‘What’s a bizarre piece of history that sounds completely made up but is 100% real?’ – 21 strange but true happenings from the past
13.
‘In 1875, a fire broke out in warehouse storing whiskey barrels in Dublin. The heat and fire caused the barrels to burst, creating a river of whiskey that flooded the streets. When the fire was finally put out and the whiskey river subsided, there was a total of 13 fatalities as a direct result of the event. The cause of all 13 deaths was alcohol poisoning from excessive consumption.’
–Araz728
14.
‘The name Tiffany originates sometime around the 1100’s even though it’s considered a modern name by a lot of people.’
–loudtrip64
15.
‘Doritos were invented at Disneyland.’
–baritonetransgirl
16.
‘Davy Crockett wrote in his journals about his encounter with a bigfoot while rallying troops for the texas revolutionary war against Mexico. The creature warned him of his impending doom. He died at the Alamo six months later.’
–night_goonch
17.
‘Aeschylus, a philosopher and the father of Greek tragedy, died when an eagle dropped a turtle on his head.’
–WolfYourWolf
18.
‘There was a dog during WW2 that won the Blue Cross medal because she peed on a bomb and diffused it that way.’
–JazzPhobic
19.
‘During the early 19th century, when Britain was at war with France, a French ship was shipwrecked near Hartlepool. one of the survivors was a monkey. The locals, having never seen such a thing before, thought it was a hairy French spy and hung it by the neck.’
–Used-Journalist-36
20.
‘The wheeled suitcase was patented in 1972. In other words, we put a man on the moon before we thought to roll our luggage.’
–afriendincanada
21.
‘That one (British?) soldier who captured a tank by poking the driver in the eye with his umbrella.’
–yeah_yeah_therabbit
This one is definitely true – his name was Major Allison Digby Tatham-Warner and he was famed for wearing a bowler hat and carrying an umbrella into battle. You can’t get much more British than that.
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