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30 Odd And Funny Historical Things Via Twitter You Should Not Miss

Not all historical events make it to textbooks. Many incidents are swept aside to make way for the bigger ones. But when we excitedly continue to discover more about our past, we begin to find these then-insignificant stories much more interesting. Besides, we learn that the past was just as hilarious and weird (and a bit scary) as the present.
When you learn history in school, it seems like you just memorize random facts and details about important historical figures. It makes you tired. Thus, you are more likely to forget the knowledge soon. Discovering a few weird historical facts along the way makes the history subject so much more fun to study. Twitter account Weird History has tweeted numerous bizarre, funny stuff happening in the past. It is a channel that can help you expand your intellectual mind and have a good time all at once.
We have gathered thirty best odd and funny historical things via Twitter. We believe they are too helpful and funny to be missed. Check them out now!

#1. Same place, same memory, 58 years later.

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#2. "If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're misinformed." - Mark Twain

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#3. Suffragette showed off her pants in 1916. Ooh, la la.

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#4. For Nigerian weddings, it's traditional for the guests to match the wedding colors.

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#5. During the WW2 Nazi occupation, Denmark managed to save 99% of their Jewish citizens (over 7,500) by smuggling them out to neutral Sweden.

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#6. Until 1930, Boston Children's Hospital kept cows to provide fresh milk.

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#7. Quite possibly the oldest surviving women's purse in the world (14th C. Northern Iraq).

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#8. Polish resistance fighters during the Warsaw Uprising. They fought the Nazis for 7 weeks without any outside help.

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#9. Mary Fields was the first African-American woman (second woman overall) in the postal service, which evidently was a far more dangerous job back in 1895. (a.k.a "Stagecoach Mary")

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#10. Kurdish girls' school in Iran, shortly before the revolution.

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#11. One of the first female fighter pilots - Turkish aviatrix Sabiha Gökçen in the cockpit, 1937.

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#12. The spires of Medina look like a city from Star Wars.

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#13. Proud designers of the first USS Enterprise model, 1965.

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#14. Internet cats from 1914.

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#15. First experience with television in a shop window, 1948.

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#16. Portrait of a Roman family, in gold leaf, sandwiched between two thin layers of glass (a popular style in the Ancient World).

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#17. The ancient hills of Tuscany.

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#18. The oldest known human face, carved in mammoth ivory over 25,000 yrs ago.

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#19. Wreck of the Swedish warship Mars, well preserved after 500 years thanks to the cold and low oxygen waters of the Baltic Sea.

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#20. In medieval times, it was common to repair damaged vellum pages by sewing or embroidering them together.

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#21. What 1900 people thought life would be like in the year 2000: radio and television (basically).

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#22. Ancient Roman children's leather shoes.

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#23. Cappuccinos are so named because they're similar in color to the robes of Capuchin monks.

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#24. Elizabeth first appeared on a banknote in Canada in 1935, 17 years before she became queen.

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#25. Couple on a two-person bicycle, 1886.

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#26. Ancient Greece designed an analog computer that used 37 gears to predict the positions of stars and planets (shown with modern replicas).

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#27. Greek coin from 500-465 BCE. Or maybe House Greyjoy from the Iron Islands?

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#28. Officers of the Titanic before sailing.

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#29. Petra in Jordan has a lot more than the famous building front carved into rock. It was a large ancient city with a population of thousands.

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#30. Traditionally, the people of Florence have peed in the Arno River with gusto, knowing that their rivals from Pisa lived downstream.

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