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As Mark Twain famously said, “Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.”
As a kid, I always found history class incredibly boring. Why would I care about what happened way back then when I’m living now? But boy was I wrong. It turns out that there are hundreds of stories from the past that read just like scripts of films that you'd pay money to see in a theater.
Redditors have recently been recalling these wild events, so we’ve gathered the most fascinating ones below. From tales of war to historical events that sound completely made up, enjoy scrolling through these stories. Keep reading to also find conversations between Bored Panda and the person who started this thread, as well as Sebastian Major, host of the Our Fake History podcast. And be sure to upvote the stories you can’t believe are true!
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#1
America selling out everybody to side with Russia.
Pferdchen 8 months ago
Back in 2017, I said it was like living through the fall of the Roman Empire.
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Kallen Kneeland 8 months ago
Proud of you for saying it out loud. Now let's be part of the history that reverses it!
Pferdchen 8 months ago
Do you think that any other country would ever be inclined to trust or rely on us again? I don't. Things were tenuous enough before Trump, but now...
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Delicate Fcuking Flower 8 months ago
Whoever wished for us to live in 'interesting times' can go get fúcked.
Christina Keenan 8 months ago
America is not selling out to Russia. THE IDIOT "PRESIDENT" IS OWNED BY POOTIN. ( I know it's spelled incorrectly).The regime he is installing is a bunch of the most excrable morons. As for the idiots who voted for drumpf? Unfortunately, they are racist mysoginistic jerks who would rather not have an intelligent caring woman as president. Republicans suck...
Orange_Blossom 8 months ago
Wow, so much venom and zero facts. America isn't 'selling out' to Russia; it's trying to navigate complex geopolitics. Maybe instead of name-calling and assumptions, we could focus on actual policy discussions. As for voters, let's not generalize an entire group based on stereotypes. How about we aim for a more civil dialogue?
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Rich Black 8 months ago
russia is kidnapping Ukrainian children. China put 1 million Uyghurs in concentration camps. Iran hangs people for adultery and homosexuality. north korea executes dissidents with cannons. England is still a monarchy, and is plotting to rejoin the European Union, if they can get back in . . .
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#2
Reality TV star and failed businessman becomes US president.
Zuine K 8 months ago
Reality star, failed businessman and 34x convicted felon becomes US president (again).
Anton 8 months ago
I really reallllly dont understand the people who voted for him.. how low can you be..
Load More Replies... Verena 8 months ago (edited)
Monolingual reality TV star and failed businessman without any work or culture experience outsite the US thinks he can outsmart a multilingual, well travelled and during previous work in other cultures immersed and perfectly psychological trained spy.
Lee451 Henderson 8 months ago
Appearently he might be a "failed businessman" but he is still quite wealthy.
Kevin Hickey 8 months ago
He inherited $400 million forty years ago. He's currently worth $4.6 billion. If he had put that money in a 401K it would be worth $6.2 billion. He's a horrible businessman.
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Operation Mincemeat during WW2
British government takes the corpse of a homeless guy, fakes documents and dresses him up to look like a soldier, puts a fake letter in his pocket saying the British will invade Greece and Sardinia, fires him out of a submarine towards F*****t Spain.
The Spaniards find the body and tell the N**i party about the upcoming invasion, so they then move troops from Sicily to Greece. They’re totally caught off guard and the Allies successfully took Sicily, which they used to start the liberation of Italy.
Totally insane, can’t believe it worked.
Peter Bear 8 months ago
To appease the fascïsts and näzis that are paying their bills.
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Marianne 8 months ago (edited)
Please, Bored Panda, explain to my why you're censoring N A Z I. Explain it to me in great detail. It's not a slur and it is not a term for an act of violence (not in itself at least). In fact, it is CRUCIAL not to deny and not to censor words like that, especially as we are on the brink of reliving the experience of a fáscist regime in many parts of the world.
Fat Harry (Oi / You) 8 months ago
N**I. The word is NÁZI. NAZINAZINAZINAZINAZI. Stand up to censorship!
siedzac niej 8 months ago
another day in unnecessary censorship. its n**i. they meant n a z i.
Michael Largey 8 months ago
And there's a sequel. Later in the war. a high ranking American general was captured with quite genuine plans he should not have had with him. The Nazis thought that this was another Operation Mincemeat deception and ignored them.
Eastendbird 8 months ago
I saw the musical based on Operation Mincemeat recently - both funny and very moving in parts, recommend!
Cuppa tea? 8 months ago
There is very good book, and also a film -still good to watch.
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Laura Mitchell 8 months ago
NetFlix made a movie of this. "The Man Who Never Was" was also about this and was done in the 1950s.
To find out how this conversation started in the first place, we reached out to Reddit user Kodumonpotti363, who invited others to share historical events that sound too crazy to be true.
"I've always been fascinated by the weird side of history—those moments that sound too bizarre to be real," they told Bored Panda. "I thought it would be interesting to see what other people knew about these kinds of events, and Reddit never disappoints when it comes to obscure knowledge!"
#4
The life of Robert Smalls:
Robert Smalls was born into slavery on April 5, 1839, in Beaufort, South Carolina, to Lydia Polite, an enslaved woman, and possibly John McKee, her enslaver.The McKee family held Smalls and his mother in bondage. When Smalls was 12 years old, the McKees sent him to Charleston as a rented or “hired out” enslaved laborer. Smalls worked on ships in the Charleston Harbor.
During the Civil War, Smalls’ enslavers forced him to work as a pilot on the CSS Planter, a confederate steamboat that transported arms and ammunition.On May 13, 1862, Smalls and the rest of the Black crew commandeered the boat and sailed to Union lines.On the way, Small and the crew freed Smalls’ wife Hannah, daughter Elizabeth and son Robert Jr. They disguised themselves and, using the knowledge they had gained as maritime workers, sailed the boat past Forts Sumter and Moultrie. Smalls surrendered the Planter to the U.S. Military, thus securing the freedom of everyone on the vessel. Smalls became the first Black man to become a pilot in the United States Navy. As the captain of the USS Planter, Smalls fought in 17 battles during the Civil War.
During Reconstruction, South Carolinians in and around Beaufort elected Smalls to the United States House of Representatives. He served from 1874 to 1879 and 1881 to 1887.8 As “Southern Redemption,” a violent effort to usurp political power from Black Southerners and Republicans, swept South Carolina, Smalls maintained his congressional seat, though he briefly lost his seat in 1878. Smalls retired from congress in 1887, after William Elliott unseated him.
While serving as a Representative of South Carolina, Smalls helped secure funding to improve the Port Royal Harbor and secured appropriations from the government for its use of The Citadel.Smalls also fought to secure full citizenship and equality for Black Americans. He resisted Jim Crow, opposing s*********n of the United States Armed Forces, railroads and restaurants. After retiring from Congress, “Smalls was appointed the Collector of Customs in Beaufort.” He served in this position for two decades, despite dissent from local white people and the Jim Crow social, political, economic and legal regime.
During Reconstruction, Smalls purchased the McKee Home in Beaufort. He and his family lived in the home for almost a century after the purchase.In an act of graciousness, Smalls allowed his former enslaver, Mrs. McKee, to remain in his home after she fell ill. Robert Smalls died on February 23, 1915, and was laid to rest in Beaufort at Tabernacle Baptist Church.He died not only a hero to his Black crewmates on the USS Planter and his family but also to the Union and the people of South Carolina.
Multa Nocte 8 months ago
I first learned about this on Drunk History (a fabulous show as far as history goes). Then I ended up working with one of his descendants when I was in Augusta, Georgia.
Lila Allen 8 months ago
Still annoyed that no one has made this into a movie. It would be epic
Load More Replies... Michael Largey 8 months ago
Telling about things like this will soon be illegal in the US by executive order.
Princess Possum 8 months ago
There are plans for a statue of Smalls at the SC State House, set up by an act of the legislature. https://scdailygazette.com/2025/01/08/robert-smalls-statue-to-stand-near-visitors-entrance-to-sc-statehouse/
Fat Harry (Oi / You) 8 months ago
I've sent two emails today complaining about the censorship getting ridiculous. I would encourage everyone to do the same. Use the "Contact" option in the menu.
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April Pickett 8 months ago
History like this should be taught in schools. We need to show the entirety of history across all spectrums. This would give our children a broader scope of our history and, hopefully, a view that will continue into their adulthood.
#5
Didn't Australia go to war against emus? And didn't the emus win?
Anthony Elmore 8 months ago
Plus, most people underestimate how resistant to artillery fire emus are.
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Peter Bear 8 months ago
You know, if I had a nickel for every time a sovereign nation has declared war against birds, and lost, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.
April Pickett 8 months ago
I have always thought this was hilarious. Thank goodness for the military man who conceded the war.
#6
Sail of Endurance to Antarctica. Ship was stuck on ice, sank and crew stuck on ice field. It took them almost one and half year to walk over ice and sail with small boats to uninhabited "elephant island".
After that part of crew sailed 1300 km with small lifeboat in roaring in southern storms to small island where there was whaling station. They could not reach side where there is harbour so they hiked over mountains to over 1000 metres of elevation.
In the end everyone from 28 men survived the trip.
Tom Brincefield 8 months ago
He did lousy at making it to the north & south poles, but he was great at leading his men and taking care of them.
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Rich Black 8 months ago
Who would try this today? A soccer plane crashed in the south american jungle and they started eating each other whike waiting to be rescued .
Eugenia 🇮🇹🤌 8 months ago
Also, the Endurance was the first place to officially employ the Daylight Saving Time
We also asked the author if they had any favorite wild stories from history. "There are so many, but one that always gets me is the story of the Great Emu War in Australia," they shared. "The idea that trained soldiers with machine guns lost a war against a bunch of oversized birds sounds like a ridiculous comedy plot, but it actually happened."
"Another favorite is the time a French soldier, Jean Bernadotte, ended up becoming the King of Sweden, despite initially being an enemy of Sweden," the OP added.
#7
The St. Nazaire Raid in the Second World War. In short, a bunch of British commandos with balls of tungsten rammed a ship full of explosives into a N**i dry dock and it blew up the next day while a whole pile of German officers were inspecting the wreckage
From an account of the raid - "Just before the Campbeltown exploded, Sam Beattie was being interrogated by a German naval officer who was saying that it wouldn't take very long to repair the damage the Campbeltown has caused. Just at that moment, she went up. Beattie smiled at the officer and said, 'We're not quite as foolish as you think!'"
S**t sounds made up for a big budget action movie, such a crazy read.
Daniela Lavanza 8 months ago
In French, Opération Chariot". Isn't there a good movie about it yet? This would make a perfect plot.
Chewie Baron 8 months ago
Jeremy Clarkson did a brilliant documentary about this. You could tell he really enjoyed telling the story. You can watch it on YouTube. Also there are his documentaries about the Victoria Cross (very personal to him which you only find out at the end) and about one particular Atlantic Convoy during g WWII.
Pittsburgh rare 8 months ago
Jeremy big mouth Top Gear Clarkson? Hohoho, I MUST see it
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Ahnjunwan 8 months ago
I am surprised that this story is not a movie allready, would be far more entertaining then some remake of a mediocre disney movie
#8
In June 1667, Dutch Admiral Michiel de Ruyter led a raid right up the River Medway, near the Thames, and pretty much knocked out the entire English fleet while they were still moored. They even captured the English flagship, the Royal Charles, and sailed it back to the Netherlands. It was such an unbelievable humiliation for the Royal Navy that, if you saw it in a movie, you’d think it was too over-the-top to be real—but it actually happened.
Kira Okah 8 months ago
The place that was purposely built to stop them was an Elizabethan artillery fort on the Medway at the village of Upper Upnor, Rochester called Upnor Castle. The Medway was so important because the fleet's mooring as well as the main building dock was the Chatham Dockyard, also on the Medway. Beautiful castle, but its defences and stores were neglected after the turn of the 17th century, and the Dutch attack was sudden and unexpected so there was no time to get supplies to Upnor, and so their primary defence failed. However, for its extreme lack of provisions it actually did quite well for itself, it even caused most of the Dutch fleet to retreat before reaching Chatham, and if it had its supplies had then it's highly likely that Upnor would have prevented this from happening. In the end, Upnor was still blamed, and was downgraded to a munitions supply depot. It's now a museum, and visiting it is why I have such a love for the story of Upnor Castle and the Medway forts.
Neb 8 months ago
I love when I read some factoid or story in BP, and comments give expanded/clarified information. I am reading these articles just because of the comments.
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Luis Hernandez Dauajare 8 months ago (edited)
Another naval battle that sounds like a Hollywood comedy is the 1801 Second Battle of Algeciras. HMS Superb passed between two Spanish ships of the line, Real Carlos and San Hermenegildo, which then proceeded to engage each other for two hours. Both ship caugh fire and blew up, kíllíng over 1,700 sailors.
#9
When the Irish film Michael Collins included a scene of the British army opening fire on civilians at a GAA match, k**ling spectators and players alike, some people were up in arms about the director being inflammatory and including needless scenes to demonise the British.
So we had to open a history book and say: no, no, it happened. There was more than one Bloody Sunday.
Cuppa tea? 8 months ago
There's no need to demonise British. In Ireland's history they done pretty solid job themselves.
Nils Skirnir 8 months ago
The English wars against Ireland, Scotland, and Wales were brutal and genocidal. Only Ireland was able to escape the yoke of English tyranny
April Pickett 8 months ago
Ah, you have history books that actually show the reality of a situation?
cecilia kilian 8 months ago
Um, what about the Paul Greengrass film? Did it demonise the British Army? Do we need to point out that there is a difference between government action and the citizens' feelings? Especially now.
As for whether or not truth really is stranger than fiction, Kodumonpotti363 says, "Absolutely! Fiction has to follow rules—it needs to be believable, have logical cause and effect, and keep an audience engaged. Reality doesn’t have those constraints, so it can be completely chaotic and absurd," they explained. "History is full of coincidences, bizarre decisions, and unexpected outcomes that no scriptwriter would dare include."
#10
Operation Cowboy where a mixed group of Americans and Germans saved part of the Lipizzaner stallion herd from the advancing Soviets *who would have eaten them*. Mark Felton wrote a great book on it called *Ghost Riders*. It's a fun read.
Lady Eowyn 8 months ago
Patton claimed responsibility, although he had nothing to do with it. A really good book on it is "The Perfect Horse" by Elizabeth Letts. One of the Polish Arabian stallions they saved was the multi-great-grandsire of my Arabian stallion. This horse, Skowronek, was pictured on a Polish postage stamp issued to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Janow Podlaski stud farm.
Grazina Strolia 8 months ago
Yes! Came down here to strongly recommend The Perfect Horse! Although it will break your heart, too.
Load More Replies... Michael Largey 8 months ago
There's a Disney movie about this, "Miracle of the White Stallions", 1963.
Princess Possum 8 months ago
I remember that movie. I need to read The Perfect Horse as recommended.
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tresgatos72 8 months ago
There was a really good Disney film about this called "The Miracle of the White Stallions". Back when Disney actually made good movies.
Lila Allen 8 months ago
In defense of the soviets.... they were quite literally starving to death.
Bryn 8 months ago
Neither, technically, by location they're Slovenia, as Lipica the town that is credited to their founding is now in Slovenia but it was originally part of the Austro-Hungarian empire. They are a Baroque breed, which is similar to what I think you're thinking of the Andalusian, which is Spanish
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Press conference at the Four Seasons Landscaping Supply store in Philadelphia. It's right next to a d***o shop. This would've been the moment _Veep_ "jumped the shark" if they had tried it.
Regina Holt 8 months ago
That whole thing would have embarrassed me if I were trying to hold a press conference. But they just kept on with the insanity.
TTorrest Author 8 months ago
Still the funniest thing to have ever happened in the history of ever.
#12
Mad Jack Churchill
A man who fought WW2 with a bow, arrows and a broad sword. Also he played the bag pipes.
John Dilligaf 8 months ago
carried his sword into battle because; to quote - "Any officer who goes into action without his sword is improperly dressed"
Major Harris 8 months ago
credited with the ONLY two kills in the european theater by bow and arrow. he was captured and then escaped. he walked a few hundred miles until he finally met an american tank. after a few months of rest, he was transferred to the asian theater.
Rich Black 8 months ago
He apparently didn't face off against anyone with a gun. Who did he actually fight?
Jon-Paul Filkins 7 months ago
Apparently he maxed his stealth and intimidation stats as in one raid he simply snuck up on some German Sentries, brandished his sword, and they decided that this game of soldiers wasn't fun any more and promptly surrendered. Also as an officer, he should be leading others and telling them where to shoot.
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Finally, we asked the author what they thought of the replies to their post. "[They] were incredible! People shared so many mind-blowing historical facts that I’d never heard of before," they told Bored Panda. "One that stood out was the story of how Napoleon was once attacked by a horde of bunnies because his men accidentally gathered hundreds of domesticated rabbits instead of wild ones for a hunt. That kind of stuff is just pure gold."
"History is endlessly entertaining if you dig deep enough," Kodumonpotti363 added. "It’s a mix of comedy, horror, and absurdity all rolled into one. I love seeing people get excited about it, and I hope your readers enjoy these stories as much as I did!"
#13
That one [tough] soldier, Adrian Carton de Wiart. Literally an action movie protagonist irl. Survived 2 bullets in his left eye in the same charge, amputated a few fingers himself when the doctor refused to do so, survived several plane crashes and castaways, survived the Boer war, ww1 and ww2 and a few more, personally told Mao Zedong that communism is bs, etc.
Jnausicaa 8 months ago
His photo, along with James Doohan's, is in the dictionary entry for Bad A$$.
cecilia kilian 8 months ago
Unlike the self-proclaimed inhabitants of the "manosphere" ( predators , liars, R@-sts, frauds ) Wharterly and de Wiard were genuine bad@$$es.
April Pickett 8 months ago
Did Hemingway know him? They might have been brothers from different mothers? Of course, Hemingway wasn't so prone to injuries.
Tom Brincefield 8 months ago
You mean the name Adrian Carton de Wiart that is in the first sentence?
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#14
Major Digby Warter of the First Battalion, fought in WW2, always carrying an umbrella and a bowler hat. Never wore an helmet because lol, helmets. He once used said umbrella to shove it inside the eye of a German, disabling him and the armoured car he was driving. Saved a priest who was under heavy fire, saying "come with me, I've got an umbrella". Captured, escaped, known for his courage, even helped a German truck out of a ditch while disguised as a Dutch citizen. He once fought a**e naked because shrapnel had cut the rear of his pants.
Forrest Hobbs 8 months ago
"[Jack Churchill] fought in the Second World War with a basket-hilted Scottish broadsword, and a set of bagpipes. He has been mythologised as having also used a longbow, but according to an interview given by Churchill, the bow was destroyed when run over by a lorry before he could put it to use" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Churchill
Load More Replies... LooseSeal's $10 Banana 8 months ago
With a name like Digby Warter you've got to grow up tough I suppose.
Phantom Phoenix 8 months ago (edited)
"Come with me, I've got an umbrella" sounds like something Douglas Adams could've written
K_Tx 8 months ago
This is so interesting. And the priest was like, "Well, you have an umbrella... I will follow you to safety... "?
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Napoleon returning from exile. Seems like something that was badly written into history so the writers would have an excuse to continue the plotline.
StPaul9 8 months ago
Elba seemed so impossible. But he actually got the island running so perfectly like a miniature country that ships began going to it and he hitched a ride back to France.
Auntriarch 8 months ago
He would certainly have got the trains running on time
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Daniela Lavanza 8 months ago
The real funny part is that many armies were sent by the king to stop him. When meeting, they all rallied him. It's hard to imagine today the aura of this man on most soldiers back then. He didn't had to fight back his way to the throne. Source: I'm fond of History.
Jrog 8 months ago
The news came to the European heads of governments while they were attending the Council of Wien. When they received the messengers, some representatives thought it was a joke, some were indignant someone could attempt to spread such an obvious lie. Metternich acted immediately and rushed to the Austrian emperor, while Talleyrand was more cautious and checked with his spies and advisors the best course of action. The news was so unbelievable that even the newspaper on the following day did not report it believing it was a fake news, with only mentions in a couple of minor papers. Metternich convinced Emperor Francis to summon at once the Tsar of Russia and the King of Prussia do draw up a war declaration. That declaration of war was published before the news of the escape reached the grater public.
Major Harris 8 months ago
trivia- the late actor, rene auberjenoi, the voice of the chef in "the little mermaid" trying to cook "sebastian", "odo" from deep space 9 and many other roles was his great great nephew. naopleon's younger sister, caroline, married napleon's general, joachim murat and they were the great great grandparents of mr. auberjenois!
Rich Black 8 months ago
Next up on Bored Panda: 50 times European leaders acted so badly it caused a war . . .
We were also lucky enough to get in touch with Sebastian Major, host of the Our Fake History podcast, to hear about some of his favorite wild stories from the past.
"The entire story of Joan of Arc sounds like it was made up by a fiction writer," the history expert shared. "A teenage peasant girl living in rural France in the 1400’s convinces the King to let her lead an army and liberate the country from an invasion force. If you know even the most basic facts about the late-medieval period, you know how unlikely that story is. And yet, so much about her life story is true… or at least, is backed up by credible sources."
#16
The leadup to the first world war. So many specific coincidences and every attempt to prevent the war failing in one way or another.
From Archduke Ferdinand’s driver taking a wrong turn onto the street where Ferdinand’s assassin was having a consolation sandwich, sulking over having failed the previous assassination attempt earlier in the day. To a diplomat having a heart attack and dying moments before signing a document.
It’s as if the forces of the universe made sure the war would be inevitable.
What I mean is, not the fact the war broke out, but rather how it wasn’t as straightforward as one might think.
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Or maybe even the christmas truce. We all know it happened, but the fact that enemies who previously shot at eachother met and even played soccer..
Max Fox 8 months ago
The Christmas Truce happened at the beginning of the war, and it likely could only have happened because the soldiers had sent their whole lives in a world where the Germans and English weren't enemies. A few years later the soldiers who were there had thought of Germans and Austro-Hungarians as The Enemy for two or three years (it's a lot for an 18 year old), so the idea of humanizing the enemy was much less likely.
Daniela Lavanza 8 months ago
The truth is, this was was to happen because of allied forces. It merely needed a spark. All countries wanted to fight and people were yearning for revenge for past even. In France, it was for losing Alsace-Moselle (Yes, Alsace and Moselle but not whole Lorraine, if we want to be historically accurate). What people didn't know back then was how new technologies would turn this war into the worst of all history for most of them.
Michael Largey 8 months ago (edited)
Ferdinand was very vain about how his clothes fit him - to the extent of being sewn into his clothes. It is possible he could have lived if the doctors had been able to reach his wounds faster.
Cuppa tea? 8 months ago
It was bound to happen - almost everyone in Europe had beef against someone else. And with alliances, they were obliged to join once it started. If it wouldn't be Archduke, it would be something else to trigger war.
#17
Hong Xiuquan and the Taiping Rebellion.
Some Chinese dude failed the civil service exams too many times and had a nervous breakdown. He then had a hallucination telling him he was Jesus's brother and started one of the deadliest civil wars in Chinese history.
Geoffrey Scott 8 months ago
As it says in the bible, "Then Jesus stuck his finger in the man's eye...like Moe... and said turn the other cheek my A^^."
JB 8 months ago
And Simon Peter spake "Thou are the wisest of guys" and he did break the flower pot upon Jesus' head. But Jesus had moved to the side and so Simon of Cyrene was struck. And he did turn holding the cross and yea, both Jesus and Simon Peter were knocked on their asses...
Load More Replies... John Dilligaf 8 months ago
death toll is estimated at 20-30 million, around 10% of China's population at the time. It was one of the bloodiest wars in history period.
#18
There was a famous navy battle just off the coast of the Netherlands where Dutch warships were fought by men on horseback. The French cavalry won, capturing all 14 warships with no losses.
Even if you factor in the detail that this took place during a record cold-snap that froze the freshwater bay over completely, it's still a pretty outlandish tale.
Case in point: the details of its authenticity are still being debated by historians, though all records indicate that a total surrender on the part of the Dutch navy *did* happen - the issue is whether the cavalry actually charged them head-on, or simply went out as a formality to negotiate their surrender while they were stuck in frozen-over waters.
Either way it's an exceptionally rare occurrance, and one that's been commemorated in paintings and poorly-cited Wikipedia articles.
UKGrandad 8 months ago
A cavalry charge on ice? Not a chance. It would be an achievement for a horse to just walk on ice, let alone charge.
I Need More Espresso 8 months ago
There is actually horse racing on ice with special shoes. And, of course, skijoring (horse running over snow/ice with a person on skis flying over jumps behind them). Winter can be long in some places...
Load More Replies... Rich Black 8 months ago
Theory : the cavalry had access to unlimited anmo resupply. The ships did not, stuck in the ice. Think about it . . .
"There are certainly unbelievable stories of miracles that punctuate her life, but the vast majority of what we hear about Joan of Arc is generally accepted by historians," Sebastian continued. "When I started researching her, I expected to learn that she was more like a mascot for the French army, who was then 'inflated' into a general by the process of historical myth making."
"But that is not at all what the sources tell us! She was a war leader who rode into battle, charged the enemy, and was wounded liberating the city of Orleans," the host revealed. "Nothing about Joan of Arc makes sense, but she was (mostly) the real deal."
#19
Battle of Castle Itter. American, French POWs and German Wehrmacht solders fought against the SS. Gross over simplification, the SS had a handful of high value French prisoners in Castle Itter. A small American unit went to liberate them before they could be executed. The came across a handful of German solders. They ended up joining up with them to protect the POWs. The 3 groups fought off the SS until more Americans showed up. .
StPaul9 8 months ago
Important to note: This happened AFTER Germany surrendered. The German soldiers were told they were POWs and could have their sentences lessened because they technically became Allied soldiers. The SS ignored the surrender of Germany.
Adam Jeff 8 months ago
I believe it happened after Hitler's s*****e but before the official surrender of Germany. The German army units had locally surrendered but the SS units insisted on fighting until the official order to surrender came from German high command.
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#20
Audie Murphy. There was a movie made about him and his exploits in the military. They had to *tone down* things because audiences would have found it unbelievable that someone actually did some of the things he did.
AnnaB 8 months ago (edited)
He played himself in the movie. U.S. Army Awards: Medal of Honor Distinguished Service Cross Silver Star (with Oak Leaf Cluster) Bronze Star Medal (with V Device and Oak Leaf Cluster) Purple Heart (with Oak Leaf Clusters) Legion of Merit Distinguished Conduct Medal American Campaign Medal European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal World War II Victory Medal Army of Occupation Medal Armed Forces Reserve Medal Combat Infantryman Badge French Awards: Chevalier of the Legion of Honor, Croix de Guerre with Silver Star, French Croix de Guerre with Palm, and Medal of a liberated France. Belgian Award: Belgian Croix de Guerre with 1940 Palm
Dusty's mom 8 months ago
"To Hell And Back". He played himself in the movie. The book, of the same title, is an outstanding and down-to-earth autobiography.
Major Harris 8 months ago
he jumped on top of a burning tank and used its .50 cal double barreled machine gun to fight off the germans to protect his men.
Brian Droste 8 months ago
Wasn't this a German tank if I remember right? I seen a documentary about him. In the movie you see him up there for a short period of time but in real life it was like 2 to 4 hrs. Maybe longer. I don't remember the exact amount of time.
Load More Replies... Michael Largey 8 months ago
Murphy played himself in that movie, "To Hell and Back", the beginning of a successful film career for him.
OneHappyPuppy 8 months ago
And that is the name of the song by Sabaton about him, and more broadly PTSD in soldiers
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Rich Black 8 months ago
He went on to become the star of countless low budget cowboy movies made in Hollywood
#21
Great Boston Molasses flood of 1919.
Khavrinen 8 months ago
The full story on "Tasting History": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMWrk_94L8Y
CatD 8 months ago
"Tasting History" is great even if you don't like cooking.
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Cpt. Christan "Panda Bombero" 8 months ago
This is covered in Rescue, Hazmat, and Fire Code Inspection classes. When discussing the history behind formation of these.
Rebecca A. Corvello 8 months ago
My great grandmother was a little girl when it happened. I interviewed her about it when I was a little girl and all I remember is how completely awestruck she was by it. I never saw my Nana not have the words for anything, but for this, she was.
So does Sebastian believe that truth is stranger than fiction?
"Truth can sometimes be stranger than fiction, but often it’s just that truth is more complicated than fiction," he noted. "Reality is messy and tends to defy tidy narrative structures. But, ironically, the process of teaching history is often about finding narratives in the human story and using them as hooks."
"Most historical myths develop from people trying to make sense of a complicated mess of information," the host pointed out. "For instance, a tragedy like the sinking of the Titanic makes more sense if the ship was marketed as 'unsinkable,' the ship's owners purposefully skimped on lifeboats, and everyone involved committed the sin of hubris. The tragedy then becomes understandable using mythic logic—even the ancient Greeks knew that the gods punished hubris."
#22
The cadaver synod. A pope exhumed his predecessor and put the corpse on trial.
StPaul9 8 months ago
I love this. So, Pope Stephen VII had his predecessor Formusus dug up. Nobody could actually find something to charge him with (picture Trump's accusations against his enemies but by a pope). He threw up some examples of perjury and is mostly thought to have used the trial to cement his own reasons to be Pope. In the end, he declared all Formusus' actions undone and after his death, Stephen was almost wiped from papal history himself.
Regina Holt 8 months ago
Hmm, tRump wants all of Biden's actions undone also.
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Rich Black 8 months ago
Let the record show thart the accused has taken thev5th, and refuses to testify on his own behalf.
But Sebastian says the true story is more complicated.
"The Titanic had the typical number of lifeboats for an ocean liner of the era, in fact it had more than most. The term 'unsinkable' wasn’t really used to promote the ship (although you can find passing examples hidden deep in promotional materials). The 'unsinkable' Titanic was seized on by the media after an official used the term after the ship had already hit the iceberg," the host explained.
"The truth is that the universe is chaotic. That chaos sometimes produces strangeness… but just as often produces messy situations that are difficult to fully understand."
#23
The battle of Remagen.
As the Americans closed in on Germany and reached the Rhine in the closing months of WW2, the Germans had successfully blown up every last bridge except for one that was already wired up and hours from demolition.
When Brig. General William M. Hoge was sent to liberate Remagen, he was shocked to discover the Ludendorff bridge still intact.
It was generally accepted that there would be no bridges left, but Eisenhower believed that in the off chance there was a bridge left, it should be captured.
Hoge then decided to defy a direct order to link up with Patton further south and sent his men on a s******l charge to capture the bridge.
At the very same time, N**i troops that had fled across the bridge to escape the allied advance were frantically trying to set off the detonation charges and drop it into the Rhine.
While some of the charges actually went off and badly damaged the structure, the bridge still stood because a lucky hit from an allied artillery shell severed the wires to the detonation charges before they could be triggered.
After a valiant effort the bridge was captured, opening an Allied beachhead into Germany.
The first man across, Alexander A. Drabik, spoke about it.
*"While we were running across the bridge – and, man, it may have been only 250 yards, but it seemed like 250 miles to us – I spotted this lieutenant, standing out there completely exposed to the machine gun fire that was pretty heavy by this time...He was cutting wires and kicking the German demolition charges off the bridge with his feet! Boy that took plenty of guts. He's the one who saved the bridge and made the whole thing possible – the kinda guy I'd like to know."*
Incidentally, Sgt. Drabik became the first man to successfully cross the Rhine and capture German territory since the time of Napoleon.
With the tireless work of the Army Corp. of Engineers, the bridge survived German mortar attacks, artillery barrages, and hundreds of air raids (Defended by the single largest AA battery arranged in the entire war)
It was almost obliterated by a near miss from a railroad gun, SS Frogmen who tried to float downstream during the night and sabotage the bridge were spotted by special spotlights mounted on tanks, naval mines sent downstream were caught by nets, and the Nazis even tried to blow it up with V2 rockets (But missed).
After 10 days the Ludendorff bridge collapsed on its own (K**ling several engineers trying to keep it standing), but its capture allowed six divisions to cross and establish a beachhead in German territory, and likely shortened the entire war by weeks or even months.
Multa Nocte 8 months ago
"sent his men on a s******l charge" - sexual charge? 😂 This is way past seriously stupid now, BP.
General Anaesthesia 8 months ago
Maybe "self-assassination" would pass the censors.
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General Anaesthesia 8 months ago (edited)
It was a railroad gun, not a rail gun. There's a very big difference. AI (authentic ignorance)?
Trillian 8 months ago
I grew up in Remagen. Up till the 90ies we would sometimes see American veterans visiting. Weird how this text talks about 'capturing German territory' and a 'beachhead into Germany', Remagen is like right in western Germany, not a border town?
Forrest Hobbs 8 months ago
German territory, as in "territory held by German forces".
Load More Replies... Meaghan Stewart 8 months ago
Lol trying to hit a bridge with a V2 rocket is like trying to hit a building with a NASA rocket.
Forrest Hobbs 8 months ago
LOL, NASA rockets got to be very reliable and accurate in part because the guy behind the V2 rockets was smuggled into the US as an illegal immigrant. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Paperclip
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#24
The Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
The failed first attempt, the car taking the route that it did, the car stalling right in front of Gavrilo Princip then the aftermath of that event being so catastrophic.
It sounds like sensational Hollywood writing.
Rich Black 8 months ago
He failed in his initial attempt and went to a bar. The arc dukes car drove past the bar, and vmbrokecdown there. Princep rushed out to take his shot.
#25
The Four Seasons Total Landscaping press conference. It would have been rejected for an episode of Veep because it was so ridiculous.
Fred L. 8 months ago
Not that that wasn't clear before but it was nice of them to emphasize the point.
Load More Replies... brookeannsimmer 8 months ago
In America we have a chain of hotels called 'Four Seasons' and while his office never acknowledged the error, it would seem that instead of booking the reputable hotel to host a press conference they had called and booked speaking space at a local landscaping company, also called Four Seasons
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If you're interested in hearing more crazy yet true stories, be sure to check out Sebastian's podcast Our Fake History.
"On that show, I explore stories that people think are true but are likely legends (Did Napoleon Shoot the Nose off the Sphinx?). I also look at events or figures many people believe to be purely legendary (The Trojan War, King Arthur, etc.) and try to determine if there is a kernel of historical truth at the heart of the story!" he shared. "We have 10 seasons and over 200 episodes. Find it on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, or wherever you listen to podcasts."
#26
The St Scholastica day riot. Two students go to a pub and complain about the quality of the wine - a fight starts and escalates out of control, lasting three days with over 90 people k**led.
Zaach 8 months ago
Just prior to WWI, a ballet with music by Stravinsky (The Rites Of Spring 1913) was so upsetting (also people were nervous about war) that fist fights broke out in the middle of the music with people who hated it battling it out with people who loved it - the audience left the theater and caused a riot in Paris that lasted for a couple days. By 1940, the Rites of Spring was children's music in Fantasia
Rich Black 8 months ago
British university students. The upper crust. Daddies paying their tuition.
#27
The battle off Samar. A tiny US task force driving off the entire Japanese Center force(which included the Yamato) by fighting so hard the IJN thinks each ship is one class above its actual class(IJN thought the destroyers were cruisers, the destroyer escorts were destroyers, and the light carriers were fleet carriers). The Yamato alone weighed more than the entire US force that entered battle against them. It involves one of the smallest oceangoing US warships getting into a gun duel with an IJN Heavy Cruiser and damaging it so heavily that the IJN scuttled it after the battle.
Don Adams 8 months ago
The little ships fought like battleships that day. If you are interested, the "Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors" by James Hornfischer is an excellent read. They truly turned the tide that day.
Major Harris 8 months ago
the american ships did drive off the japanese navy, but lost two escort carriers, 2 destroyers and a destroyer escort. our lead ship, u.s.s. johnston and her commander knew that their weapons could not hurt the enemies armour, so ordered every one to get close and fire on the upper decks. when the johnston was sunk, the japanese sailors paused their firing and saluted the bravery on the american sailors. and for the record, the yamato was the largest battleship ever built along with her sister, musashi.
Dennis Stanley 8 months ago
At the Battle off Samar, a US Navy destroyer captain (either Ernest Evans or Robert Copeland) announced to his crew, “This will be a fight against overwhelming odds from which survival cannot be expected. We will do what damage we can.”
Rich Black 8 months ago
Taffy 2. One of the episodes of "world War 2 in color" covers this in detail, with actual footage
Justin 8 months ago (edited)
US fleet fell for a diversion, leaving the destroyers as the only ships protecting 130000 troops and landing craft. The destroyers charged the IJN with full smoke in a bid to hide the fact that they had no backup. IJN got spooked thinking they had ran into the entire enemy fleet and retreated, snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.
#28
Alexander the Great approaching the island city of Tyre and deciding "S**ew it, rather than attack an island, I'll just make the island part of the mainland" and building a land bridge to link Tyre to the mainland so that he could attack and take it.
Grazina Strolia 8 months ago
Right?? $crew is already the fricking euphemism! It'd be like censoring "fudge"!
Load More Replies... Brian Droste 8 months ago
There was already a thin causeway to the island. Alexander just made it wider so he could get his troops to the city that was situated on the island.
#29
-That far right Norwegian man who pretended to be a police and attacked those teenagers in that island. Sounds like a plot to some very mediocre Nordic Noir book.
-The eccentric rich Danish man who invited a reporter to his submarine and ended up m*******g and cutting her body into pieces. Like wtf who does that? Would probably get rejected as a movie script for being too weird.
-9/11.
Lady Eowyn 8 months ago
Those teenagers, that island. Not even enough info to google for more context.
Kelly H. Wilder 8 months ago
Googling Norwegian man attacked teenagers on island brings up Anders Breivik. Norway has so few incidents like this that the search is easy.
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#30
Charles VI of France and his grandson Henry VI of England both became mentally ill in their twenties.
Their relatives then responded by deciding to fight each other over the regency. Much of the animosity was provoked by already existing tensions between two members of the royal family. In Charles' case, it was his brother, Louis, Duke of Orléans and his cousin, Jean the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy. In Henry's, it was two of his cousins, Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York and Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset.
Charles and Henry's respective wives, Isabeau of Bavaria and Marguerite of Anjou, were both slandered as evil and greedy foreign harlots who were cheating on their mad husbands with other men, who just so happened to be their main political supporters.
Louis of Orléans and Edmund Beaufort were both basically m******d by the rivals and their sons' swore vengeance. Then the respective commissioners of those m*****s, Jean the Fearless and Richard Plantagenet also got k**led violently by their enemies and their sons were also like, "VENGEANCE IS MINE!!!"
Charles and Henry's immediate family members eventually took sides in the rivalry between the two members of the extended royal family. Charles' only surviving son surrounded himself with members of the Armagnac-Orléans faction and Henry's wife and only son surrounded themselves with Beauforts.
Charles and Henry both died insane and it's not certain how much they knew was going on. One kind of hopes that they didn't actually know that much about the state of their family and kingdom, because talk about depressing. However, the methods of their deaths were different: Charles died of natural causes while Henry was secretly m******d.
There's so many parallels it feels like this was a TV show where the writers got bored and decided to just recycle old plots.
Tom Brincefield 8 months ago
They didn't have syndication then, so old storylines could be reused every couple generations.
Grazina Strolia 8 months ago
" Then the respective commissioners of those m*****s"...monarchs? Marauders? I HAVE NO IDEA
#31
I do a lot of short tornado documentaries and honestly so many moments I have had talked about sound like they were ripped right out of an over the top tornado action/horror movie. Natchez is probably the most striking to me off the top of my head. The second deadliest tornado in US history, it got so dark out people had to light candles to see, it straddled the Mississippi River, sank essentially a fleet's worth of ships on the river and caused so much destruction people were thrown into full religious crises by the end of it.
Xenia is another one like that, there was a moment in that storm where students fled their school seconds before a bus smashed through the wall behind them. Very scary stuff. I've been honestly floored at how many true tornado moments sound like something people would say are over the top and unrealistic if you included in a movie about said tornado.
Tom Faehnle 8 months ago
I grew up only 10 miles from Xenia- was outside in a thunderstorm when it hit!
#32
Battle of Saragarhi where 21 soldiers fought against 10 or 12,000 soldiers.
The numbers would put any crazy Indian movie to shame 😂. So they decided to make a movie out of it as well.
Rich Black 8 months ago
Thec21 soldiers were massacred almost immediately. Don't try this at home, boys and girls.
#33
That giant Tsunami wave that happened in Alaska - Lituya Bay in 1958. That one was supposedly 1,700 feet in height.
Skip Reynolds 8 months ago
Not quite. When the wave reached the steep opposite shore, the water rushed up the slope to 1,700 feet. The wave itself wasn't nearly that high although it was still a monster.
Geoffrey Scott 8 months ago
Don't remember the show (History channel?) the tree line is still gone up to that height.
Load More Replies... Rich Black 8 months ago
Only 5 people died. Eyewitness accounts are sparse, and the tsunami height is estimated from tree damage only.
#34
Hands down 9-11. Not even a debate. Seriously, a bunch of terrorists steal 4 jet planes, fly one of them into the g*****n Pentagon and fly two of them into The World Trade Center towers? AND THEY F*****G BOTH COLLAPSE? Get the f**k outta' here with that b******t.
Geoffrey Scott 8 months ago
"We just want to fly (they told the teachers in Vero Beach) takeoff/landings? Ok, if we must".
JB 8 months ago
UNCONTROLLED FIRE. Jesus H F**k why is this still a thing? "Steel doesn't bend!" It does in an uncontrolled fire that burns for hours!! Hell, you can bend a railroad rail with a campfire in a few hours! Combined that fact with how they were built (essentially a tube) and a plane full of jet fuel smashing through the structure, then the fire compromising the rest of the vertical members...yeah, gravity is going to win! But so many, when they see such a terrible act, feel it must be part of some greater conspiracy because then they have control. They feel safe in their deranged accusations. Because if it wasn't a conspiracy, if it was just a group of evil men and physics doing the rest...well then those truthers would have to admit that they could die at any moment and the world is not safe and there are evil people in it who they won't see coming. And that truth is too much for them.
Nils Skirnir 8 months ago
The unlikelihood is why many believe in some kind of conspiracy. I don’t, just chalk it up to sucking up to Saudi wealth and stupidity
CatD 8 months ago
Yep, the last flight out of the US was removing W Bush's Saudi friends so they couldn't be questioned.
Load More Replies... Max Fox 8 months ago
Great, now BP is posting truther a$$holery. Fact - underneath the "Truther" conspiracy theories is a deep, deep well of antisemitism. There is a direct line from "it was an inside job" to "The Jews did it".
General Anaesthesia 8 months ago
You've forgotten the topic here, Max, "37 Historical Events That Sound Fake, But Are True", or "reality blows imagination's mind".
Load More Replies... Pyla 8 months ago
At the time there was legit concern the towers at the top would fall over. The pancaking surprised everyone.
Max Fox 8 months ago (edited)
That is what the terrorists seemed to have thought would happen, which is why the planes hit from opposite sides. The amount of devastation that the towers would have caused had they actually fallen sideways would have been far far worse. Nobody had actually ever modeled what would happen, because nobody thought such a thing would happen. Since then engineers have modelled what happened and understand how and why. Truthers are a bunch of ignorant morons with inflated egos who think that "if I don't understand how it happened, it was impossible". Since they don't really understand very much of anything, they spend a lot of time claiming that things like "the sun isn't real". Add to that a wide streak of antisemitism, and you have a bunch of pretty disgusting excuses for human beings.
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Jurassic period.
Password 8 months ago
Someone could make a series of crazy movies about it
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1. American WW2 Veteran, Desmond Doss helped a wounded Japanese soldier during the war.
2. I don't remember this quite often but some say that while Desmond Doss was running (or rescuing I'm not sure), the Japanese Soldiers' guns malfunctioned while trying to fire at him. This did not make it to the movie "Hacksaw Ridge" however, because of how many people or watchers will find this unbelievable.
Needless to say Desmond Doss is a believer of God.
Multa Nocte 8 months ago
"Needless to say"? Then why say it? Also, belief in God is not related to compassion. In many instances it actively contradicts compassion.
Lila Allen 8 months ago
He wasn't magically protected by god. They were using substandard equipment that had been partially submerged.
Load More Replies... Alyce 8 months ago
Obviously, none of the commenters here have ever studied belief/faith as opposed to the dogma of religion. Very different things. Survival against all odds is frequently hard to fathom as "just luck'. And belief certainly doesn't make you immortal and death does not negate God, this sort of zero-sum, gotcha logic is extremely depressing.
Dariusz M. D. 8 months ago
Well, if I understood it correctly, the OP suggests that believe in God, contributed to his 'miraculous' survival. What about all those soldiers then who perfished, believing in God? Was their faith not strong enough? Or perhaps the OP believes that being religious imbues a person with heightened level of compassion or humanity. In this case, history of human civilzation does not validate such an assertion.
#37
One of my favourites is that once, the winter was so bad around Paris, that packs of wolves gathered into a large group, crossed the frozen Seine and beginning hunting people in the streets of Paris. It’s allegedly supposed to have ended after pitched fighting in the streets led to people and wolves battling it out on the steps of Notre Dame where the pack leader ( Because alpha triggered weird responses to this) was k**led. The remaining wolves fled and for the better part of the year, allegedly, nearly all wolves were wiped out in the north of France
Of course Paris and Norte Dame looked very different at the time. Barely a small city and a half-built church BUT HOW IS THIS NOT A MOVIE ALREADY?!
Max Fox 8 months ago
This is pure, unadulterated BS, because Wild. Wolves. Don't. Have. Alphas.
Cpt. Christan "Panda Bombero" 8 months ago
The idea of "alpha" wolves leading packs is a myth, as wild wolf packs are primarily family units with breeding pairs (the parents) who lead the pack, not through dominance, but by virtue of their role as parents.
What do you think ?
Daniela Lavanza 8 months ago (edited)
Nothing about the K Syndrome? This fake disease invented by Dr Borromeo to save returners and Jews from the SS in Roma during WWII. This would perfectly suit this list.
Don Adams 8 months ago
The story of Louis Zamperini (sp?). Grew up a troubled youth, discord running, made it to the 2936 Olympics in Berlin, joined the USAAF after Pearl Harbor, was a B-24 crewman. Plane ditched in the Pacific, he and 2 other survivors floated in a life raft for around 45 days, picked up by. Japanese ship and became a POW. Somehow earned the wrath of a sadistic guard who tried to break him repeatedly. Never have in. The movie "Unbroken' is a great watch, but the book of the same Tite by Laura Hillebrand is really worth reading.
Dragons Exist 8 months ago
I read that book in 7th grade English, it was amazing
Load More Replies... tresgatos72 8 months ago
Imagine a second-born son who rises to prominence in the wake of his older brother's death. Considered dashing in his youth, this son is a narcissist who at last has his father's eye. The son spends more lavishly than the father ever imagined, has a series of loveless marriages that are more for show, rises to lead his country, and becomes a fat, ill-tempered, psychotic old man who feels no limit on his power and strikes fear in his subordinates... This is Henry VIll, of course. Who did you think I was describing?😉
Trisec Tebeakesse 8 months ago
Dorchester Heights. While many of the cannon were legit, hauled by Henry Knox to Boston - many more were just logs painted black. The British left anyway.
Lee Gilliland 8 months ago
They skipped the Battle of New Orleans, fought AFTER the war was over.
Daniela Lavanza 8 months ago (edited)
Nothing about the K Syndrome? This fake disease invented by Dr Borromeo to save returners and Jews from the SS in Roma during WWII. This would perfectly suit this list.
Don Adams 8 months ago
The story of Louis Zamperini (sp?). Grew up a troubled youth, discord running, made it to the 2936 Olympics in Berlin, joined the USAAF after Pearl Harbor, was a B-24 crewman. Plane ditched in the Pacific, he and 2 other survivors floated in a life raft for around 45 days, picked up by. Japanese ship and became a POW. Somehow earned the wrath of a sadistic guard who tried to break him repeatedly. Never have in. The movie "Unbroken' is a great watch, but the book of the same Tite by Laura Hillebrand is really worth reading.
Dragons Exist 8 months ago
I read that book in 7th grade English, it was amazing
Load More Replies... tresgatos72 8 months ago
Imagine a second-born son who rises to prominence in the wake of his older brother's death. Considered dashing in his youth, this son is a narcissist who at last has his father's eye. The son spends more lavishly than the father ever imagined, has a series of loveless marriages that are more for show, rises to lead his country, and becomes a fat, ill-tempered, psychotic old man who feels no limit on his power and strikes fear in his subordinates... This is Henry VIll, of course. Who did you think I was describing?😉
Trisec Tebeakesse 8 months ago
Dorchester Heights. While many of the cannon were legit, hauled by Henry Knox to Boston - many more were just logs painted black. The British left anyway.
Lee Gilliland 8 months ago
They skipped the Battle of New Orleans, fought AFTER the war was over.
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