Surprising bits of history are perhaps the most fun bits of history, and here are a few tidbits curated by the Papergy review team.
1 Turkeys Were Once Worshipped Like Gods
2 Paul Revere Never Actually Shouted, "The British Are Coming!"
3 The Olympics Used to Award Medals for Art.
4 One Time, 100 Imposters Claimed to Be Marie Antoinette's Dead Son
5 Napoleon Was Once Attacked By a Horde of Bunnies
6 Women Were Once Banned from Smoking in Public
7 The Government Literally Poisoned Alcohol During Prohibition
8 Captain Morgan Actually Existed
9 Using Forks Used to Be Seen as Sacrilegious
10 The Titanic's Owners Never Said the Ship Was "Unsinkable"
11 There Were More Than 600 Plots to Kill Fidel Castro
12 Cleopatra Was Not Egyptian
13 Pope Gregory IV Declared a War On Cats
14 Mary Actually Had a Little Lamb
15 Richard Nixon Was a Great Musician
16 Lyndon B. Johnson Gave Interviews From the Bathroom
17 Ketchup Was Sold in the 1830s as Medicine
18 President Abraham Lincoln is in the Wrestling Hall of Fame
19 July 4th Isn't the Real Independence Day
20 Abraham Lincoln Was Also a Licensed Bartender
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