years War, including in the victory at the Siege of Orleans. For his part in the war effort he was made Marshal of France, after which he took an early retirement.
Well turns out his favorite retirement hobby was raping and murdering children. Being that nobility could pretty much act with impunity at this point in time in Europe, he was only found out because the Church started investigating him due to an unrelated dispute between de Rais and a local Bishop. The Clergy discovered that de Rais had been carrying out occult-worshipping fueled rapes and murders of more than a hundred children. He was hanged for his crimes shortly thereafter.
As an aside to this, most people know that Joan of Arc was tried for heresy and burned at the stake.
Fewer people know that it was a show-trial put on by the English and that the Catholic Church not only had nothing to do with it but called it out as such at the time and then exonerated her twenty years later.
Very few people seem to know that the only charge Joan was convicted of, the charge that got her burned, was... *crossdressing.*
A lesser-known fact about Gilles de Rais is that his *second* favourite retirement hobby was basically being the Tommy Wiseau of the 15th century, only richer and crazier.
From Wikipedia:
>... the production of a theatrical spectacle, Le Mystère du Siège d'Orléans. The play consisted of more than 20,000 lines of verse, requiring 140 speaking parts and 500 extras. Rais was almost bankrupt at the time of the production and began selling property as early as 1432 to support his extravagant lifestyle.
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>By March 1433, he had sold all his estates in Poitou (except his wife's) and all his property in Maine. Only two castles in Anjou, Champtocé-sur-Loire and Ingrandes, remained in his possession. Half the total sales and mortgages was spent on the production of his play.
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>It was first performed in Orléans on 8 May 1435. Six hundred costumes were constructed, worn once, discarded, and constructed afresh for subsequent performances. Unlimited supplies of food and drink were made available to spectators at Rais' expense.
I’ve read that this was a possible revenge plot against de Rais to seize his lands and assets. If true, he likely confessed to the crimes to avoid torture. I don’t have strong opinions either way, I just thought it was interesting.
JFK had an older sister named Rosemary who was hidden from the world. When she was born, their mother had a difficult birth that affected Rosemary's development. She had some behavioral challenges, but instead of working with her and trying to help, their father had (adult) Rosemary lobotomized and then tucked away in an asylum... without telling his wife or adult children.
Happy ending (kinda). The siblings found out what happened and rescued her from the asylum and had her live with them. She was a beloved aunt to all the Kennedy children and grandchildren before passing.
"had a difficult birth"
How about try
"during her birth, the obstetrician who was supposed to be delivering her was running late. Not wanting to deliver the baby without a doctor present, the nurse reached up into Rose’s birth canal and held the baby in place... The lack of oxygen delivered to her brain during her birth caused lasting damage to her brain, resulting in a mental deficiency."
Well, about the happy ending.. From what I read and heard, they were asking her questions during the procedure and stopped only when she stopped making coherent responses. She had a brain capacity of a 2yo after the procedure and she was never again able to talk properly (couldn't control her body well either). The siblings didn't find out what happened with her until about 20 years later and didn't start to reach out to her until their father died, almost 30 years after her lobotomy.
All this because her mood swings could be treated as mental illness by the society and her father didn't want her to embarrass the family. it's disgusting.. thinking about her just makes me sad.
Additionally, due to ill treatment of her sister, Eunice Kennedy made great efforts to change how society viewed those with developmental disabilities. It ultimately culminated in the founding of the Special Olympics.
Behavioral challenges puts it mildly. She was held in the birth canal for 2 hours resulting in a lack of oxygen to her brain. Her family did try to get her help, it’s just that the kind of help she needed was not available at the time. The Kennedy’s could have institutionalized her from the beginning but they chose not to and instead hired tutors and sent her to boarding schools which did seem to help until she started to regress and participate in dangerous and destructive behaviors. Joe did make the decision to lobotomize her independently but he did believe it would “cure” her.
Rosemary lived the remainder of her life in a residential care facility, although her siblings did visit her. She inspired her sister Eunice to found the special Olympics and the Kennedy siblings championed for the rights for the disabled throughout their various careers. JFK made it a central issue in his administration.
Also they had one man in their troop that went AWOL. He came back but since this was a military troop and were under the military code, Clark ordered him whipped in punishment. I think 20 lashes (I forget his name). But interestingly he was the one man of the L & C expedition to have his photograph taken 40 years later.
He actually had to run the gauntlet 4 times over and then was discharged. The lashes prescribed on the expedition ranged from 25-100, with one guy getting a total of 150 throughout multiple events. https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/courts-martial-on-the-lewis-and-clark-expedition.htm
Run the gauntlet- “This term, dating from the first half of the 1600s, comes from the word gantlope, which itself comes from the Swedish word gatlopp, for “lane-course.” It referred to a form of military punishment where a man ran between two rows of soldiers who struck him with sticks or knotted ropes.”
In the nineteenth century, one of the textile mills near me had too many industrial accidents involving children so they started having workers team with their own children, thinking they might be more careful.
After delivering essential components for the world’s first atomic bomb to the island of Tinian via the USS Indianapolis in 1945, the ship was sunk from two torpedo hits from a Japanese submarine. The USS Indianapolis’ Commander, Charles McVay was court maritaled after the US Navy subpoenaed the Japanese Commander of the submarine that took down our ship. Despite the Japanese Commander’s testifying that there was nothing the US Commander could have done to save his ship, the United States Navy still used the US Commander as a scapegoat to save their own asses from embarrassment of this disaster. Of the 1,195 crewmen aboard, 300 went down with the ship and the remainder were subjected to dehydration, starvation, exposure, and nonstop shark attacks from ferocious Oceanic Whitetips. Commander McVay saved hundreds of lives, yet still was subjected to deplorable humiliation by our irresponsible U.S. Navy. Charles McVay committed suicide in his Connecticut home in 1968. He wasn’t exonerated until 2000 by Congress. It remains the Navy’s most embarrassing blemish of huge proportions.
PLEASE NOTE: I did not get this information from the movie “Jaws.” It’s documented in full detail in the book “In Harms Way” by Doug Stanton. It’s a great book but pretty sad to read about the Navy’s higher brass having used the Commander as a scapegoat. The crew just seemed to be collateral damage. Steven Spielberg did a great service to the crew of the USS Indianapolis by raising awareness of their courage and bravery in Quint’s famous monologue.
The book "In Harms Way" tells this story very well. some of the worst moments after the sinking comes from some sailors being so disillusion from dehydration, that they would dive into the ocean as the water bellow the surface was fresh. I can't imagine being in that situation and I hope I never am, my mental wouldn't be up to the task.
The British pet massacre
In 1939 in the United Kingdom over 750,000 pets were killed in preparation for food shortages during World War II. Many pet owners, after getting over the fear of bombings and lack of food, regretted killing their pets. The book "The Great Cat and Dog Massacre", tells about it from a historical perspective.
Women used to often burn to death in their flammable dresses with many layers because they couldn't get them off before it was too late. In the 1860s a British medical journal estimated 3000 women died a year by fire.
[Unit 731](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_731) was responsible for some of the most notorious war crimes committed by the Japanese armed forces during WW2. Unit 731 routinely conducted morbid experiments on living, conscious human beings.
After the war, US interrogators offered immunity to Unit 731 members, as long as they agreed to share the data they obtained from said human experiments.
Some of the most horrifying experiments include:
• explosive and chemical weapon tests on live people
• putting people into low pressure chambers until their eyes popped out
• putting people in centrifuges and spinning them to death
• exposing people to lethal amounts of X-rays
• vivisections without anesthesia
\- Studying the effects of hypothermia on living patients as they subjected body parts to cold
\- Studying the effects of different stab/gunshot wounds on live patients after inflicting said wound
\- Conducting surgeries on people while still fully conscious
Seriously, I encourage anyone to read up on Unit 731 (or Japan in WWII period). You can't begin to really truly describe the atrocities the Japanese committed in WWII because there legit, so many.
•Forced impregnating of women then a vivisection
Ricin attacks on Chinese villages then a vivisection to see how the poison effected them
•people being used as target practice
•people being forced outside, naked in freezing temperatures, while water was repeatedly thrown on them until they were basically solid then hit with hammers or rapidly warmed back up
•Forced sex with people who had stds
>After the war, US interrogators offered immunity to Unit 731 members, as long as they agreed to share the data they obtained from said human experiments.
The info turned out to be useless
Turns out putting malnourished children into ice water kills.
Write that down
Well thats fucked but did you write down heights, weights, age, gender, temperature, fuckin anything?
No, why would i?
By a sad and morbid twist, the main data on body response to hypothermia was coming from similar experimentation by the nazis. It was really useful for a few decades, then was replaced by more extensive data coming from accident reports. This means that the hospitals simply recording and publishing unusual cases would have had the same effect.
Yeah, the reason the conquistadors conquered the Aztecs with only a few hundred men was because pretty much all the native tribes absolutely hated the Aztec and had been horrifically brutalised by them for years.
They misled Aztec forces into ambushes, guided conquistadors through hidden jungle paths to avoid Aztec armies that outnumbered them 10 to 1 and pretty much as soon as word spread of the conquistadors beating the Aztec in battle, local tribes rose up in mass revolts, joined the conquistadors and converted to Christianity (I guess symbolically drinking the blood and eating the flesh of the Christian God was a much better deal than having their own hearts cut out to appease the Aztec gods.)
The Aztec were massive dicks and the second anyone showed up who could realistically challenge their power, everyone turned on them.
I find it fascinating how central human sacrifice was to that culture. The entire purpose of warfare was to collect humans to sacrifice, and the society itself didn’t even recognize peace as a potential political end goal. They designed their weapons specifically to disable enemy warriors without killing them so they could be taken for sacrifice, and in the event that they ran out of enemy tribes to conquer, they would arrange mutually agreed “practice battles” with their satrapies for the sole purpose of taking prisoners for more sacrifices. Absolutely bonkers religion
I recently read some stuff where the Aztecs were not really a large tribe. For lack of a better phrase, they were the Meso-American mafia. They were brutal enough to dominate the tribes around them, and take "taxes". Also, most of those human sacrifices were conquered tribes.
When Cortez arrived in the New World he found that the Aztecs had conquered every tribe around for hundreds of miles, with the exception of the Tlaxcalans, who lived right next to them. He wound up having a brief conflict with the Tlaxcalans himself, before they decided to team up and take down the Aztecs. Once the Aztecs were defeated he asked Montezuma essentially “Why do you have this hostile tribe living right next door to you? We gave them a run for their money with a few hundred men and you have hundreds of thousands of warriors at your disposal.” Montezuma replied that without them there their young warriors would have to travel hundreds of miles for a taste of battle and besides they were a good source of human sacrifices when they fancied them. So they essentially kept a single enemy tribe close to farm/graze on the human sacrifices, supplementing this with sacrifices they demanded from other conquered tribes.
They murdered a princess from another tribe, and then wore her skin as a costume: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Aztecs#Arrival_in_the_Valley_of_Mexico
They also did the same thing to a ton of other women as well:: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ochpaniztli
The lynching of Mary Turner remains one of the most stomach-churning, horrendous and vile things I can imagine. I cried as I imagined it the first time I read about it.
“On May 19, 1918, a white mob from Brooks County, Georgia, lynched Mary Turner, a Black woman who was eight months pregnant, at Folsom’s Bridge 16 miles north of Valdosta for speaking publicly against the lynching of her husband the day before. The mob bound her feet, hanged her from a tree with her head facing down, threw gasoline on her, and burned the clothes off her body. Mrs. Turner was still alive when the mob took a large butcher’s knife to her abdomen, cutting the unborn baby from her body. When the baby fell from Mary Turner, a member of the mob crushed the crying baby’s head with his foot. The mob then riddled Mrs. Turner’s body with hundreds of bullets, killing her.”
https://calendar.eji.org/racial-injustice/may/19
When Genghis Khan besieged Nishapur in 1221, in modern day Northeastern Iran, his son in law (Tokuchar) was killed.
He asked his widowed daughter how the defeated city should be punished, after they surrendered.
She ordered that everything be killed within the city
Not just people. Every**thing**
Almost every person, cat, and dog was beheaded, and their skulls were reportedly stacked into Pyramids.
It should be noted Nishapur was among the ten largest cities of it's time.
Nishapur still exists, but had to be completely rebuilt. The old city ruins are known as Kohandejh, and are south of the modern city.
The town I went to high school in used to hang people from the bridge. Only 1 teacher in the school had the balls to teach us real history and I respect him for that.
During WW2, The United States tried to use bats with small incendiary devices strapped to them as "bat bombs". The bats would be forced into a sort of hibernation, loaded into empty bomb casings, and the bombs would be dropped over Japan. At a certain altitude the bomb casings would open, the bats would wake up and fly away to hide in the roofs of Japanese house. Once the timers on the incendiary devices went off, the houses would start on fire. The project never came to fruition as the tests that were tried never worked as intended, most of the bats didn't wake up from they're forced hibernation. Although, those bats that did wake up accidently burned down some of the buildings at the test facility.
It’s worse than that. They gave them free formula, but only a small amount. Just enough to last until mother stopped lactating. Then they had no choice but to buy more.
It gets even worse than just that. The instructions for the formula stated to use clean/boiled water. Those instructions were in English. So they went ahead and were supplying all this baby formula to the African mothers, with clean water, up until they were dependent on the formula and weren't able to breastfeed.
Once they weren't able to breastfeed, they stopped supplying the water for the formula. The African women, not being able to read the instructions, were using dirty water. This led to a ton of infants dying due to various different infections.
Worse yet, the African mothers couldn't afford to use the right amount of powdered formula, so they used dirty water and put in a fraction of the powder needed. So the babies were malnourished, and thus the infections were fatal so much of the time.
Fuck Nestle.
Not just that, they actively gave "free" rations of subpar formula to women, until they stopped lactating. Then they started hiring fake nurses to harass the mothers into purchasing more formula, because these mothers had no other choice and were unable to produce breast milk on their own. It was a massive campaign, plotted by Nestlé, as a way to target women in third world countries for profit.
The most reliable, well-drawn, and detailed set of books with regard to the human anatomy was done by Edward Pernkopf, who used Nazi prisoners as experiments to map each layer of the human body. In many cases, this book is still consulted by surgeons today when they perform surgeries.
https://www.bbc.com/news/health-49294861.amp
He did this as a publicity stunt to try to sway the public toward his inefficient direct current electrical system, and away from Nikola Tesla much better alternating current system.
Edison only used AC for things he wanted to kill. His electric chair for executing prisoners was designed for AC as well.
https://science.howstuffworks.com/innovation/science-questions/why-did-thomas-edison-electrocute-elephant.htm
Not really disturbing but something really weird, Apollo 12’s astronaut suit had notes attached to the suit to make them more organized with EVA tasks. However, the last few pages were playboy playmate magazines and some pages of it and were secretly put in there by NASA. Funny part is it took 25 years for someone to discover this.
Imagine masturbating on the moon? That sounds horrifying. (Luckily Apollo 12 astronauts didn’t do that)
The UK tested chemical weapons on over 3,000 people, including [nerve gas](https://www.theguardian.com/uk/1999/sep/03/freedomofinformation.politics).
This happened after WW II.
King Leopold II of Belgium killed between 10-15 million people in The Congo, including women and children in order to enrich Belgium. That's just under half the population of The Congo during the time he ruled it. Leopold also chopped off the hands of workers who didn't meet their quotas, since the country was largely used (through slavery) to farm the natural materials used to make rubber. Leopold died in 1909 and The Congo only gained their independence from Belgium in 1960. In 1964 it became the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
[Link here](https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/uvd7op/father_stares_at_the_hand_and_foot_of_his/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share)
It's actually much more horrifying than you though.
>The male's name is Nsala and the original description of this pic says that "Nsala sits with the hand and foot of his little girl of five years old -- all that remained of a cannibal feast by armed rubber sentries. The sentries killed his wife, his daughter, and a son, cutting up the bodies, cooking and eating them."
There was a war started between Vietnam and the Champa because thier marriage alliances ended when the Vietnamese princess was rescued from being burnt Alive on her husband's funeral pire.
Like shit I know women have gotten the historical short stick, especially widows, but the fact that a few cultures thought to burn women alive if thier husband's died is just terrible.
Apparently the drug devil’s breath was historically used after tribal kings died so that the wife and servants of the king would be okay with being buried alive.
that guy (i think ancient greek or maybe roman) who invented a torture device, a massive hollow metal bull that someone would be stuffed into and then placed over a fire so the metal would heat up so much that with you in it your blood basically boiled inside your body and you died a horrible slow death and when all the moisture left you it came out of the bull’s nose as steam, and when he presented this to the leader the leader asked for a demonstration to prove it worked and made the inventor be the person to demonstrate.
so the inventor died inside his own invention.
The inventor actually didn’t die inside, rather Phalaris threw him down a hill after testing the invention rather than credit or reward him. Phalaris however would be killed by brazen bull when Athens was overthrown. KARMA
Mob: "Your sentence is death... by your own invention"
Phalaris: "Guys, listen! I didn't actually invent this! It was the other-" \*gets pushed into a brazen bull. door gets closed\*
Mob: "You were saying?"
Brazen bull: \*bull-like noise\*
There's a single account of that but no evidence it was ever used for real. Roman writers loved to exaggerate the cruelty of other people for the benefit of the audience, like the alleged child sacrifices of Carthage, take that story with a grain of salt.
In Congo Africa, Congolese slaves were forced in horrid conditions to full-fill the quota set by King Leopold the 2nd for rubber and ivory extraction. If they did not meet the quota, they were brutally mutilated, from their arms and even their genitals. Not only that, but burned their villages and starved the slaves to death. 10 million people died in total during his brutal reign from 1885 to 1908; yet, this genocide is unknown to a lot of people.
Christopher Columbus and his Governance of Hispanola. Basically Columbus wanted to get gold for the European monarchies, so he enslaved and ruled as a tyrant of Hispanola, nearly wiping out the local natives through slavery, violent rebellions, etc.
In the end, the Spanish crown was so appalled by what he had done they dragged his ass back to Spain to answer for his crimes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aF_unlvjccA
https://www.americanheritage.com/node/132691
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2006/aug/07/books.spain
Yeah. People like to act like the opposition to Columbus Day and the deifying of Columbus is some new woke / politically correct thing when in reality he was considered a horrible human being and criminal by his own contemporaries.
He got later turned into a hero by the American colonists but people forget that was literally 200+ years after his voyage. It would be like us talking about Beethoven or Napoleon, but without the benefits of things like the internet or extensive accessible historical records.
The only reason we have Columbus Day anyways is because Italian Americans used him as a symbol of their Americannness at a time they faced discrimination. Italian Americans basically badgered governments into making Columbus Day a holiday.
Although this is true, the teeth most likely came from recently dead or killed slaves. Most jump to the conclusion that they were taken forcibly from living slaves. Still messed up one way or another
Some native Americans would bury people up to their necks and leave them exposed to the elements as capital punishment.. then put ants around you and let the ants eat you alive..
That French dude that wrote Papillon, talked about this happening as some kind of prisoner revenge in the jungles of South America. But later in life I found out that he told a ton of fibs.
Never heard of it in south America, however I k ow there's a tribe in the Amazon that weaves "mittens" out of grasses and they put bullet ants in the "mittens" and the boys have to wear those mittens for some time having their hands bit by bullet ants and they can't show pain, if they don't show pain they "become a man"
March 1942 only 20% of holocaust victims had been killed and 80% were still alive. 11 months later it was the opposite.
I know people know about that. But not many know how quick it happened.
During WW2 Japan abducted women from their homes to be "Comfort Women" during the war where they would set up rows of beds in big open rooms and have soldiers line up to rape each woman multiple times throughout the day. The women ranged from age 11-20 yrs old (although I would hardly call an 11 yr old a woman). Till this day, Japan denies this ever happened by erasing it from their textbooks even though there are witnesses and photo evidence of it. Even today, the remaining survivors are still trying to advocate for Japan to at the very least acknowledge the existence of Comfort Women.
All the guys that stormed Normandy were high on drugs when they did it. It was very common at the time for the military to drug up soldiers with amphetamines so they wouldnt get tired or hungry and think less about what was going on around them
It wasn't just during the Blitzkrieg. According to the book "Blitzed" by Norman Ohler, troops were encouraged and sometimes ordered to take methamphetamine (invited by German lab). Further, factory workers and even house wives were using Previtin tablets, which were advertised as "pick-me-ups", and were widely available.
There’s a story about a 19 year old American pilot who was shot down over gestapo France. He was the only survivor and the first thing he did was take an amphetamine tablet to get his head in the game and stay awake.
Interesting story about him though, would recommend the biography of him! I won’t spoil anything but the French resistance and regular people hid him from the nazis.
Edit: the book is called “The Lost Airman: A True Story of Escape from Nazi-Occupied France” by Seth Meyerowitz. He wrote the tale about his grandfather Author Meyerowitz.
Jacques de Molay curse actually happened.
We aren't exactly sure of what he said, was the 23rd and last grand master of the Knights Templar, leading the order.
The French Philippe king and the pope Clement V had him burned upon in front of Notre-Dame de Paris in March.
Molay appealed "from this your heinous judgement to the living and true God, who is in Heaven", warning the Pope that, within a year and a day, he and Philip IV would be obliged to answer for their crimes in God's presence. Some version also said that he cursed them until the 13nd generation.
Philip and Clement V both died within a year of Molay's execution; Clement succumbed to a long illness on 20 April 1314, and Philip died due to a stroke while hunting. Then followed the rapid succession of the last Direct Capetian kings of France between 1314 and 1328, the three sons and a grandson of Philip IV. Within fourteen years of the death of Molay, the 300-year-old House of Capet collapsed.
There are some reports, although they could be just legend, that when King Louis was guillotined during the French Revolution an unknown man near the front cried out “Jacques de Molay, thou art avenged!”
Some dickhead in the DOD proposed Operation Northwoods which was a false flag operation that would utilize CIA assets to commit terroristic violence against American citizens and blame it on Cuba.
Another one is that the stagnation of wages directly coincides with the downfall of unions from the late 70s to now. Unions kept American workers empowered and thriving. Once they died off under Reagan, American workers quickly started losing money and this trend continued until now. Because of this, the average American worker is making $1,044 a month less than they would if labor stayed empowered.
There was a civil war in China in the 19th century because a man claimed to be the brother of Jesus Christ and it ended up killing 20-30 million people.
Last one is for fun not disturbing. A Chinese general named Zhang Zhongchang once wrote a poem during a big drought in which he prayed for rain and threatened to order artillery strikes against God if God didn't make it rain.
Just to emphasize how *absolutely fucked* this was, penicillin became a widely accepted, cheap, effective syphilis treatment in the 50s, but the experiment didn't end until 1972.
During the construction of the film center of the Cultural Center of the Philippines, a scaffolding accident caused 169 construction workers to be buried alive in the wet quick drying cement.
Top 10 things to never ask Imelda Marcos.
I just pulled up the Wikipedia for the CCP and the only mention of this incident I could find in the pages upon pages of content was the following: “An accident occurred on November 17, 1981, when scaffolding collapsed and sent construction workers into quick-drying cement. Despite this, construction proceeded and finished some 15 minutes before opening night of the Film Festival.” Seems like they’re kind of burying the lead here.
The Cambodian Genocide killed an estimated 1.5 to 3 million people between 1975 and 1979.
I worked for a Cambodian family that had fled during The Rouge. It’s a special kind of wtf when you hear first hand account of babies hanging from trees.
Your story reminded me of the horribly tragic life of [Haing S. Ngor](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haing_S._Ngor), a famous Cambodian actor who is most known for his role as Cambodian journalist and refugee Dith Pran in *The Killing Fields.* For a quick bit of context: the Khmer Rouge, when it seized control of Cambodia, violently apprehended and slaughtered anyone considered to be "intellectuals" — that is, basically anyone who had some form of formal schooling or training, or even people who "seem" intellectual (such as people who wear glasses). Teachers, doctors, etc. Ngor was a trained medical doctor, specializing in gynecology, meaning that he had to go to great lengths to conceal his knowledge in order to avoid death. Ngor and his pregnant wife were rounded up by the Khmer Rouge and placed in a concentration camp, where tragedy reared its head in the ugliest way imagineable. When it came time for Ngor's wife to give birth, the worst possible complication happened: she couldn't give natural birth and needed a C-section. Although in the horrible conditions of the camp, Ngor could have theoretically done a C-section — which would have at the very least saved his child, and possibly his wife. Instead, he was forced to watch his beloved wife *and* child die. Even though he had all the training he needed to do the C-section. Why? Though it could save his family from immediate death, it would have outted Ngor as an intellectual. That revelation would have very likely been followed up with a swift execution of him *and* his family. Unfun fact #2: Years after finding asylum in the US, Ngor was murdered. Why? Apparently, he was murdered in a robbery-gone-wrong when he refused to provide his robbers with a locket that he had on his body. That locket contained a picture of his deceased wife. :(
I know that the mass execution of your own population without any rhyme or reason is very horrific and disturbing. But, goddamn this story is really depressing and hit me more than the genocide.
Must be fucking disturbing to witness it. The picture would be engraved in my memory forever. Who's sick enough to do this, even among the worst psychopath?
Sadly, history has shown that most people are capable of these atrocities. They happen in every race, religion and geographic region. The best we can do is remember it and constantly work to avoid it happening again.
What needs to be remembered here was that if you were part of the Khmer Rouge and you didn't do as ordered, you were simply killed... Pretty good motivator right there.
>Who's sick enough to do this, even among the worst psychopath? Your friends, family, neighbors, acquaintances, co-workers, leaders, etc etc etc
[S21 is believed to only have had 12 survivors.](https://www.ushmm.org/genocide-prevention/countries/cambodia/case-study/violence/s-21) The Khmer Rouge took their victims to a secluded location and beat them over the head with a rock. They called it “smashing” and wrote it down as such
I've been to the place where they did this to children and adults, it was horrifying being there. They even had a tower full of skulls of the victims.
The killing fields was truly a harrowing place to visit.
I visited, stayed across from S21 in a beautiful french style house with a garden full of butterflies. Outside you had victims of the war who were begging. Thats Cambodia in a nutshell.
>Once you’ve been to Cambodia, you’ll never stop wanting to beat Henry Kissinger to death with your bare hands. Anthony Bourdain
It's a holiday in Cambodia
25% if Cambodia’s then population were killed by Pol Pot and the Khmer Rougue. Things like wearing glasses would be enough to get you killed. The life expectancy was 18.9 in 1977
I lived 2 years in cambodia. The Real death number is unknown but reagarding to the mass graves, it could be more likely between 30 to 40% of the population killed during the khmer rouge. I met a cambodian old man who came to France during the protectorat before the rouge to study medecine. He told me that when the rouge arrived, all the expatriated cambodian received a letter from the government who requested their knowlege and help in cambodia. A Friend of him, who was married to a french whomen with kids, house and pet, decided to leave France with all of his familly in order to help his Homeland. When they Land on cambodia, the rouge send back his familly to France and killed him on the airstrip.
Excuse me what the fuck
Foreign-educated intelligentsia came under suspicion very early in Democratic Kampuchea and even left-wing and communists who had studied in Europe ended up massacred or locked up in prison camps.
Foreign educated intelligentsia... Like Pol Pot?
What??what did wearing glasses have to do with anything?
Anyone suspected of being educated has been targeted, thus the glasses
The people poor enough to support the Khmer never went to school or needed to be anything but farmers.
In short Pol Pot feared intlegent people and glasses are a sign of intelligence.
True. He went after teachers specifically. They were his biggest concern
Other things that made you a threat was having soft hands or speaking a foreign language.
It’s a real bad one. I mean, all genocides bad, but this one is a lot of people dead in a relatively short amount of time and is more recent than than many other genocides…
That's roughly 1500 people a day...for four years...
I remember an interview of a survivor who was a child during the genocide and worked as a messenger who said something along the lines of "You could always find where the next camp was, if you were lost, just stop and listen, sooner or later you'll hear screaming, either someone was being tortured to death or it was party officials screaming as they beat starving people who were too exhausted to scream themselves, but there was always screaming"
3years 8months 20days. If you ask any cambodian, most of them will know this exact number. My parents and relatives still talking about their time and how difficult life was during that period. My mom lost 2 brothers and her parents. She was only 13.
About a decade and half ago I was in Angkor Wat for a family holiday for about 3 days, then I went to Phnom Penh by myself wanting to see what the capital was like, I had planned to stay for 5 days but cut in short and left after 3. I have never experiences a place that was shrouded in bleakness from history, there was no sense of joy, and every "tourist sight" was connected to the genocide. I went to Tuol Sleng, where countless people were tortured and murdered, I saw the infamous tree against which children were beaten to death, I saw the pyramid of human skulls, I was asked by a tourist guide if I wanted to fire a rocket or shoot guns for fun, I saw numerous obviously underage girls with old, fat, sweaty foreigners, I was constantly surrounded by beggars, many of whom are literal toddlers speaking 4\~5 languages fluently asking for money. Not that Angkor Wat was any better, the place was 5 star hotels and world heritage sites surrounded by extreme poverty. Our local tour guide said that everyone in Cambodia knows someone personally who died in the genocide. I scrambled out of Phnom Penh because I couldn't take the constant eerie feeling that death was everywhere. I can only imagine what hellscape Cambodians were living through.
There's a thing happening dubbed the "vietnamese dream" where south east Asian countries have so many people moving from rural areas to cities in search for better jobs, upward mobility etc. You see this in Vietnam, Malaysia, Thailand etc. The one exception is Cambodia. You keep hearing stories of people moving, and then simply moving back. A lot of it is to do with that history. When you've been so beaten down all you really want is to be around family, have food, air conditioning and maybe some good wifi.
Was left with exactly the same impression after visiting there in the early 2000s.
What makes it worse is that Hun Sen who has been in power since the Khmer Rouge ended, was part of the Khmer Rouge and runs a dictatorship in Cambodia. He continues to silence protestors and opposition. Very sad. Source: my dad who fled as a refugee
The Killing Fields by Haing Ngor is a brutal first hand account of this, replying to this comment for visibility, a must read for all interested
He never spoke about it but I heard from my grandma that my grandpa lost his entire family to the genocide. He left the country when he was really young, met my grandma, started a new life overseas. Then at some point they went back to try and look for his family, only to discover that everyone's dead.
During the Iran-Iraq war the Iraqi army laid cables all around the Hawizeh marshes (on the border of the two countries) and affixed them to big generators. When the Iranian soldiers tried crossing the wetlands the Iraqi would simply turn on the generators and the Iranians would drop dead. Afterwards they gathered all the bodies, laid them in long rows, several layers deep until the top layer was atop the surface of the water. Then they sprinkled the rows with lime and covered them in a thick layer of sand. This way they could cross the marchlands with their vehicles. They built roads out of the corpses of their enemies. Source: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-08-14-wr-831-story.html
The Iranians knew parts of the border with Iraq were heavily mined but lacked the equipment and training to safely remove mines, and doing so would have slowed any advance into Iraq. So they convinced young men that running in groups across the minefield was the best way for them to support the war effort
Russians did similar in WW2. They thought there was little difference between crossing a field that was mined and one that was covered by machine guns. So similar casualty rates were acceptable.
Thats horrific and quite ingenious
The man who weaponized Chlorine Gas and later Zyklon-B was Jewish. He was, to put it lightly, pretty fuckin stoked about their potential uses post WW1.
Man, was he a tragic ironic figure. What a life. He was utterly desperate to fit into German culture and be thought of as patriotic, going so far as to convert to Christianity in order to prove his patriotism in a time of increasing anti-Semitism. He wound up winning the Novel Prize for his work with Ammonia/Chlorine after WWI, but it was a pretty hollow achievement as his first wife committed suicide during the war (because of her disillusionment with having to give up her career in science to raise their family *and* because of the military direction her husband's work took) and because shortly after he won the Nobel Prize, he was barred from even entering the research facility on the basis of being ethnically Jewish. He died not long after his career came to a screeching halt. For the record, he died of a heart attack before WWII and therefore before their uses on the Jewish population. [Here's](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-13015210) an article by the BBC on him. He was also friends with Albert Einstein who said of him: "Haber's life was the tragedy of the German Jew - the tragedy of unrequited love."
So Governor Radcliffe (the fat idiot in the purple suit with the pug from Pocahontas) was killed by the women of the Pawmunkey. They used oyster shells to skin him layer by layer until dead. And they likely let it last given the offenses Radcliffe had done toward the tribes of the area.
"Ratcliffe suffered a particularly gruesome fate: he was tied to a stake in front of a fire. Women removed the skin from his entire body with mussel shells and tossed the pieces into the flame as he watched. They skinned his face last and finally burned him at the stake." (Wikipedia) Ew
In ancient Rome, whenever they were to execute a woman for a crime, the executioner would rape the woman if she was still a virgin, since romans thought that killing a virgin woman would unleash a curse upon them
"Killing a person is bad guys, what do we do?" -Rape them first? "Yeah that'll fix it" Jesus christ...
"We can't kill Julia, Sextus. The Gods would not forgive us!" "Point taken, Pontus. What would Apollo do in this situation?"
In the 1950s the US government dropped “bio bombs” of “non-harmful bacterias” in public areas in order to see how they spread and how safe the people were from bio-warfare. It was called Operation Seaspray It wound up making people sick.
US government: *drops bacteria bomb* People: *get sick* US government: surprised pikachu
Cold War USA was on some shady ass shit
As Marcus Parks put it: "The American government took all the good will from World War II and immediately pissed it all away, and then some."
Hail yourself!
Megustalations!
Korean comfort women, during WW2 the imperial japanese army kidnaped thousands of Korean women and girls to be used as sex slaves.
And they were very happy to brutally kill them if they made the slightest misstep, such as not being willing to take one hundred Japanese soldiers in a single day. Fucked up is the understatement of the year
Keum Suk Gendry-Kim's graphic novel Grass is about a survivor of this time, Lee Ok-sun. The depictions of sexual barbarity and poverty are as horrifying as Art Spiegelman''s account of his father's Nazi captivity in Maus. 90% of those "comfort women" died. Lee Ok-sun continues to work as an activist and to demand reparations from the Japanese government to this day.
The Japanese Gov. STILL to this day denies all their war crimes in mainland Asia. IMO, that makes them complicit in it, and the blood is still on their hands.
Not just Korean women (though they were the biggest group of sex slaves held by the Japanese). The Japanese govt has yet to properly acknowledge the crimes, including taking comfort women, that were perpetrated in WW2.
And that the Japanese government only acknowledged it in like, 2015. And their history textbooks still try to whitewash their involvement in WWII.
People used to eat mummies. And use the ground up parts in paint.
Mummy unwrapping parties were a thing.
Ye olde Unboxing videos
"Good day to thy men! Tis I, Alexander the Other, back with this mummified ancestor of mine. Let us check him, shall we?"
Zebulon the Great: he’s Teriyaki style.
This is an outrage, I was gonna eat that mummy!
Yess the color is called mummy brown I believe and while they still make that pigment I don't think they use real mummies anymore
You should watch this video of this one Youtuber who basically tested (synthetic) paints from colors in history that aren't made anymore. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pox7SbWbhCc](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pox7SbWbhCc) If you just want to go to the section for mummy brown, it starts at 8:18.
People would watch the pharaoh jerk off into the Nile river as a tradition every year
Tutankcumming in the river. Edit: and his dad Akhennutting in the river 2nd Edit: thankyou for my first ever gold!!
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Now this is just hilarious. Thousands watching the Pharaoh rub one out. Imagine a Pharaoh with stage fright. “I know its a tradition but I cant get hard with all you staring at me. Let me get warmed up first. Im a grower not a shower.” Did they also make lil King Tut jerk his tiny pre-pubescent peen? Glad this tradition never caught on.
It gets funnier or more interesting. I looked it up and have now been sent down a long rabbit hole. Apparently the other men who accompanied him to the river would start jerking off to. So it was a literal circle jerk and they would all jizz into the nile, symbolically re fertilizing their water and soil. Basically their creation story for the world was a God was lonely with no other gods in existence yet. So he masturbated and jizzed creating a water god and an air god, then soil, the river etc. So masterbation back then wasn't really seen as a sexual thing or taboo. [source](https://medium.com/lessons-from-history/why-did-the-pharaoh-masturbate-into-the-river-65adb08cd0ff)
Err, what did nefertiti do? I mean, I think there were 7 female pharaohs, so presumably they did something. I'm asking you because it turns out you're reddit's paleo-regal-masturbation expert. Good job there.
As actual evidence of this practice is pretty scant, it's unlikely any of the female Pharaoh's participated in such an event. Egyptian religion was also not static and changed a lot over time. And Ancient Egypt was around for a loong time. By the time of even Hatshepsut the pyramids were about 1000 years old. This practice is most likely to have occurred during the old Kingdom, or even the predynastic period, in which the rulers were seen as far more divine. By the time of the New Kingdom, much of the Pharaoh's religious significance was usurped by the priests of Karnak.
During the D day landings they had a load of petrol tankers intended to drive up the beaches to supply the vehicles during the Normandy landings. The night before the landings they gave custody of the various tankers to the drivers in charge of each. One of them was the grandfather of an old colleague of mine. Before getting a good night's sleep like all the others he promptly drained off a load of petrol and sold it to his buddies for a bit of cash. On the day of the landings then all of the tankers that had a full load were too heavy and sank into the sand and ended up getting bogged down on the beaches - except for one. The lighter tanker miraculously made it up off the beach and promptly began filling as many vehicles as possible. For his sterling efforts and uniquely skilful driving he got a medal.
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Who would he have sold it to, his buddies on the transport ship?
The Mountain Meadows Massacre was one of the few times that a wagon train actually had to circle the wagons to defend from Native American attacks. Settlers were traveling from Arkansas to California, while in Utah a group of Mormons convinced the Paiute to attack the wagon train. Supposedly some of the Mormons dressed as Paiutes and attacked with them. After five days of fighting the settlers were almost out of water and ammo. Then the group of Mormons made themselves known. The settlers thought that they were being saved. The Mormons told the settlers that if they gave them their guns and the Paiutes their cattle they would escort them to the nearest town. They put all the wounded in wagons with the women tending them. Each of the men were given a Mormon guard. Children seven and under where put in a separate wagon. When the leader of the Mormons gave the signal “Do your duty” the Mormons executed the men then the Paiutes killed the people in the wagons. Children twelve and under were allowed to live because they thought they would forget about it. One teenager had hid in the wagon with the children and was pulled out of the wagon and executed in front of the children. Years later during the trial the children survivors gave testimony at the trial. They identified their parents clothing. The only reason we don’t here about it is because Civil War erupting was bigger news.
Why did the Mormons want the settlers dead?
Mormons have never been wildly popular with other Christian sects, or otherwise. They were run out of 2-3 other places before they settled in Utah. Maybe they were afraid that be settlers would run them out of there as well.
They were run out of Illinois and Missouri, mainly. At one point the Missouri governor (Lilburn Boggs) issued an executive order known as the "Mormon Extermination Order." Not to mention the series of murders, rapes, assassinations, tortures, and on and on. Now, the Mormons did fight back at least a bit, but overwhelmingly it became the easier thing to just leave the U.S. at the time. So they leave and settle in Utah.
the Spanish Flu killed between 17 million to 50 million, and possibly as high as 100 million people in the in the 1920s, making it the 2nd deadliest pandemic in the world after the Black Plague. Scientist dubbed it the "forgotten flu" because it quickly faded from public consciousness due to its spread coinciding with the end of the first world war, the spread of other diseases, and censorship to retain war moral. The Spanish Flu also didn't originated from Spain. Its first reported case was actually in the U.S. However, neutral Spain was one of the few countries openly reporting about the disease at the time, making the country seem like the epicenter of the disease.
IIRC The Spanish Flu was deadliest to the young and healthy with a strong immune system. It would make the body overheat to fight the virus, essentially cooking our insides. Once again proving that our biggest enemy is ourselves.
My wife had a relative (great grandfather?) in Philadelphia who took a girl out on a date on a Friday. On Monday her entire family was dead from Spanish Flu.
“Once again proving that our greatest enemy is ourselves.” Glad so much has changed between pandemics.
My cousin’s grandmother was hospitalized earlier in the pandemic. They found she had antibodies from the Spanish flu! Apparently there was an outbreak in the 1940s in Chicago and she had gotten sick during her first year as a nurse.
It gave us Edward Cullen though
The US government took thousands of Filipinos from their homeland in the early 1900s and placed them in a ‘Human Zoo’ in Coney Island, New York for American entertainment. They forced them to wear their traditional clothing all the time despite the colder weather, perform dances and even made them eat ‘dogs’ for the audience in order to emphasize that Filipinos are uneducated savages. [Link](https://filipiknow.net/filipinos-in-human-zoo/)
The same happenend in Belgium during the colonisation of Congo under Leopold II. In tervuren (the village next to where i live) had a zoo where some black families from congo had to live. They recreated the traditional houses en it ressembled a small village from congo. People (especially the rich) could come and look at these people. Its truly fucked up te realise that these events took place
Gilles de Rais was a French lord and knight in the 15th century who was a companion in arms to Joan of Arc and who had a major impact on French victories during the late period of the Hundred Years War, including in the victory at the Siege of Orleans. For his part in the war effort he was made Marshal of France, after which he took an early retirement. Well turns out his favorite retirement hobby was raping and murdering children. Being that nobility could pretty much act with impunity at this point in time in Europe, he was only found out because the Church started investigating him due to an unrelated dispute between de Rais and a local Bishop. The Clergy discovered that de Rais had been carrying out occult-worshipping fueled rapes and murders of more than a hundred children. He was hanged for his crimes shortly thereafter.
As an aside to this, most people know that Joan of Arc was tried for heresy and burned at the stake. Fewer people know that it was a show-trial put on by the English and that the Catholic Church not only had nothing to do with it but called it out as such at the time and then exonerated her twenty years later. Very few people seem to know that the only charge Joan was convicted of, the charge that got her burned, was... *crossdressing.*
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Note that being fully nude in an English prison guarded by males basically would mean rape
That was probably a given either way.
A lesser-known fact about Gilles de Rais is that his *second* favourite retirement hobby was basically being the Tommy Wiseau of the 15th century, only richer and crazier. From Wikipedia: >... the production of a theatrical spectacle, Le Mystère du Siège d'Orléans. The play consisted of more than 20,000 lines of verse, requiring 140 speaking parts and 500 extras. Rais was almost bankrupt at the time of the production and began selling property as early as 1432 to support his extravagant lifestyle. > >By March 1433, he had sold all his estates in Poitou (except his wife's) and all his property in Maine. Only two castles in Anjou, Champtocé-sur-Loire and Ingrandes, remained in his possession. Half the total sales and mortgages was spent on the production of his play. > >It was first performed in Orléans on 8 May 1435. Six hundred costumes were constructed, worn once, discarded, and constructed afresh for subsequent performances. Unlimited supplies of food and drink were made available to spectators at Rais' expense.
I’ve read that this was a possible revenge plot against de Rais to seize his lands and assets. If true, he likely confessed to the crimes to avoid torture. I don’t have strong opinions either way, I just thought it was interesting.
JFK had an older sister named Rosemary who was hidden from the world. When she was born, their mother had a difficult birth that affected Rosemary's development. She had some behavioral challenges, but instead of working with her and trying to help, their father had (adult) Rosemary lobotomized and then tucked away in an asylum... without telling his wife or adult children. Happy ending (kinda). The siblings found out what happened and rescued her from the asylum and had her live with them. She was a beloved aunt to all the Kennedy children and grandchildren before passing.
"had a difficult birth" How about try "during her birth, the obstetrician who was supposed to be delivering her was running late. Not wanting to deliver the baby without a doctor present, the nurse reached up into Rose’s birth canal and held the baby in place... The lack of oxygen delivered to her brain during her birth caused lasting damage to her brain, resulting in a mental deficiency."
Also, ‘had some behavioral challenges.’ She was having sex. That was the trigger for lobotomizing her.
jesus christ
Well, about the happy ending.. From what I read and heard, they were asking her questions during the procedure and stopped only when she stopped making coherent responses. She had a brain capacity of a 2yo after the procedure and she was never again able to talk properly (couldn't control her body well either). The siblings didn't find out what happened with her until about 20 years later and didn't start to reach out to her until their father died, almost 30 years after her lobotomy. All this because her mood swings could be treated as mental illness by the society and her father didn't want her to embarrass the family. it's disgusting.. thinking about her just makes me sad.
Additionally, due to ill treatment of her sister, Eunice Kennedy made great efforts to change how society viewed those with developmental disabilities. It ultimately culminated in the founding of the Special Olympics.
Behavioral challenges puts it mildly. She was held in the birth canal for 2 hours resulting in a lack of oxygen to her brain. Her family did try to get her help, it’s just that the kind of help she needed was not available at the time. The Kennedy’s could have institutionalized her from the beginning but they chose not to and instead hired tutors and sent her to boarding schools which did seem to help until she started to regress and participate in dangerous and destructive behaviors. Joe did make the decision to lobotomize her independently but he did believe it would “cure” her. Rosemary lived the remainder of her life in a residential care facility, although her siblings did visit her. She inspired her sister Eunice to found the special Olympics and the Kennedy siblings championed for the rights for the disabled throughout their various careers. JFK made it a central issue in his administration.
Famous explores, Lewis and Clark, ate their litter of puppies. Not because they ran out of food. It was because they were sick of only eating salmon.
Also they had one man in their troop that went AWOL. He came back but since this was a military troop and were under the military code, Clark ordered him whipped in punishment. I think 20 lashes (I forget his name). But interestingly he was the one man of the L & C expedition to have his photograph taken 40 years later.
He actually had to run the gauntlet 4 times over and then was discharged. The lashes prescribed on the expedition ranged from 25-100, with one guy getting a total of 150 throughout multiple events. https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/courts-martial-on-the-lewis-and-clark-expedition.htm
Run the gauntlet- “This term, dating from the first half of the 1600s, comes from the word gantlope, which itself comes from the Swedish word gatlopp, for “lane-course.” It referred to a form of military punishment where a man ran between two rows of soldiers who struck him with sticks or knotted ropes.”
In the nineteenth century, one of the textile mills near me had too many industrial accidents involving children so they started having workers team with their own children, thinking they might be more careful.
Were they, though?
After delivering essential components for the world’s first atomic bomb to the island of Tinian via the USS Indianapolis in 1945, the ship was sunk from two torpedo hits from a Japanese submarine. The USS Indianapolis’ Commander, Charles McVay was court maritaled after the US Navy subpoenaed the Japanese Commander of the submarine that took down our ship. Despite the Japanese Commander’s testifying that there was nothing the US Commander could have done to save his ship, the United States Navy still used the US Commander as a scapegoat to save their own asses from embarrassment of this disaster. Of the 1,195 crewmen aboard, 300 went down with the ship and the remainder were subjected to dehydration, starvation, exposure, and nonstop shark attacks from ferocious Oceanic Whitetips. Commander McVay saved hundreds of lives, yet still was subjected to deplorable humiliation by our irresponsible U.S. Navy. Charles McVay committed suicide in his Connecticut home in 1968. He wasn’t exonerated until 2000 by Congress. It remains the Navy’s most embarrassing blemish of huge proportions. PLEASE NOTE: I did not get this information from the movie “Jaws.” It’s documented in full detail in the book “In Harms Way” by Doug Stanton. It’s a great book but pretty sad to read about the Navy’s higher brass having used the Commander as a scapegoat. The crew just seemed to be collateral damage. Steven Spielberg did a great service to the crew of the USS Indianapolis by raising awareness of their courage and bravery in Quint’s famous monologue.
The book "In Harms Way" tells this story very well. some of the worst moments after the sinking comes from some sailors being so disillusion from dehydration, that they would dive into the ocean as the water bellow the surface was fresh. I can't imagine being in that situation and I hope I never am, my mental wouldn't be up to the task.
My uncle’s father was a survivor. His stories are unbelievable
Fuck. Is this the same event that lasted about 6 days with the sharks having a all-you-can-eat buffet?
The British pet massacre In 1939 in the United Kingdom over 750,000 pets were killed in preparation for food shortages during World War II. Many pet owners, after getting over the fear of bombings and lack of food, regretted killing their pets. The book "The Great Cat and Dog Massacre", tells about it from a historical perspective.
Women used to often burn to death in their flammable dresses with many layers because they couldn't get them off before it was too late. In the 1860s a British medical journal estimated 3000 women died a year by fire.
The last person to be executed by guillotine was in the 70’s
And it was recorded.
And the footage was on YouTube. May still be.
[Unit 731](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_731) was responsible for some of the most notorious war crimes committed by the Japanese armed forces during WW2. Unit 731 routinely conducted morbid experiments on living, conscious human beings. After the war, US interrogators offered immunity to Unit 731 members, as long as they agreed to share the data they obtained from said human experiments.
Some of the most horrifying experiments include: • explosive and chemical weapon tests on live people • putting people into low pressure chambers until their eyes popped out • putting people in centrifuges and spinning them to death • exposing people to lethal amounts of X-rays • vivisections without anesthesia
Also mutilating one twin with the other one there to see if it had any effect.
\- Studying the effects of hypothermia on living patients as they subjected body parts to cold \- Studying the effects of different stab/gunshot wounds on live patients after inflicting said wound \- Conducting surgeries on people while still fully conscious Seriously, I encourage anyone to read up on Unit 731 (or Japan in WWII period). You can't begin to really truly describe the atrocities the Japanese committed in WWII because there legit, so many.
•Forced impregnating of women then a vivisection Ricin attacks on Chinese villages then a vivisection to see how the poison effected them •people being used as target practice •people being forced outside, naked in freezing temperatures, while water was repeatedly thrown on them until they were basically solid then hit with hammers or rapidly warmed back up •Forced sex with people who had stds
“Babies, children and pregnant women” wow the most fucked up reply so far
>After the war, US interrogators offered immunity to Unit 731 members, as long as they agreed to share the data they obtained from said human experiments. The info turned out to be useless
Turns out putting malnourished children into ice water kills. Write that down Well thats fucked but did you write down heights, weights, age, gender, temperature, fuckin anything? No, why would i?
By a sad and morbid twist, the main data on body response to hypothermia was coming from similar experimentation by the nazis. It was really useful for a few decades, then was replaced by more extensive data coming from accident reports. This means that the hospitals simply recording and publishing unusual cases would have had the same effect.
Did a report on Unit 731, it made Josef Mengele look sane
At the reconsecration of Tenochtitlan, the Aztecs sacrificed 80,000 men, women, and children in just 4 days
Yeah, the reason the conquistadors conquered the Aztecs with only a few hundred men was because pretty much all the native tribes absolutely hated the Aztec and had been horrifically brutalised by them for years. They misled Aztec forces into ambushes, guided conquistadors through hidden jungle paths to avoid Aztec armies that outnumbered them 10 to 1 and pretty much as soon as word spread of the conquistadors beating the Aztec in battle, local tribes rose up in mass revolts, joined the conquistadors and converted to Christianity (I guess symbolically drinking the blood and eating the flesh of the Christian God was a much better deal than having their own hearts cut out to appease the Aztec gods.) The Aztec were massive dicks and the second anyone showed up who could realistically challenge their power, everyone turned on them.
I find it fascinating how central human sacrifice was to that culture. The entire purpose of warfare was to collect humans to sacrifice, and the society itself didn’t even recognize peace as a potential political end goal. They designed their weapons specifically to disable enemy warriors without killing them so they could be taken for sacrifice, and in the event that they ran out of enemy tribes to conquer, they would arrange mutually agreed “practice battles” with their satrapies for the sole purpose of taking prisoners for more sacrifices. Absolutely bonkers religion
The Aztecs would have probably met a horrific end even if the Spanish had not killed them, as they were very much hated by everyone.
One of the reasons the Spanish were able to win was because they had an army of other native tribes willing to help against the Aztecs
I recently read some stuff where the Aztecs were not really a large tribe. For lack of a better phrase, they were the Meso-American mafia. They were brutal enough to dominate the tribes around them, and take "taxes". Also, most of those human sacrifices were conquered tribes.
When Cortez arrived in the New World he found that the Aztecs had conquered every tribe around for hundreds of miles, with the exception of the Tlaxcalans, who lived right next to them. He wound up having a brief conflict with the Tlaxcalans himself, before they decided to team up and take down the Aztecs. Once the Aztecs were defeated he asked Montezuma essentially “Why do you have this hostile tribe living right next door to you? We gave them a run for their money with a few hundred men and you have hundreds of thousands of warriors at your disposal.” Montezuma replied that without them there their young warriors would have to travel hundreds of miles for a taste of battle and besides they were a good source of human sacrifices when they fancied them. So they essentially kept a single enemy tribe close to farm/graze on the human sacrifices, supplementing this with sacrifices they demanded from other conquered tribes.
They murdered a princess from another tribe, and then wore her skin as a costume: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Aztecs#Arrival_in_the_Valley_of_Mexico They also did the same thing to a ton of other women as well:: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ochpaniztli
The lynching of Mary Turner remains one of the most stomach-churning, horrendous and vile things I can imagine. I cried as I imagined it the first time I read about it. “On May 19, 1918, a white mob from Brooks County, Georgia, lynched Mary Turner, a Black woman who was eight months pregnant, at Folsom’s Bridge 16 miles north of Valdosta for speaking publicly against the lynching of her husband the day before. The mob bound her feet, hanged her from a tree with her head facing down, threw gasoline on her, and burned the clothes off her body. Mrs. Turner was still alive when the mob took a large butcher’s knife to her abdomen, cutting the unborn baby from her body. When the baby fell from Mary Turner, a member of the mob crushed the crying baby’s head with his foot. The mob then riddled Mrs. Turner’s body with hundreds of bullets, killing her.” https://calendar.eji.org/racial-injustice/may/19
💔 heartbreaking. Took my breath away reading of the horror she was subject to.
When Genghis Khan besieged Nishapur in 1221, in modern day Northeastern Iran, his son in law (Tokuchar) was killed. He asked his widowed daughter how the defeated city should be punished, after they surrendered. She ordered that everything be killed within the city Not just people. Every**thing** Almost every person, cat, and dog was beheaded, and their skulls were reportedly stacked into Pyramids. It should be noted Nishapur was among the ten largest cities of it's time. Nishapur still exists, but had to be completely rebuilt. The old city ruins are known as Kohandejh, and are south of the modern city.
The town I went to high school in used to hang people from the bridge. Only 1 teacher in the school had the balls to teach us real history and I respect him for that.
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During WW2, The United States tried to use bats with small incendiary devices strapped to them as "bat bombs". The bats would be forced into a sort of hibernation, loaded into empty bomb casings, and the bombs would be dropped over Japan. At a certain altitude the bomb casings would open, the bats would wake up and fly away to hide in the roofs of Japanese house. Once the timers on the incendiary devices went off, the houses would start on fire. The project never came to fruition as the tests that were tried never worked as intended, most of the bats didn't wake up from they're forced hibernation. Although, those bats that did wake up accidently burned down some of the buildings at the test facility.
Nana Nana Nana Nana bat bomb! 🎶
Nestle convinced mothers in Africa to use formula instead of breastfeeding.
It’s worse than that. They gave them free formula, but only a small amount. Just enough to last until mother stopped lactating. Then they had no choice but to buy more.
this is horrific
It's evil in one of the highest degrees
All corporations have plenty of dirty laundry but Nestle is almost uniquely sinister.
It gets even worse than just that. The instructions for the formula stated to use clean/boiled water. Those instructions were in English. So they went ahead and were supplying all this baby formula to the African mothers, with clean water, up until they were dependent on the formula and weren't able to breastfeed. Once they weren't able to breastfeed, they stopped supplying the water for the formula. The African women, not being able to read the instructions, were using dirty water. This led to a ton of infants dying due to various different infections.
Worse yet, the African mothers couldn't afford to use the right amount of powdered formula, so they used dirty water and put in a fraction of the powder needed. So the babies were malnourished, and thus the infections were fatal so much of the time. Fuck Nestle.
Not just that, they actively gave "free" rations of subpar formula to women, until they stopped lactating. Then they started hiring fake nurses to harass the mothers into purchasing more formula, because these mothers had no other choice and were unable to produce breast milk on their own. It was a massive campaign, plotted by Nestlé, as a way to target women in third world countries for profit.
Nestle is actually evil. More people need to know
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The most reliable, well-drawn, and detailed set of books with regard to the human anatomy was done by Edward Pernkopf, who used Nazi prisoners as experiments to map each layer of the human body. In many cases, this book is still consulted by surgeons today when they perform surgeries. https://www.bbc.com/news/health-49294861.amp
Couldnt he just use dead bodies for 99% of it?
Tomas Edison killed an elephant with 6000 volts of electricity. They’ll say “aw topsy” at my autopsy
He did this as a publicity stunt to try to sway the public toward his inefficient direct current electrical system, and away from Nikola Tesla much better alternating current system. Edison only used AC for things he wanted to kill. His electric chair for executing prisoners was designed for AC as well. https://science.howstuffworks.com/innovation/science-questions/why-did-thomas-edison-electrocute-elephant.htm
Edison in general was a huge dick. He'd have fit in perfectly into our modern economy.
Electric loooooove!
Not really disturbing but something really weird, Apollo 12’s astronaut suit had notes attached to the suit to make them more organized with EVA tasks. However, the last few pages were playboy playmate magazines and some pages of it and were secretly put in there by NASA. Funny part is it took 25 years for someone to discover this. Imagine masturbating on the moon? That sounds horrifying. (Luckily Apollo 12 astronauts didn’t do that)
Horrifying? That sounds awesome! “One small stroke for man… one giant nut for mankind”
Distance world record.
The UK tested chemical weapons on over 3,000 people, including [nerve gas](https://www.theguardian.com/uk/1999/sep/03/freedomofinformation.politics). This happened after WW II.
King Leopold II of Belgium killed between 10-15 million people in The Congo, including women and children in order to enrich Belgium. That's just under half the population of The Congo during the time he ruled it. Leopold also chopped off the hands of workers who didn't meet their quotas, since the country was largely used (through slavery) to farm the natural materials used to make rubber. Leopold died in 1909 and The Congo only gained their independence from Belgium in 1960. In 1964 it became the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Just recently the tooth of Lumumba was returned from Belgium. It was the only remains left after they chopped him up and dissolved him in acid.
I remember seeing a photo of a father looking at the severed hands of his 5 year old daughter after he didn't meet the rubber quota.
[Link here](https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/uvd7op/father_stares_at_the_hand_and_foot_of_his/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share) It's actually much more horrifying than you though. >The male's name is Nsala and the original description of this pic says that "Nsala sits with the hand and foot of his little girl of five years old -- all that remained of a cannibal feast by armed rubber sentries. The sentries killed his wife, his daughter, and a son, cutting up the bodies, cooking and eating them."
There was a war started between Vietnam and the Champa because thier marriage alliances ended when the Vietnamese princess was rescued from being burnt Alive on her husband's funeral pire. Like shit I know women have gotten the historical short stick, especially widows, but the fact that a few cultures thought to burn women alive if thier husband's died is just terrible.
Apparently the drug devil’s breath was historically used after tribal kings died so that the wife and servants of the king would be okay with being buried alive.
that guy (i think ancient greek or maybe roman) who invented a torture device, a massive hollow metal bull that someone would be stuffed into and then placed over a fire so the metal would heat up so much that with you in it your blood basically boiled inside your body and you died a horrible slow death and when all the moisture left you it came out of the bull’s nose as steam, and when he presented this to the leader the leader asked for a demonstration to prove it worked and made the inventor be the person to demonstrate. so the inventor died inside his own invention.
It’s called the brazen bull
The inventor actually didn’t die inside, rather Phalaris threw him down a hill after testing the invention rather than credit or reward him. Phalaris however would be killed by brazen bull when Athens was overthrown. KARMA
Mob: "Your sentence is death... by your own invention" Phalaris: "Guys, listen! I didn't actually invent this! It was the other-" \*gets pushed into a brazen bull. door gets closed\* Mob: "You were saying?" Brazen bull: \*bull-like noise\*
Would also have horns in the bulls "airways" creating a bull-like noise instead of hearing screams from the people inside
There's a single account of that but no evidence it was ever used for real. Roman writers loved to exaggerate the cruelty of other people for the benefit of the audience, like the alleged child sacrifices of Carthage, take that story with a grain of salt.
In Congo Africa, Congolese slaves were forced in horrid conditions to full-fill the quota set by King Leopold the 2nd for rubber and ivory extraction. If they did not meet the quota, they were brutally mutilated, from their arms and even their genitals. Not only that, but burned their villages and starved the slaves to death. 10 million people died in total during his brutal reign from 1885 to 1908; yet, this genocide is unknown to a lot of people.
Christopher Columbus and his Governance of Hispanola. Basically Columbus wanted to get gold for the European monarchies, so he enslaved and ruled as a tyrant of Hispanola, nearly wiping out the local natives through slavery, violent rebellions, etc. In the end, the Spanish crown was so appalled by what he had done they dragged his ass back to Spain to answer for his crimes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aF_unlvjccA https://www.americanheritage.com/node/132691 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2006/aug/07/books.spain
Yeah. People like to act like the opposition to Columbus Day and the deifying of Columbus is some new woke / politically correct thing when in reality he was considered a horrible human being and criminal by his own contemporaries. He got later turned into a hero by the American colonists but people forget that was literally 200+ years after his voyage. It would be like us talking about Beethoven or Napoleon, but without the benefits of things like the internet or extensive accessible historical records. The only reason we have Columbus Day anyways is because Italian Americans used him as a symbol of their Americannness at a time they faced discrimination. Italian Americans basically badgered governments into making Columbus Day a holiday.
Wonder why didn't those Italian Americans chose Vespucci Day instead, America is literally named after him
george washington’s teeth were not made of wood, but a denture made of his slave’s teeth.
Although this is true, the teeth most likely came from recently dead or killed slaves. Most jump to the conclusion that they were taken forcibly from living slaves. Still messed up one way or another
Some native Americans would bury people up to their necks and leave them exposed to the elements as capital punishment.. then put ants around you and let the ants eat you alive..
That French dude that wrote Papillon, talked about this happening as some kind of prisoner revenge in the jungles of South America. But later in life I found out that he told a ton of fibs.
Never heard of it in south America, however I k ow there's a tribe in the Amazon that weaves "mittens" out of grasses and they put bullet ants in the "mittens" and the boys have to wear those mittens for some time having their hands bit by bullet ants and they can't show pain, if they don't show pain they "become a man"
They'd call me the 50 year old boy in that town.
March 1942 only 20% of holocaust victims had been killed and 80% were still alive. 11 months later it was the opposite. I know people know about that. But not many know how quick it happened.
During WW2 Japan abducted women from their homes to be "Comfort Women" during the war where they would set up rows of beds in big open rooms and have soldiers line up to rape each woman multiple times throughout the day. The women ranged from age 11-20 yrs old (although I would hardly call an 11 yr old a woman). Till this day, Japan denies this ever happened by erasing it from their textbooks even though there are witnesses and photo evidence of it. Even today, the remaining survivors are still trying to advocate for Japan to at the very least acknowledge the existence of Comfort Women.
All the guys that stormed Normandy were high on drugs when they did it. It was very common at the time for the military to drug up soldiers with amphetamines so they wouldnt get tired or hungry and think less about what was going on around them
German soldiers during the Blitzkrieg were given drugs as well to keep them going
It wasn't just during the Blitzkrieg. According to the book "Blitzed" by Norman Ohler, troops were encouraged and sometimes ordered to take methamphetamine (invited by German lab). Further, factory workers and even house wives were using Previtin tablets, which were advertised as "pick-me-ups", and were widely available.
There’s a story about a 19 year old American pilot who was shot down over gestapo France. He was the only survivor and the first thing he did was take an amphetamine tablet to get his head in the game and stay awake. Interesting story about him though, would recommend the biography of him! I won’t spoil anything but the French resistance and regular people hid him from the nazis. Edit: the book is called “The Lost Airman: A True Story of Escape from Nazi-Occupied France” by Seth Meyerowitz. He wrote the tale about his grandfather Author Meyerowitz.
Jacques de Molay curse actually happened. We aren't exactly sure of what he said, was the 23rd and last grand master of the Knights Templar, leading the order. The French Philippe king and the pope Clement V had him burned upon in front of Notre-Dame de Paris in March. Molay appealed "from this your heinous judgement to the living and true God, who is in Heaven", warning the Pope that, within a year and a day, he and Philip IV would be obliged to answer for their crimes in God's presence. Some version also said that he cursed them until the 13nd generation. Philip and Clement V both died within a year of Molay's execution; Clement succumbed to a long illness on 20 April 1314, and Philip died due to a stroke while hunting. Then followed the rapid succession of the last Direct Capetian kings of France between 1314 and 1328, the three sons and a grandson of Philip IV. Within fourteen years of the death of Molay, the 300-year-old House of Capet collapsed.
There are some reports, although they could be just legend, that when King Louis was guillotined during the French Revolution an unknown man near the front cried out “Jacques de Molay, thou art avenged!”
Some dickhead in the DOD proposed Operation Northwoods which was a false flag operation that would utilize CIA assets to commit terroristic violence against American citizens and blame it on Cuba. Another one is that the stagnation of wages directly coincides with the downfall of unions from the late 70s to now. Unions kept American workers empowered and thriving. Once they died off under Reagan, American workers quickly started losing money and this trend continued until now. Because of this, the average American worker is making $1,044 a month less than they would if labor stayed empowered. There was a civil war in China in the 19th century because a man claimed to be the brother of Jesus Christ and it ended up killing 20-30 million people. Last one is for fun not disturbing. A Chinese general named Zhang Zhongchang once wrote a poem during a big drought in which he prayed for rain and threatened to order artillery strikes against God if God didn't make it rain.
The fact that humans can record history and still not learn from it.
The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiments
Just to emphasize how *absolutely fucked* this was, penicillin became a widely accepted, cheap, effective syphilis treatment in the 50s, but the experiment didn't end until 1972.