Facts That Are

Christopher Columbus wrote about the trafficking of Indigenous girls in his own letters. Girls as young as 9 were, in his words, in high demand. This is not interpretation — it's his handwriting.

Einstein and his first wife had a daughter named Lieserl in 1902. After a few letters mentioning her, she vanishes from the historical record. No death certificate. No adoption papers. Nothing.

Walter Freeman toured the U.S. in his "lobotomobile," performing ice-pick lobotomies through the eye socket — sometimes on children as young as 4, at their parents' request.

No one was burned at the stake in Salem. Nineteen were hanged. One man, Giles Corey, was slowly pressed to death with stones over two days. His last words were "more weight."

In 1939, a 5-year-old girl in Peru named Lina Medina gave birth via C-section. The father was never identified.

John Harvey Kellogg invented Corn Flakes as part of an anti-masturbation diet. He believed bland food would suppress sexual urges.

Pocahontas was roughly 10 to 12 years old when she first encountered John Smith, who was 27.

In 1997, NOAA recorded an underwater sound so loud it would've required an animal larger than a blue whale to make it.

Jack Nicholson's mother posed as his sister. His grandmother posed as his mother. Both died without telling him. A journalist did.

Ireland is the only country on Earth with fewer people today than it had nearly 200 years ago.

The light from the Andromeda galaxy hitting your eye right now left before humans existed. You are seeing 2.5 million years into the past.

Electrons do not exist in any specific place until measured. Before observation, they exist as probability clouds. Reality requires witnesses.