21 historical facts that you were not told about at school

Sometimes even the smallest and seemingly insignificant detail can completely change the vision of the story. In addition, it is always nice to learn something new about the studied period in the human past.

Let's take a look at the photos, which are evidence of the most interesting historical facts that you have not heard about.

Portraits of musicians of the infamous ship "Titanic". It was they who, until the last minute, played to the passengers of the sinking giant, distraught with fear, in order to somehow calm them down.

The film "Maria goes to bed" is the first picture of an erotic nature. The premiere took place in Paris in 1896.

The Argentavis is probably the largest bird that has ever lived on Earth. Its weight reached 79 kg, and its wingspan was almost 7 meters.

For 3,000 years, the swastika was a symbol of greeting and good luck wishes, before Hitler laid eyes on it.

These men had the same first and last names, the same sentences in the same prison, and, of course, almost identical appearance. They had never met and were not related. It was their case that caused the use of fingerprints in the judicial system.

Before the invention of the alarm clock, there were people like Mary Smith. She was known as knocker-upper (knocker — "the one who knocks", up — "to wake up"). Her duties included waking up the workers, and those who lived on the second floor, she shot dried peas through the windows.

One of the most unusual and creepy mummies are the mummies of Guanajuato. Their frozen distorted faces suggest that these people were buried alive.