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History can be sad, it can make us feel uncomfortable at times too. Today I would like for you Pandas to share what you think are some of the funniest incidents in history to make someone's day.
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#1
I guy named Francis bacon became a famous physicist
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#2
Julius Caesar was at the senate one day, when a messenger came in and handed him a message. This was something that was frowned upon during that time.
Senator Cato, a "straight cut, play it by the rules, hates corruption in all it's forms" kind of guy. Thought something fishy was going on and call Julius out, suggesting he should share the contents of the letter.
Julius said that it was just a love letter and that Cato should leave the matter alone.
Cato, not happy with that, kept pushing. And Julius kept insisting that he leave it alone.
Cato snatched the letter out of Julius' hand to read it aloud.
It was in fact a love letter! From Cato's sister, saying how much she loved Julius. Cato threw the letter into Julius' face and stormed off.
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#3
There’s an incident in around 221-209 BC that happened in China, with the first ever emperor Ying Zheng.
Obviously not everyone was happy under his rule, and there were numerous people that wanted to assassinate him.
One of these people was Jing Ke, and his assassination attempt left me in tears of laughter.
So through some ways Jing Ke managed to gain audience with the Emperor, during which he planned present a map to him. Taking advantage of the fact that he would be within feet of the Emperor, Jing Ke planned to kill him.
It was a ceremonial affair, the Emperor had no weapons on him except for a 5 foot long ceremonial sword that was at his back. Now, SOMEHOW despite the fact that Jing Ke was literally inches away from the Emperor while giving him the map, he botched it up and didn’t manage to stab him. Once the emperor realized that Jing Ke wanted to kill him, he leapt away to save himself. The court officials also yelled at him (the Emperor) to get out of the way.
This was the start of a mad chase around the imperial court, with Jing Ke chasing the Emperor around trying to stab him, the Emperor running away from him while simultaneously trying to draw his 5 foot long sword that was on HIS BACK, and the court officials crying out “helpful” reminders to the Emperor. They didn't dare to interfere as if they did and the Emperor accidentally got hurt, then they would be blamed.
Finally, a physician who was in the court at that time couldn’t take it anymore and threw his medical bag at Jing Ke’s head. Apparently he was a good shot because it hit the mark, and temporarily stunned the assassin Jing Ke long enough for the Emperor to draw out his sword and kill him.
The physician was awarded of course 🤣🤣
This story is so famous that entire movies and dramas have been based on it, obviously though the assassination scene is now very "cool" fight scene.
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#4
Not really funny to most people, but it makes me giggle a little bit: The US dropped two nukes on North Carolina in the 1960s on accident, but they (thankfully) didn't detonate.
This would seem morbid that I find this funny, but imagine being the governor and getting a call from a military official who just says "So...we kind of almost nuked your state, try not to explode the bombs until we find them"
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#5
When that one guy spelled out cuss Words with bald men in an audience without anyone knowing
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#6
When Tang tai zong's spinach(or maybe it was cabbage) loving adviser angered him he invited the advisor to lunch with plenty of said vegetable. Before they started eating they began to argue over the same thing that they had fought over previously, and Tang tai zong went "Is this lunch not to your liking? I'll have it changed.", and watched as his adviser sputtered and stared at the dishes receding farther and farther away. Side note, the adviser was named Wei Zeng, whose wife hated spinach(or cabbage) and banned it from the house so he basically never got to eat it.
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Red Lotus 1 year ago (edited)
When I started reading this, I thought "this veggie loving dude sounds like Wei Zheng" and I was right! There are plenty of funny anecdotes concerning Emperor Taizong and Wei Zheng, because although Taizong was a pretty just emperor Wei Zheng was practically the only minister who could fight so frequently with Taizong and keep his head intact. Reason being that he was the only minister who dared to criticize and discuss things instead of blindly following, so Emperor Taizong appreciated him. Also, ancient people were SAVAGE.
#7
Someone broke into the Queen of England’s (R.I.P.) bedroom and they had a nice conversation before she called security.
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#8
In 1861, a forger called Vrain-Lucas succeded in selling to the famous mathematician Chasles thousands of letters supposedly written by Aristotle, Pythagoras, Alexander the Great, Julius Cesar, Cleopatra, Charlemagne, Cervantes, etc. All written in French. Chasles never suspected a thing. The forgery was discoverd when Chasles tried to convince the scientifical community that Pascal discovered the law of universal gravitation before Newton, using one of Vrain-Lucas' letters as a proof.
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#9
when bored panda dot com was created
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#10
you guys mgith of heard of the famous Bastille Storming well at the time there was only 7 prisoners all old men with no political ties at all or unfair jailing. one guy was insanely confused why they were storming there ( he was one of the prisoners whoa t the time was drunk)
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#11
Oneida Community.
It was an utopia in the 19th century.
The basic premise was that monogamy led to jealousy and sin, so in order to combat that, it was a community where everyone had sex with each other.
Also, cool fact, women could turn down men, and women's pleasure was seen as important.
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