Reading Time: 3 minutes I have only one phrase to describe this action. Bah humbug. England banned Christmas in 1647! That’s right, a Christian country which was under the rule of possibly the most puritan leadership that the country has ever experienced, banned one of the most holy days on the Christian calendar. What was their deal? Were they secretly …
Reading Time: 2 minutes Did you know that the common fork was once considered evil and a tool of the devil? It seems hard to believe today, but in the middle ages the Europeans took an especially harsh dislike of this new wonder tool for the dinner table. The fork had a fairly humble beginning. It was used early …
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Reading Time: 2 minutes Don’t feel embarrassed if you have never heard of the Church of Kopimism. The church is only recognised in Sweden, and it took three attempts for the church to even be recognised. After reading about it below, you will wonder how it was ever recognised by the state. So what is the Church of Kopimism? …
Reading Time: 2 minutes Saint Patrick, one of the patron saints of Ireland, has never formally been recognized as a saint by a Pope. The reason no Pope has formally recognized him as a saint is because he has never been canonised by a Pope. The process of canonisation is the one in which a deceased person is included …
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Reading Time: 2 minutes Many of the religious texts that we read today are the product of medieval monks copying books. As you can imagine, in a time before printing presses the only way to do such a job was by hand, literally copying word for word the text from another book. Could you imagine how mind numbingly boring this …
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Reading Time: 4 minutes Muhammad has been in the South Park opening credits for years. Although the prophet of Islam isn’t exactly front and center, he is there, and it’s really a case of once seen, you will always see him. Sometimes the warriors of freedom are the most unlikely of people. In a lot of cases, when I think …
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Reading Time: 8 minutes [aio_button align=”right” animation=”none” color=”gray” size=”medium” icon=”none” text=”NEXT PAGE” relationship=”dofollow” url=”https://unrealfacts.com/papal-facts-little-disturbing/2/”] Facts 1 to 7 So, when it comes to Papal facts I bet a lot of you already think you know all there is to know. Well, all I can say is that there are a lot more facts about the office of Pope that …
Reading Time: 2 minutes China bans reincarnation for Buddhist monks in Tibet unless they get prior permission from the government. This surely can’t be true, can it? Well, it is true, and bizarre, but true nonetheless. It’s not exactly a new thing for governments to try to control certain aspects of peoples lives. The more totalitarian the government, the …
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Reading Time: 2 minutes So I’m personally not that familiar with the Bible. It’s not that I find the whole idea of a God disturbing, or a subject that I’d rather avoid, it’s just if I was going to read a book I’d really prefer it to be something a little more entertaining. And this is where this translation …
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Reading Time: 4 minutes Time for 8 quick but handy to know religious facts that you probably didn’t know. Even if you aren’t that religious, this list is sure to have something weird that you didn’t know. 1 There Was No Year Zero Did you know there was no year 0? This is because the current system of our calendar, …
