# 99 Little Known Facts About World History

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [January 20, 2006, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/99-little-known-facts-about-world-history/340871 "2006-01-20T19:44:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![Hugh\_Jass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/4da419/32.png) [@Hugh\_Jass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hugh_Jass)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2006, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/99-little-known-facts-about-world-history/340871/101 "2006-01-28T18:24:42Z")

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In _Apocalypse Now_, Marlon Brando’s famous line was originally “Great Googly Moogly,” and not “the horror.”

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**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2006, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/99-little-known-facts-about-world-history/340871/102 "2006-01-28T18:37:56Z")

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> [@fetus](#):
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> 1. The “guy” that Jimi Hendrix wanted to kiss while he famously asked us to excuse him was…Buck Henry.

Ok now I have a mental image of Jimi Hendrix and Buck Henry making out.

And I find that strangely arousing.

I need help.

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**Author:** ![Governor\_Quinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@Governor\_Quinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Governor_Quinn)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2006, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/99-little-known-facts-about-world-history/340871/103 "2006-01-28T18:47:03Z")

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1. Contrary to popular belief, the top of the Empire State Building was not build for airship mooring, but, rather, in an attempt to puncture a hold in the Earth’s atmosphere.

2. The first tunnel connecting the UK with the rest of Europe was made of Swiss cheese, and stayed functional for roughly 45 minutes before it flooded with water.

3. The most effective European army of the 20th century, based on performance compared to size, was the Bulgarian armed forces.

4. The fire in 1937 that destroyed the Fox film archive and the 1967 fire that destroyed a vault at MGM were both started by… notorious film hoarder Raymond Rohauer. He wanted to increase the value of the films he owned.

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**Author:** ![Yeeter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/96bed5/32.png) [@Yeeter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yeeter)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2006, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/99-little-known-facts-about-world-history/340871/104 "2006-01-28T20:40:58Z")

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This is why I don’t trust history books. What if the authors are just like the rest of you/us jokers?

1. History from The Dark Ages is not unknown and unrecorded, it is just uninteresting and uneventful.

2. History does repeat, not just for the people that don’t study it, but for everyone. This is the source of deja vu; the feeling of familiarity in an unfamiliar place. The peculiar thing is we should all be feeling deja vu constantly instead of occaisionally.

3. Justice in the Middle Ages was sometimes cruel and brutal (read funny). People who were convicted of spreading rumors had masks bolted onto their heads, with exaggerated large ears and long tongues to represent hearing too much and talking too much. 😃

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