14 Funny Tumblr Posts That Also Have Wild Historical Facts

Mind-blowing facts with a side of snarky responses. 2. Sam Bartram, a goalkeeper for the Charlton Athletic, once stood alone on the field for 15 minutes because he didn’t realize the game had been called off due to heavy fog. (It should be noted that this photo isn’t actually of Bartram, though.) 3. Advertisers avoided buying radio ads at first because they seemed intrusive. 4. There was a silk monopoly in the sixth century until two Byzantine monks smuggled silkworm eggs out of China. 5. A man once had the hiccups for 68 years. For about half that time, he was hiccuping about 40 times a minute. 6. In 1896, a train company crashed two locomotives as a publicity stunt. The locomotives exploded (of course), and the debris killed two people and injured dozens more. William Crush was fired the next day over the stunt, but after backlash from the public he was rehired and subsequently worked at the company until his retirement. 7. An AI program designed to identify bread and pastries is now used for everything from cancer detection to jet engine repair. 8. If mirrors have a color, it’s green, because glass reflects green light more than…
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