You Won’t Believe What Historical Figures Actually Looked Like

Mary, Queen of Scots

Mary, Queen of Scots became Queen was just six days old. Her father passed away right after she was born. Her mother sent her to France so she could grow up in a French court in order to learn how to rule. She returned to rule in 1559.

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The More You Know

  • The first pieces of gold at Fort Knox arrived by mail.
  • The first American woman to go to medical school was admitted as a joke. Geneva Medical School thought it was joke when Elizabeth Blackwell applied to attend 1847. She graduated in 1849, started her own practice, and opened an infirmary for the poor.
  • The patient in the game Operation has a name.
  • If you heat up a magnet, it will lose its magnetism.
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