stackyFACTSAh, the British Empire: built on tea, crumpets, and the largest state-sponsored drug cartel in human history.
Ah, the British Empire: built on tea, crumpets, and the largest state-sponsored drug cartel in human history. To balance their massive trade deficit for Chinese tea and silk, the British East India Company began smuggling thousands of tons of Indian-grown opium into China. When the Chinese government rightfully tried to stop the resulting addiction epidemic, Britain literally went to war to protect their right to deal drugs.
Keep exploring facts in this topic.
History →STACKY FOR IPHONEKeep discovering with Stacky. Interesting facts in an app that is always within reach.
Traditional musicians initially viewed electronic keys with utter disdain, dismissing them as talentless toys incapable of real expression. It took visionary…
Discover more
Because dough shaped into a physical representation of folded limbs was highly encouraging. Early bakers twisted the dough to mimic people hugging themselves,…
Discover moreWhat built the largest empire in the world—armies, cannons, ships? Surprisingly, not only those, but an invisible force: debt. London financed wars, colonies,…
Discover more
During the American Revolution, everyone was focused on the colonies, except for one fiercely petty naval commander. John Paul Jones decided the best defense…
Discover more
What deeply horrifying public attraction was still actively operating in multiple European cities well into the 1950s?
Discover more
Because when crops fail, the obvious theological solution is to spiritually condemn rodents. Plagued by agricultural destruction, the Church held actual…
Discover more