What an odd mishmash!

Now schools have a curriculum to teach to, and it takes every year from 5 to 16 just to cover the key points in British or European history. Thus small and relatively obscure things like vampire-hunting tend to get left out and only followed up at University level.

The medieval dislike of cats is sometimes brought up as a contributor to the explosion in the rat population and subsequent spread of bubonic plague. Though it is stressed that the main cause of this was the increase in human population (where humans go, rats follow).

Animal courts are aso sometimes mentioned in course concerning the development of civil justice.

Jurassic Park? Really? Is this a 'spot the spoof'?

"The Wave", along with the "Blue Eyes, Brown Eyes" teaching experiment of Jane Elliot in 1968, is often cited in Sociology classes, rather then History.

Project X? Sorry, but in 1945 they didn't have enough bombs to do that kind of experiment. Maybe 10 years later?

OK, so that battle we weren't taught about, but given the number of battles they had to teach about that British troops were actually involved in, that's hardly suprising.

Of course, given that one can teach or learn the entirety of US 'history' in about a year and a half, the things on this list that actually happened (5 out of 7) might be useful to fill in the gaps!