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What ridiculous history fact is your favorite? (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 months ago by TehBamski@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling@lemmy.dbzer0.com 93 points 4 months ago (3 children)

We have proof that kids have never paid attention in school. For example, in Novgorod around 1250 A.D. a six year old boy named Onfim (later called Anthemius of Novgorod) was supposedly practicing his writing and basic arithmetic. Much of what archeologists have found were doodles of him being a heroic knight The mighty horseman Onfim on his steed. who hunted down his teacher, who was a horrible monster Onfim and several other horsemen chase down the evil Writing Teacher . These were buried in a waste pile, where they were rediscovered by archeologists. They are a treasured part of Slavic history and there is now a statue of him in his hometown.

[–] SilentStorms@lemmy.dbzer0.com 36 points 4 months ago (1 children)

These don't look too dissimilar to things I'd doodle when I was 6. Interesting how kids always kinda draw the same.

[–] cynar@lemmy.world 17 points 4 months ago

It's fascinating the stages children through in drawing. It says a lot about how the young mind develops. The "head with arms and legs" stage seems universal, and amusing.

[–] hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 23 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I bet this was the medieval version of Calvin from Calvin and Hobbes

[–] MonkderDritte@feddit.de 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Teacher has threw it on the trash. 😂

[–] ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 4 months ago

Imagine how his teacher feels. The little shit doodles all through his class, and who do we build a statue of? The kid‽