7 Eye-Opening Pieces of History They NEVER Taught You in School

History can be pretty gross and brutal at times, and even though it’s important to learn from the mistakes of our past, there are some historical events kids just aren’t ready to find out about.

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Christopher Columbus obviously wasn’t the first European to make it to the American continent, and he actually never set foot in modern-day USA, as its thought he only ever visited the Bahamas, Haiti and Dominican Republic. For various reasons Youtube doesn’t like it when we mention a certain group of German people and their leader who terrorised the world between 1939 and 1945. If your beloved Grandpa passed away how would you grieve him? We’ve all got at least one creepy uncle in our family, you know, that one who leers at you over the Christmas dinner table, licks his lips too slowly, and gives you twenty bucks to not tell anyone about what happened that time in the shower.Boston Corbett is known as the man who shot the man who shot Abraham Lincoln, as on April 24th 1865, nine days after Lincoln was killed by John Wilkes Booth, Corbett’s regiment was sent to apprehend the assassin, eventually cornering Booth and his accomplice David Herold in a tobacco barn in Virginia.Did you ever wonder why we call women who sell their bodies for sex Hookers?The Diary of Anne Frank offers a harrowing personal account of what life was like for Jewish people under the Fancy regime. odd unknown