Random Thursday

 

Today wraps up our section on History and Politics in Shane Carley's True Facts That Sound Like Bull$#*t! There's just one chapter left in this book and that's literally a Potpourri category, so anything goes!

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Did you know that one of Julius Caesar's mistresses was Brutus' mother?!

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Apparently, the book thought people though that Mt. Rushmore was way older than it is. Mt. Rushmore was completed in 1939, so it's only 83 years old today.

I kind of thought it wasn't like wayyy old. Though I'd still like to see it one day.

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In The Battle of Karansebes, the Austrian army mistook tone of their own armies for their enemy and lost up to 10,000 soldiers.

 

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In 1893, Australia tried to create a New Australia in South America. It ended up being a colony in Paraguay.

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Did you know that estimations put about 0.9% of the U.S. population in jail at any one time?