People can’t believe these 19 bizarre historical events actually took place
11. The Salem Witch Trials
I had always believed it just thinly veiled politically motivated land grabbing. Nope. Just batshit religious fanaticism.
atlantis_airlines
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12. The moon landing
Putting a man on the moon with a small fraction of the computing power used to write this message.
Kingh82
13. The astronomer’s moose
The astronomer Tycho Brahe had a pet moose that he used to get drunk with. One time he brought it to a dinner party at a friend’s house. But sadly the moose did not survive the night. Once again the poor moose got drunk on beer and died from a nasty fall down a set of stairs.
Ashtar-the-Squid
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14. The Zanzibar War
Someone the British didn’t like became the Sultan of Zanzibar, an island that’s part of modern day Tanzania. Since at the time the British Empire was the most powerful country on the planet and conflict with them was a death sentence, they tried to force the new Sultan to step down. Instead, the mad lad barricaded himself in his palace.
The British started to fire on the palace and he sultan surrendered after 38 minutes making it the shortest war in history.
Jakkzzyy
15. The Capitol Hill Insurrection
January 6, 2021. Very casual attempt at overthrowing American Democracy but everyone was exhausted from the plague so we were like “ah fuck it” and didn’t really do anything about it.
hostilecarrot
16. When a signalman thought the President of France was delusional
In 1920, President Paul Deschanel of France fell through the window of the train while travelling on the Orient Express. He stumbled up to the nearest signal box in his pyjamas and told the signalman that he needed help and that he was the President of France. The signalman reportedly replied ‘And I’m Napoleon Bonaparte.’
Bunnystrawbery
17. The Great Emu War – Australia, 1932.
Yes it is infact the large bird. The story is rather hilarious, as “War” is greatly exaggerated and was basically a meme even 90yrs ago.
TLDR: Big birds kill crops, farmers cry. Govt throws a bone, declares “War”. Sends a single squad with two machine guns. Bullets expended vs Emu’s killed is blind CoD player bad, birds were hacking. Technically lose battle via stats, single digit bird kills.
Round 2: Fix guns, kill “dozens” of birds, declare victory because they can.
War over, farmers crops continue to be destroyed. Australia basically did a Korea/Vietnam against Emus, killed a few, achieved nothing, said they won.
GrimMashedPotatos
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18. The siege of Tenochtitlan
The conquistadors built a trebuchet. However, the conquistadors, being an exploratory expedition, had not brought any military engineers with them. So they winged it. Surprisingly, they did build a trebuchet, which fired exactly one shot, directly upwards, which promptly came down and smashed the trebuchet. This event is chronicled in both the journals of the conquistadors present as well as the Aztec records.
VolJin
19. The 45th President of the USA
The fucking fact that Donald J. fucking Trump was elected president of the United States of America will always shock and appall me.
ThaUniversal
Bonus – The ultimate ego trip, and we don’t mean Blue Origin.
Alexander the Great named (or renamed) 70 cities after himself. Some still have the name or derivatives of it – Alexandria in Egypt being the most obvious, but also Iskandariya in Iraq and Kandahar in Afghanistan.
mordenty
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Just 17 very funny jokes about world history
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