71 Historical Facts That Sound Too Strange To Be True

Considering what he knew it would cost and what was at stake, I can imagine he was a bit stressed.

So you can't write a g*****e, but you can show a picture of one

The Panzer V, aka Panther, was one of the smaller tanks ... only about 45 tons. Thats a hell of a crane load

Also happened at the siege of Alesia when Julius Caesar was besieging Vercingetorix.

This picture says a lot about how even strong, seemingly unflappable humans can be moved to tears and sorrow.

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"Drink copious amounts of alcohol and wait for the inevitable blast wave. "

On some documentary I watched on TV, a Japanese woman, in charge of a Hiroshima memorial, had the cojones to accuse the USA of crimes against humanity for the bombing. Seems her school didn't teach her about China, Pearl Harbor, Comfort Women, D***h Marches, a*****e POW camps, and so on./s

They should have named it Eeyore! 😊

*Horses on the battlefield* "Finally, birds can have a turn!"

One round hit her ammo magazine ... she broke her back and sank in three minutes

Accuracy wasn't that great back then.

America 1940. We're never going to get government approval to join the war unless Japan attacks Pearl Harbour.

I'm so grateful for vaccines

On a related note, why does John Cena continue to look like Ernest P. Worrel?

His name is Doug Hegdahl.

FYI, this was a Soviet unit, since the text above doesn't locate them.

Anyone else see a face behind her?

Too bad it's Budweiser.

So this is where the "tis but a scratch!" bit originated!

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💯 I even made sure that there was a tea urn at my dad's wake.

This was not a Zero, it was a Mitsubishi Ki51 Sonia light bomber. The plane failed to penetrate the ship's armoured belt, causing minor damage to the ship, but leaving the distinct outline of the plane' wings and landing gear. July 26th 1945, near the Dutch East Indies, during the final weeks of WWII.

just ask Jimmy Carter.

Kinda like when my cat drags me around on his walk. Except I don't have that cool Samurai gear.

Inspecting troops or auditioning for A Chorus Line?

Stalhelms were adopted worldwide, including an excess sent to China. Poland seized hundreds and copied the design (after Germany lost, of course. They didn't steal it mid-war.)

French Revolutionary Wars?

Many of them ended up getting their heads shaved and run out of town when the Germans retreated

What a mess

Yeah, that's already happened.

Life Savings...

Rommel wasn't daft. He had Luftlandehindernis ("air-landing obstacle"s) aka 'Rommel's asparagus' installed in places where the Allies were expected. Basically, wooden poles linked by wires, including barbed wire and tripwires set to explode mines or hand grenades. Link follows.

It's still there, still striking. The oldest commissioned warship I think.

After dismantlement, they can still be remantled. They haven't been destroyed. Also, they've been updated to greatly increase their use-by date.

Last I heard. Russia and Belarus had the highest percentage of alcohol related deaths in the world.

W S Churchill deserves a lot of criticism. But for all his flaws, he did have personal courage - joined the British army as a young man, and as it turned out, actually took part in the last significant British cavalry charge. Compare and contrast to some of the current crop of world leaders... 🤔

Poland needs to admit that civilians participated in purges, murders, and other crimes against the Jewish population. They were not the total victims some claim they were.

This is a fake. There's no photograph of the actual event - and by the pilot's account, he was flying straight and level at the time in any case. To cut a long story short and quoting Wikipedia he was 'arrested and later invalided out of the RAF on medical grounds, which avoided a court martial' - 'and the embarrassment to the government of Pollock publicising the reason for his stunt and perhaps receiving the support of the public'. He didn't actually plan on flying under Tower Bridge's walkways. From what I recall reading, it's just that he was flying along the route of the Thames and the bridge was there, and he basically just couldn't help himself... 😁

Similar to what the Soviets did with a seized B-29 ... made a carbon copy called the Tu-4

Are you my Mummy ha-ha?

Warsaw? Try looking up Dresden. Berlin got off very lightly, all things considered. Well, the buildings did. The inhabitants? Well, Stalin took the view that since his troops had fought their way all across eastern Europe to get there, they were entitled to a bit of 'fun' at the expense of any local females... 🤢 Wars are nasty things, and some wars get nastier than others.

Umm, seriously? I think everyone with half an ounce of sense objected to all the d3aths relating to the many decades of recent warmongering in Afghanistan (you could start in the 1970s with the Soviet invasion, and the causes of that invasion). Putting the blame on the Taliban is ignoring those who are to blame for the rise of the Taliban - they have at least as much guilt. The history is very complicated.

Er, this is massively misleading. Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev came up with the periodic table. Moseley's experimental results sorted out some issues, yes; but lots of other people were involved at that point. Link follows.

Hanoi Jane. Should’ve been prosecuted.