You Won’t Believe What Historical Figures Actually Looked Like

Using skeletal remains, geographic locations, DNA results, and portraits, forensic scientists have been able to figure out what some of the coolest historical figures actually looked. Some of these are super surprising!

Nefertiti

Nefertiti has one of the most recognizable faces and looks out of all of the famous rulers. This bust was created in 1345 BC in Amarna, Egypt.

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The More You Know

  • The voices of Mickey and Minnie Mouse got married in real life.
  • The magnetic North Pole is moving.
  • Following the release of Rocky IV, a joke was making rounds in Hollywood. Since Rocky had run out of opponents, he would have to fight an alien if a fifth movie was made. Jim and John Thomas took the joke seriously and wrote a screenplay based on it, which later became the movie "Predator".
  • The world's oldest operating library is in Morocco.
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