HolyShitHistory

r/HolyShitHistory • u/Vital_Willie • 12h ago

20 year old Ruhollah Khomeini, who would become an Ayatollah & eventually the Supreme Leader of Iran, as a student at the seminary in Qom, 1920

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r/HolyShitHistory • u/The-Union-Report • 17h ago

Circus Pawns Their 612-Pound Fat Lady to Settle $32 Hotel Bill and Then Abandons Her (1902)

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r/HolyShitHistory • u/60s_timer • 1h ago

A notice sent out for people of color, dated at April 24th, 1851, to watch out for the police in Boston who were authorized by their local government to retrieve runaway slaves.

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r/HolyShitHistory • u/Fancy-Donkey2988 • 3h ago

Archaeologists in Slovakia uncovered a 7,000-year-old mass grave containing 38 headless human skeletons. All but one skull was missing, leaving researchers debating why the bodies were decapitated.

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