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George Washington was such a beefcake as a teenage boy that a local girl once stole his clothes when he was bathing in the river so she could ogle his nude bod from the bushes while he searched for them.

Wot Zit Too Yah0996 said:
Mussolini was named after Benito Juárez, a Mexican lawyer, President, and (I think) revolutionary.
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Yes, he was the one that ran Maximiliano and the French out of Mexico.
Incredibly cursed backstory name
Classical liberal republican for a fascist
 
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During WW1 the king of Spain, Alphonse 13th, maintained neutrality and imposed a total media blackout on the war to prevent the population from picking sides on it and potentially pressuring the government to join the war.

Unfortunately for him, his mother was Marie Christine of Hasburg was member of the german nobility while his wife, Victoria of Battenberg was niece of King George. During the war both women were constantly pressuring him to pick a side on the war and get embroiled into it.
 
General Patton said:
It also reminds me that the scariest movie I ever saw wasn't a horror movie, but a documentary about all the bugs you have that live in your house.
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It shouldn't be scary, though. I mean, maybe they look a bit scary when magnified with an electron microscope, but consider this.

No matter how lonely you think you are, there are entire civilizations of innocent creatures depending on your existence. You have millions of tiny friends. Maybe billions. Maybe trillions.

You should take solace in that.
Ughubughughughughughghlug said:
George Washington was such a beefcake as a teenage boy that a local girl once stole his clothes when he was bathing in the river so she could ogle his nude bod from the bushes while he searched for them.
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Murrica would have never ended up a god-tier country had we not started out with a genuine Chad for a leader.
 
AnOminous said:
It shouldn't be scary, though. I mean, maybe they look a bit scary when magnified with an electron microscope, but consider this.
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I don't like the idea of some tiny bug climbing on me when I'm sleeping, lol.

Actually on second thought, never mind. If that fact about spiders climbing in our mouths while we sleep is true, that is way worse.
 
Here's a scary fact for you:

Not all cooks in restaurants wash their hands.

My source: the horror stories my mom used to tell me about a cook she knew at a restaurant she worked at who used to scratch himself and kept cooking all the time.
 
Long before cheerleading was teen girls and young women flopping around in skimpy outfits (and society saying "ah yes this is normal and good") doing stupid dance routines, cheerleading was a male thing.

Quite surprising to me.

And the kind of cheerleading was basically a ROWDY LAD getting the crowd JACKED by leading chants and shouts and what not.

Sounds based. Cheerleading should make you want to go kill shit and start fires.
 
Hanno II 'The Great"
from Carthage is often assessed and debated by historians and archaeologists to this day whether he truly earned the title "The Great" given that he is the one that fucked up Carthage to lose the first Punic war by demobilizing the Carthaginian navy giving Rome the chance to rebuild and ultimately win the war.
Then during the 2nd Punic War, he led the faction that opposed supporting Hannibal Barca's army even AFTER The Battle of Cannae.

Ultimately he died before the 3rd Punic War (Where Rome genocided Carthage) but due to his fuck-ups in 1st and 2nd Punic War...
well...
 
One of the significant military figures during the Spanish Civil War on the commie side was Valentín Gonzalez Gonzalez, known better as "El Campesino" (The peasant).

Leftoids like to harp on him like he was a valiant war hero that emerged from the lowest and got to the highest point someone like him could be on virtue of being brave and competent. But the truth is that he was a coward that costed the Spanish Republic their most humiliating defeat.

He was the son of a farmer and since he was young he fixated on the figures of folk heroes. When he was 16 he killed 14 policemen by leaving an explosive device on their HQ and he fled to the mountains for a couple of years. When he was 18 he was drafted and sent to the war in Morocco.

There he was put in jail for killing his superior officer and he deserted to join the moroccan rebels. But shortly after his defection they lost the war and he was captured, being released shortly after. After that he became a leader of the communist militias in Spain on virtue of having military experience. Despite that he was an oaf that couldn't read a map and he had the reputation of being particularly cruel and reckless with his troops. Most of the operations he was involved ended in failures, being the most important the battle of Teruel where he fled the city the day before the battle.

When the war was over he was an exile in the USSR. He claimed that Franco killed 6 million spanish leftists in retaliation for the civil war.
 
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