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39 Of The Most Famous ‘Fine, I’ll Do It Myself’ Moments That Changed History Forever
The entire history of humanity is mostly the history of incredibly brave people. Starting from the very prehistoric human who first lit a fire, and ending, for example, with Neil Armstrong walking on the Moon. In fact, if people didn’t have such a mentality, we would still live in caves and dress in skins. Daredevils are the ones who actually move civilization forward.
Our selection today, made for you by Bored Panda, tells about such people from different countries and ages. It’s about historical figures who, despite all fears and obstacles, did something incredible. And even if it didn’t end well for them... at least we remember them.
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#1
The people who volunteered to go into the reactor at Chernobyl to stem the damage as it went critical, knowing they would die. Their sacrifice prevented much worse damage and radiation.
Danger Muppet 5 months ago (edited)
The Elderly volunteered for clean up and other things so younger people would not have to suffer if there was radiation sickness.
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Johnnynatfan 5 months ago
Volunteered? What? They didn’t volunteer. They didn’t have a choice.
Isabel Galvez 5 months ago
There's a heartbreaking video of some young men smiling and saying "there's nothing scary in there", not knowing they'd all be dead within months.
David Kennedy 5 months ago
Every nuclear reactor goes critical as that is how they operate critical" means the reactor is operating at a stable, self-sustaining chain reaction where the number of neutrons produced by fission is equal to the number lost (through absorption or leakage). I think they mean supercritical? In a nuclear reactor, "supercritical" means the reactor's chain reaction is increasing exponentially, with each generation of nuclear fission producing more neutrons than the previous one
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#2
Stanislav Petrov, manning a Soviet missile defense system during a very tense period of the Cold War, looked at an alert from the computer that claimed that the US had just launched nukes at the USSR, said "f**k it, this computer is wrong, I'll decide if we're being attacked, and I decide no", and didn't sound the alarm for a counter attack, against his standing orders. He was correct, and singlehandedly stopped the Cold War from becoming a nuclear war.
Janissary35680 5 months ago (edited)
Details here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov
Krd 5 months ago
I heard a similar story; a Russian soldier on a nuclear sub off the coast of Florida had orders to launch nukes at the US if he didn't get the signal NOT TO fire them (there was tense negotiations going on or something, so they setup a "deadmans switch" situation). Well the deadline hit and he never got the message to not launch them. Thing was, their comms system was horribly unreliable, so the soldier unilaterally decided to ignore his standing orders and not launch the nukes. Thank god he used reason, otherwise at least one nuke would of hit the mainland US.
Greg Fraser 5 months ago
I bet he would have had a much harder time making the correct decision during T 2.0. Back then, he probably knew the US wouldn't strike first, if at all. Today, he'd have to have doubts.
#3
Dashrath Manjhi is a man who single handedly cut a mountain in half in order to make a passage between his tiny village and the city on the other side of the mountain. He did this because you would have to ethier climb or go around the mountain to get to the doctor. His wife was wounded and died while he was trying to fetch the doctor. He vowed to not rest until he could make a passage way for the doctor to easily reach the village. It took him 22 years but he turned a 55km journey into a 15km journey. He had help from time to time but many thought him insane but it worked! Unfortunately it was only after his death in 2007 that the government got it's a*s together and built more roads and made the pass safer. In 2016 he was honored with a set of stamps bearing his personage. He sacrificed so much too help the village he loved.
Klondike Penguin 5 months ago
What an incredible amount of determination this guy had! If I were to try what he did for 45 minutes, I’d give up and go home. He’s a treasure that any and everyone should know about.
WubiDubi 5 months ago
BP, you have the actual photo in your archives... 4-66f27f8f...7__700.jpg 
SchadenFreudian Psychology 5 months ago
This is why we need governments that will do things like this. He did a great thing, but he shouldn’t HAVE to.
Forrest Hobbs 5 months ago
I've heard about this before. I still haven't found out why he apparently did this by himself - did no-one else ever lend a hand? Why just one man when there was a whole village of people? I'd love to know the full story.
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There are several viral threads on the Internet, the authors of which ask questions like "What is the greatest '[forget] it, I'll do it myself' in history?" or even "What are some examples in history of the 'you only live once' type of mentality?"
Each of these threads has thousands of replies, with detailed discussions of each historical figure - from Napoleon Bonaparte to Douglas MacArthur, from Alexander the Great to Theodore Roosevelt.
#4
Ancient seafaring people, for sure. Sailing off into the unknown just hoping to find something.
bs7d2r6cst 3 months ago
Not as big a deal but, my partner's ancestors set off on foot with some of his children from Cornwall. The plan was to get to London, and then bring the rest of his family to London when he could afford it. He never managed to afford it and the family never saw each other again.
#5
Juan Pujol García was a Spaniard who created his own counter-intelligence operation for the Allies during WW2. Initially he approached British and American intelligence offering them his services, but both countries rebuffed him. Undeterred Garcia created a fictional persona as a pro-f*****t Spanish official and got himself recruited by the N***s who directed him to travel to Britain to recruit agents. Instead Garcia created a network of fictitious agents and sub-agents using publicly available information like newspapers and travel brochures. It was at this point that he again contacted Allied intelligence, and was finally recruited. Garcia continued his work throughout the war, and received both a knighthood from the British and the Iron Cross for the same operation. The N***s never realized that he was a double agent.
Stimpy 5 months ago
How come the "fasci" in fascinating was not censored. Come one bored panda, get your s**t together...
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Michael Largey 5 months ago
His English case officer was novelist Graham Greene. Greene later turned the underlying story into a novel and movie - "Our Man in Havana", both worth reading and watching.
Krd 5 months ago
Especially when talking about history. By censoring the word N*zi, they are effectively censoring history, and by extension whitewashing the h*******t.
Load More Replies... SchadenFreudian Psychology 5 months ago
That guy was bådaşs! I hope there’s a statue of him somewhere.
#6
The Hunter Tower Bridge Incident, not as spectacular as others here but fits the whole "f**k it" theme.
RAF pilot Alan Pollock was rather annoyed that the government was doing nothing to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the RAF, so he took things into his own hands. Immediately after takeoff on a routine transit flight he peeled off course in his Hawker Hunter fighter jet. He preceded to fly a low pass over the airfield, then using a borrowed AA map he found his way to London where he circled the houses of parliament a few times, dipped his wings over the RAF memorial and began flying down the river Thames at low level. Tower Bridge came up so he decided to fly through the gap between the road and top of the bridge (apparently causing a cyclist to fall off his bike in shock at the sudden noise and the fighter jet passing over his head.
Realising that he was going to be in a world of trouble when he landed he decided he may well buzz a few more RAF based on his way to his destination. Upon landing he was promptly arrested.
He received a lot of support with hundreds of letters of support, and a barrel of beer being sent by his RAF colleagues and members of the public. He even had an all-party motion of support, tabled in the House of Commons. In the end the RAF chose to quietly discharge him on medical grounds than take him to court and give him a chance to explain himself.
And that's the story of the only person to fly a jet aircraft through tower bridge.
Forrest Hobbs 5 months ago
There's no photo of it, but someone did create a faithful fake: "I liaised with Alan Pollock while making the picture. Initially I had placed his Hunter in the centre of the gap. He insisted however that it was much closer to the top." https://www.aerialcombat.co.uk/2016/04/seven-seconds-the-tower-bridge-hawker-hunter-incident.html
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SchadenFreudian Psychology 5 months ago
Why wouldn’t the government officially celebrate the anniversary? That seems like a no-brainer. After everything the RAF did in WW2??
Forrest Hobbs 5 months ago
The RAF was being run down at the time. Ten years previously, the British government had decided to mostly replace crewed aircraft with missiles. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawker_Hunter_Tower_Bridge_incident#Background and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1957_Defence_White_Paper
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Inigo Montoya 5 months ago
Far less spectacular, but in 1955 at Seafair in Seattle, test pilot Tex Johnston was scheduled to fly a prototype Boeing 707 over the crowds along Lake Washington. On a whim he decided to do a barrel roll in a prototype commercial airliner, stunning onlookers. Boeing CEO William Allen was furious. But ultimately it won Boeing fame and recognition, and increased business for the pioneer of the jet age.
Helen Rohrlach 5 months ago
Definitely need seatbelts fastened and tray tables in the upright position first.
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In fact, the meaning and character of each person is revealed precisely in difficult moments of life - when everything, literally everything in this world, indicates that you will not succeed, when life literally tells you "No way" and you need to find the strength and inner resources to go against fate. To go, when the chances of winning are minuscule. To go in spite of literally everything.
Just like Napoleon Bonaparte, perfectly aware that the chances of victory, when he returned from exile on the island of Elba to France, were incredibly small. And although he ultimately lost, when the armies of all of Europe stood against him, these Hundred Days, when the French joyfully greeted the return of their beloved emperor, became a beautiful conclusion to his legend.
#7
Sir Nicolas Winton, who was a British man during the 1900s who help saved around 669 children if mostly Jewish origin get from Czechoslovakia to Britian before the start of WW2. He was just a broker who kept up on the news from Czechoslovakiai think, but from what I remember he went all the way to Prague,and tried to figure out what he could do. I watched an interview, and it was a lot of forging of documents and blackmail that he did I think to get the children into Britian. He didnt say anything about it for the next 50 years, he served in the army as well during ww2.
This is a "F**k it, if no one is going to help these kids, then I will" in my opinion.
Sadly i think there was another train full of 200 more kids, but it didnt get to depart because the war started that day. Most to all the kids who he saved, their parents died in camps like Auschwitz, and that probably included those 200 kids that never got on the train. He found the kids he did save, people willing to adopt them. This was known as the Czech Kindertransport (German for "children's transport" and he was knighted as well by the Queen, thus is why he is Sir Nicolas Winton. Theres a movie called Nicky's Family about it, as well as a 60 Minutes on him.
He died in 2015 at the age of 106, but not without meeting a lot of the children, who are now adults. There was one sad part I saw in an interview with one of the children, is that his parents had told him that he was going to go to a trip to the UK alone, and then they would join him a few months later. He never realized this was the last time he'd see his parents, and he was asked what his parents looked like, where they scared, panicked, sad? I think he said he asked this question to himself many times and I think he ultimately said they were calm, I think.
But this in my opinion is one of the big, f**k it I'll do it myself.
XenoMurph 5 months ago
There's a great clip of him in the audience of a TV show. https://youtu.be/OqqbM1B-mPY?si=opcWYE-BZMP2j0Xh
El Dee 5 months ago
People may be unaware but at the time this was actually controversial. Britain was very much against having these children brought in and several newspapers, including the Daily Mail, were vociferous on their horrible thoughts about these innocent children. Nothing changes..
Aniviel 5 months ago
The Daily Heil (Mail) was a supporter of Hitler. Their stance hasn't changed much in the decades since.
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Strack Attack 5 months ago
This was made into a film, One Life, with Johnny Flynn and Anthony Hopkins playing Winton.
Verena 5 months ago (edited)
The BBC had two wonderful moments with him. He was sat in the audience of a talk show, and the first time the host explainey the story, and one of these children, now a middle aged woman, sat next to him. The second time the host asked that everybody who was saved by him please raise. The entire audience stood. Edit:That's the clip XenoMurph posted.
Ronnie Beaton 5 months ago
He was the subject of the rather wonderful 2024 movie "One Life", which starred Sir Anthony Hopkins as the older Winton, and Johnny Flynn as the younger Winton.
#8
Barry Marshall in order to show that h. pylori plays a major role in the cause of peptic ulcers he drank a broth of it and studied the disease’s progress.
Anony Mouse 5 months ago
Then took the ‘antidote’ to cure himself. Another bl**dy, anti-establishment, maverick Western Australian.
Forrest Hobbs 5 months ago
Yeah, but: he did know that the bacteria in question was susceptible to a particular antibiotic. So while he's hugely impressive, it's worth bearing in mind that he wasn't crazy. It was: "Okay, I think this bug will give me a gastric ulcer. And if I'm right, I'm sure this antibiotic will fix it."
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#9
Thor Heyerdahl, a Norwegian adventurer, and ethnographer went on the Kon Tiki expedition in 1947 to prove the Norweigan embassy that it was possible the Polynesian islands were populated from ancient civilizations from South America. So he and his three friends constructed a simple raft of wooden logs and sailed from South America to the Pacific Islands only using the currents in the Pacific. Oh, and they documented the whole expedition and later won an Oscar.
sofacushionfort 5 months ago
Meanwhile, ethnographers simply record languages and investigate similarities
Tim Douglass 5 months ago
Which can only show that they did, not how they did.
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Cuppa tea? 5 months ago
He done same year later, only this time on papyrus raft, sailing from Egypt to America.
Lorraine R 5 months ago
The papyrus raft is what's pictured above. I think Kon-Tiki was balsa logs.
Load More Replies... SchadenFreudian Psychology 5 months ago
We read the book at school when I was about in sixth grade.
Mel in Georgia 5 months ago
There's an interesting museum in Oslo, Norway that has his vessels on display. Quite the adventurer!
Lill Anette Wold 4 months ago
There is a movie, for those interested. «Kon-Tiki» from 2012. Thor Heyerdal also has a high school named after him.
By and large, any of the great travelers of the past, any of the explorers, put everything they had on the line to achieve some great dream. At the same time, by the way, always trying to stay true role models of nobility and generosity.
As it was, for example, with Robert Scott, who, having lost his desperate race to the South Pole, found the courage to admit his own defeat - and until his last days remained a model of nobility (the diaries of the expedition members, found at the site of their last stop, eloquently testify to this).
#10
Inés Ramírez Pérez who performed a C-section on herself with both her and her baby living to talk about it.
Alli Marston 5 months ago
Really BP? There are a ton of pics of Ms. Perez (and her adorable kid) all over the internet, but you chose to use a pic of some random woman?
The Goo King 5 months ago
Just because they are on the internet, it does not mean you can use them. An individual posting it on social is unlikely to have a problem, but a busy site is going to get sued for copyright infringement, unless they can track down the rights owners and licence the image. It's easier to use a stock image from a library you already have a contract with.
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#11
In the Indian mathematician Ramanujans early life, he posted a question on how to solve a specific infinite equation in the Journal of the Indian Mathematical Society, after not getting a reply for 6 months he just solved it himself.
#12
"Napolean's Hundred Days" for sure. Already in exhile in Elba, he catches news they are gonna send him to an island in the middle of the Atlantic, so he figures "f**k it" and sneaks on a ship to France.
Upon landing in France, the 5th Regiment is sent to intercept him. They were mostly hos former soldiers. He dismounts his horse, walks within firing distance of them, cause f**k it, and announces "Here I am! K**l your emperor, if you wish" They all join him and march on Paris.
Louis the XVIII dips to Belgium and Napolean reclaims his former spot as emperor. With an amassed army over 200 000, he tries to drive a wedge between the coalition forces of Britain and Prussia, cause f**k it why not? Well, Waterloo is why. They lose the battle and he is exiled to St. Helena, but f**k, what a few months that was.
James Ward 5 months ago
There was no "gonna send him to an island in the middle of the Atlantic", St. Helena was a reaction to his Elba escape.
Michael Largey 5 months ago
Or at least spell Napoleon, the subject of your piece, correctly.
Load More Replies...In today's world, traveled and studied far and wide, there is often no place for unrestrained and sometimes crazy courage. We've become too rational; we try to pay attention to the amount of money or public attention that we'll receive for this or that action.
How many likes did the participants of the Apollo expedition receive? None at all. They just believed in what they were doing - and that's the most important thing.
We often say that things were better before. Or not better, but sometimes easier. You know what - in many ways, these statements are true. After all, we only live once. And it's not just how we live this life that matters, but also what kind of memory we leave behind.
Well, most of the heroes of this selection left behind some incredibly interesting memories. Not always good - that's true - but at least they tried.
#13
Pretty much anything Teddy Roosevelt did.
Zephyr343 5 months ago
Not only got shot but finished his speech. He also kept a diary. His wife and his mother both passed on the same day. The entry for that day is a giant "X" with the single sentence "the light has gone out of my life"
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Apollo 8. Easily the most important of the Apollo missions.
First time we put actual humans on the monster Saturn V rocket. First time we sent 3 humans from the safety of our orbit, to the moon, and orbited it 10 times.
A marvel of scientific achievement. It's far more deserving of a movie than 11 or 13.
Apatheist Account2 5 months ago
As an astronaut said, the rocket was built by the lowest bidder - not encouraging.
The Darkest Timeline 5 months ago
That was a line front the movie, “Armageddon”
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#15
In 1961, Russian surgeon Leonid Rogozov performed an appendectomy on himself.
https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-32481442.
The Darkest Timeline 5 months ago (edited)
He had no choice other than to die but, still, performing surgery on yourself is pretty metal.
Jane Alexander 5 months ago
In an article in "Look" magazine he related that once while flying over Kansas he correctly diagnosed a pain in his right side as appendicitis. He landed at the nearest airfield and was rushed to the hospital for emergency surgery.
Well, we sincerely hope that you will find this selection of stories and opinions about outstanding people of the past really interesting. Even if these people were far from always being good, at least they had courage and resourcefulness. So please feel free to read this list to the very end, and maybe add your own ideas on such people and their bright deeds in the comments below.
#16
- When the Scottish invaded England and got as far as Derby.
- When somebody brewed an IPA and thought "F**k it" and just doubled down on all of the ingredients to make a DIPA.
- Caesar, sitting on his horse looking at a river and saying "F**k it" and just crossing with his entire army, de facto declaring war on the Senate.
- King Leonidas, his kingdom facing invasion and subjugation by rival city states and the Persian king, took 300 of his best men and blocked the road. "F**k it" lets just see how many we can k**l before we get smooshed.
- Napoleon, having conquered most of Europe and the Mediterannean, looks at Russia and sees an easy victory. "F**k it", let's march to Russia in the autumn and try and win before winter.
El Dee 5 months ago
On the Scottish invasion of England - this is why there are so many inns/pubs named 'The Red Lion' in England. It is the standard of the Scottish Army and the name took hold and became popular after so many inns were named such..
Jayne Turner 5 months ago
Gwenllian, Welsh princess. Rebelled against Norman rule, they decided to ambush her husband, she rode out to meet them with her retainers. She was captured and beheaded but gave her husband time to regroup.
Beak Hookage 5 months ago
There's a street in my area called Rubicon St. I'm always wary about crossing it.
James Twong 5 months ago
It wasn't the Scottish, it was the Jacobites who in their ranks contained Scottish, English, Irish and French people.
Leekier 4 months ago
The Jacobites during the 1745 rebellion were supporters of James Stuart so not just Scottish, the army included English, Irish and French soldiers. Doubling the ingredients will only give you more IPA, what he means is that the ratio of ingredients was changed. Leonidas was part of an allied force; other city states were fighting with him not against him, some states didn’t join the alliance but they weren’t invading Sparta either. Don’t know much about the other two examples but given his understanding of the three I’ve mentioned, I’d check before relying on this! I’d check before relying on me for that matter
#17
There was a british soldier that fought with a sword and bow...in WW2, he captured dozens of Germans by himself in a single night, in multiple positions.
Serena Myers 5 months ago
Yet, one British officer, Lieutenant Colonel John Malcolm Thorpe Fleming Churchill, known as “Mad Jack,” stood out by using weapons from the medieval era. Armed with a longbow and broadsword, Churchill fought with tools that seemed out of place in modern warfare but made a significant impression. Source: worldwarwings.
Trisec Tebeakesse 5 months ago
He's got the last confirmed k**l by longbow in combat.
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Major Harris 5 months ago
credited with the only kills in combat in the european theater with a bow and arrow, two of them!
#18
The one time Alexander the Great built a kilometer long bridge to take over an island.
Pedantic Panda 5 months ago
More of a causeway than a bridge but no less impressive and still there I believe, turned the island into a peninsula.
Forrest Hobbs 5 months ago
It would have been hugely impressive if Alexander had actually built the causeway by himself, but it was his troops who did the job. Ancient soldiers - especially the Romans - were quite often skilled civil engineers. An ancient Roman army on the march would usually build itself a fortified camp *every night*!
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After Tyre fell, Alex also destroyed half the city, allowing 8,000 Tyrian civilians to be massacred and 30,000 residents and foreigners, mainly women and children, to be sold into slavery. Alex was not a nice man.
CP 5 months ago (edited)
Alex was typical for the time. Putting our modern morals on historical figures seems odd to me.
Load More Replies... Michael Largey 5 months ago
This name for this sort of structure is a "mole". The island was Tyre.
Verena 5 months ago
This is not AI, it is an actually existing bridge, connecting Copenhagen in Denmark with Malmö in Sweden. It starts off as a tunnel in Denmark and after 1/3, the road climbs up andcthe railway moves under it.
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Alexander the Great's entire campaign. Let's go conquer s**t!
G A 5 months ago
Let's go murder millions for no other reason than my bloodlust and vanity and daddy issues-fixed it.
Ilan Elron 5 months ago
meh, his MO was standard for any able-bodies ruler in those times
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Thinking of conquering as a positive thing has led to the state of the world today, that and doing it in the name of religion.
#20
The Doolittle Raid.
"Hey lets put a bunch of twin engine [planes] on a carrier and attack Tokyo!".
sofacushionfort 5 months ago
A morale boost for the US, but 300K Chinese massacred in reprisal.
CP 5 months ago
Up until that point the Japanese were treating the Chinese amazing! /s. What is your point? Do you blame the US?
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Kim Kermes 5 months ago
Only light bombers would fit, but didn't have the range to return. They all knew it could literally be a one way trip.
#21
"For Christ's sake, men, come on! Do you want to live forever?" Dan Daly epically leading a charge in WW1.
SchadenFreudian Psychology 5 months ago
“No….but I want to dïe peacefully in my sleep, at an oldish age but not so old that my body and mind are ruined.”
Janissary35680 5 months ago (edited)
I was never lucky enough to attend a Queen concert but every time I hear the song "Who wants to live forever" I know I would have been jumping up and down waving my hand and shouting "Me! Me!". 😄
Scott Rackley 5 months ago
Dan Daly is the main reason you can only receive the Medal of Honor once
alchemilla vulgaris 5 months ago
in the battle, the Allies lost nearly 10,000 men (not all under Daly), and conquered less than 10 Km of land. I'm sure the families of those men thought it was well worth it :/
Alyce 5 months ago
Considering what would have happened had those men not been willing to face the odds, the families probably are proud.
Load More Replies... TMTMTMTM 5 months ago
I heard about that and interpreted it as something cheeky, "It's not like that's possible, so you might as well go down for a cause." Later, I thought of a different interpretation: "Do you want to live forever in fame and honor?". (BTW, Western Front warfare in June 1918 was WAY different from early in World War I. This was during a German offensive and there wasn't a lot of chance to dig trenches. More importantly, there had been massive changes during the war: they had come up with techniques and equipment to avoid the Blackadder notion of "climbing out of our trenches, and walking very slowly toward the enemy".)
#22
By the time of the Spanish 1st Republic (~1870) a small region known as Murcia, claimed their independency from Spain and almost initiated a war against the Germany of Otto Von Bismark.
#23
This guy who committed s*****e by ingesting cyanide and quickly writing down how it tastes before dying
"Doctors, potassium cyanide. I have tasted it. It burns the tongue and tastes acrid,"
[https://www.smh.com.au/world/s*****e-note-reveals-taste-of-cyanide-20060709-gdnx7f.html](https://www.smh.com.au/world/s*****e-note-reveals-taste-of-cyanide-20060709-gdnx7f.html).
#24
Genghis Khan. Went from a scraping for food on the Mongolian steppes to becoming a Mongol chief, to uniting all the Mongol clans, to conquering the biggest empire ever.
Oh, and fathering more children than anyone. Something like 1 in every 200 men are direct line descendants.
tresgatos72 5 months ago
Khan had so many children because he committed thousands of rapes in his lifetime.
Apatheist Account2 5 months ago
Apparently all of Europe is descended from Charlemagne. It's purely statistical rather than based on evidence though.
Nicole Weymann 5 months ago
Plus: kiIIing a ton of adversaries plus their kith and kin WILL leave them unable to "water down" your gene pool.
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#25
Let's go to the South Pole.
Naw, let's race to the South Pole!
#26
Guy Fawkes saw one of his fellow conspirators being hung, drawn and quartered, so he jumped off the scaffold with the noose round his neck, instantly dying. Saved himself from the t*****e.
Forrest Hobbs 5 months ago (edited)
Guy Fawkes had already been tortured to extract his confession. It's not pretty. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Fawkes#T*****e
Gavin Johnson 5 months ago
I comment every year about the fact that it’s bizarre that we celebrate the death of a Catholic and burn an effigy. I know plenty of Catholic folk and they don’t seem to find it odd celebrating his death when he was part of a Catholic resistance that wanted to cause mayhem and murder.
Caffeinated Ape 5 months ago
Well, to be fair, they do often sport representations of their most revered figure's method of e*******n, so I imagine this is comparatively no biggie.
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Gregg Levine 5 months ago
And that's why before they open the Chambers the police look in the basement for gunpowder. Besides he was right.
Pedantic Panda 5 months ago
But as hanging was not the cause of death, would it not be hung?
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After the Great Fire of London in 1666, the tomb of the Dean of St Paul’s (who had died in 1519) broke open from the heat.
Two men came across his coffin, and opened it. It was full of a brownish liquid, around the body.
Apparently the two men said "f**k it" and decided to taste the liquid.
They reported that it was “ironish, insipid” and the body (which they naturally poked with a stick) felt like brawn (meat jelly).
WTF.
Anthony Elmore 5 months ago
Yeah. Catholic staff having younger men taste them isn't exactly groundbreaking.
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Camilah Yon 4 months ago
How drunk do you have to be to drink meat juice of a human? That's just ... no!
#28
Grant at the Vicksburg Campaign.
Vicksburg was the main obstacle to the Union in using the Mississippi river as a supply route.
After trying for months, different ways to get past the Artillery on the h**h Vicksburg bluffs, He finally sneaks his 17,000 troops over (using ironclads and steamers snuck past the batteries at night) and says goodbye to his supply line, believing that he could feed his troops from foraging the rich Confederate countryside. His commanders believed that the next step would have been to take out Port Hudson with General Banks who would be waiting for him, down river in Louisiana so he wouldnt have them threatening his rear. But since Banks was indisposed trying to take that fort, he decided to use the momentum he had, and march inland Northeast to take out the state capitol, Jackson, as a transportation hub (where they can quickly reinforce Vicksburg with men and supplies via railway), fighting and winning 5 battles and finally surrounding the city. They surrendered a month or so later.
Really fascinating. It was the largest amphibious operation in American military history until the [Invasion of Normandy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_Normandy).
Not to mention that the Union had suffered embarrassing defeats at the hands of Robert E Lee and Stonewall Jackson, and with Lincoln running for reelection, and Gettysburg was occurring right around the time they surrendered.
John Dilligaf 5 months ago
That photo does not represent Grant, the Vicksburg campaign, or the American Civil War. Just thought I'd clear that up.
Michael Largey 5 months ago
Vicksburg's surrender and Lee's defeat at Gettysburg happened in the same week. The writing was on the wall after that.
#29
When Teddy Roosevelt wanted to be in the army to fight in the Spanish American war, but they wouldn't take him since he was pretty much blind so he became a volunteer for the U.S. Army and created a unit made up of rich playboys that he went to school with and a bunch of cowboys he became friends with when he went on a soul finding journey. They used a private yacht to go over seas.
Gregg Levine 5 months ago
But the Maine was an accidental blast. And it was really Kettle Hill.
#30
When Chicago was planning to reverse the flow of the Chicago river, but St Louis filed a complaint with the feds because that would just send all of Chicago's waste down to them, so before the federal courts could make an official ruling Chicago just went ahead and did it anyway. Then they made the argument that it would be silly to spend a bunch of money just to re-reverse the flow so they got to keep it.
#31
How about [Dr. Giles Brindley](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giles_Brindley)?
>**Giles Skey Brindley**, MD FRS (born April 30, 1926), is a British physiologist, musicologist and composer, known for his contributions to the physiology of the retina and colour vision, treatment of erectile dysfunction, and is perhaps best known for an unusual scientific presentation at the 1983 Las Vegas meeting of the American Urological Association, **where he removed his pants to show the audience his chemically induced erection and invited them to inspect it closely.** He had injected phenoxybenzamine using one mL into his p***s in his hotel room before the presentation.
#32
Antarctica. We sent people in this cold a*s place, they died, and we went “f**k put more out there”.
Anony Mouse 5 months ago
Deserves to be downvoted for being such a ridiculous statement. Deserves to be upvoted for those courageous men who volunteered to endure and put in monumental efforts for months or years. We seriously don’t understand what it means, and yet we benefit from their sacrifices and contributions. I salute them all.
#33
John Paul Jones capturing several British ships by himself with essentially “Pirate Tactics”.
David 5 months ago
he had a fleet of marauders, full crewed, and it was not pirate tactics, but privateer tactics, which were different
Forrest Hobbs 5 months ago
The only real difference between privateers and pirates was that privateers had official permission so were protected from prosecution at home - provided they attacked the nominated enemy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privateer
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#34
Caesar stepping over the Rubicon, declaring war to Rome.
Ace 5 months ago
Brave? Not really. It was a key moment in the breakdown of the Roman Civilisation, removing many of the core pillars of semi-democracy on which it was built. He basically just ignored any laws he didn't like and sent his bully-boys around to k**l off anyone who objected.
Catlady6000 5 months ago
Aside from the killing part, this sounds oddly familiar
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#35
Henry VIII - the Pope refused to grant him a second divorce so he took England out of the Catholic church and started the Church of England, conveniently taking all the wealth in English church coffers for himself and kicking off a very bloody conflict between Catholics and Protestants.
Apatheist Account2 5 months ago
NO HE DID NOT! How many more times? He made himself Head of THE Church *IN* England - ie the chief Catholic, which he remained his whole life - and this was after he was denied his *first* divorce. Protestantism came from Martin Luther; Anne Boleyn was a convert but it wasn't until Edward VI that we had a protestant king. If it were accurate, this would be much higher, as it changed the course of history in England, and led it into conflicts with Catholic countries such as Spain, as well as the succession of the Hanoverians.
XenoMurph 5 months ago
How do you explain the "Reformation Parliament"? Enacted by Henry VIII Which established the powers of the king as head of "The Church of England"? Sorry mate, you're wrong on this one. It might have been politically inconvenient to call himself "protestant" but he was no longer a Catholic.
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#36
General Douglass MacArthur gave a speech standing on a beach in the middle of a landing battle upon his return to the Philippines. The dude was just so incredibly angry looking, that even bullets avoided him.
Major Harris 5 months ago
maccarthur gave a free pass to general ishii, commanding officer of unit 731 that performed experiments on the chinese and british and american prisoners of war. why? general ishii ran to maccarthur with the results from his experiments and thought they were valuable enough. maccarthur dishonored our servicemen and our allied service men's sacrifice by doing so.
LamarrKee 5 months ago
He also totally mishandled the Japanese a*****t on the Phillipines, grounding his aircraft and refusing to let them attack japanese airbases after Pearl Harbor, in Spite of his airmen's pleas to do so- which meant that the japanese obliterated his air power when they attacked 24 hrs after pear harbor, giving them Total air supremacy and guaranteeing the4 philipines had no hope of effective resistance or reconnaisance. He was probably the least competent General to be allowed to retain command; his blunders were legion. He was a 'Newspaper' general; the reporters loved him because he gave good quotes and supplied free booze. His soldiers called him 'Dugout Doug', when they were being polite.
Load More Replies... David 5 months ago
Actually the speach was hours ater the the battle was over and had moved inland, he did 5 takes withe press until he got his version the way he wanted it. His actions, or lack thereov is why the Japanese caputrared the philippines so easily. He later alomst lost the US the Korean war and almost got us into a nuclear war with the USSR
Bill Swallow 5 months ago
Douglas MacArthur also had his troops, in Washington, DC, fire on US servicemen / ex-servicemen (the 'Bonus Army') who had had the temerity to demand that the US government live up to the promises it had made to them.
#37
Climbing everest?
C. S. M 5 months ago
It's a s*****e mission. It's a recipe for death, and people still attempt it. I'll never understand why they do it.
April Pickett 5 months ago
I'm waaiting for climate change to melt the ice and thaw out all those bodies. They've just left them there where they died. That's going to be some clean up job.
Catlady6000 5 months ago
The first climb, maybe. Even the 2nd or 3rd climb, possibly. Now? Pft
#38
Literally Julius caesar entire life . Hail Caesar.
#39
When Cerrano said [f**k you Jobu, I'll do it myself](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsjoFZEwAyI) and managed to hit a home run off a curveball to tie the game in the divisional playoff against the Yankees.
Rodriquez 3 weeks ago
The Reddit thread these are copied from is called "What is the greatest "f*ck it, I'll do it myself" in history?"
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CP 5 months ago (edited)
I cringed every time Nova made a comment. I don't think one was correct. Historically illiterate. Edit: Nova started strong but derailed at the end. I caution irrationally hating people who grew up in a totally foreign society hundreds of years ago. Nothing anything a first world citizen would have any clue about. We still have barbaric people today and have only recently become self aware of the irrationality of tribalism.
Ol' Stevie 5 months ago
I'm with you on that one CP. Their first comments seemed halfway to reasonable, but then there's a shift. Pretty sure if there was a post halfway down this thread that said "the sky is blue and the grass is green" Nova would have a tantrum about it and say anyone who believes it is both stupid and a bad person. Note how when anyone questions their statements they respond with passive aggressive remarks and personal insults (or just ignore them...) but can't rationalise a single word they say.
Load More Replies... Mel in Georgia 5 months ago
Not that this changed anything but minor history, but my son was fooling around with friends blowing up dry ice bombs (dry ice in plastic liter bottles) in the woods when one didn't explode. He saw it was near a path and didn't want it to set off on anyone so he went to retrieve it. As soon as he touched it, it exploded. Some plastic embedded in his hand so he had to have surgery to remove it. The surgeon said, "So let me guess - your last words were, 'Watch this!'." My son said, "No - it was, OK, I'll do it ..." He was an idiot but also a hero.
Seadog 5 months ago (edited)
We take an easier approach. We drill the cap (2 liter bottle) insert a car tire valve stem, clamp a air chuck to it, step inside the shop and open the air valve. Those bottles can actually hold 110psi or more depending on the volume of your system. The volume at my shop is 240 gallons @150psi. The bottle can't take it and explodes with such force it melts the plastic. Do not have a quick release on the chuck or you'll never see it again. We've tried small and larger bottles. 2 liter soda bottles work best. And if you don't have enough volume, you will need a higher pressure. We tried it at work where the volume is only 50 gallons@150psi (compressor wouldn't go any higher) and the bottle needed encouragement in the form of a few rocks being thrown at it..
Load More Replies... Apatheist Account2 5 months ago
As if often the case, many of these don't fit the headline or the brief.
Rodriquez 3 weeks ago
"What is the greatest "f**k it, I'll do it myself" in history?" Was the title of the Reddit thread these were copied from.
Load More Replies... BrokeDog 4 months ago
I’m gonna try this one last time. I’ve read all these and most truly are HEROES! Now, I have to add some because I know they get very, very little attention or credit for what they do. And, one of them happens to be my son … who I could not be more proud of! He works in the Education industry, dealing with children of ALL ages, every day. Many of these children have very serious emotional/mental problems … and need the help of these fine teachers, principals, secretaries, nurses, etc. who do everything in their power to help our children daily … and get very little credit for the AMAZING jobs they do. Most would not accept the attention. My son has been beaten, BIT, knocked down, and bloodied several times … yet continues to try daily to help our kids! Our caring educational workers deserve credit for still turning out great, smart, very intelligent kids who go thru this daily WITH our educational professionals … and still manage to learn! Our public schools and educators need help.
Rodriquez 3 weeks ago
If you bothered checking the source, which they tell you, it was a 7 year old Reddit thread called "What is the greatest "f*ck it, I'll do it myself" in history?"
Load More Replies... CP 5 months ago (edited)
I cringed every time Nova made a comment. I don't think one was correct. Historically illiterate. Edit: Nova started strong but derailed at the end. I caution irrationally hating people who grew up in a totally foreign society hundreds of years ago. Nothing anything a first world citizen would have any clue about. We still have barbaric people today and have only recently become self aware of the irrationality of tribalism.
Ol' Stevie 5 months ago
I'm with you on that one CP. Their first comments seemed halfway to reasonable, but then there's a shift. Pretty sure if there was a post halfway down this thread that said "the sky is blue and the grass is green" Nova would have a tantrum about it and say anyone who believes it is both stupid and a bad person. Note how when anyone questions their statements they respond with passive aggressive remarks and personal insults (or just ignore them...) but can't rationalise a single word they say.
Load More Replies... Mel in Georgia 5 months ago
Not that this changed anything but minor history, but my son was fooling around with friends blowing up dry ice bombs (dry ice in plastic liter bottles) in the woods when one didn't explode. He saw it was near a path and didn't want it to set off on anyone so he went to retrieve it. As soon as he touched it, it exploded. Some plastic embedded in his hand so he had to have surgery to remove it. The surgeon said, "So let me guess - your last words were, 'Watch this!'." My son said, "No - it was, OK, I'll do it ..." He was an idiot but also a hero.
Seadog 5 months ago (edited)
We take an easier approach. We drill the cap (2 liter bottle) insert a car tire valve stem, clamp a air chuck to it, step inside the shop and open the air valve. Those bottles can actually hold 110psi or more depending on the volume of your system. The volume at my shop is 240 gallons @150psi. The bottle can't take it and explodes with such force it melts the plastic. Do not have a quick release on the chuck or you'll never see it again. We've tried small and larger bottles. 2 liter soda bottles work best. And if you don't have enough volume, you will need a higher pressure. We tried it at work where the volume is only 50 gallons@150psi (compressor wouldn't go any higher) and the bottle needed encouragement in the form of a few rocks being thrown at it..
Load More Replies... Apatheist Account2 5 months ago
As if often the case, many of these don't fit the headline or the brief.
Rodriquez 3 weeks ago
"What is the greatest "f**k it, I'll do it myself" in history?" Was the title of the Reddit thread these were copied from.
Load More Replies... BrokeDog 4 months ago
I’m gonna try this one last time. I’ve read all these and most truly are HEROES! Now, I have to add some because I know they get very, very little attention or credit for what they do. And, one of them happens to be my son … who I could not be more proud of! He works in the Education industry, dealing with children of ALL ages, every day. Many of these children have very serious emotional/mental problems … and need the help of these fine teachers, principals, secretaries, nurses, etc. who do everything in their power to help our children daily … and get very little credit for the AMAZING jobs they do. Most would not accept the attention. My son has been beaten, BIT, knocked down, and bloodied several times … yet continues to try daily to help our kids! Our caring educational workers deserve credit for still turning out great, smart, very intelligent kids who go thru this daily WITH our educational professionals … and still manage to learn! Our public schools and educators need help.
Rodriquez 3 weeks ago
If you bothered checking the source, which they tell you, it was a 7 year old Reddit thread called "What is the greatest "f*ck it, I'll do it myself" in history?"
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