Time

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.

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."

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

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

The Great Pyramid was built around 2560 BC. Cleopatra lived around 30 BC. The Moon landing was 1969 AD. Cleopatra existed closer in time to us watching Netflix than to the construction of the pyramids in her own backyard.