35 Forgotten But Fascinating Historical Tales

Over time, first through encyclopedias and now through social media we have learned a lot about our history. However, there’s still a lot that we don’t know regarding how things played out in the past. If you love to gain new knowledge about humankind’s history, especially the lesser-known aspect of things, this content shared on the Facebook page ‘The Historian’s Den’ may particularly intrigue you. We’ve combed through the page to find some of the most riveting little tidbits that are not so popular and shared them in the gallery below.

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MoBeLa: Her name was Nellie Bly. She also went undercover in a mental institution and exposed the horrors people were suffering there. She was one of the original investigative journalists.

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Fora Nakit: His name was Marcel Marceau, and he wasn’t mime at that time. He was just a French teenager trying to help as many children as possible. He became a mime because of those children.

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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa): Current literacy rate in the USA for comparison is 79%.

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G A: The late Queen’s Beekeeper had to do this, so still happens sometimes.

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Nils Skirnir: Europeans of that era were unclean by almost every other standard of the time. Indigenous Americans could reportedly smell the ships while they were miles offshore.

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sofacushionfort: In pursuit of beaver

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Verena: And most of them were killed because it was too expensive to return them, not as casualty in the war. Today horses are not treated better, they are killed off in cruel ways when people declare them useless. I have two adopted from rescue shelters. Anybody breeding horses beyond demand, starving and neglecting own horses, sending off horses to kill pens, or climbing in helicopters to kill them, should be forbidden to ever even lay eyes on a horse. And that includes getting all mushy about “war horses”.

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G A: Her mother was a chancer and a monster. She had another chancer who tried to gain power through her as chief advisor. Fortunately Vicky kicked them to the curb brutally. However her childhood governess still exerted considerable control until Prince Albert arrived and forced her out, too.

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Binny Tutera: Started as monks, ended up friars.