I found the content of the article interesting but am also fascinated by how this kind of clickbait gets published and produced in the first place.

I did a whois lookup for history101.com (partially because I was half wondering if this came from some kind of politically motivated bot farm) but it leads to https://www.novelty.media/ who unlike traditional newspapers seem to be upfront pitching themselves to advertisers specialists at fine tuning articles to keep a high value US audience to keep reading and sharing them.

I guess it's working since this made it to the HN front-page!