{"id":12238,"date":"2012-07-16T21:49:19","date_gmt":"2012-07-17T04:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/?p=12238"},"modified":"2013-06-07T13:52:55","modified_gmt":"2013-06-07T20:52:55","slug":"8-history-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2012\/07\/8-history-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"8 Amazing History Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pf-content\"><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/8-Amazing-History-Stories-copy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12239\" title=\"8 Amazing History Stories\" src=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/8-Amazing-History-Stories-copy.jpg\" alt=\"History Stories\" width=\"620\" height=\"9126\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/8-Amazing-History-Stories-copy.jpg 620w, http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/8-Amazing-History-Stories-copy-340x5005.jpg 340w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Embed This Infographic<\/b><br \/>\n<textarea style=\"width:550px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2012\/07\/8-history-stories\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"History Stories\" src=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/8-Amazing-History-Stories-copy.jpg\" alt=\"History Stories\" width=\"620\" border=\"0\" class=\"nopin\" \/><\/a>[Source: <a href='http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com' title='Interesting Facts'>Today I Found Out<\/a>]<\/textarea><\/p>\n<span class=\"collapseomatic \" id=\"id69f169c253dcf\"  tabindex=\"0\" title=\"Expand for References and more Information\"    >Expand for References and more Information<\/span><div id=\"target-id69f169c253dcf\" class=\"collapseomatic_content \">\n<p>1. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2012\/02\/this-day-in-history-christopher-columbus-tricks-native-jamaicans-into-giving-him-supplies-by-using-his-knowledge-of-an-upcomming-lunar-eclipse\/\" title=\"Christopher Columbus lunar eclipse trick\" target=\"_blank\">Christopher Columbus Tricked Native Jamaicans Into Giving Him Supplies by Using His Knowledge of an Upcoming Lunar Eclipse<\/a><br \/>\n2. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2012\/05\/this-day-in-history-future-u-s-president-andrew-jackson-kills-charles-dickinson-for-publicly-calling-jackson-a-worthless-scoundrel-a-poltroon-and-a-coward\/ \" title=\"andrew jackson facts\" target=\"_blank\">Future U.S. President Andrew Jackson Killed Charles Dickinson for Calling Him a \u201cWordless Scoundrel, a Poltroon, and a Coward\u201d<\/a><br \/>\n3. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2012\/01\/julius-caesar-was-once-kidnapped-by-pirates-who-demanded-a-ransom-of-20-talents-of-silver-caesar-insisted-they-ask-for-50\/\" title=\"Julius Caesar facts\" target=\"_blank\">Julius Caesar was Once Kidnapped by Pirates Who Demanded a Ransom of 20 Talents of Silver.  Caesar Insisted They Ask for 50<\/a><br \/>\n4. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2012\/01\/january-23rd-one-of-the-last-instances-of-a-testimony-of-a-ghost-being-given-credence-to-in-a-u-s-court-trial-takes-place-in-the-murder-of-elva-zona-heaster\/\" title=\"Ghost Testimony\" target=\"_blank\">A Ghost\u2019s Testimony was Used as Key Evidence to Convict a Man of Murder<\/a><br \/>\n5. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2012\/01\/january-5th-alexandre-dumas-fights-in-his-first-duel-during-which-his-pants-fall-down\/\" title=\"Alexandre Dumas duel\" target=\"_blank\">During his First Duel, Alexandre Dumas\u2019 Pants Fell Down<\/a><br \/>\n6. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2011\/12\/a-real-life-white-whale-that-destroyed-over-20-whaling-ships-and-survived-encounters-with-another-80\/\" title=\"Moby Dick Facts\" target=\"_blank\">The Real Life White Whale that Helped Inspire \u201cMoby Dick\u201d, Destroying Over 20 Whaling Ships and Surviving Encounters with Another 80<\/a><br \/>\n7. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2011\/11\/the-tunguska-event-a-1908-explosion-estimated-at-1000-times-more-powerful-than-the-atomic-bomb-dropped-on-hiroshima\/\" title=\"Tunguska Event\" target=\"_blank\">The Tunguska Event, a 1908 Explosion Estimated at 1000 Times More Powerful than the Atomic Bomb Dropped on Hiroshima<\/a><br \/>\n8. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2010\/10\/the-united-states-once-planned-on-nuking-the-moon\/\" title=\"Carl Sagan Nuke the moon\" target=\"_blank\">The United States Once Planned on Nuking the Moon<\/a><br \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Embed This Infographic [Source: <a href='http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com' title='Interesting Facts'>Today I Found Out<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":12240,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2781,20],"tags":[221,2838,567,1315],"class_list":["post-12238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured-facts","category-infographic","tag-history-2","tag-history-stories","tag-infographic-2","tag-infographic-facts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12238"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22550,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12238\/revisions\/22550"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}