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Putting aside obvious things like cars and smartphones, what’s an ordinary object from our modern lives that would freak out a person from the 1600s?

by QuestionGuy January 23, 2023, 3:55 pm

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A young man joined the British Navy in the 1600s

by cringeyjokesman January 20, 2023, 11:48 am

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TIL in the 1600s, a gardener created the first English cabinet of curiosities, “The Ark,” an international collection of seeds, bulbs, art, weapons, and other “curiosities,” inside a large London house that became the first museum open to the public in England, the Musaeum Tradescantianum.

by whatilearned December 18, 2022, 5:30 am

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They executed people for witchcraft in the 1600’s. What are some things today that future generations will look back on and view as absurd?

by QuestionGuy October 3, 2022, 5:17 am

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If you were transported back Intime to the 1600’s, What everyday skills and knowledge do you have that could make you seem godlike?

by QuestionGuy September 9, 2022, 6:28 pm

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TIL that in the 1600s Kimpa Vita, a female aristocrat of the Kongo Empire – then the most powerful in Central Africa – started a new version of Catholicism called Antonianism. She gained thousands of followers and took over the capital city of Sao Salvador. Aged only 22, she was burnt at the stake.

by whatilearned August 15, 2022, 3:06 pm

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TIL that 3 current colleges in the U.S. were established in the 1600s: Harvard University (1636), College of William & Mary (1693) and St. John’s College (1696)

by whatilearned June 13, 2022, 11:52 pm

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TIL: Native North American earthworms disappeared more than 10,000 years ago, when glaciers from a Pleistocene ice age wiped them out. New earthworms began entering North America as early as the 1600s, with the first European settlers. They crossed over in root balls or the dry ballast of ships.

by whatilearned May 30, 2022, 11:06 pm

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What do you miss from the early 1600s?

by QuestionGuy April 30, 2022, 10:11 am

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How did pirates in the 1500s and 1600s learn to navigate so well?

by HistoryBuff March 29, 2022, 10:11 am

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TIL that there was once spoken a Algonquian–Basque pidgin, or a language combining elements of the Native American Algonquian language and the Basque language from Spain. It was spoken between Basque whalers and local Algonquian people in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence in Eastern Canada in the 1600s.

by whatilearned February 26, 2022, 7:33 pm

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TIL of Lazarus and Joannes Baptista Colloredo, conjoined twins who toured Europe in freak shows in the 1600s. Lazarus was sentenced to death for killing a man, but averted the execution by pointing out that this would also kill his innocent twin brother.

by whatilearned February 5, 2022, 7:14 pm

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