Top 5 facts ✨✨

aconissa:

• alexander the great named so many fucking cities after himself and I find that endlessly amusing
• evelyn waugh’s first wife was also named evelyn waugh
• mary shelley invented sci-fi AND post-apocalyptic fiction because she’s a fucking badass
• one time sean bean took a ski lift then trekked across a mountain to get to filming for lotr IN FULL BOROMIR COSTUME while the rest of the cast flew over because he was too scared of helicopters to join them
• aaaand my favourite fact of all time: history is so much gayer and so much better than any teacher has ever told you.

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