Did you give school history lessons your undivided attention? Even
if you did, youre probably none the wiser as to how exactly Henry
II of France came to have a two-foot splinter in his head or why
Alexandra of Bavaria believed she had swallowed a piano. Or where
terms like bunkum, maverick, John Bull and taking the mickey come
from; or how the Tsarina of Russia once saved a life with a comma;
or why Robert Pate hit Queen Victoria on the head with a walking
stick. For some unknown reason the most interesting bits of history
are kept out of lessons and away from syllabuses. Relegated to
historys footnotes, they lie buried beneath the dense text like a
few golden nuggets in a mountain of granite. Now The Interesting
Bits rights this wrong; it is a veritable treasure trove of those
surprising, eccentric, chaotic, baffling asides that dont fit
neatly into historys official narrative. They are historys
little-known treasures the gems that generations of teachers have
excised from lessons on the grounds that they might make history
too much like well fun.
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