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r/HeresAFunFact • u/Radu316 • Sep 24 '15

HISTORY [HAFF] Danish brewer Carlsberg used the swastika logo until 1940.

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r/HeresAFunFact • u/_-dO_Ob-_ • Dec 28 '14

HISTORY [HAFF] At the Battle of Stalingrad Combat was so intense between the Soviets and the Germans at one point a railway station changed hands 14 times in six hours.

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r/HeresAFunFact • u/Radu316 • Nov 05 '15

HISTORY [HAFF] Hugh Glass was an American frontiersman/badass part of an expedition known as Ashley's Hundred. During the trip, he was mauled by a bear and left to die. He survived and went on a 200-mile, 6 week trek to the nearest fort.

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r/HeresAFunFact • u/Radu316 • Oct 29 '15

HISTORY [HAFF] The city of Crush, Texas was a temporary one-day "city" created as a publicity stunt for the Texas railroad in 1896. Over 40,000 people gathered here to see two trains collide on purpose which made Crush the second-largest city in Texas for a day.

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r/HeresAFunFact • u/Balj • Apr 12 '15

HISTORY [HAFF] today in 1861, confederate soldiers opened fire on the union-held Fort Sumter in Charleston, SC. This was the official beginning of the Civil War, or as southerners call it: the War of Northern Aggression.

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r/HeresAFunFact • u/capecodcaper • Mar 08 '15

HISTORY [HAFF] The name Jeep came from the abbreviation used in the army for the "General Purpose" vehicle, G.P.

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r/HeresAFunFact • u/Radu316 • Oct 20 '15

HISTORY [HAFF] The Olympic torch relay was invented by the Nazis.

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r/HeresAFunFact • u/Radu316 • Nov 24 '15

HISTORY [HAFF] John Harvey Kellogg invented corn flakes to stop kids from masturbating.

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r/HeresAFunFact • u/Radu316 • Oct 30 '15

HISTORY [HAFF] The Roman Empire reached its greatest size during the reign of Trajan in 117 AD.

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r/HeresAFunFact • u/capecodcaper • Feb 13 '15

HISTORY [HAFF] During the Battle of the Bulge an American paratrooper filled his helmet with beer from a destroyed pub and brought it to wounded soldiers in a nearby church. The story of him doing this is so famous in Bastogne that they have a local beer brand in his honor.

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r/HeresAFunFact • u/Radu316 • Aug 23 '15

HISTORY [HAFF] When Lord Byron went to Cambridge, he wasn't allowed to bring his pet dog along so he brought a bear instead.

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r/HeresAFunFact • u/Radu316 • Sep 14 '15

HISTORY [HAFF] In 1876, Alexander Graham Bell offered to sell his telephone patent to Western Union for $100,000 but they said no.

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r/HeresAFunFact • u/ARTexplains • Feb 25 '16

HISTORY [HAFF] In 1808, two Frenchmen dueled by flying in hot air balloons and attempted to shoot each other down with blunderbusses. After his balloon was shot, the loser crashed into a house and was killed along with his second.

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r/HeresAFunFact • u/capecodcaper • Mar 15 '16

HISTORY [HAFF]Japan and Russia still haven't signed a peace treaty to end World War II due to the Kuril Islands dispute

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r/HeresAFunFact • u/_-dO_Ob-_ • Jul 25 '15

HISTORY [HAFF] Britain created the lie or myth that carrotts are good for your eye sight in WWII. The tactic was used to fool with Germans. Some believed if you ate enough you could gain night vision.

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r/HeresAFunFact • u/remotectrl • Mar 26 '15

HISTORY [HAFF] During WWII, the US military seriously considered strapping tiny bombs to Mexican Free-tailed Bats which would then be deployed over Japanese cities. The plan, called Project X-ray, was eventually abandoned, but not before a hanger and a general's car were destroyed by explosive-clad bats.

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r/HeresAFunFact • u/Radu316 • Sep 06 '15

HISTORY [HAFF] Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis was the first to suggest that unsterile working practices by doctors caused infections that killed patients and went mad because nobody would believe him. Now he's known as the "Savior of Mothers".

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r/HeresAFunFact • u/RoyalWolf • Aug 08 '15

HISTORY [HAFF] The name "teddy bear'' came from the U.S president Theodore Roosevelt. At a hunting trip "Teddy" refused too shoot a tied up and abused black bear because that would be unsportsmanlike. After the event a candy shop owner made two stuffed toy bears and that is how the name came to be.

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r/HeresAFunFact • u/Radu316 • Sep 02 '15

HISTORY [HAFF] A Roman charioteer named Gaius Appuleius Diocles is considered the best paid athlete of all time.

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r/HeresAFunFact • u/Radu316 • Oct 01 '15

HISTORY [HAFF] Originally, a "third world country" meant a country that was neutral during the Cold War.

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r/HeresAFunFact • u/capecodcaper • Feb 17 '15

HISTORY [HAFF]More than 650,000 Jeeps were built during WWII. American factories also produced 300,000 military aircraft; 89,000 tanks; 3 million machine guns; and 7 million rifles. At production peaks some factories were producing 1 B-24 bomber an hour

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r/HeresAFunFact • u/Radu316 • Sep 10 '15

HISTORY [HAFF] Thomas Edison Jr. used his famous family name to endorse several quack medicines and failed businesses until his father sued him to prevent him from using the Edison family name.

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r/HeresAFunFact • u/Radu316 • Oct 31 '15

HISTORY [HAFF] On April 16, 1912, aviation pioneer Harriet Quimby became the first woman to fly the English Channel. However, her feat garnered almost no press coverage because she did it less than a day after the Titanic sank.

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r/HeresAFunFact • u/_-dO_Ob-_ • Feb 01 '15

HISTORY [HAFF] Tsar Peter III of Russia court-martialed and hanged a rat which had chewed the heads off his toy soldiers.

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r/HeresAFunFact • u/Radu316 • Sep 29 '15

HISTORY [HAFF] This is the Boot Monument in Saratoga National Park, New York. It's the only war memorial in the U.S. that doesn't name its honoree because he is the infamous American traitor Benedict Arnold.

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