What's your favorite history fun fact?

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Quinn 👽✨️ · Accepted Answer

The peace sign was actually a negative symbol while the Swastika was a positive one. Somewhere down the line they became switched. I can't remember the details but an older history teacher from high school shared it with our class and I've always remembered it.

Shelby · Answer

None of the "witches" executed in Salem were burned at the stake. 18 of them were hanged, 1 of them was pressed to death via stone weights, and a couple others died from natural causes while being detained in jail (though it can be argued that the unsanitary conditions of the jail contributed to their death)

Dan · Answer

That the capital Tallinn of Estonia in the old language means Danish Town.   And Berlin in the old German language means Bear.

What's your favorite history fun fact?

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That the capital Tallinn of Estonia in the old language means Danish Town. And Berlin in the old German language means Bear.

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Non so voi, ma se mi chiedessero di sintetizzare in un'immagine la voglia di cambiare il mondo e nello stesso tempo l'ingenuità giovanile, citerei sempre l'ordine del giorno di un'assemblea studentesca: 1) rivoluzione mondiale 2) varie ed eventuali