- George Washington Carver invented peanut butter.
- the civil war was fought over slavery
- Napoleon was very short.
- Christopher Columbus was a good guy and people around his time thought the Earth was flat
- you won't be able to use calculators or computers in the real world
- Blood depleted of oxygen is blue, and that's why your veins are blue.
- We only use 10% of our brain.
any good ones to add??
. The Weimar Republic collapsed because people lacked confidence in the markets
This small tidbit in my history textbook about the Weimar Republic and money printing has pissed me off ever since I read about it and learned properly about how central banks and inflation works. They claimed that the government tried to print money to 'boost confidence in the markets' but it 'didn't work' and that was it, that was their explanation for a government whose incompetence gave rise to Hitler. When in reality it was their hyper inflationary policies and constant money printing that was a major cause in him being able to get power in the first place, they fucking covered it up in a school textbook.
whoa interesting, nice add