Unsettling Facts

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.

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

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

The organ that processes all your pain sensations has no pain receptors itself. Surgeons can operate on a conscious patient's brain while they chat about the weather. The brain literally cannot feel itself being touched or cut.