Here's a question: did your school ever teach you about the time Australia went to war against birds? Or that a pope once put a dead body on trial?

Most of what we call "education" covers maybe 5% of what actually happened. The rest — the bizarre, the shocking, the genuinely fascinating stuff — gets buried in footnotes nobody reads.

That's exactly why I created MindVault.

We curate the stories that fell through the cracks of your textbook. The kind of facts that make you stop scrolling and actually think.

A few examples from our latest ebook:

• A medieval king who was so paranoid he slept in a different castle every night

• The real reason Napoleon wasn't actually short (spoiler: British propaganda)

• An ancient Greek inventor who built a working steam engine — 1,700 years before the Industrial Revolution

History isn't boring. It was just taught badly.

If you're the kind of person who goes down Wikipedia rabbit holes at 2 AM, MindVault was made for you.