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The famous Ancient Greek scientist Archimedes is known for many things but the manner in which he died in was quite strange. According to the most popular account of his death, when the city he was residing in was captured by the Romans he was busy contemplating a mathematical diagram. A Roman soldier came to him and commanded him to go to the Roman commander (he wanted him alive, you see cause he was smart) but Archimedes declined, saying he had to finish working on the problem. This enraged the soldier who cut down Archimedes with his sword. To add to all of this, to this day the last words attributed to the Greek genius are "Do not disturb my circles".
 
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Emperor Manuel sent his envoys to Antioch, proposing to recognize Raynald as the new prince if he launched a campaign against the Armenians of Cilicia, who had risen up against Byzantine rule.[12][15] Manuel also promised that he would compensate Raynald for the expenses of the campaign.[12] After Raynald defeated the Armenians at Alexandretta in 1155, the Knights Templar seized the region of the Syrian Gates that the Armenians had recently captured.[15] Although the sources are unclear, Runciman and Barber agree that it was Raynald who granted the territory to them.[15][16]

Always in need of funds, Raynald urged Manuel to send the promised subsidy to him, but Manuel failed to pay the money.[16] Raynald made an alliance with Thoros II of Cilicia.[17] They attacked Cyprus, subjecting the Byzantine island to a three-week orgy of violence in early 1156.[17] They only left Cyprus on the rumour of an imperial fleet approaching the island, but only after they had forced all Cypriots to ransom themselves, with the exception of the wealthiest individuals (including Emperor Manuel's nephew, John Doukas Komnenos), whom they carried off to Antioch.[17][18] Cyprus would never entirely recover from the devastation that Raynald's and Thoros's marauding raid caused.[17][18]
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I don't know if this counts as "obscure" but I love Raynald. He's such a piece of shit.
 
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Kennedy had a secretary named Lincoln and Lincoln had a secretary named Kennedy.

Hitler personally let one jew lived, his chauffer Emil Maurice, and he became friends with him back in the 20s. Emil found out that he's technically Jewish through his Great Grandfather. While they stopped being friends around the mid to late 20s, mostly because he was hitting on Hitler's half niece, he was still allowed to be in the SS and even after that gave him and his brothers the title of 'honorary aryans'. Himmler tried to persuade hitler out of this but failed to.
Maurice died in the 1970s.
 
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My favourite obscure historical fact is that in 1826, when then sitting president Andrew Jackson announced to the American senate that "we have a new state," they were shocked that Illinois was being populated so quickly by German colonists. They feared that if Germany ever became a country they would want the German diaspora in the US to become a part of Germany.
 
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Spartans were gay as fuck, to the point they had to force younger Spartan men to fuck their wives because they were more into buttsecks than vagina. They also dressed their women up as men in these situations to try and get the dude to do his job and procreate. Frank Miller's homoerotic undertones might have been unintentional but they were ironically very accurate.

So when you see some tacticool idiot make any kind of reference to Sparta or Spartans ask if they like being gay as much as their heroes did.
 
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Not my favorite, but it's weird and kind of relevant today.

From the 16th century and until the early 20th century, young boys in the West wore dresses and gowns until they were mature enough to fasten breeches or trousers. When a boy started wearing breeches, it was often celebrated with a 'breeching' party.

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Chocolate Wombat said:
Spartans were gay as fuck, to the point they had to force younger Spartan men to fuck their wives because they were more into buttsecks than vagina. They also dressed their women up as men in these situations to try and get the dude to do his job and procreate. Frank Miller's homoerotic undertones might have been unintentional but they were ironically very accurate.

So when you see some tacticool idiot make any kind of reference to Sparta or Spartans ask if they like being gay as much as their heroes did.
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King Leonidas was also married to his own niece, and she didn't bear him a child for a long time after they were together to the point that he had to take on a second wife, Leonidas even admitted there was no fault on the part of his niece.

A sane man might interpret that as him having an issue banging his direct family member, but personally I think it's just because he was too used to screwing other dudes.

And anyways, the word "spartan" is already a real word that means
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So it isn't just the tough guys, the English language itself recognizes them as significant and associated with austerity.

That is why I keep saying, it is gay to have sex with women. Once everyone is forced to admit that then all the rebellious young people giving in to globohomo to stick it to the man will start rebelling by pursuing the opposite gender again, and all the catboys and shit can stop repressing their homosexual urges and they'll probably be a lot more tolerable. The West saved.

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Not my favorite, but it's weird and kind of relevant today.

From the 16th century and until the early 20th century, young boys in the West wore dresses and gowns until they were mature enough to fasten breeches or trousers. When a boy started wearing breeches, it was often celebrated with a 'breeching' party.

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What, not even going to mention that that nigger at the bottom left is FDR?
 
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George Washington had fucking awful breath, due to chronic tonsillitis. As a result he took to speaking nearly at mumble-whisper volume. During his inauguration, nobody could hear a thing he was repeating as he was being sworn to office.

Matthew Broderick, while driving over in Ireland with his then fiancé Jennifer Grey, crashed and killed two people by turning towards the wrong lane, and got away with it scott free.
 
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Uberpenguin said:
That is why I keep saying, it is gay to have sex with women. Once everyone is forced to admit that then all the rebellious young people giving in to globohomo to stick it to the man will start rebelling by pursuing the opposite gender again, and all the catboys and shit can stop repressing their homosexual urges and they'll probably be a lot more tolerable. The West saved.
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So you want us to literally stick it to the man?
 
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Super Saiyan Hitler said:
Not my favorite, but it's weird and kind of relevant today.

From the 16th century and until the early 20th century, young boys in the West wore dresses and gowns until they were mature enough to fasten breeches or trousers. When a boy started wearing breeches, it was often celebrated with a 'breeching' party.

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This is the tradition that nick fuentes wants to return to
 
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