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Historical Facts you mightv'e not known about
« on: September 04, 2014, 12:44:50 am »
The guy who invented Kindergarten, served in the Prussian Freikorps

Carrots were originally purple but to appease the Prince of the Oranges house Dutch farmers changed them to be orange

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« Reply #1 on: September 04, 2014, 01:20:13 am »
I'm just going to throw this here for the lolz.
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« Reply #2 on: September 04, 2014, 01:30:01 am »
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Odd that he was with Marilyn Monroe a week before he died, seeing as Marilyn Monroe died in '62, and JFK was assassinated in late '63  :o

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« Reply #3 on: September 04, 2014, 01:55:54 am »
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Yeah, that's mostly bullshit. Lol.

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« Reply #4 on: September 04, 2014, 02:21:06 am »
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Yeah, that's mostly bullshit. Lol.
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Re: Historical Facts you mightv'e not known about
« Reply #5 on: September 04, 2014, 10:05:56 pm »
Carrots were originally purple but to appease the Prince of the Oranges house Dutch farmers changed them to be orange

You stole that from my sig.
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« Reply #6 on: September 04, 2014, 11:16:08 pm »
Carrots were originally purple but to appease the Prince of the Oranges house Dutch farmers changed them to be orange

You stole that from my sig.

Actually it's a known fact in history that I read in a book once a while ago...

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Re: Historical Facts you mightv'e not known about
« Reply #7 on: September 05, 2014, 02:36:14 am »
fuckin dutch ruined carrots for medieval reenactors.
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« Reply #8 on: September 05, 2014, 06:58:23 am »
fuckin dutch ruined carrots for medieval reenactors.

haha lol

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Re: Historical Facts you mightv'e not known about
« Reply #9 on: September 05, 2014, 08:12:29 am »
Here's a nice fact about WW1.

Apparently, when the war began, neither side issued helmets to their troops.  They would walk around the trenches in their caps, or in the Germans' case, leather made Pickelhaubes.

Only around 1915 steel helmets were introduced, and there's quite a hilarious story about it. You see, by this time, the British generals realised a lot of their men were sent to hospital with head wounds, so they implemented the helmets. However, after the men were given these helmets, the number of men listed as 'wounded in the head' increased fivefold.

Incredibly enough, the generals thought the men were stupid, and began popping their heads over the parapets more often. Ergo, they pulled an order to remove the helmets.

Only a few smart people actually realised that the number of soldiers sent to hospital increased because they DIED LESS. The helmets deflected shrapnel, thus only hurting the user, rather than having him killed.

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« Reply #10 on: September 05, 2014, 08:31:02 am »
That actually is a pretty cool tidbit of information. Thanks for sharing.

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« Reply #11 on: September 05, 2014, 09:09:41 am »
Here's a nice fact about WW1.

Apparently, when the war began, neither side issued helmets to their troops.  They would walk around the trenches in their caps, or in the Germans' case, leather made Pickelhaubes.

Only around 1915 steel helmets were introduced, and there's quite a hilarious story about it. You see, by this time, the British generals realised a lot of their men were sent to hospital with head wounds, so they implemented the helmets. However, after the men were given these helmets, the number of men listed as 'wounded in the head' increased fivefold.

Incredibly enough, the generals thought the men were stupid, and began popping their heads over the parapets more often. Ergo, they pulled an order to remove the helmets.

Only a few smart people actually realised that the number of soldiers sent to hospital increased because they DIED LESS. The helmets deflected shrapnel, thus only hurting the user, rather than having him killed.

im not sure thats entirely true... I have seen relics of helmets from 1914 im pretty sure, from the French.

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Re: Historical Facts you mightv'e not known about
« Reply #12 on: September 05, 2014, 09:38:26 am »
Here's a nice fact about WW1.

Apparently, when the war began, neither side issued helmets to their troops.  They would walk around the trenches in their caps, or in the Germans' case, leather made Pickelhaubes.

Only around 1915 steel helmets were introduced, and there's quite a hilarious story about it. You see, by this time, the British generals realised a lot of their men were sent to hospital with head wounds, so they implemented the helmets. However, after the men were given these helmets, the number of men listed as 'wounded in the head' increased fivefold.

Incredibly enough, the generals thought the men were stupid, and began popping their heads over the parapets more often. Ergo, they pulled an order to remove the helmets.

Only a few smart people actually realised that the number of soldiers sent to hospital increased because they DIED LESS. The helmets deflected shrapnel, thus only hurting the user, rather than having him killed.

Haha, did you perchance hear that from the lindybeige video? You recited that like word for word. Very interesting fact all the same.



Edit: Oh, and his second video on the subject, just for extra interest

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« Reply #13 on: September 05, 2014, 11:19:53 am »
A similar thing happened in the pacific war between Japan and the USA.

It was noticed that a special sort of aircraft (don't know which it was exactly, probably the corsair) of the US naval aviation was often found with very damaged wings when the planes came back from action. So they decided to strengthen the wings' armor. Then suddenly the number of aircraft which got destroyed increased however the number of aircraft coming back with damaged wings decreased.

It turned out that the aircraft who were not destroyed but came back with damaged wings did so because other parts which were not so resistant against enemy fire got damaged and then the planes crashed. Those pilots who came back with only damaged wings were lucky.
And by strenghening the wings' armor the plane got heavier and easier to kill for enemy fighters.
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Re: Historical Facts you mightv'e not known about
« Reply #14 on: September 05, 2014, 03:03:07 pm »
France had the first idea to make the Panama Canal.