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Where do you go to find surprising true facts from history, backed up by solid sources and told with nuance? You may be shocked to hear the answer is: Reddit. The sub called r/AskHistorians specialises in exactly this, with experts writing in-depth answers to questions about any area of history.
Some answers are straightforward, but often we learn that history is more complicated than we thought, and that assumptions we make about the past aren’t always correct. So let’s take a tour through some of the things you didn’t learn in school.
Football was deadly until Teddy Roosevelt’s day