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"Blue zones" are areas with a large number of people who live to age 100 or older. Many people have written about the supposed healthy lifestyle of these areas. But new research has shown that these blue zones may not be real. In fact, they could actually have lower life expectancies, in addition to lower incomes and higher crime. All those people living to 100? It's possibly just the result of bad record-keeping and pension fraud.
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Was Napoleon short for his time? We don't actually know. It all depends on how he was measured at his autopsy. Some people think that English units were used while others think that old French units were used. So he was either 5'2" (1.57m) or 5'7" (1.70m).
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Peter the Great of Russia was extremely tall. At 6'8" (203 cm) in height, he would have been more than a foot taller than the average man of the time.
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For every 17 women from 8000 years ago whose genetic line survives to this day, there is only one man who could say the same.
How is this possible? Polygamy. Some men had many wives while most men had none.
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Sgt. Henry Gunther was an American soldier who was the last person to be killed in action during WWI, just one minute before the armistice began. Disobeying orders, he charged with his rifle and bayonet at a German post. The Germans, knowing that the cease fire would begin soon, tried to wave him away. But Gunther continued charging and let loose a shot or two with his rifle. He was killed instantly by German machine gun fire.
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While there were some rare ancient societies that practiced some version of free love, the much more common practice was elite men taking women by force, killing their rivals if necessary.
Monogamy was a vast improvement over previous systems. Places that still practice polygyny tend to be terrible for women and for non-elite men.
Marriage is bad. Polygamy is worse. Both are tools used to subjugate women and advantage elite men. One is just a form of the other that makes this even more explicit.
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"Sobhuza II was the paramount chief, and later king, of Eswatini. His reign lasted 82 years, the longest verifiable reign of any monarch in history. He had 70 wives and 210 children. Upon his death in 1982, his 1000 grandchildren constituted 0.16% of the entire population of the country."