23 Messed Up Historical Facts That I Definitelyyyy Didn’t Learn In School

Pelican Press · August 4, 2024

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23 Messed Up Historical Facts That I Definitelyyyy Didn’t Learn In School

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asked, “What’s a creepy fact you wish you never learned?” and people had a ton to say about world history that was wildly disturbing. Here are 23 facts you probably did not learn about in school.

NOTE: This post contains graphic descriptions of ********* and ******.

1.The ***** atrocities during WWII are well-documented, but few seem to

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Josef Mengele’s experiments on twins. Reports suggest he performed tests on 732 pairs of twins at Auschwitz, mainly on the topic of inherited genes and attempting to prove that ******* and Roma people were genetically weak. Survivors remember children having organs and limbs removed without anesthesia, other children getting murdered and then dissected, and still others getting injected with *********.

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One child remembers being brought into Mengele’s lab: “I was looking at a whole wall of human eyes. A wall of blue eyes, brown eyes, green eyes. These eyes, they were staring at me like a collection of butterflies, and I fell down on the floor.” Mengele also allegedly

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threw a newborn infant into an oven because it was not a twin. After the war, Mengele

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to South America. He was never caught and brought to justice. He lived until 1979.

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Mengele also experimented on people with dwarfism and other physical differences, along with Roma people. One victim remembers Mengele forcing a Roma woman and a person with dwarfism to have ****.

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2.We cannot speak about WWII war ******* without mentioning Japan’s Unit 731. They conducted atrocious experiments on (mostly ********) prisoners of war, many on the

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of how much the human body could withstand before ******. Many of the leaders were

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the US in exchange for the results of their experiments. Among other things, we know

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to treat frostbite due to Unit 731.

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3.And then there’s the horrors that occurred at Pitești Prison in Romania after the war. Between 1949 and 1951, the ********** Party

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, humiliated, and ******* political prisoners,

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of them young anti-********** students

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by the Soviets, in a “reeducation” experiment where victims had to “unmask” themselves and become supporters of the Community Party. The victims were forced to renounce all religious beliefs, eat ******, and ******** each other, among other horrific tortures. The experiment was led and carried out by guards and other prisoners.

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(Consiliul National pentru Studierea Arhivelor Securitatii), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

4.Before you think testing on prisoners only happened abroad, you should read up on Holmesburg Prison in Pennsylvania. Dr. Albert M. Kligman

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dermatological experiments on prisoners for over two decades, exposing them to carcinogenic compounds, radioactive elements, ********* and infections such as *******, and more. The prisoners were paid a small amount, but many did not understand what they were consenting to. These lasted until the mid-1970s.

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It’s

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that ******** medical testing still happens in ********* prisons today — for example, in 2021, it was alleged that high doses of ivermectin were tested on four inmates in an Arkansas prison with COVID-19 without informing them.

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5.And then, of course, there was the

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(though this was not done with prisoners), where scientists studied ********* in 600 ****** men (201 were controls that did not have the ********). None of them were told they had ********* or understood what they were being treated for, and none of them were given penicillin, which was a readily available and effective treatment for their ******** post-1943. Researchers

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convinced local physicians not to treat the men — they studied them at the above Tuskegee Institute instead.

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The experiment lasted 40 years and continued until the 1970s — it only ended because the Associated Press broke a

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on it. Its last member

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in 2004; overall, 128 had ***** either from ********* or related complications, and the ******** had been passed on to 40 spouses and 19 children. The government did not apologize until 1997.

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6.The US

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STI experiments in Guatemala in the 1940s. The study was done on over 5,500 prisoners, **** workers (so that they would transmit the ******** to others), soldiers, children (as young as one), and psychiatric patients. Over 1300 of them were purposefully infected with *********, gonorrhea, or chancroid, and only some received treatment.

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7.In another unethical ********* experiment, the government set out to discover just how unsafe radiation

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as they began developing the atomic *****. They ran tests on terminally ill patients where they exposed them to different radioactive elements (like polonium, plutonium, and uranium) to see what would happen and how long it would stay in their blood. Patients were most likely not aware of what they were receiving — and many were not actually terminally ill. Human experiments with radioactivity

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into the 1950s — subjects ranged from

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to jailed people to pregnant mothers, most of whom did not know what was being done to them.

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Albert Stevens was one patient who was not actually terminally ill — he had been misdiagnosed with ******* when, in reality, he just had an ulcer. He later became known as the

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radioactive person alive due to the amount of radiation in his body as a result of the experiments (6,400rem over the years, yet he lived until 79). He was

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told he had been exposed to plutonium nor that he did not, in fact, have *******.

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8.One more ********* test…during the Cold War, the CIA tested out if mind control was possible using drugs like **** (and methods like electroshock and

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) in a project called

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. Who were these tests done on? ********* prisoners, prisoners in foreign detention centers,

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in psychiatric hospitals and schools, and unwitting CIA agents themselves. Some of the victims were

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and

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.

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how many ***** or were permanently altered as a result of these experiments — which did not prove the possibility of mind control, though mind erasing seemed to occur. One ****** we do know happened because of MK-ULTRA was that of CIA agent Frank Olson, who jumped out a window

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being sent to a retreat where he was given **** without his knowledge. The CIA covered up the true nature of his ****** for decades — and when Olson’s body was exhumed many years later, there was evidence he had actually been thrown out the window, leading many to believe the CIA ******* him due to his knowledge.

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9.Another victim of MK-ULTRA? Notorious Boston mob boss ******* Bulger. As a young man in prison, he was given **** over 50 times. After his release, he would go on to lead the Winter Hill Gang, whose ********* wreaked havoc on Boston for decades. He was eventually convicted of 11 murders, among other charges.

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10.Let’s move on from the US for a bit. You’ve probably heard of the musical Evita, and you may even know that it tells the story of Eva Perón, who was the second wife of the president of Argentina, Juan Perón. But I doubt you know the journey her body went through after she ***** of ******* — first, Juan

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to build a giant monument to display her body. When he was forced into exile as a result of a coup, the new regime ordered Eva’s body be *******, though they didn’t want anyone to know where lest she become a revolutionary symbol. They stored her corpse in trucks, military locations, behind a cinema, etc…before it came into the possession of Major Arancibia, who reportedly engaged in necrophilia with the corpse and then shot his wife in the throat when he was discovered.

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The corpse then went to Colonel Carlos Eugenio de Moori Koenig, who allegedly also had feelings for her and had his officers **** on her when the corpse did not return his affections. Her body was finally returned to her husband Juan, who was now remarried, though a freak accident ******* the transporters. The couple kept Eva’s body on their dining room table. His wife Isabel would comb Eva’s hair and sometimes lie beside her. Juan eventually became president again, with Isabel succeeding him after his ******, and she had the corpse displayed. She was eventually ******* in her family’s mausoleum, though another freak accident during transport again ******* all three men accompanying her body. She currently resides in her fortified tomb, which has a trapdoor and fake coffins to distract from Eva’s real one.

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11.In a somewhat similar story, a man named Carl Tanzer, who worked at a Florida hospital, became infatuated with a young tuberculosis patient named Maria Elena Milagro de Hoyos in the 1930s. He

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Maria to be the dark-haired woman he’d dreamt about for years. After she *****, he bought her a mausoleum and visited her constantly for two years before deciding to take her body home with him. He used wax, plaster, silk, and

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to refurbish her decaying body and lived with her for seven years. He allegedly also placed a tube in her ******* for ************. He was finally found out after he was seen dancing with the corpse through his window.

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12.This is more sad than creepy, but there’s

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that all of the crew members aboard the Challenger space shuttle survived the initial ********** and may even have been conscious until the passenger cabin hit the ocean. Robert Overmyer, NASA’s lead investigator,

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: ‘I not only flew with [Commander] ***** Scobee, we owned a plane together, and I know Scob did everything he could to save his crew. Scob fought for any and every edge to survive. He flew that ship without wings all the way down.'”

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13.And the people of Pompeii weren’t ******* instantly — most of them

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in the 15 minutes following the **********, suffocating from burning ash and gas. Some Pompei victims ***** not from suffocation but

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the temperature of this gas, which boiled their blood until their skulls exploded.

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14.Women

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give birth upright. We give birth lying down now not because of any medical advantage but because in the 1600s, France’s King Louis XIV popularized the practice. He preferred this position so he could see his children being born better. It’s

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this was also a “*******” or that there was a “perverted” reason.

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15.The “father of modern gynecology,” J. Marion Sims, is

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for inventing many techniques used in modern gynecology. How’d he develop these techniques? Testing them, without anesthesia, on enslaved ****** women. One woman, Anarcha, had 30 surgeries performed on her. The speculum and rectal examination positions used today are both named after him, and a statue of him in Central Park was only taken down in 2018.

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16.In the early 1900s, many women

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employed painting watches because of their smaller hands. The paint contained radium, which the women were assured was not dangerous. They were even instructed to lick the brushes — like you might do now with thread — to get them to a fine point. But soon, the women became ill and ***** horrifically, with

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literally being eaten away from the inside out.

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17.Speaking of Radium, it used to be used quite commonly. It

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makeup, toothpaste, hair creams, and food.

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18.Valery Khodemchuk’s

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are still inside the reactor four building at Chernobyl. He was working in one of the engine rooms when the reactor exploded. His body has never been found.

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Vladimir Shashenok also ***** while attempting to rescue Khodemchuk.

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19.In 1999, a smaller-scale but still-deadly nuclear accident

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in Japan

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three workers were purifying uranium oxide. They put too much uranium in the tank, causing a nuclear chain reaction that released a deadly amount of radiation. Two of the workers, Hisashi Ouchi and Masato Shinohara, ***** as a result, but not until later. Ouchi, who received the largest blast of radiation, was

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for 83 days while he experienced the truly horrific effects of the radiation, which included his skin literally melting from his body. He had multiple heart attacks, but his family kept resuscitating him against his own wishes.

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20.The US has

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nuclear weapons, and they’ve had 32 official “broken arrow” nuclear ******* accidents. And we

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have good numbers on how many ******* nuclear weapons have been lost. Former secretary of the Russian Security Council, General Alexander Lebed,

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there might be over 100, though Russian officials denied this.

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21.This one’s more of a creepy coincidence than a disturbing fact, but it still freaks me out. While

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was

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for 3,000 fans at Shrine Auditorium in LA in a filmed performance for a Pepsi ad, a pyrotechnics display was set off too early, setting Jackson’s hair on *****. He was rushed to the hospital, having

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second-degree burns. The creepy part? This happened almost

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halfway through his life. He was 25 years, four months, and 29 days old. About twenty-five years, four months, and 29 days later, he’d be *****.

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22.Speaking of Jackson — the like “Annie, are you okay?” from “Smooth *********” was

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to be inspired by the CPR ******, which actually has a name: Resusci Anne. The ******’s face is based on a 16-year-old woman’s corpse that was pulled from the Seine in

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in the 1880s. The pathologist who performed the autopsy made a plaster mask of her face, which became famous as “L’Inconnue de la Seine” (the unknown woman of the Seine) in

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. When the first CPR ****** was created, one of its inventors was inspired by a L’Inconnue de la Seine mask after seeing it in a friend’s home. Oh, and ever wonder why the CPR ****** was originally a woman? Most doctors were male, and the inventors thought they’d prefer to press their lips to a fake woman’s lips rather than a fake man’s lips.

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23.And finally, one last wildly disturbing fact…slavery is still widespread today. In fact,

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in every 200 people is enslaved — over 40 million people. This is over three times as many people as were enslaved during the entirety of the transatlantic ****** trade. Modern slavery (which is most common in ******* and Asia but occurs in every single country) often includes forced labor, forced marriage, and **** trafficking. The slavery industry makes around $150 billion a year.

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What are some messed-up and disturbing historical facts that keep you up at night? Let us know in the comments below or

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