Here’s a list of facts you won’t learn in school — the kind that challenge what you think you know:
---
1. The Great Pyramids Were Once Shiny White
The pyramids of Giza were originally covered in smooth, polished limestone, reflecting the sun like giant, glowing structures. Time and looting stripped them of their outer casing, leaving the rough stone we see today.
---
2. Ancient Civilizations Knew About Electricity
The Baghdad Battery, an artifact from around 200 BC, suggests ancient Persians may have experimented with electrochemical energy — long before Benjamin Franklin’s kite.
---
3. The Roman Empire Never Really Fell
Though historians mark 476 AD as its "fall," the Eastern Roman Empire, known as Byzantium, lasted another 1,000 years until 1453. Roman law, culture, and engineering influenced Europe long after.
---
4. The Dark Ages Weren’t That Dark
The idea of a "Dark Age" is misleading. In the Islamic world, mathematics, medicine, astronomy, and philosophy flourished during this time — influencing the European Renaissance.
---
5. Human Bones Were Once a Medicine
In 16th and 17th century Europe, people ground mummies, skulls, and bones into powders, believing it could cure diseases — even royalty took it.
---
6. There’s a Hidden Ocean Beneath the Earth’s Crust
Scientists discovered a massive amount of water locked in ringwoodite rock, around 400 miles beneath Earth’s surface. It holds more water than all the oceans on the surface combined.
---
7. Napoleon Wasn’t Short
The famous general stood about 5’7” — average height for his time. The myth came from a mistranslation of French measurements.
---
8. Vikings Didn’t Wear Horned Helmets
The horned Viking helmet is a myth invented by artists in the 1800s. Real Viking helmets were practical, rounded, and hornless.
---
9. Some Dinosaurs Had Feathers
Not all dinosaurs were scaly reptiles. Many species, including relatives of the Tyrannosaurus rex, had feathers, linking them to modern birds.
---
10. The Library of Alexandria’s Knowledge Wasn’t Completely Lost
While the library was tragically burned, much of its knowledge survived. Scholars like Clement of Alexandria and Hypatia preserved ideas that spread through Byzantium and Islamic civilizations.
Facts We'll Not Learn In School And Never Learn In School......