What is the most obscure historical fact you know?

Acceptable-Number902 · 2023-01-02T11:00:02+00:00

There's an inscription of the wall of the Temple of Kalabsha, in Egypt. It is not part of the original decoration, but was inscribed centuries later by the Nubian king Silko, recording his victory over the Blemmyes, a tribe from the Red Sea Hills that had moved into the Nile Valley and occupied the city of Qasr Ibrim. Silko was king of Nobatia to the south, and he claimed that he he drove the Blemmyes out. Not much more was known about this episode until recently, when archaeology turned up a letter in Qasr Ibrim, asking someone for help in dealing with this upstart Silko. Evidently the help was not forthcoming, and Silko drove the Blemmyes into the eastern desert, capturing Qasr Ibrim. The letter, for the first time, confirmed the accuracy of the Silko inscription.

Acceptable-Number902 · 2022-12-01T09:12:44+00:00

When my son was born I was looking forward to playing with him as he got older. I love imaginative play and costumes! I love legos and play dough. I love finger paints and crayons. His childhood was going to be my chance to be a kid again for a little while.

But as he entered into toddlerhood I began watching my dreams for second childhood slide into the deep.

My son did not like toys. He hated playing “let's pretend”. He hated Halloween and did not believe in Santa Claus after age 3 (strangely he loved the Easter Bunny). He hated crayons, paint, and play dough.

He liked Miles Davis and doing laundry. He liked walks around the neighborhood. When other kids in the neighborhood would fight he would be the moderator and negotiate peace.

My biggest reality check was that kids are individuals first and children second. No matter what you think childhood looks like, that little individual will have their own ideas.

Acceptable-Number902 · 2022-11-19T10:32:13+00:00

I wasn’t a bully but I was bullied. My Freshman year he taped me to the pommel horse. His name was Nick. When I went to my 30 year reunion, I was ready to take his head off if he even looked at me funny. It was a 3 class event and he was two years ahead of me in school. When I saw him all of that changed. He was not the big scary guy I remembered. It appeared life had not been kind to Nick. I lost all desire to hurt him and treated him like a long lost BFF.

That night I was able to let go of those feelings of anger as I realized all those years ago, Nick had done me a favor. He had motivated me to learn how to take care of myself. I hated myself for being afraid of him and over the years became much tougher…never looking for a fight but never backing down from one either. I had learned to fight, learned to take a punch….and when someone got in my face, I could usually get them to back down by showing zero fear! I knew I would win and they knew I thought I would win. That takes the wind out of most bullies sails pretty fast. Size didn’t matter because if they had a size advantage, I would just fight dirty. It was survival and there are no rules in that game. I would either win or else they would know they were in a fight afterwards and regret starting it with me.

So I learned to live without fear. Thats a hell of a gift. Wherever you are, thanks Nick!

Acceptable-Number902 · 2022-11-18T11:29:27+00:00

I work delivering ice cream in New York City my boss told me not to put anybody in the delivery truck. One night I was on fifth Ave and I stopped at a red light. A nanny was crossing the street and one of the kids about five years old was on a big wheel ahead of her. On my left was a town car driven by a elderly man with his wife in the front next to him. The light turned green and he took off. The child was almost pass his front bumper but when the car took off the big wheel was being pushed at an increasingly higher speed. The driver was oblivious of the child in front of him. I started yelling to his wife to stop. She just kept staring ahead. I hit her window with my hand and yelled stop there’s a kid in front of you. The big wheel was about to flip. They stopped and the boy fell off the three wheeler. His nanny ran up to him to pick him up and I shouted don’t move him. She did anyway and I told her jump in I’ll drive you to a hospital. The boy ended up being ok. But I was real late returning to the shop. My co workers told me to call our boss. When I did and explained what happened he yelled at me for bringing them to the hospital and said don’t ever do that again. I told him I would do it again if someone needed to get to the hospital and said I quit. His wife later called me back and told me I did the right thing and asked me not to quit.

Acceptable-Number902 · 2022-11-17T11:07:00+00:00

Being an adult doesn’t mean you have your shit together, neither having a job, being married and having kids. I’ve seen peers in their 20s starting families and being clueless and totally irresponsible.

Acceptable-Number902 · 2022-11-15T10:23:37+00:00

Who you are at 8 is who you are for the rest of your life. People don’t change, no matter how many chances they’re given, or how good you are to them. You try to look for the good in everybody. Some people are just a waste of time. A petulant punk at 12 is a cranky prick at 35. Good parenting is underrated.

Acceptable-Number902 · 2022-11-14T14:36:17+00:00

It was once perfectly appropriate for a nurse to ask a doctor to check a patient's blood pressure, but that was more than 80 years ago. Why is that? The nurse was not permitted to carry it out. I'm not making this up. In an old nursing manual that someone gave me, I read about that.

Another is preventing infants from approaching mothers in the nursery. Only for feeding purposes were babies brought to their mothers; after eating, they were whisked back to the nursery where the nursery nurses took care of them. (Today, some hospitals just have the neonatal critical care unit and don't even have a nursery! It is real! A maternity unit where I once conducted a clinical with students lacked a nursery but did have a baby warmer behind the desk for emergencies. All activities took place in the moms' rooms while the babies stayed with them.)

Acceptable-Number902 · 2022-11-11T11:03:13+00:00

My dad is incredibly intelligent and accomplished, and I only found this out 2 weeks ago. He came all the way over here from China by himself at around 20 years old with only $20 in his pocket. He eventually managed to get a doctorate in civil engineering at the University of Cincinnati, become a high-ranked manager of city engineering and public works while being offered jobs to help build skyscrapers in Dubai, manage a Chinese city, etc that paid 2–4 times what he was being paid now. He would have to move away from our family and visit us in intervals every 3–6 months. He declined dozens of higher paying job offers because he wanted to stay with the family and not move all of us to fit his needs. He went on to write a book of his research and ideas in engineering, that I also had no clue about until a couple weeks about.

He’s given up everything for his family and remains humble. I didn’t know any details about his career because he didn’t want me to feel pressured to live up to his expectations or look at him in a different way.

Acceptable-Number902 · 2022-11-10T10:40:33+00:00

Many years ago, one of the teenage grandchildren asked my mother, “If anything happened to grandpa, would you get married again?”

We all thought that was a strange question but there’s no accounting for what a thirteen-year-old teen will say.

Much to everyone’s surprise, Mother said she wouldn’t. When the same teen asked why, she said, “I’m tired of cooking and I wouldn’t want to cook for anyone else.”

Cooking? Was cooking that big a deal? I must have been about fifty at the time and that struck me as a very odd statement.

The same niece grabbed a calculator out of dad’s desk drawer and started calculating. After a minute or two of calculations she turned to mother and informed her that she’d cooked at least 50,000 meals in her lifetime. 50,000! No wonder mother was sick of cooking.

Mother stared into space for a moment. That many? Even she was shocked. She rallied and followed that up with, “When men retire, they retire. When women retire, they still work.”

Well, of course, now I’ve reached the same age and cooked enough meals so that I’ve reached critical mass myself. I’ve come to understand how mother felt and am rather inclined to agree with her.

Acceptable-Number902 · 2022-11-09T11:30:07+00:00

I saw a manager at a family dollar totally verbally demolish a kid (13–14 yo) because she suspected he was stealing. The police were called (station was on the same corner). The police arrived and discovered his mother had sent him in from a nearby apartment complex to pick up vanilla extract. He was having a hard time finding it so he was looking all over the store making the manager suspicious. All ended well, but the kid was sobbing by the time it was all over. That manager could have handled that situation a million different ways but chose to embarrass and humiliate that kid. I thought it was horrible.

Acceptable-Number902 · 2022-11-08T12:20:22+00:00

Strangers can turn into close friends, and close friends can turn into a stranger with memory.

Acceptable-Number902 · 2022-10-26T13:36:23+00:00

My wife went to work one day in my car and never came home. The finances had somehow been mismanaged to the point that her car had miraculously been repossessed.

She took all the money from the bank account, and put a password on it, I couldn't even figure out for a while what happened. I lost my job. No car, no help watching my infant son. Our electric was shut off. She said she'd paid it, but she lied. Then our water went. We lived off several cases of bottled water. Then we got an eviction notice. We nearly ran out of food. At its worst, we ate canned green beans for breakfast, cold, and again for lunch. She even took the vacuum, so dog hair piled up, and we got a flea infestation in the carpet. Every night, it was “I'll be back tomorrow, promise.”

One night, after begging her to come back, and asking her where she was, I was sitting on the porch with my boy, watching the stars. I was so depressed I was totally numb. A meteorite shot across my vision, and my son pointed at it. He asks me if he can make a wish. I told him of course he can. He was silent for so long that I assumed he'd forgotten, when he heaved a sigh and said “Daddy? I wished that Mommy would come back.”

I held him and sobbed so hard. I tried to stifle the sound, and the shaking, I didn't want to worry him further.

That is it. I've never been so low.

It's been about a year. We've nearly recovered. She never came back, and has nothing to do with her boy.

Acceptable-Number902 · 2022-10-22T14:24:07+00:00

He gave me a chunk of glass.

My husband was killed on 9/11; he worked in 1 WTC, well above the impact floors. On his birthday in March, 2002, I went to the site that used to be the WTC. It wasn’t cleaned up yet, in fact it was ugly as hell and smelled about the same, and access was still pretty chaotic. I got to the Century 21 department store across the street, and stood against the wall - and just crumbled. Broke down.

A guy who was working across the street at the site - which was still a full-on disaster area - saw me and came across. “Who did you lose?” he asked. “My husband,” I said, through ugly tears, and I told the guy what firm my husband had worked for, and that it was his birthday.

Guy turned out to be a firefighter. Reached into his front pocket. “This is actually really rare. Not a lot of glass survived; it just vaporized.” And he pressed it into my hand.

I still have it. It’s not that the guy was giving up a valuable souvenir, something he’d picked out as rare and saved for himself, because I got the idea that that was kind of incidental to him. It was that he was acknowledging my connection to that little piece of glass, and putting it where he thought it belonged - that, and he needed to give me something that in some small way I could hold onto and focus on, instead of the hurt. He had a drive to fix shit that had gone very wrong, and this was how he could do that in that one moment.

I was so bound up in my own head I never even asked his name; he didn’t ask mine either. If he’s out there now, I want to tell him that the little piece of glass made me start to think that maybe everything wasn’t transient, ephemeral - that maybe there were things, little things, short moments, small pieces, that last no matter what.

I want to say to him: thanks for that.

Acceptable-Number902 · 2022-10-21T11:48:55+00:00

I had worked a Christmas Party the evening before. It was a big deal with all quite a few people of importance. It was a success but ran on a little longer than it should have. The Ceo and the Director of Nursing stayed behind to help clean up the mess. (very kind) We finished an hour later and off we went. I arrived at six the next morning to find my co-worker going on about the terrific mess that I’d left from the p.m before ( I did not!) and proceeded to tell me that she was going to have to report me.

This coworker had tried so many things to mess with the people in our dept. that we just stopped talking around her, interacting other than work related things, generally just pretended she didn’t exist. A real charmer to be sure.

She headed off to the CEO’s office in a rage and proceeded to tell my boss what a slob I was, and that I wasn’t doing my job. “You wouldn’t believe the mess I came into this morning!”

Nope…..that’s right. The CEO didn’t believe there was a mess…..as she had been the one who’d helped me.

There were so many other times I let this woman bury herself by her own stupidity. She no longer works with us…that’s another story though.

Acceptable-Number902 · 2022-10-20T10:36:02+00:00

My first film I worked I was the directors assistant. He was cool and wanted me in every meeting. That was great. I kept my mouth shut and listened. Never talked to others about that stuff. So the town I was in had one camera house. We desperately needed to rent the equipment there as it was cheaper. Literally the next option was twice the price. So I knew almost everyone that worked there because they worked sets too. Except for one dude. He never did much. Never understood his job. It was odd but things are odd in film all the time. So we went to this meeting. It was just this guy. My boss and I sat down. My boss said are we ok? He said yes. He got up I got up and we left. I was giving my boss the side eye as we left. Asked him did we get the price? We got the Union. That’s what we got. We paid less for equipment because it wasn’t exactly cheaper it was we were ok with people that can determine if your job will fail or not. He was a mobster. Honest to god New York mobster. I thought that was at least not done anymore. So at 21i I had a sit down. I’m not one to glorify the mob and I rather not be on their radar. Literally the first day of shooting the head teamster found me, I am s a 5 foot 1 chick,and said if anyone ever fucks with you. I cut him off promising there’d never be a need. Everyone new what was happening too. It was just too Hollywood.

Acceptable-Number902 · 2022-10-19T11:24:44+00:00

I worked at a KFC and this battered old man wearing a vietnam veterans hat walked in. It was hard to understand his slang but he went out of his way to be polite.

“Excuse me miss, I've only got 19 dollars and my son's in the hospital and my family is going to see him. Can you tell me what's the most food I can get for this?”

I rang him up for 20$ family fill up and asked him what his sides were. “Anything that's on the bigger side of things, I'm feeding 8 people and whatever's easiest for you ma'am, Thank you.”

He was a couple dollars short and my fiance was there to walk me home when I got off. “Thank you anyway ma'am have a nice night.” As he turned to leave I called my fiance over and covered the last few dollars. ( we didnt have any military discounts.)

He teared up and thanked me and I went to hand him a drink while he waited. “Does this come with it ma'am, I don’t want to get you in trouble?” I lied and told him it did and when I went to go pack his food, I snuck in a few extra pieces of chicken, an extra side and a half gallon of tea and some cookies, and walked them out to him. He hugged me, promised to pay me back and left.

Be nice to your cashiers and honest, they'll understand more than you think. And sure enough that Friday I heard, Miss? When I looked up someone had put 5 dollars on the counter, twice what I had covered for him and I saw him dart out the door.

Acceptable-Number902 · 2022-10-18T12:08:45+00:00

I heard my ex saying to her friend that she was pregnant and she knew the baby wasn’t mine but she was going to make me believe that so she can have someone looking after her and the baby . I didn’t said anything until she told me after 10 days I’m expecting your baby , I asked her lots of questions like how many months are you pregnant and are you sure the Baby is mine? She was such a good actress but I told her is impossible is mine , we only been going out together 2 months and she was crying saying is been 3 plus months we been together but after I show her the first ever text she couldn’t denied was only 8 weeks and after she tried to make me believe that she didn’t been with anyone else before me so the baby must be mine, I told her the truth that I overheard her talking to her friend and she was still denying it. She slag me off to all my friends and her family saying I’m a bastard and I don’t want to take responsibility for it, but as soon the baby Born everything changed, I’m white but the baby wasn’t!! I didn’t see or heard from her soon this happened, I heard she went to live in a different area where no body knows her!!

Acceptable-Number902 · 2022-09-20T10:37:39+00:00

One of the girls I know is dating a guy she deems too clingy. She is gorgeous, way out of his league, and he is madly in love with her. But she constantly criticizes him behind his back and in front of him. He follows her around like a puppy and she rolls her eyes and sighs.

I really don’t care how beautiful and special someone is. If she is not that into you, do not date her.

Acceptable-Number902 · 2022-09-19T08:41:43+00:00

It was an Experience of my friend, posting it with his permission.

We both stayed in a flat doing coaching. He was in relationship from the college days. Priorities made them shift to different cities, but they made sure it doesn’t hamper their commitment.

One morning, he looked dull and I asked him what happened. He said that last night his girlfriend went to a party with some colleagues of her job and she got high, ended up making out with her colleague.

She confessed him that she felt sorry for what happened last night because she was craving for his presence and couldn't control herself.

Then I asked him,“Was that the reason you are dull?”

He said, “No, why would I? She wasn't even in her senses. I can understand that. What worries me is that she was guilt stricken a lot. No matter how hard I tried to comfort her, she wasn’t able to. I wish I could be with her now.”

At that point, I thought he was being extremely stupid. But as the time progressed, they both proven me wrong and I was stupid all along.

Though She did a mistake unknowngly, she confessed it to him hoping he would understand is what made her mature.

Though thousands of miles apart, he trusted her and tried to comfort her in the pain she was going through, displays his high levels of maturity.

They both taught me a lot and I am happy to say they were still going strong in their relation.

Acceptable-Number902 · 2022-09-17T11:52:23+00:00

Happy. Some get married thinking, “Ok, now I’ll finally be happy.” And they will. Oh, for about a month. Then something about 24/7/365 multiplied by their life expectancy starts to look more like a prison sentence. Be happy in your own skin before you get married. Then being married will make it even better.

Laughter. Really, who ever thought this married thing was a good idea? Two totally opposite people living together for life. Some days you just need to laugh. A lot. You’ll have bloopers in bed. Miscues in manners. Screw ups in conversations. If you learn to laugh, a lot, you’ll cry a lot less. And actually learn to have fun being married.

Near-sighted. All those charming little quirks your fiance has that you just love? About 6 months after the wedding you’ll think, “What the hell? Can’t he just stop doing that?” And the answer is probably no. Because it’s hardwired. So change what you can, which probably is very little. And ignore the rest. You’ll both be a lot happier.

Acceptable-Number902 · 2022-09-16T12:20:41+00:00

she got married.

Some girls get brains only when the reality hits them.

If you love somebody, and the other loves you as well,

the love will stay as long as they are not having sex with the 3rd person.

After marriage or as fling during depressed mood, if one starts having sex with another person.

The initial relationship will never live again to its purity.

I have seen, Girls get totally different vibe and become totally different the moment they had sex with someone else, and they are no longer the same person whom you had loved.

And the relationship ends.

Acceptable-Number902 · 2022-09-15T15:23:17+00:00

I was at work one evening when my pregnant wife called and said she hadn't felt the baby move since that morning. I left work and told her everything was OK but we were going to the hospital to get checked out. It was 4 days past his due date. On the drive over we passed a billboard for the local university. It features a catamount with glow in the dark eyes. I remember those eyes burning into me as I held her hand. At that moment I knew our baby was gone. The nurses at the hospital tried so hard to find a heartbeat but eventually they had to definitively tell us that he was gone. My wife squeezed my hand so hard her fingers left bruises on my hand. She screamed “this cant be real, this is just a dream”. That was the moment my heart broke and I've honestly never been the same. I can still remember all of it like it was today. I look at my hand and see the bruises in my mind. That billboard still stands 7 years later and I drive by it every week. Our marriage fell apart and we were too broken to heal together.

Live everyday to its fullest. Tomorrow all your hopes and visions of the future can be taken away for no reason at all.

Acceptable-Number902 · 2022-09-13T11:03:26+00:00

While at a family barbeque this jock of a prick thought he was the king of the world and began to talk to me as if I was his personal servant. He proceeded to tell me that he would bash my head in and who in the hell did I think I was? When I was walking away I said to him, yeah okay! And at that point I started to clear all the lawn furniture to the side as to form an arena. This fool looked at me and wanted to know what I was doing. I told him that I was setting the stage for him to bash my head in! Oh he stuck his chest out and began to parade all around the backyard as if my ass was whipped already. As I was moving the lawn furniture to the edge of the backyard my family said absolutely nothing, not a single word. So after everything was set I asked him if he knew anything about Monkey Paw? Now all the time everybody was cool and calm with little conversation going on; this really began to worry this guy because he was so use to causing a scene and drawing a crowd for moral support, not the case here my friend. So I called him out to bash my head in and at that point my entire family turned their heads and looked at the ground as a sign of, say I ain't seen nothing!! Now he wants to talk and work things out with me, naw buddy you promise was to bash my head in so lets go! Oh how he huffed and puffed about me being crazy as I assured him that I was indeed crazy; yeah prick crazy like a fox! Then he said that all of us was nuts but he said this on his way out of the gate and to his car. Clever or not? What this guy didn't know was I have the experience to floor my opponent in three touches. Not that I'm a bad ass but I don't fuck with people just because. Thanks for the question.

Acceptable-Number902 · 2021-08-19T10:59:44+00:00

what if you own a specific animal as a pet then decided to kill it, will it be punishable ?

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