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    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Weird History Facts for Curious Minds: 90 Strange-but-True History Stories About Ancient Civilizations, Odd Rulers, Surprising Inventions, and Famous

Weird History Facts for Curious Minds: 90 Strange-but-True History Stories About Ancient Civilizations, Odd Rulers, Surprising Inventions, and Famous

Kaplan, Wren

Paperback

Series: Wren Kaplan's Curious Kids Facts Books

GamesHistory

ISBN13: 9798174026186
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 13 2026
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.23 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Did you know the earliest recorded labor strike in history happened over 3,000 years ago in ancient Egypt - when tomb workers simply stopped showing up until they got paid? Or that Cleopatra lived closer in time to the 1969 Moon landing than to the building of the Great Pyramid?

Weird History Facts for Curious Minds takes curious readers ages 7-11 on a tour through nine wild corners of the past - the ancient world, odd rulers and royal habits, medieval life beyond the myths, food and fashion surprises, medicine's strange road to progress, accidental inventions, wars and battles that ended in minutes (not years), strange laws and famous hoaxes, and history's greatest explorers and unlikely journeys. Every fact here is checked against real historical sources - no recycled internet trivia - and told as a short, surprising story kids will actually want to read.

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