Cool historical facts

Semen tastes bitter.

I heard the romans or some other army were sometimes paid in bags of salt rather than currency

The US highway system was built as an infinite runway strip.

>>1574405
>we craved that mineral

>>1574405
No it wasn't

>>1574432

Yes, that's why so many of them have street lights alongside of them and turn quite often.

>>1574641
Yeah, that sounds super suspcious, because I can go to the ocean and MAKE salt.

a salt mine was a valuable resource in the old days
but was it really worth more than gold pound for pound at any point in history?

>>1575013
no, it was not. it's b8

In medieval times, gold was worth more than a lesser amount of gold

>>1574976
>MAKE salt
you mean GET salt

t. Alchemist

>>1574414
But a guy in /r9k/ that tasted his own said it tastes sweet.

>>1574405
Stale bait, retard

What is true is that during the reign of Enrico Dandolo in Venice until the sack of Constantinople in 1204, a pound of gold and a pound of salt weighed the same.

>>1575091
you sound salty

>>1575072
I wanna eat what he's eating.

The Dark Ages of Christianity halted scientific progress for centuries

>>1574422
I read that this is where the word "salary" comes from.

>>1574405
Christianity is what made Rome fall.

>>1575058
WAHT THE FUCK, NO IT WASN"T YOU FUCKING IDIOT, DO YOU KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT HISTORY???????

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>>1575091
What?

>>1575091
>a pound of gold and a pound of salt weighed the same.
I fucking hope so, or else we got bigger problems than cool historical facts.

Rome's name isn't actually Rome. Only high priests knew it and it was only spoken during secret ceremonies. The reason is that if they were to call the city by its real name, enemies would use it in their own rituals to curse the city. In 1st century BC, a Roman politician was even executed on Senate's order for openly saying Rome's real name.

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>>1574405
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_3wRicL-QI

Swords weren't actively used until the 13th century.

In the olden days, alchemists would try and turn lead into salt.

Judas was actually paid in salt, it was just mixed up due to a mistranslation.

>>1575655
Best comment

>>1575447
Pineapple

Gold could literally be found on the floor in Egypt.

>>1574405
I'm sure there were times and places where this was true. But it certainly was NOT true for many more places during many more times in the medieval period.

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>>1574405
>invented a stick they said

>>1574641
>Not knowing salt preserves your food and tastes good
>Thinking it is worth less than a shiny object
This is a history board...

>>1575715
>Trusting Lindybeige
Why?

As old as the pyramids were to the romans is as old as the romans are to us now.

>>1574405
>did you know that Rome fell because all Romans suffered from lead posioning because of the aquaducts?
>did you know that the Great Wall of China is visible from the Moon?
>did you know that the Nazis were days away from creating an atomic bomb?
>did you know that the Pyramids in Egypt were built by Jewish slaves before Moses freed them?
>did you know that people thought that the Earth was flat before Colombus?

>>1576079
Objectivelt wrong.
Last time there were true romans was 600 years ago

well, obvious one, but many people don't know it: swords were for the most time side-arms, and warriors carried several weapons

>>1575072
/r9k/ by itself is so bitter that anything tastes sweet

Romans believed they were able to conquer all those peoples because they were pious and gained the favour of the gods of the conquered.

>>1574405
did you know that if you were to switch J and K in J.F.K around, the F would still be in the same place

>>1574405
Swords are actually agricultural tools.

We wuz actually kangz.

Roman soldiers would be awarded a salt cellar for a successful campaign. Cellar is where we get the word salary from.

When Brennus sacked Rome he demanded salt and pepper. When the Romans complained about unfair weights, he threw his sword onto the scales and demanded garum (the Roman ketchup) as well.

the chinese were the first ones to actually invent forks

>>1575994
Part of its value comes from how scares and hard to obtain it is. You can literally walk up to the coast, scoop out some water, and leave that water in the sun for a day. Ta-da! Salt.

>>1576079
>>1576150
if you replace "the Romans" with "Cleopatra" he's right

>>1575690
Is it Reme?

The European sword is actually a bastardization of the Japanese katana. As the design traveled by word of mouth, people mixed it up and ended up with the ineffective design we see today, they didn't even know to fold it a thousand times.

>>1574973
Hes correct
I can't remember the ratio but its something like, for every 5 miles of road there has to be 1 mile of straight flat road so aircraft can do emergency landings should they crash

>>1575518
*tips fedora*

>>1576226
Well, here's a list of names that have been speculated to be the true name of Rome through the centuries. The truth is lost in time:
Antusa
Amarillis
Petra
Flora
Amor

>>1575072
Because he has the beetus

The word assault originally meant to rob an individual of the salt they carried. The offence was seen as so heinous that it was given its own term and carried a death penalty. Over time, as it became cheaper to obtain, the salt aspect was removed from the offence, and now it just means striking someone physically. But the word salt is still in there.

>>1575658
Gold is measured in Troy ounces and there are twelve Troy ounces in a Troy pound. A piund of feathers thus weighs more than a pound of gold. Silly, but true.

>>1576013
Because he's funny, he has a soothing voice, and he knows more about history than I do.

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>>1576112
>did you know that Rome fell because all Romans suffered from lead posioning because of the aquaducts?
nope, what is killing Europe is what killed Rome.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qh7rdCYCQ_U
>did you know that the Great Wall of China is visible from the Moon?
nope, it's not.

>>1576112
>did you know that people thought that the Earth was flat before Colombus?
Some people still do

>>1574422
They where not paid in salt as such. It was more of an added bonus. Like having a healthcare package in a modern job. It was a like a nation. It's true that the name was salarium and the word salary is derived from it but they are not directly connected.

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The Greeks had no word for the color blue.

>>1576013
This meme needs to end. He isn't that bad. Sometimes he makes fuck stupid points but generally he gets things right.

at no point in history did major parts of a real, major civilization actually believe that the earth was flat. [citation needed]

>>1576304
that's not a fedora argument. It's a fact.
i.e. why did people had to go into graveyards late at night dig out bodies in order to see what the human body looks inside. Because the church didn't allowed for such curiosity.

>>1574973
>>1576232
I'm the one who originally claimed the highways were airstrips.

It's not true. None of it is true. I thought that we were saying bullshit because that's what the OP was obviously doing. No one involved with the highways ever planned on them being airstrips. It's just a rumor with no basis in reality, same ever being worth more than gold by weight or that Roman soldiers got payed only in salt.

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>>1576226

No, it's "Gordie."

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>>1574405
>>1574422
>you think your bait can stop me

Casualty rates in battles haven't changed throughout history.
You were as likely to be killed at the Somme as you were at Waterloo or Hattin or Marathon

>>1575597
Closet and full blown atheists were just as salty then as they are now about mommy forcing them to go to church every Sunday.

Also, Romans applied salt in their buttcracks in order to prevent swamp ass during battle.

>>1576112
>did you know that Rome fell because all Romans suffered from lead posioning because of the aquaducts?
>all Romans
No
>This caused the fall of Rome
lel
>>>did you know that the Pyramids in Egypt were built by Jewish slaves before Moses freed them?
Only evidence of Hebrews being in Egypt is the Old Testament, which isn't the most reputable source.

>did you know that the Great Wall of China is visible from the Moon?

http://www.nasa.gov/vision/space/workinginspace/great_wall.html

>>1577288
It's called a joke you moron

When Julius Caesar arrived in Britain for the first time, he landed on the north-east coast, and the leader of a tribe of Celts called the Chavi approached him and went: "oi m8 u gettin cheeky or summat? just kiddin m8 wot it is rite, gizza fag tho m8 wot it is i just need 2 quid for the chariot so i can get home an' see me mam AW NICE ONE M8 YOUR SORTED YOU ARE M8 NICE ONE."

Julius Caesar left almost immediately, but soon returned with an army to conquer Britain and bring sophistication and culture to it's people.

>>1575072

I had to describe it as anything, it tastes like salty mushrooms with a grain of sugar.

>>1576222
>Not knowing you need salt to crystalize at a certain temperature and point of evaporation, which in a pre-modern society is hard to do
If you don't do this then the salt is carried along by the water vapor into the clouds which is rained down again into the ocean like a cycle

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>>1576739
>generally

>>1576761
>desecrating graveyards
Even during Roman times or really any times, digging up a body and examining it was very illegal

>>1576577
imagine this, a molinautist who can't get obvious sarcasm.

>>1576577
>watching wingnut propaganda

Wew lad

>>1577951
kek

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Danton did remain somewhat bullish to the end, and helped to bolster and support Fabre and Camille’s dwindling spirits on the way to guillotine. He mentioned how if he left his legs to Couthon and his brains to Robespierre they might remain in power a bit longer. And when it was his time to mount the scaffold, he made sure to remind the executioner to “show my head to the people, it’s well worth seeing”.

>>1576737

>Kyanos
>Glaucos

>>1576112
>colombus
no you idiot magellan did that

>>1576216
Thats ironic if true

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>>1578016
nice bait

>>1576739
Lindybeige go pls

>>1574405
In the old Germanic tribes, killing someone when he doesn't expect it was the highest virtue - especially if he believed you were his ally/friend.

>>1579755
Fuck off and stop killing this board you whiny cunt.

>>1576577

>only one factor killed rome

Can you faggots just shut the fuck up? You're as ignorant as the "normies" you claim to hate. Fucking retards.

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>>1579801
> only one factor killed rome

Charlemagne was a black man

>>1579810
What am i looking at here?

>>1579904
So was L. Ron Hubbard

Sumerians, Scythians, and Parthians were Turanic.

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>>1576185
This is what I come to /his/ for.

>>1579810
are you trying to refute his point? the anon was obviously pointing out it wasn't only the multicultural state rome had become in its last days that dissolved the empire, but many other instances and events.

The term viking actually comes from the norse terms for salt (vik) and raid (ing) because their primary goal was to gather salt from the villages they raided.

>>1580183
L. Ron Hoyabembe you mean

>>1576185
Thanks for the laugh anon

>>1580964
>delicious christian tears

>>1579711
Not bait. Do you not know how science works?

There is a strange Chinese tradition dating back to the days of the Silk Road, when they first got salt from the west, the Chinese thought it was sugar and put it in their tea. These high class Chinese were too embarassed to admit their mixup and claimed it was better that way, and so salt in tea is still drunk in some parts of China today.

>>1574405
Thats a lie

>>1579917
The 47 memes that killed Rome apparently.

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>>1579810
>Jewish Influence

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>>1579810
>Stress
>Rhetoric
>Jewish influence
>Bolshevization
>Communism
>Caste system
>Culinary excess
>Egoism
>Fear of life
>Excessive culture
>Excessive civilization
>Escapism
>Stoicism
>Socialism
>Public baths
>Proletarization

The 100 Year's War was actually started by England to gain access to France's salt mines. England's salt stores were running low and the king feared this would lead to chaos. In fact, all of Europe's major wars and disagreements can be linked back to salt in some way.

>>1575730
Your mom wasn't actively used until the 13th century.

>>1580964
LOL, vik=hike m8

>>1575743
*try to
try and would imply that they actually did it.
>>1576196
Garum is more like fish sauce, a natural flavor enhancer.
>>1576227
That's why it's called bastard sword.
>>1576480
Your system of measurement is screwed beyond belief.
>>1576737
A number of languages don't have a term for blue, or use the same word for blue and green. There are even languages that only have white and black, then some that also have red, and some that have other colors.

>>1581706
The English actually suffered from reular salt shortages throughout history until the World Wars, they've always had plenty of salt since then.

>>1581791
The bastard sword was the design that Europeans first attempted to copy the katana with.

It was very rare for anyone to live past the age of 30. Living past the age of 50 up until recent times was practically unheard of because almost everyone starved to death / got infected by some plague / got killed in some raid during all points in history until recent times.

IQ and height are cumulative after time and proper nutrition. Because people ate like shit back then, they were extremely short and stupid. People around Jesus time were probably 4'5" with IQ's in the 70's. By Socrates time they were 3'9" with IQ's of 60's. That's why religion was so impressionable back then on the masses and why Socrates seems wise to people back then even though he gave out basic bitch answers and questions.

Swords were rarely ever fucking used. Like holy shit, you dumb-fucks in Hollywood, no one could afford enough metal to make a full sword and tang. They mostly used spears and axes made out of pig iron aside from high kings and nobility.

Literacy was very rare in Ancient Greece and Rome. Only 1% of their population could probably read and write, and they were all mostly old boring admin guys. That's why all the works written by them were boring.

You know Plato and Aristotle, or pretty much all Classics of Ancient Greek writings (such as Homer, the tragedians and comedians, other epic and lyrical poets)? Yeah, they survived in thanks from Arabs and Muslims preserving them, cuz they were trying to expand their knowledge, when Christian Europe were practically destroying their texts because they were pagan. They literally translated all their texts and were responsible from saving them from extinction, and gave them back to the Europeans which kickstarted the Renaissance. You're welcome, you savages.

Native Americans gave Americans democracy. Ben Franklin saw how they formed confederations--which were completely unheard of to Europeans, which inspired them to give the States their own limited rights.

An 11th century European knight's lance could pierce a WWII tank armor when wielded properly.

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The aeroplane was actually invented in ancient Greece in 560BC by Apropellopses (from whom we get the word "propellor") but the Greeks couldn't think of a single practical use for it, so it remained a child's toy and was forgotten about until the Wright brothers (from whom we get the cover-band name "Wright Said Fred") independently invented the same vehicle for use in studying the Peruvian Nazca lines from the air.

Michael Wright was reportedly upset when he was introduced to the hot air balloon, an invention from 1783 by the Montgolfier brothers (from whom we get the word "mongoose"), saying: "Why did we spend our lives inventing this noisy, dangerous contraption, when we could've just used this gosh darned balloon?!"

>>1583197
Funny you bring that up. What many people don't know is that the Wright brothers actually had help with a critical aspect of construction.
Their first trials failed because the Flyers wings kept tearing mid-flight. They were desperate and at their wit's end. A man approached them and offered a solution to the problem. He proceeded to drill small holes into the wings. And it worked. The Wright brothers were completely flabbergasted. After the first successful flight trial, they thanked the man and asked him how he got that idea. He replied:
"You see, I work in the toilet paper industry. The damn paper never rips where the holes are."