22 Historical Facts You Didn’t Learn in School, According to Reddit
Where will you go to find amazing truthful facts from history, backed up by reliable sources and told with nuance? You may be shocked to hear the answer: Reddit. A unit called r / AskHistorians specializes in just this, and experts write detailed answers to questions about any area of history.
Some of the answers are simple, but often we find out that history is more complex than we thought, and that our assumptions about the past are not always correct. So let’s take a look at some of the things you didn’t learn in school.