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“What Are Some Events In Recorded History That Are Extremely Hard To Believe, But Without A Doubt Actually Happened?” (40 Pics)
History gets a bad rap as a dry subject. History can be fascinating when taught and understood correctly, and hidden throughout human history are extraordinary stories that would be difficult to believe if they weren’t so well-documented. One online community recently gathered many of these stories in one place, giving us an opportunity to review some of the most extraordinary and unbelievable events throughout human history.
What’s great about this list is that we get a truly broad range of regions and time periods. There’s tons of fascinating trivia in here to scratch that intellectual itch in your brain!
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#1
There would have been a third, and a nuclear, world war and possibly the end of the world if Stanislaw Petrow didn't react like he did on the 25th of September 1983. In short: he was the only one that questioned the readings on the russian missle alert system and refused to launch nuclear counter-missiles.
Kathryn Baylis 2 years ago
A Very Very Good Man. He understood the gravity of the situation and potential threat to, well, everyone and everything. So, instead of blindly pushing the button, he stopped, questioned, and verified FIRST. Luckily, there was no threat, just a false reading. Whew. F*****g WHEW!
Majungasaurus 2 years ago
I learned it in my history class :) I might have just had a really cool teacher though
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#2
There was a Japanese man called Tsutomu Yamaguchi who was on his way to work in Hiroshima in 1945, when he saw falling through the sky, two miles from where he stood, what ultimately turned out to be the atomic bomb.
He had just enough time to take cover in a ditch as the bomb detonated and miraculously he survived. Somehow the Hiroshima train station was still operational and so Yamaguchi, battered, bombed and bruised, decided to board a train to his family home so he could recover - in Nagasaki.
3 days later Yamaguchi was called into work to explain what he saw, which he did. At work as he began to tell the story of what happened, the second bomb dropped.
It was the reinforced concrete walls around him that saved him this time, and Yamaguchi quickly ran to find his wife and son. Ground temperatures in the city reached 4,000°C and radioactive rain poured down.
The family's home was destroyed, but Yamaguchi's wife and son had thankfully been out shopping - looking for burn ointment for Yamaguchi - when the bomb fell, and they'd survived.
Despite this ordeal of having survived two nuclear explosions and subsequent radiation exposure, Yamaguchi went on to live till 93 yrs of age. He died in 2010 after being recognised by the Japanese government as a 'nijyuu hibakusha', or 'twice-bombed person'.
Mario Strada 2 years ago
Incidentally, lobbing nukes was my job in the army, circa 1979. Our "Variable yield nuke" was similar to the bombs that hit Japan, as far a yield and we were very aware that, aside from the enemy that had the misfortune of standing right at ground zero, the rest of them would be extremely pissed off and looking to retaliate by following the sharpie like trajectory of our missile in the sky, which was like an arrow pointing at us. Half our training was about getting the hell out of there as quickly as possible and how even a small ditch could save your skin. Our anti-nuke kit was a full body windbreaker, a gas mask and a shoe brush. The latter to brush the radioactive fallout from the windbreaker. Good times.
Jake Lewis 2 years ago
I don't think I could've recovered from this psychologically. Imminent atomic bomb paranoia would take me.
MushroomHead22 2 years ago
you survive 2 bombings and the most the government does is just give you name recognition. i hope something else was done for him.
#3
Australia’s Emu war.
Not only is it hilarious that they went to war with a bird, but the fact that they lost to the birds is the cherry on top.
bottomless.abyss.of.bordem 2 years ago
Sam O'Nella made a hilarious short video on this. https://youtu.be/QOPZQHTNUs0
Marley Nachi 2 years ago
the irony is, only tourists know this story, the local Aussies don't XD
TheDemonicCat 2 years ago
I do. And 90% of the people I know do. We are all local Aussies
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Tushar Roy Mukherjee 2 years ago
" And then God said " F**k Humans" and made Dinosaurs before the Humans showed up."
Betsy Hughes 2 years ago
I find it makes far more sense as an Aussie than most of the other wars we've gotten involved in!!!! "They said it couldn't be done!!!" & we didn't!!!! Twice, just to prove it 😔🤦
#4
St Olga of Kiev. Her story is the ultimate revenge tale
I highly recommend people looking her up but in short, her husband was killed by a neighbouring tribe and she sought vengeance.
The neighbouring faction then sought to take over her own, seeing as she was a weak woman and ruling in her dead husbands place as her own son was too young. She invited them to her town as a show of honour.
When the large party of messengers arrived, they were soon attacked and backed into a massive trench that Olgas people had dug the nights before.
Standing over the trench she asked them “If they found the honor to their taste” and buried them alive. But she wasn’t even close to finished with her quest for vengeance.
She sent message back to the enemy saying she would accept an allegiance by marriage. Painting herself as such a feeble woman, that she would gladly relinquish her power to her enemy. But she requested all high chieftains to visit her town, to socialise and garner favour.
The chieftains came, she invited them into the bath house to relax before a feast. They were locked inside and burned to death.
But she wasn’t done. Her next feat is her most incredible.
After taking out most people of power from the other faction. She demanded tribute from their towns and villages… Not in gold, not in any material goods. But in the form of sparrows and pigeons.
Thousands were delivered to her.
The next night, she ordered her soldiers to tie a strip of sulfur to the birds legs, set it alight, and released the birds.
The birds flew back to the houses and homes they had nested in. And burned every village to the ground.
The sky was apparently a blaze of fire for days. Olga emerged victorious, and satiated.
Don’t f**k with Olga of Kiev
She is known, quite aptly, as the patron saint of vengeance and defiance.
the_avenging_knight 2 years ago
I agree, someone should share this story with Putin.
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TruthoftheHeart 2 years ago
Up until her last action I could understand. But by burning entire villages and letting who knows how many other people die she did no honor or Justice to her husband's death and just caused more innocent people to suffer in ways she did
Bronze Republic 2 years ago
You are correct. She is mainly only revered in Russia.... which says a lot.
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Bronze Republic 2 years ago
Apparently in Russia you can be. She was canonized by the Russian Orthodox Church in 1547. Almost 600 years after her death.
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TruthoftheHeart 2 years ago
Poor villagers who were caught in her fury after she had already taken out the lead people responsible
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Niall Mac Iomera 2 years ago
So she was a psychopath who brutally murdered hundreds of innocent civilians? ...why are we supposed to be celebrating this maniac?
Bronze Republic 2 years ago (edited)
Only in Russian and Ukrainian Catholic church. She mainly only revered in Russia. She was made saint by the Russian Orthodox Church in 1547... it says a lot about the Russian government.
Load More Replies... Wintermute 2 years ago
Another psychopath masquerading as a role model. Human culture in a nutshell.
#5
Christmas day 1914. The truce on the WW1 battlefields.
Shows the humanity inside everyone, but they were able to wake up the next day and go straight back to war, kill the men that they’d spent a sincere day with.
This was the first thing I thought of and I’m surprised it’s not higher up.
nukalurk replied:
On paper it sounds like something out of a cheesy Christmas story or some feel-good childhood fairy tale about the “good and bad guys” just randomly deciding to stop fighting and get along, except it actually happened during one of the most horrific wars in human history - albeit temporarily.
Budcot 2 years ago
No, pretty sure it was Canada that did that. The next year in 1915 a German officer attempted the truce again and was immediately shot at by Canadians, Germans then returned fire and I believe someone took a shot to the head. Canadian soldiers were so ruthless that I believe they led to some very specific parts of the Geneva Convention.
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Lesley Christie 2 years ago (edited)
They didn't have a choice but to carry on fighting. They would be shot for desertion. This event shows the humanity in the midst of the tragedy of them all being used as pawns by the people in charge.
Zedrapazia 2 years ago
There are no good or bad guys either. Just soldiers following orders. It's sad
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RuffianLivesOn 2 years ago
Opened up the comments to see if anyone mentioned it. The movie is simultaneously touching and heartbreaking.
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David H 2 years ago
This is also more myth than fact. It was just 2 sections of the front lines, that were about 3% of troops involved. Most of that day was hard fighting with deaths on both sides. It was to little tiny areas of the front, one of those areas had a British journalist present who made it into the story we know today, including exaggerating the scope
Xandra 2 years ago
Check out the Sabaton song about this, it's amazing. Even if you're not into Metal, I promise you'll love this one!
Rob Chapman 2 years ago
And today we're all brothers Tonight we're all friends A moment of peace in a war that never ends Today we're all brothers We drink and unite Now Christmas has arrived and the snow turns the ground white
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similarly 2 years ago
For some the next day, but in other places, the truce lasted as much as two weeks. In several places, officers threatened to shoot their men. In the end, they found that if they moved the soldiers to a different part of the line, an area where they hadn't met the others from the other side, it was easier to go back to shooting. To prevent future Christmas Truces, generals on both sides bombarded No Man's Land ever Christmas until the end of the war.
Philly Bobcat 2 years ago
Listen to a song called "Christmas In The Trenches" by John McCutcheon. It's the story but to song.
Leigh 2 years ago (edited)
Just for the night no one had to fight. Both sides gathered round the Christmas fire, played ball around the wire. The snow stained red but just for one night no blood was shed. No one argued about whos wrong and right. Indeed all was calm and bright. Just for one silent night!
#6
The man who ordered all flights to be grounded on September 11, 2001, was Benedict Sliney, the FAA's National Operations Manager. He made his decision largely by himself, and with limited advice from his aides. It was his first day as National Operations Manager.
Deborah Rubin 2 years ago
But thank whatever you believe in that the had the courage to do what needed to be done. He started with New York and then the country. We lived near a flight path from National Airport, and sitting in the kitchen afterward we couldn't even talk. The eerie silence, the first time such a silence happened in decades, was something out of a horror film. National Airport Washington D.C.
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Kathryn Baylis 2 years ago (edited)
Hands down, Benny wins the Worst F*****g First Day at Work of All Time Award. No contest. Started right before he punched in that day, and didn’t stop for years afterward. Some of it is still lingering.
David Paterson 2 years ago
I wouldn't say so. I think the person who became prime minister of our country just before the Wall Street crash on October 29, 1929 and the following depression had a tougher time.
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Trophy Husband 2 years ago
I often wonder if he would have made the same call if he had been on the job 10 years. Was his inexperience a benefit, or did he do the right thing in spite of it?
Simon Eppstein 2 years ago
Guess he picked the wrong day to quit sniffing glue (the movie "Airplane" reference)
Jane Hower 2 years ago
It's great when someone can see the danger and act and not HAVE to wait for superiors to get in the mix and delay things. Glad he did what he did and kept his job!!!
#7
In 1944, during the allied invasion of France, 2 American paramedics, Ken Moore and Robert Wright, 101st Airborne, saved around 80 soldiers of both sides, allied and axis. They set themselves up in a church, had only what was in their first aid kits and medic bags, and had a strict no gun policy. The church was almost destroyed by a mortar shell, but it didn’t go off. It was almost destroyed again, due to friendly fire. Ken Moore would risk his life by venturing out of the church and finding injured soldiers, and both medics stayed behind at the church, even though the rest of their forces had to retreat. Wright took on the responsibility of looking after the soldiers.
The church still stands in Angoville-au-Plain, France, the blood stained pews are still there, and a broken tile from the mortar shell was never fixed, to honor the legacy of these men.
This is very simplified, and probably inaccurate in a few ways, but it is still an incredible story.
James Kistler 2 years ago
Want to see pictures? https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/angovilleauplain-church
Roger9er 2 years ago
My FIL lent me a book of his from 1946, about the German invasion of France. It is called 'Advance to the gallows' and is a partial interrogation of a number of high-ranking German officers in the Nuremberg Trials. I have never read such horror acts. Fortunately, there were also people like this who tried to make amends through this selfless act of heroism.
RedMarbles 2 years ago
Guessing there are some German people alive today who are appreciative of these two brave men who did the right thing in saving German as well as American soldiers and a child (according to wikipedia).
Doctor Strange 2 years ago
I must be tired because I read the first sentence as during the alien invasion of France...
#8
The Battle of Halys
In roughly 6th century BC, the Medes and the Lydians were at war. The war had lasted for six years and climaxed at the Battle of Halys. During the battle, a solar eclipse began. Both sides believed that the Gods were angry at their long and bloody war, and were taking the sun away from them. They declared peace that day, and the sun was returned.
Wintermute 2 years ago
Clearly an important war to begin with. Just like all wars. Totally necessary.
Red PANda (she/they) 2 years ago
Reminds me of Warrior cats! Remember the battle of the eclipse, anyone?
Crazy Cookie 2 years ago
Never got past book one. Saw the long line of em in the library and decided no nerd street cred was worth that much time (I was in 4th grade and it was a THING)
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#9
There was another plane that would have hit the Capitol on 9/11. The passengers took over the plane from the hijackers and crashed it in an open field.
barn owls ️ 2 years ago
i went to the 9/11 memorial and museum in new york city, and they have a room that tells the story of this plane. they have the voicemails these people sent to their families. i hadn’t cried the entire museum until we got to this room. the voicemails and black box recordings really hit you
Deborah Rubin 2 years ago
I remember this. I remember the Twin Towers. I remember the Pentagon. There is a memorial in a field in Pennsylvania where the plane came down. There was a docudrama, reconstructed from the phone calls made from the plane. I can't think of this without crying. The people on that plane knew they were going to die and made sure their deaths were not in vain.
Alexej Dvorak 2 years ago
Seeing this thing I remember watching the news about being listed as a historical fact that you have to tell people it really happened makes me feel very old.
CP 2 years ago
There are in fact two. One is a Hollywood film called United 93 and one is a made for TV movie called Flight 93.
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similarly 2 years ago
From what I understand, there were supposed to be 11 teams on 9/11. Some teams boarded their aircraft, and then just never stood up. Plane took off, landed, they got off. Some teams never showed up. At least one team was found on camera to have shown up in two vehicles, they got out in the airport parking lot, talked for a few minutes, then got back in their cars and left. Some teams boarded their planes, but their planes were grounded by the attacks, and they disembarked with the other passengers and disappeared because no one was really looking for them yet. Interestingly, I only read about this years later. However, on 9/11, I was with my family on vacation, and we got a note in the hotel from the Japanese embassy who said that 11 planes were thought to have been hijacked though it only turned out to be 4. When I read the other report years later, I thought it was odd.
Bill Swallow 2 years ago
Yup. Flight 93, went down in Shanksville, PA. My family farm is about 10 miles from the crash site. One of my aunts lived about two miles from the site. I was in DC at Microsoft MCSE training at the time.
Kathryn Baylis 2 years ago (edited)
For me it was an ordinary morning at work, just getting a normal day started. Much like it had been for the people who worked in the North and South Towers of the World Trade Center. I recently saw a picture of cars parked at a commuter train station that were never driven home that day. Because the people who had parked them that morning to catch the train died that day. I keep thinking of the plans they had for that evening. That week. That weekend. Their near and far futures. Who didn’t yet know they were pregnant. Who just came back from maternity leave. Who just came back after vacation, surgery, a sabbatical, a business trip. Whose very first day at work it was. Whose last day before retiring. Who was almost late, and who actually was just late enough to not be there when it started. Who felt sick that morning but didn’t want to call off for the day, and who actually decided to stay home, even if only to play hooky. You just never know how the day that’s just starting is going to end. And what happened to each one of the people who owned the abandoned cars at the train station.
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#10
My colleague was on the plane to Hawaii where the entire top of the plane ripped off… they flew the rest of the way without any overhead.. landed and everyone walked off. Absolutely insane to see the pictures. Talk about being given a 2nd chance..
que_he_hecho replied:
Aloha Airlines Flight 243 for those not familiar with it.
Not only could kids now not believe it, the public couldn't hardly believe it at the time.
Only one death, a flight attendant who wasn't buckled in a seat at the time the roof ripped off.
Barbara Skolly 2 years ago
Excellent Mayday episode of that incident. Also, keep your seatbelt on when possible.
Trophy Husband 2 years ago
Good point, I see people not buckled on planes all the time. I'm surprised that dozens of people weren't ripped from their seats. I keep mine on if I'm not going to the bathroom because there's no reason not to, and you never know when an accident will happen.
Load More Replies... Petra Schaap 2 years ago
googled it. A lot of people didnt just "walk off" as there were many injured. One of the flight attendants was saved because a passenger hold her!
Cathy Jo Baker 2 years ago
Ok. I am never taking off my seatbelt in a plane when I'm in my seat ever again!
Lord of the laserprinter. 2 years ago
And that is why you see older 737´s with a massive reinforcement panel over the spot. Take a look you cant miss it.
Lily from England 2 years ago
Okay, I know this is dangerous and not at all cool. But how cool is this?!!!!
Lorraine R 2 years ago
Distance from Honolulu to Hilo is a bit over 200 miles.
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#11
Roman emperor Caligula declared war on Neptune, god of the sea, and had the waves whipped and stabbed. His soldiers were ordered to collect seashells as prizes of war.
David Paterson 2 years ago (edited)
This wasn't crazy, this was brilliant political strategy. His enemies were flattering him telling him he could do anything, defeat even the Gods. So Caligula declared war on Neptune, got his enemies to lead the troops against the sea and didn't stop until all his sycophant enemies had drowned. That's the way to handle "yes men".
Load More Replies... Blue Chambers 2 years ago
I mean a beach day collecting seashells and hanging with your buddies and beating up some waves? Sounds like a good day to me.
Shannon Mallory 2 years ago
And this is one of the _less_ crazy things Caligula did. It's worth looking up - dude was SERIOUSLY nutty, and had the power to indulge his insanity.
Jessica Cifelli 2 years ago
My favorite thing about Caligula is that his name, Caligula, translates to Little Boots
Lorraine 2 years ago
And he hated to be called that, so is kind of satisfactory that he is remembered forever by this nickname.
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LeeAnne B 2 years ago
He was probably experiencing the mental deterioration caused by syphilis.
SarahBee 2 years ago
Or had been poisoned by the lead they used to preserve wine.
Load More Replies... Kira Okah 2 years ago
This is kinda difficult. The war part was an invention of Robert Graves. The only evidence of the seashell gathering was from Suetonius, who was pretty much a Roman equivalent of a "gossip columnist" who was known to embellish accounts. Dio Cassius' accounts do not back this up either.
D,, 2 years ago
Could we be conflating this with King Canute, of the British isles?
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Julia H 2 years ago
Pretty sure Neptune still giggles at the loon who slaughtered at waves.
Load More Replies... David H 2 years ago
There are 2 versions to this story, one written by a contemporary and one by a historian 100 years later. The contemporary version was that this was his way of mocking his generals for their failures. The later version is that he was mad and this was legit. Most historians of ancient rome believe the contemporary account is the more accurate one
Duck Syone 2 years ago
This sounds like a better war than most though. No casualties and a day collecting sea shells.
#12
The Four Pests Campaign.
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Mao Zedong, in his infinite hubris, thought that there would be no repercussions from an attempt to completely eliminate rats, flies, mosquitos, and sparrows. Plot twist: there were repercussions.
Millions of people organized into groups, and hit noisy pots and pans to prevent sparrows from resting in their nests, with the goal of causing them to drop dead from exhaustion.
Sparrows were replaced with bed bugs, as the extermination of sparrows had upset the ecological balance, which subsequently resulted in surging locust and insect populations that destroyed crops due to a lack of a natural predator.
The ecological disruption was one of several factors that led to a famine that killed 45 million people.
Agnes Jekyll 2 years ago
We are facing many of the same dangers now, as we allow species to die.
Sonja 2 years ago
The stupid idiots didn't like that sparrows nibbled spilled grain now and then, not thinking straight what sparrows mainly eat and what repercussions it would have if those things are eaten. And that's the same stupidity that leads management and c-levels of many companies waste millions of potential income to save thousands in wages.
Trophy Husband 2 years ago
The English tried to get rid of rats at one point by offering a bounty for rat tails. So people started breeding rats and killing then for the tails. When they realized this, they ended the bounty, and people released their rats into the streets. They did the same thing with snakes, I'm not sure which came first but they obviously learned nothing!
Jane Hower 2 years ago
Corrupt governments seem to never take into consideration 'unintended' consequences. Our is currently doing that with the 'green' movement - electric cars, etc will NOT work.
#13
In 1908 Russia showed up 12 days late to the Olympics because the world switched calenders while they did not.
Michael Largey 2 years ago
The Russian Orthodox Church would not let the country switch to the Gregorian calendar because Gregory also happened to have been a Catholic pope.
Kira Okah 2 years ago
This is one of those apocryphal ones. The sources that say this are all 21st century, the Russians were very much used to the international date difference having been that way for two centuries by this point. If they had missed events by being late then they would have been marked absent, but they weren't. They also only had six athletes even signed up to the 1908 Olympics in the first place - the Russian Empire, unlike most countries, did not have a National Olympic Committee at the time, and their competitors were all individuals privately funding themselves or funded by their clubs.
D,, 2 years ago
Yes. The Gregorian and Julian calendars were harmonized in the mid-1700s.
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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 2 years ago
This is why their October Revolution really took place in November.
Toni Maroni 2 years ago
This is a picture of the ice skating hall in my hometown Innsbruck/Tirol/Austria😍
#14
Everything having to do with Mad Jack Churchill. He reads like someone’s self-insert OC in a historical fiction based on WWII, except he’s all real. He was a Brit who fought in World War II without guns, instead preferring a longbow, a claymore sword, and bagpipes. Despite this, he won. A lot. He single-handedly took a whole village back from the Nazis by taking his shirt off and stealthing around to scare the c**p out of them with his sword. After the Nazis captured him one time and held him prisoner, (under the mistaken belief he was related to Winston Churchill,) the prison was raided by the Allies and he was set free…or he would have, had he not already escaped 2 weeks prior. He was on the beach on D-Day, with men under his command, and held them up in their boat while he played a song on the bagpipes, finished, lobbed a grenade onto the beach, and then charged. The war ended, and he was bored, so he went to the Pacific to go fight the Japanese. That ended too, so he got bored in retirement *and invented river surfing*. This is just a scrap of the historical anomaly that is Mad Jack Churchill.
the_avenging_knight 2 years ago
This guy is insane! If anyone ever invents time travel, we NEED him here.
Strahd Ivarius 2 years ago
Bagpipes are forbidden on a field of battle according to the 3rd amendment to the 1923 Geneva convention!
Kathryn Baylis 2 years ago
Me too. He’s someone I would’ve loved to have known. I adore eccentric people.
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Khall Khall 2 years ago
Any officer who goes into battle without his sword is improperly dressed. -- MJC.
Deborah Rubin 2 years ago
The bagpipe was originally developed in India, to be played in battle to scare the enemy.
Bored Trash Panda 2 years ago
Wasn't it Egypt? I thought I read that doing research of Scotland.
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#15
In 1903, The New York Times published an article about flying machines. They stated that it would take the combined efforts of all Mathematicians and mechanics 1-to-10 million years for powered flight to be achieved.
Anyway, about 9 weeks later, the Wright brothers achieved powered flight for the first time.
They were also overly cynical afterwards, In 1910 they said that flight would only ever be for billionaires, of course we had commercial flights by around the 60s achievable for many.
Kathryn Baylis 2 years ago (edited)
Sometime before then, the head of the Patents Office in DC declared that everything that could be invented had already been invented, so his office was just redundant. Right as the fastest and most prolific technological boom of all time started. Little would he know that, long before the brand new 20th Century was over, by the time a baby born that day was a senior citizen, we would go from the horse and buggy to rocket ships landing on the fricking MOON!
Celtic Pirate Queen 2 years ago
My Grandmother was Helen Wright Newell - their cousin. (Not that it made of hill of beans to us).
Sherry MH 2 years ago
Commercial flights were available for the general publuc long before the ‘60’s.
PolymathNecromancer 2 years ago
Iirc, by late 1930s commercial flights were relatively common. And the airplane seats were chairs in a "room"!
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Gavin Johnson 2 years ago
Kitty Hawk was the nearest town to the area that the Wright Brothers used for their first flight. That area is now called Kill Devil Hills (a name that was officially recognised in 1953), what a shame that it wasn’t called Kill Devil Hills when they first flew there, it sounds way more badass and in line with the amazing feat that they achieved.
Andy Frobig 2 years ago
I'd have to see an original of that "for billionaires" line. In 1910, John D. Rockefeller may have been the only billionaire in the world
Andy Frobig 2 years ago (edited)
But they were much more common, and faster, in the Jet Age. The Boeing 707 really brought air travel to the masses
Load More Replies... Mario Strada 2 years ago
I always wondered about the people dissing powered flight. As far as I know, there were plenty of gliders around, and engines were getting smaller and more efficient. It would have been a natural progression to have powered flight eventually.
M O'Connell 2 years ago
There is much controversy over who was technically "First" because powered flight was a technology that was primed to succeed. The same goes for the telephone, Alexander Graham Bell is assigned the credit, but as dozen people were working on very similar devices at the same time with no knowledge of each other.
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On the 24th of June 2023, the most important Russian mercenary group marched on Moscow, just to give up a few hours later.
Anne Jones 2 years ago
Agreed. I think there’s more in it than meets the eye.
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Allen Packard 2 years ago
Putin went after their families. Basically threatened to kill them from what I understand.
JB 2 years ago
They shot down like 15 helicopters and blew up a fuel depot. People definitely died in this.
Load More Replies... MushroomHead22 2 years ago
i mean this just happened. for us its easy to believe cause we have unlimited access to information, and also with how things go in the world today, nothing surprised me anymore.
William Mclaurin 2 years ago
A sham!!! Ukraine would be wise to watch the northern border with Belarus.
#17
During the salem witch trials, a man named giles cory was pressed to death with boards and stones to try to force a confession out of him. When asked for a plea, he simply said, "more weight." He never confessed, so he was never convicted as a witch, and his land passed to his son in laws instead of to the government.
Emma S 2 years ago (edited)
Salem, Giles and Cory should also be capitalised. What's your point? I'm British before you tell me capitalised has a 'z' in it.
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jdtimid123 2 years ago
It's almost like the people tried as witches were actually just people with something the local government wanted (or had a beef with) and not actually witches (not that people should have been punished/tortured even if they were, but that's a whole other topic.)
Tyranamar Seuss 2 years ago
I learned that a lot of it was about property.
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Huddo's sister 2 years ago
Least enjoyable book I had to read for English!
Load More Replies... Panda Bear 2 years ago
It’s theorized that some people were killed in the salem witch trials to steal their land
Celtic Pirate Queen 2 years ago
I never understood any of this. If I was a witch - do you honestly think you could KILL me? WTF?
Lady Vader 2 years ago
Judging by the way the comments on this post have gone, I think we need to refocus on the way this poor guy died!
2 years ago
I remember reading this in the book The Crucible—really good book, would recommend
#18
Harrison Odjegba Okene - the Nigerian man who survived for 3 days inside an air pocket inside of a sunken ship in the Atlantic. Divers went down to recover bodies and investigate, and they discovered and rescued him. There is footage from the diver rescue.
Upstaged75 2 years ago
Yeah, they were shocked to find him alive. They just assumed everyone was dead!
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#19
The Ghost Army in WWII. Essentially an American group of troops would deploy “dummy” tanks, broadcast fake radio chatter, and deploy loud sound effects over speakers to fool the Nazis into thinking there was a large military presence coming their way. The Ghost Army was used to deceive the Nazis and make them send their military presence elsewhere, which provided openings for the real Allied forces to move in. This was used in the later parts of the war.
I never learned about this in school but I discovered it on my own and thought it was fascinating. Imagine thinking a whole mess of tanks are heading your way but in reality, it’s a couple of inflatable dummies and a few speakers.
Michael Largey 2 years ago (edited)
The Germans tried the same thing, less successfully. They created a fake tank unit camp, with fake tanks made out of wood. The RAF let them know they weren't fooled by dropping bombs on in - bombs made out of wood.
Deborah Rubin 2 years ago
I remember this. Reading about it I mean, I wasn't there! But it must have given the RAF a bit of a smile in a very bad time.
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At least be a little more specific. This fake army was only used to deceive the Nazis on where the D-Day landing would be. This post makes it sound like it was used frequently.
Demongrrrrl 2 years ago
IIRC, Ian Fleming (of the James Bond books) came up with the idea.
Load More Replies... Strahd Ivarius 2 years ago
As you can see on the above picture, it is a British light tank manned by British soldiers :-)
Stannous Flouride 2 years ago
There is a company in Czechia that makes modern versions of these and has sold them to Ukraine to fool the Orcs. They even have devices inside to fool electronic surveillance. ->> 1-649e4d1a...01-png.jpg 
Mr.Li 2 years ago
The mongol armys also pulled this sort of stunt. They tied branches to their horses and let them run around on a open field. They whirled up so much dust, that the enemy thought, there is another mongol army on the march. And in addition, they sat strawpuppets on their horses to make their armys look bigger. And before you ask: every mongol warrior had 3-4 horses, he took with him.
Dave In MD 2 years ago
This was done prior to the invasion of Normandy, it was not a regular thing done on mainland Europe.
Randy Klefbeck 2 years ago
The allies also dropped hundreds of rubber dummy paratroopers to confound the Germans as to actual drop zones.
James S 2 years ago
General Patton was given command of the ghost army, US 1st Army Group, and boy was he annoyed at this. However it was a stroke of genius by Eisenhower as the German's couldn't believe that the best allied combat general wouldn't be involved in D-Day. As a result (and also due to a masterful spy operation) called Operation Quicksilver/Bodyguard.
#20
Halley's Comet appeared in the sky when Mark Twain was born in 1835. The comet moves in a seventy-five or seventy-six-year orbit, and, as it neared Earth once again, Twain said “I came in with Halley’s Comet and I expect to go out with it.” Sure enough, he died on April 21, 1910, just as the comet made its next pass within sight of Earth.
Red PANda (she/they) 2 years ago
I’ve heard this before. What a cool guy. Watched a documentary on him.
Noname 2 years ago
You might like the claymation film, "The Adventures of Mark Twain" https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qRgY56Sgub8&cbrd=1&pli=1
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Mario Strada 2 years ago
The last time Halley's Comet visited, I was commuting from San Francisco to Marin County for work. Most nights I took the ferry, and let me tell you, it was magical to sit on the ferry top deck with a glass of wine and watch the comet in its interplanetary voyage.
Kathryn Baylis 2 years ago (edited)
In 1986 when the comet bossed over us, I was 25. The entire f*****g time it was visible they sky was cloudy or obscured by a humid haze. Damned humid southeast. So I didn’t get to see it, except on TV. F**k. Now I have to keep rattling and rolling—-and keep my eyesight as best as I can—-until I’m 101 years old. You know f*****g well my wrinkly old a*s will be getting on a plane bound for the desert and crystal clear skies so I can see the goddamned comet before I die, in what should’ve been my second glimpse of it!
Danielle 2 years ago
Heads up 1986ers one of us needs to do something amazing and then dip in about 2063. It is foretold.
Greenmantle 2 years ago
I remember being allowed up late to see it. My father had borrowed a telescope and had it set up. I was only 4 y.o but I distinctly remember it. I was disappointed because I expected it to be all bright colours and starbursts like the cartoons...
Randy Klefbeck 2 years ago
My Grandfather who lived to be 100 years old saw Halley's comet twice. The first when he was a young boy in 1910, and then again in the early 1980's.
Stannous Flouride 2 years ago
He financed and found a publisher for General/President Ulysses S Grant's memoirs of the Civil War. They're excellent books, Grant was an eloquent writer.
#21
The climactic explosion of the 1883 Krakatoa eruption, the loudest sound in recorded history. 50 miles away eardrums ruptured. Sailors 3,000 miles away thought it was a cannon. The pressure wave circled the entire planet more than three times.
Michael Largey 2 years ago
Hollywood made an epic movie out of this titled "Krakatoa - East of Java" (1968). Krakatoa is actually west of Java. Comedian D**k Cavett suggested that they amend the movie's name to "Krakatoa - Way, Way, Way East of Java".
Pyla 2 years ago
I love Dickk Cavett. I hate Bored Panda's STUPID censorship
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Tim Nicebutdim 2 years ago
The night sky was bright red in London for a week (so we were taught as kids).
Walter Bravenboer 2 years ago
Although about 100.000 people found it less cool…
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Vier Nelle 2 years ago
Now for the flat earthers - explain on what that pressure wave reverberated?
R Clay Ballard 2 years ago
The red and orange sky in the background of Edvard Munch's painting The Scream is thought to be a result of the eruption of Krakatoa, although it was painted from memory a couple of years later.
#22
The Battle of Bull Run, one of the first battles of the US Civil War, occurred on and around Wilmer McClean's farm in Northern Virginia. Not wanting to live surrounded by war, McClean and his family moved to Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia. The Battle of Appomattox Courthouse was the last significant battle between Union and Confederate forces. The Confederates signed the surrender order in Wilmer's sitting room. It is said that the Civil War started on Wilmer's farm and ended in his sitting room.
Michael Largey 2 years ago
Location, location, location is important in other fields than real estate.
TheNightOwl 2 years ago
That’s not all! After the surrender was signed, people took the desk that it was signed on! They also took chairs and anything else that wasn’t tied down as souvenirs, and gave money to McClean while he protested.
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And southerners called the Battle of Bull Run “First Manassas”. Sightseers came out and stood on a hill above the fighting to watch the battle. I highly doubt there were battlefield sightseers again during the Civil War. Of course, in the century and a half since, there have been countless millions of sightseers—-well, visitors, historians, history.buffs, reenactors, schoolchildren, surviving Civil War veterans in the earlier years and their families afterward, and just those who want to pay their respect to the bravery of those who fought and fell there—-at the battlefields.
#23
1816, The Year Without Summer.
The year 1816 is known as the Year Without a Summer because of severe climate abnormalities that caused average global temperatures to decrease by 0.4–0.7 °C (0.7–1 °F).[1] Summer temperatures in Europe were the coldest of any on record between the years of 1766 and 2000.[2] This resulted in major food shortages across the Northern Hemisphere.[3]
Evidence suggests that the anomaly was predominantly a volcanic winter event caused by the massive 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora in April in the Dutch East Indies.
CP 2 years ago
The temperatures where I live were lowered this summer just because of a huge forest fire over 500 miles away.
Vicki Cunningham 2 years ago
And people think climate change is not real, no matter the cause.
Brocken Blue 2 years ago
Volcanoes are much scarier than that science fair baking soda display implied 😬
Huddo's sister 2 years ago
I remember when I was a kid I wanted to be a volcanologist for a while and said it would be so cool standing next to them watching lava, like I'd seen on tv. My mum said if I was actually close to one like that it would be more dangerous than they made it look and I said I didn't care. I lost interest a while after that and then saw news reports of the devastation volcanoes were causing and had to admit to myself that mum was right (not that I told her that).
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Janet Ryan 2 years ago
There is a forest fire 2 miles away from me and the smoke is so heavy you can’t breathe
SkyBlueandBlack 2 years ago
You're getting that California experience, but at home!
Load More Replies... Trophy Husband 2 years ago
I live in South Florida. Every day is the hottest thing I've ever felt. There are times that I feel like my skin is touching a fire just being outside, even in the shade. Today was 96 while it was raining, and we're not even close to the hottest days yet. I haven't used a jacket in my home state in over a decade, not even inside because even places like hospitals that keep things cool, can't keep up with the heat outside. But when I was a kid, I remember sitting outside freezing in the winter, wishing they would open the school doors already... And Republicans say there's no such thing as global warming!
PolymathNecromancer 2 years ago
Stay safe down there in the midst of all that, Mr. Trophy <3
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Chrissie Anit 2 years ago (edited)
There is a big fair in Germany that is held every year to commemorate the Year Without Summer, since 1818 (apart from 1882-91, during the two world wars and during COVID). Look up the Cannstatter Volksfest.
R Dennis 2 years ago
I live in Michigan. The sky is orange and the air is hazy from forest fires in Quebec... Screenshot...8365e4.jpg 
Elizabeth Elliot 2 years ago
Also responsible for the fantastic sunsets painted by J Turner in the UK!
#24
The masses marching to the Berlin Wall and tearing it down only happened because earlier that day during a press conference, an East German official (Günther Schabowski) accidentally incorrectly said leaving East Germany was legal, effective *immediately*. *"As far as I know this becomes effective..it is right away, immediately"* is still a famous thing to say in Germany. It would eventually have happened anyway BUT it wasn't legal yet. However people just did it anyways because the guy got visibly confused during the press conference, and said the wrong thing.
The Scout 2 years ago
Schabowski just had come back from holiday, so not only had he no knowledge of the recent developments and decisions, but also was not briefed before. He just was summoned to this press conference and given some documents about taking back border restrictions. He was not a seasoned politician, either, just some minor government official, and clearly out of his depth. It was a tense moment, as, as the order was no in effect yet, there still was an active shooting order at the border. When people flocked to the checkpoints, the local commander decided to open up the gates instead of shooting (what would have been the formally correct action at the time). There are impressive photos form that day showing GDR border forces standing on top of the walls out of fear of being downtrodden by the masses.
Ricardo Ferreira 2 years ago
When humanity wins over training, brainwashing and rules.
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Edda Kamphues 2 years ago
Border guards on the eastern side of the wall had no idea what to do, so eventually they were simply overpowered by the amount of people trying to get through. Schabowski was handed a note without further explanation and shoved in front of the cameras. He died not too long ago.
#25
Most likely when the conquistadors under cortez wanted to build catapults to attack Tenochtitlan. After convincing him to halt the assault they built 2. Unfortunately they didn't actually have any siege masters who actually knew how to build them but just a dude who was convinced he knew how. When they fired them they threw the boulders straight up and they landed right in front of the catapults. This caused much confusion to the inhabitants of the city. The incident was recorded by both sides. I like to believe it inspired the character of wil e coyote.
Troy Parr 2 years ago
There is an image that inspired wil e coycte... https://preview.redd.it/9myrun9bnbt31.jpg?width=640&crop=smart&auto=webp&v=enabled&s=f0718ba1ddc78723b440b7763a968b823e7c2a63
Deborah Rubin 2 years ago
I can't get the link to work, isn't that the photo of the coyote leaping off the cliff?
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CaptainDinosaur 2 years ago
Ah yes, like when Pachacuti's forces were defeated by Pizarro painting a fake tunnel on a wall.
Fat Harry 2 years ago
Followed by that famous Aztec battle cry, "MEEP MEEP!"
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Michael Largey 2 years ago
I believe the guy who thought he knew how to build one was called Senor Acme.
Lily from England 2 years ago
I didn’t read this one. I’m reading all the others, but this one and my ADHD aren’t getting along for some reason. 😂
Simon Bolivar 2 years ago
Gifts that keep on giving: (a) Conquistadors gave the indigenous tribes Small Pox, and (b) Indigenous tribes gave the Conquistadors Syphilis.
#26
When the pyramids were being built, woolly mammoths still existed.
The last use of the guillotine in France was the same year Star Wars was founded
CP 2 years ago
Well it did happen a long time ago in a galaxy far away so perhaps discovered is the better word.
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RuffianLivesOn 2 years ago
Christopher Lee, who would go on to be in the Star Wars prequels, was present for the last guillotine execution.
Jane Hower 2 years ago
It's way past time we acknowledge that the pyramids are 10,000 yrs old, not 5; and not for tombs but for energy from the stars, probably advised by extraterrestrials - how else did they get built??? Within one degree level, and no trees around?? REALLY?? Get a grip on reality.
Gidget Girl 2 years ago
So, this is true but idk what founded means. But, the guillotine was last used and star wars was "founded" in 1977.
GDTRFB 2 years ago
That’s simply not true. They estimate woolly mammoths died off over 10,000 years ago. The pyramids are estimated to be around 4,500 years.
Kira Okah 2 years ago
Fossil evidence on Wrangel Island, Russia, dates Wooly Mammoth extinction to 2000 BC. Also eDNA samples show evidence of Woolly Mammoth survival on the Taymyr Peninsula, Russia, until 3,900-4,100 years ago.
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This happened in Buenos Aires in 1988. An elderly woman named Marta Espina was walking near a carpet store when a toy poodle named Cachy fell from a 13th-floor balcony and tragically landed on her head, causing her immediate death. Unfortunately, Cachy also didn't survive the fall.
But the events didn't end there. Another woman named Edith Solá, driven by curiosity or a desire to help, rushed across the street only to be struck by a bus from the 55 bus line. This marked the second fatality caused by Cachy's fall.
And incredibly, there was yet another death. The identity of the third victim remains unknown, but reports indicate that a man suffered a heart attack while witnessing the entire incident unfold at Rivadavia street. He passed away in an ambulance on the way to the hospital.
You guys can look it up. Crazy but true.
Jon Lee 2 years ago
Surgeon Robert Liston managed to have a 300% fatality rate for one operation. The patient died of infection as did his assistant after Liston accidently cut some of his fingers off and an observer thought Liston had sliced into him with his scalpel and promptly died of shock. Liston didn't cut him though.
#28
The swedish king Gustav II. had to wear glasses (like... badly) but was too vain and refused. In battle, he proceeded to lose his direction and got lost in the smoke, leading him to land behind the enemy's lines. Needless to say he didn't survive that. So essentially he died because he didn't want to wear his glasses. Wear your glasses, kids. Life is short (and so is your sight)
Kira Okah 2 years ago (edited)
Uh huh. Source plz, because one of the greatest military commanders of the time, who was known to be almost as good a musketeer as his trained marksmen and was often the main backup on the firing line, needed glasses so badly that he was blind without them? Dude, even 20/20 vision is not going to get you seeing through 17th century musket smoke on a battlefield.
Gidget Girl 2 years ago
I love that you asked for sources and yet didn't provide your own.
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Jods 2 years ago
Ooh, I’m going tomorrow. But I resent having to pay that much for something that I need.
Huddo's sister 2 years ago (edited)
That's why my mum usually goes to the School of Optometry for her glasses because she only has to pay approx $50, but of course you just get their standard frame. She has also gone to the School of Dentistry for her teeth, but that did end in her not being able to get the implant she was in for because the student dentist drilled through her jaw into her sinus' and she still can feel air travelling through the hole!
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Marvin HeartofGold (she/them) 2 years ago
I keep telling my husband his stubbornn will get him killed. Gotta make sure he knows about this guy.
#29
The CIA sent hundreds of assassins after Fidel Castro. Plenty of cartoonishly silly plans too, from exploding cigars to poison hair.
One of the best recorded attempts was when they sent a female spy to seduce him and then murder him when he's not looking.
But in the bedroom when he realized her plan, he turned his back to her, she prepared to strike, he grabbed a cigar and told her "if your gonna kill me then do it already". She just stood there shocked, said she couldn't do it. Castro was like "yea ofcourse not" and they just had passionate sex instead. Wild story straight from the CIA records of the woman lol
David H 2 years ago
It is, all these claims come from a man Escalante, who Cuba, the CIA and others have claimed is a fraud. None of his stories have been verified, and even denied by both Cuba and the CIA. It is james bond plot, as both are fiction
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False. 1) The US never sent "Hundreds of assassins after Fidel Castro" according to the official Cuban government only 24 attempts were made, the CIA claims that of those 24 only 9 were them (They had many plans they never acted on though), the rest were from other countries and people (one was by one of Fidel's generals in a failed Coup who fled), of those other 15, 6 of them involved people connected to the CIA in Cuba, but not under CIA orders. The Hundreds claims is from Fabián Escalante, who claimed to have been head of the Cuban State Security Department, before coming to the West and telling stories and writing books about over 600 failed CIA assassination attempts, and how he helped stop them. However Cuba claims he was a low level person, and that his books are all false, and even exonerated the CIA from those claims. US govt also claims he is a fraud.
David H 2 years ago
. 2)That story of the female spy is a myth long debunked, and does not exist in any CIA records, not has any CIA woman come forward ever with such a story. That story comes from a book. The only source for this story is Escalante again. In a interview in the 80s Fidel himself dismissed the story as false. 3) All these claims come from Escalante who Cuba claims is a fraud, a low level counter security operative who exaggerated his position and made up stories. The CIA also claims the same about his, as did Mexico's intel service, Argentina's, etc. It is his publishers (and the BBC who paid him money for documentaries they made, before all those details about him came out, and like his publishers, needed to save face) that keep pushing these claims. When Fidel himself exonerated the CIA and said the stories were fake, that should tell you something
Load More Replies... Jane Hower 2 years ago
And the baby from that encounter went on to be the PM of Canada. See the resemblance??
K. Subramanian 0 2 years ago
cia is a fraud, not only yesterday, but today too. monica lewinsky - bill clinton, Stormy Daniels - donald trump... and goes on.
#30
In 2014, Pope Francis released doves in the Vatican to symbolize his hopes for peace in the world. As soon as the doves began to fly, a seagull and a crow swooped down and attacked them in front of everyone.
Shannon Mallory 2 years ago
And look where the world is a decade on. This was not a good omen.
CP 2 years ago
You could pick any year for that to occur and claim it was a bad omen.
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A.E.P. Face The muddy professor 2 years ago
Revelation speaks of a "beast from the SEA" when referencing the antichrist.. A SEAGULL??? Lol that's ironic
#31
Nicholas Alkemade fell 18,000 feet without a parachute from a burning plane in 1944 and suffered no serious injury.
Lily from England 2 years ago (edited)
My Mum did a parachute jump when she was 17, to raise money for the air ambulance. Her parachute was broken and she plummeted down. She ended up fking up her left ankle, and has slight back pain now. But apart from that, she was fine!! Oh yh, the air ambulance had to take her to hospital. 🤣
Majungasaurus 2 years ago (edited)
I can’t even imagine the experience 🫣 I’m glad your mum was ok!
Load More Replies... Stannous Flouride 2 years ago
Tail gunner in a Lancaster. He landed on pine trees and bounced into a snowbank. The Germans who captured him treated him like a hero.
David Paterson 2 years ago
There are a few people who have survived a fall without a parachute from an aircraft. The one I remember best is the person who survived because they landed on a glass greenhouse. The breaking of the glass of the greenhouse absorbed enough energy from the fall for him to survive.
#32
The Great Molasses Flood.
“A large storage tank filled with 2.3 million U.S. gallons (8,700 cubic meters)[4] of molasses, weighing approximately[b] 13,000 short tons (12,000 metric tons), burst, and the resultant wave of molasses rushed through the streets at an estimated 35 miles per hour (56 kilometers per hour), killing 21 people and injuring 150.[5] The event entered local folklore and residents claimed for decades afterwards that the area still smelled of molasses on hot summer days”
Christos Arvanitis 2 years ago
Information that might be helpful here.... this was in 1919 in Boston
Mycroft1967 2 years ago
Not to be confused with the London Beer flood of 1814. One of the 22-foot-tall (6.7 m) wooden vats of fermenting porter burst. The escaping liquid dislodged the valve of another vessel and destroyed several large barrels: between 128,000 and 323,000 imperial gallons (580,000–1,470,000 L; 154,000–388,000 US gal) of beer were released in total. 8 people were killed and the hospital had trouble treating people because patient smelled the beer and thought there was a party they were not invited to.
M O'Connell 2 years ago
Incidents like this are why we have government regulation of industry! When profit is the only motivating factor, business is bound to do sketchy s**t.
Janet Ryan 2 years ago
And the company knew that the containing system was not safe for the amount and refused to pay back families for some time
Jennifer Clark 2 years ago
The tank leaked badly but they just painted it brown to hide it. Local children would bring cups to collect the dripping molasses in.
Load More Replies... Cathy Jo Baker 2 years ago
There's a really good book that explains the whole tragedy in detail called Dark Tide. Highly recommend. They say that even nowadays on really hot days you can still smell the molasses.
The Other Guest 2 years ago
There's also a very good mini-documentary about it on the Fascinating Horror YouTube channel.
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Nancy Lynch 2 years ago
The blueprints for that tank have been analyzed and the tank never should have been build. The man who designed it knew nothing about tanks.
HARRY KOPPERS 2 years ago
It was a distillery aiming for high production before Prohibition kicked in, so they filled that tank as full as they could.
#33
Ocean liner stewardess/nurse Violet Jessop survived the sinkings of the Titanic in 1912 & the Britannic in 1916 and was onboard the Olympic when it collided with another ship in 1911. Not really one event but a very impressive/scary track record.
gotham-panda 2 years ago
Or maybe one should have never gotten onboard unless she was there, and never leave her side.
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Heather McDonald 2 years ago
I read a very eerie horror novel about this very woman. It's called the Deep and it's by Elma Katsu
#34
That time everyone died of a dancing sickness where they danced themselves to death in France. Mass hysteria.
ENFJPLinguaphile replied:
Yup! St. Vitus’ Dance, as it is called, still doesn’t have a definitely known cause, if I remember correctly, either! Somebody correct me if I’m wrong, please!
New research as of 2021 shows Sydenham chorea as the most likely cause.
Deborah Rubin 2 years ago
Ergot poisoning in the bread. That's pretty well established by now.
Agnes Jekyll 2 years ago
St Vitus' Dance is different from the Dancing Sickness or mania when people danced themselves to death. St Vitus' Dance is still around; it is not psychosomatic--my mom's cousin had it. It is an auto-immune disease, caused by Strep A (I think), and usually occurs only in children.
Max Fox 2 years ago (edited)
That's what Sydenham Chorea is (that is mentioned in the post), and it's very unlikely for the reasons that I mentioned - it is pretty rare for adults over 15 to have it.
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Kira Okah 2 years ago
Whether people died is debated. No media of the day states any death, the city doesn't state any death. All death toll sources are from later accounts. There aren't even solid sources on the first dancer, or even the final number of dancers (with numbers varying from 50 to 400).
Lorrie Rothstein 2 years ago
I've heard about this on a podcast. It started with one lady dancing.
D,, 2 years ago
Can we get Dickk Clark to feature this on American Bandstand? (Famous American TV show. It had dancers doing the latest dances)
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Elevator operator Betty Lou Oliver survived a fall of 75 stories while in an elevator in 1945.
Edda Kamphues 2 years ago
Oh wow. I survived 20mins in a pitch black, stuck elevator and that was enough for me.
#36
The Kentucky meat shower. Bunch of mystery meat fell out of the sky and no one had a clue what it was but they still ate it as they saw it as a blessing from god.
TheMongooser replied:
Wasn’t that vulture vomit?
WorldClassKlutz replied:
Correct, but that was only recently figured out.
JB 2 years ago
Not to be confused with the time they stuffed a dead whale with dynamite and made it rain rotting whale carcass for a square mile.
Trophy Husband 2 years ago
If god wants to provide me with food, and (s)he chooses to do so by dropping it from the sky in the form of vomit without any warning, then (s)he has to know that I'm not going to eat it, and I will assume it was a test and by not eating it I passed.
GlitterPanda 2 years ago
If you want more info... check out the episode from the podcast Ghosts N Heauxs that they released TODAY (wacky coincidence) they do a great story on this as the first half of the episode. Heads up: they do swear, not for kids.
#37
The Nutmeg Wars. The Dutch and the English went to war THREE times over nutmeg, which at the time was only known to grow on one South Pacific island.
#38
Vesna Vulović fell from a commercial aircraft's cruise flight altitude of 10 000 meters (about 30 000 ft) in 1972. She not only survived, she actually lived normally for over 40 years more with nothing more than a limp. (after a rather lengthy recovery process, of course)
RedMarbles 2 years ago
"Air safety investigators attributed Vulović's survival to her being trapped by a food cart in the DC-9's fuselage as it broke away from the rest of the aircraft and plummeted towards the ground. When the cabin depressurized, the passengers and other flight crew were blown out of the aircraft and fell to their deaths. Investigators believed that the fuselage, with Vulović pinned inside, landed at an angle in a heavily wooded and snow-covered mountainside, which cushioned the impact.[1][a] Vulović's physicians concluded that her history of low blood pressure caused her to pass out quickly after the cabin depressurized and kept her heart from bursting on impact."
RedMarbles 2 years ago
"Following the bombing, Vulović spent days in a coma and was hospitalised for several months. She suffered a fractured skull, three broken vertebrae, broken legs, broken ribs, and a fractured pelvis. These injuries resulted in her being temporarily paralyzed from the waist down. Vulović made an almost complete recovery but continued to walk with a limp." Vesna Vulović - Wikipedia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vesna_Vulovi%C4%87
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If I remember, she was in the tail section of the plane, which was instrumental in shielding her from the impact.
#39
The fact that there was a Volcanic winter 70,000 years ago which almost made Homo Sapiens extinct. Estimates range from 1000 to 40 survivors repopulating the Earth.
Max Fox 2 years ago
It's not a "act", and the estimates were 2,000 - 20,000. Moreover, more recent research has called those extreme numbers into doubt, as well as archeological evidence that showed multiple pockets of human survivors across the Toba eruption (similar tools and artifacts above and below the layer of ash from Toba).
Seabeast 2 years ago
It's why we have less genetic diversity than chimpanzees. All 7.8 billion of us are descended from this small pool of ancestors.
David Paterson 2 years ago
Not quite. Our ancestors diverged from a small gene pool between 100 and 120 thousand years ago. It was the crossing of the Arabian sea from Africa into Asia that narrowed the gene pool of Europeans and Asians when compared to Africans, which remained diverse through this time.
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Lenin's body being put on display for 100 years (literally he died in 1924).
James Twong 2 years ago
They say only a small percentage is actually his mummified remains and the rest is wax due to faults in the original embalming process.
Annemarie Mattheyse 2 years ago
Apparently it takes regular touch-ups and work to keep the body in pristine condition (although nobody's saying what that work is!).
Kathryn Baylis 2 years ago
Amazing what layers and layers of wax can do for a dead man’s complexion, isn’t it.
Trophy Husband 2 years ago
Technically that's 99 years, so not "literally." I know, it's darn close, and I'm being pedantic.
Lemme get the lemons 2 years ago
Not the Beatles member, the person who was a communist in Russia after the revolution
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#41
In 1950 the United States government, particularly the United States Navy, released pathogens on the civilian population of the city of San Francisco causing illness and death including legionnaires disease. They did it intentionally in order to study how such a weaponized bacterial agent could be dispersed through fog rolling in to a city's population. Google Operation Sea spray. God bless America.
EDIT: it has been pointed out to me that I am mistaken about the legionnaires disease part. Apparently legionnaires disease was not included in the operation. The rest is true.
Kira Okah 2 years ago
It was Bacillus atrophaeus and Serratia marcescens, both strains used were believed to be benign but were not. 11 illnesses, 1 death, the military told no one and papers were written about the illnesses because they were so rare. The second bacterium is thought to have increased pneumonia cases in San Francisco, but the link is unproven. Not just in America either, a joint USA/UK group of military scientists sprayed one of the bacteria combined with phenol and simulation anthrax over South Dorset too (take a look at the DICE trials as well).
#42
The US gave a bunch of black people syphilis without them knowing in order to conduct "research". Aka the Tuskegee Project.
Firefly 2 years ago
They didn't "give" syphilis to them, but the U.S. Public Health Service (USPHS) Syphilis Study at Tuskegee was conducted between 1932 and 1972 to observe the natural history of untreated syphilis. As part of the study, researchers did not collect informed consent from participants and they did not offer treatment, even after it was widely available.
Crescent 3 2 years ago
Thanks for pointing this out. The gross inhumanity and blatant racism of what actually occurred is horrible enough that it needs no embellishment. Attaching the falsehood that they were deliberately infected with syphilis could cast doubt on the truth of the real story, leading some folks to dismiss the whole thing as myth. Let's stick to the proven facts and truth - they're evil enough.
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#43
Michael Malloy AKA Mike the Durable AKA Iron Mike. During the Great Depression, five men took out a life insurance policy on a homeless alcoholic that they were sure was going to drink himself to death. The owner of a bar allowed him to drink for free, but he kept drinking and didn’t die. So they tried to poison him with antifreeze. Didn’t work. The turpentine, horse liniment, rat poison, methanol….still didn’t work. A sandwich made with rotten sardines and tacks. Still no luck. Then they took his drunk body out in the cold and poured water on him. He lived. Then they ran him over with a car. He was in the hospital for three weeks, but survived. Then they poisoned him with carbon monoxide, and he finally died. They were all convicted of murder.
bottomless.abyss.of.bordem 2 years ago
Another Sam O'Nella , but I'm done looking them all up. I hope SOMEBODY has become a fan today. He's hilarious.
#44
I’m gonna go with when a country violently murdered and then proceeded to eat the man that was leading their country. The brutal end of Johann de Witt.
A description is as follows
“After having mangled, and torn, and completely stripped the two brothers, the mob dragged their naked and bloody bodies to an extemporised gibbet, where amateur executioners hung them up by the feet.
Then came the most dastardly scoundrels of all, who not having dared to strike the living flesh, cut the dead in pieces, and then went about the town selling small slices of the bodies of John and Cornelius at ten sous a piece.”
The people capable of such a heinous crime?
No one else then the absolute savages from our overseas neighbors in…you guessed it…Holland.
Vicki Cunningham 2 years ago
There's this guy called Trump. He would be an awesome specimen for just such a thing.
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Emanuelle 2 years ago (edited)
They killed two brothers, Johan and Cornelis de Witt. They saved the tongue from one brother and a finger from the other. You can still see ‘the items’ in a museum in The Hague, the place where they were killed. But you can also see the windmills and eat some cheese if you’d like
#45
The PA police dropping a C-4 bomb on a house that held the organizers of the MOVE movement killing 11 including 5 Children and destroying 61 homes in a two block area. May 13 1985
Der Kommissar 2 years ago (edited)
The MOVE people had been making problems for the neighborhood for about 5 years. They were shooting at police, killing one and wounding several others. Not excusing police action against them, which were over the top, but probably done to prevent more police injuries/deaths. MOVE were warned many times to vacate. There is a very good documentary about this shameful event called Let The Fire Burn.
#46
Tiananmen square massacre, 1989 Before the fateful date arrives, the CCP goes to extra lengths to cover up any mention of the events in 1989. It is a known fact that the Chinese censor the numbers June 3, June 4 and Tiananmen Square. Any attempt to search the events generally results in blank pages on the Chinese internet.
Terran 2 years ago
Fun fact: the censorship of of the massacre was so incredible successful, that hardly anybody knows of it in China. When a famous chinese influencer had his accounts suspended after talking about tanks and the dates (but in no context about the massacre), people started to research what happened on the date, resulting in thousands of Chinese people learning about the massacre. Their policies concerning Tiananmen Square will probably relax as a result.
#47
The war between the Scilly Islands and the Netherlands lasted from 1651 to 1986. That is 335 years and the longest known war in history.
David Paterson 2 years ago
There could have been longer ones, Eg. Tribal wars in Africa. But we don't have dates for those.
the_avenging_knight 2 years ago
This seems the the sort of war where someone was mindlessly looking through a list of conflicts and relised, oh s**t! We're still fighting the Netherlands/Scilly Islands
#48
John the Blind King of Bohemia insisted on fighting in the battle and had his aides tie their horses together so they were not separated. He asked to be taken to where the battle was the loudest. The next day they were all found dead with their horses still tied together.
#49
Edwin Booth brother of John Wilkes Booth saved the life of Robert the son of president Abraham Lincoln.
#50
During Alexander the Great's destruction of the Mediterranean he was going to leave a small island named Tyre for later as it would've been hard to besiege it but the people of Tyre laughed and mocked him so he literally built a bridge to their island and conquered it 💀
#51
I still find it totally insane that we were able to put men on the moon with the technology of the time. It blows my mind. Probably the greatest of all human achievement.
Deborah Rubin 2 years ago
And, as has often been pointed out, with less technology than in a smart phone.
Anne Jones 2 years ago
I find it totally insane that we don’t have the technology to put men on the moon now.
Andy Frobig 2 years ago
And to prove it was a golden age of innovation, just a few years later, they started putting wheels on suitcases
#52
That the British used to just f*****g eat mummies.
Andy Frobig 2 years ago
I guess they hadn't translated the ancient Egyptian for "best if used by"
#53
Gobekli-Tepe THis structure predates everything. Between c. 9500 and 8000 BCE, the site comprises a number of large circular structures supported by massive stone pillars – the world's oldest known megaliths. Most historians did not think we were working stone to this degree at this time. It makes Stonehenge look like a 50 piece puzzle. Many scientists insist this is not dated correctly because it upsets their world view. A very good read.
messy_artist11 2 years ago
There is a fascinating documentary on this and an event called the younger dryas; it basically critiques numerous theories from scientists about human goings on in that early of a time period.
RedMarbles 2 years ago
Here's a link with *very* detailed information about the difficulties of dating this site and the various methods used. The OP's allegation that "many scientists" were arguing for certain dates because of world views doesn't sound very likely after reading about the complexities of dating there. How old is it? Dating Göbekli Tepe. – Tepe Telegrams https://www.dainst.blog/the-tepe-telegrams/2016/06/22/how-old-ist-it-dating-gobekli-tepe/
#54
Meteor striking the ground between two armies about to go to battle in 74 B.C.
Your Local Forza Enthusiast 2 years ago
Wait... What? Is this some kind of cosmic intervention? And if so, we need more of this.
C Lawson 2 years ago
Can you imagine? Grizzled looking soldiers intently eyeing and sizing up the enemy. Adrenaline pumping through every last one so much they could swear they heard its collective rumbling. In the same breath mumbling contempt at the enemy and offering a prayer to their gods and asking for their favor. They can all hear the battle cries of their gods as they poise in unison for that first launching step that takes their weapon to the enemies heart or brings theirs to the point of a sword. Sudden deafening bewilderment and fear, each leader looking to the other side, "Was that you guys?! We're out!"
#55
One of my favorites is the War of the Worlds radio broadcast from 1938. in which an H.G. Wells novel caused panic and hysteria because people believed it was a genuine news broadcast and not fiction. People believed Martians were really invading the world. Edit: As some have said, this event did happen, but it was overblown by the newspapers trying to make radio broadcasting look bad. The program had very few listeners and even less people who believed it was real. Still, there was that lucky few who got a "little" confused.
Nikki Sevven 2 years ago
Anyone laughing at the gullibility of people in 1938 need look no further than the internet to understand that they are still among us.
#56
Theodore Roosevelt found his boat was stolen. So he built a new boat, tracked the thieves down and arrested them. He then proceeded to walk them multiple days, without sleeping, so they could receive a trial instead of just shooting them on the spot. It was in the middle of a harsh winter so he didn’t handcuff them (for fear they’d get frostbite) so instead he just kept himself awake by reading Tolstoy with a gun trained on them the whole trek.
Michael Largey 2 years ago
The most remarkable thing here is that he kept awake while reading Tolstoy.
Deborah Rubin 2 years ago
I've always found it a good sedative, with fewer side effects than pills. Except for sore wrists from holding it.
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bottomless.abyss.of.bordem 2 years ago
Roosevelt for President! Or we can have an overweight orange lady with a bad blowout.
#57
At the Battle of Dorylaeum during the First Crusade, Bohemond Of Taranto ordered his troops to stand still for eight hours in the baking sun in order to defeat Kilij Arslan. He crushed Kilij Arslan's forces. During another battle, Bohemond's men hadn't eaten for two weeks because they were besieged inside a fort they'd captured. None of them were in fighting order and they no longer had cavalry for the knights, so he asked the Papal legate, Ademar of Puy, what he should do. Ademar of Puy "spoke to God" and said God told him that the men shouldn't eat for another week. The only way to fight the Muslims was to march his dying infantry straight out of the castle gates and use inferior infantry tactics against cavalry by running straight at them. It was guaranteed that they were going to lose. Again, they crushed the Muslims. The entirety of the First Crusade is insane and it's a miracle that the Christians won because they did absolutely nothing right. It's a perfect example of continually falling upwards. **edit: for those questioning the validity of the claims made herein, and questioning whether or not they were exaggerated by the victors, they weren't. The two main chroniclers of the First Crusade were the Arab-Muslims and Greek Byzantines, both of whom hated the Crusaders to such a degree, that the latter actually wanted the Muslims to retake the Holy Land because the Western Europeans were so barbaric in comparison. In fact, some of the Muslims were so blindsided by how effective the Crusaders were, that they believed they were being punished by God for their excesses. As for the Christians, their main source of historical records were simply letters sent back and forth between clergymen and the Pope to update him on the Crusades.**
Michael Largey 2 years ago
The First Crusade was so bloody and inhumane that it was denounced by the pope who sent it, Urban II.
TheCarmBeforeTheStorm 2 years ago (edited)
One could argue that even though the Crusaders did everything wrong (falling upwards, as it were) and still won - is proof that God was on their side.
#58
On 1 February 1942, following a bombing raid on the Marshall Islands, the Enterprise came under attack by five twin-engine Japanese bombers. The lead aircraft, led by Lieutenant Kazuo Nakai, badly damaged by anti-aircraft fire, turned back towards the Enterprise, attempting to ram it. Seeing this, Gaido abandoned his watch post and jumped in a nearby Dauntless parked on the flight deck, and returned fire using the rear-facing 30 caliber machine gun. His fire disabled the aircraft, causing it to narrowly miss the Enterprise, only hitting parked aircraft (including the one Gaido was in) before spiraling into the sea. Upon seeing this act, Vice Admiral William Halsey spot-promoted him to aviation machinist mate first class.
Catherine Maven 2 years ago
Am I the only ine that thought they must be talking about the Holodeck on the Starship Enterprise??
Andy Frobig 2 years ago
Why are we told the bomber pilot's full name and rank, but the US defender is just "Gaido?"
#59
On December 5th, 1664, a man named Hugh Williams was the only survivor of a shipwreck. On December 5th, 1785, a man named Hugh Williams was the only survivor of a shipwreck. On December 5th, 1820, a man named Hugh Williams was the only survivor of a shipwreck.
Fat Harry 2 years ago
It's worth pointing out that Hugh Williams is a fairly common name in parts of the country. I don't know where this occurred, but if I had to guess I'd say Wales. (and I've looked it up and all three were Wales!)
Terran 2 years ago
Once you got saved from shipwrecks when your were from Wales. Nowadays you get shipwrecked because of whales.
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Dave Forster 2 years ago
And on December 6th, 1820, after finally realizing he was immortal, a man named Hugh Williams decided to change his name to Hugh Jackman and got the idea to become a P.E. Teacher.
Penny Kemper 2 years ago
If you look it up... first only tell the years and the last one is Aug. 5
#60
The USA banned alcohol for about 10 years The British government bought the ENTIRE WORLD'S tea crop for one year (as in every ounce produced in every country in the world was purchased by them), in the middle of WWII, just because King George III was against the Stamp Act and when it was repealed by a politician he supported, a statue of the king was paid for and put up in NY by the people there in thanks (pre-Revolution)
#61
Black Monday. A hailstorm killed around a thousand English soldiers in 1360. More than had died in the entire war up to that point.
Kira Okah 2 years ago
*More than had died in a single battle in the war up to that point. Not in the war total, but in singular battles.
Majungasaurus 2 years ago
Yes. It was the Hundred Years War, that definitely killed more than 1000 people.
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An earthquake in middle USA 1811-12 was the strongest earthquake ever in the eastern US. It changed the course of the Mississippi River...
Red PANda (she/they) 2 years ago
Why is this downvoted? (Genuine question, I don’t understand the comment/genq)
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The force of the land upheaval 15 miles south of New Madrid, drowned the inhabitants of an Indian village; turned the river against itself to flow backwards; devastated thousands of acres of virgin forest; and created two temporary waterfalls in the Mississippi. Boatmen on flatboats actually survived this experience and lived to tell the tale.
#63
A US President Roosevelt issued an executive order that made it illegal for US citizens to keep US gold coins. They made everyone return them or be subject to imprisonment and large fine. The government confiscated over 2,600 metric tons.
Red PANda (she/they) 2 years ago (edited)
See, the problem with banning guns is that all law-abiding citizens are going to turn them in, but a lot of criminals are going to keep them, rendering the lawful people unarmed against them. It’s better to just put regulations on who can own them, or at the very least, some background checks, to make it harder for unlawful people to own/buy guns. That way, mentally unstable kids can’t just go out and buy them and commit a school shooting. A lot of people need guns for protection, or hunting to feed their family. Banning assault rifles is another option, as many are impractical for hunting.
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Bob La Capra 2 years ago
OK, this one is a little over-stated. Executive Order 6102 did not make it illegal to possess gold coins, it made it illegal to hoard them. Individuals could keep up to $100 in gold coins. Also, the government did not confiscate any gold, confiscate means to take or seize, individuals were paid $20.67 per troy ounce. The penalty was indeed severe - a violation of the order was punishable by fine up to $10,000, up to ten years in prison, or both.
sofacushionfort 2 years ago (edited)
“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself,” and fearful people hoard gold. The law was passed in order to get them spending what money they had on goods and services, which would stimulate commerce. When money is scarce, it gets tied down in indestructible but otherwise useless gold. When money is over plentiful, (inflation = to many dollars chasing too few goods) the government puts gold out on the market to “soak up” the over abundance of cash.
Andy Frobig 2 years ago
"A US president Roosevelt?" There were only two. Theodore wouldn't have done this, he was a Republican and didn't face an economic crisis that would have called for something like this. Franklin Roosevelt, however, was elected with a mandate to take drastic measures to slow the US economy's free fall. You wouldn't say "a Russian tsar was killed by the Bolsheviks," you'd say Tsar Nicholas II.
#64
The Time Indiana tried to legislate the value of Pi.
Cathy Jo Baker 2 years ago
Hoosier here... this is almost as embarrassing as a couple of former VPs (DQ and MP) from Indiana. Sigh. My state is dumb.
Luke T 2 years ago
Dan Quayle and who else? I've seen some quotes by Quayle...yikes.
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Ana Ferreira 2 years ago (edited)
I was confused as to how you legislate a mathematical constant, and went a-googling. Apparently, you do it by rounding it up. Badly.
Russell Rieckenberg 2 years ago
Yes, it was bad enough to try to legislate pi, but worse to make it 4, instead of 3.
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Michael Largey 2 years ago
Yes, they'll sneer that 3.141592654.... is "woke".
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During WWII Kaiser Shipyards in Vancouver, WA completed 50 Casablanca Class Escort Aircraft Carriers in under two years.
James S 2 years ago
In 1941 the US had 8 carriers (7 in the Pacific), compared to Japan's 7, 5 of which outmatched the US ones in range and aircraft capacity. By August 1945 the US had 28 full size carriers. 28! And a whole bunch of smaller escort carriers. The industrial capacity of the US to produce ships was insanely strong.
Donald 2 years ago
I read that a prominent Japanese General had spent time touring the US pre-war and strongly advised against the pearl harbor attack. His reasoning was that he saw the industrial capabilities the US possessed at the time and knew it would be a losing proposition.
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Effectively addressing the aircraft carrier shortage. If only we would acknowledged that the housing shortage is a national crisis. Imagine a lobbyist crying “but more aircraft carriers would destroy the value of mine!”
M O'Connell 2 years ago
Plus the US industrial base was so far removed from the war itself it could carry on without any disruptions. The Germans & Japanese would never have been able to attack any of it.
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#66
The sinking of the Titanic. It sounds like a story, all the parts of it from beginning to end are cinematic, but it really happened!
the_avenging_knight 2 years ago
I'm convinced the author had to be a time traveler playing a prank on all of humanity.
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Fun fact: The titanic actually wouldn’t have sunk if the captain hadn’t turned the boat, it would’ve just rammed into the ice burg and wouldn’t had flooded as much but since he turned it scraped the side and more rooms got flooded
Frappuchino the hedgehog 2 years ago
Ironic that the submersible to go to the titanic was named the titan amirite
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Lace Neil 2 years ago
The time that people fell in love with radium, until a man named Eben Byers died from drinking radium infused water. His lower jaw fell off, he lost all his teeth and he had to bandage his entire head cuz literal holes were forming in his skull and it was the only way he could hold his disintegrating head together. Basically, his entire body was rotting from the inside out.
Ariel Andersen 2 years ago
And the radium girls, watch face painters who were encouraged to narrow the point of their paint brushes in their mouths. Many suffered similar effects.
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James S 2 years ago
Isoroku Yamamoto. He studied at Harvard. His Pacific strategy for Japan was to knock US out of the Pacific in 2 years, having already taken over British, French and Dutch colonies for their resources. He knew Japan had force the US to accept peace, by winning a series of large naval battles, before the US industrial and manpower strength made a Japanese victory impossible.
Lace Neil 2 years ago
The time that people fell in love with radium, until a man named Eben Byers died from drinking radium infused water. His lower jaw fell off, he lost all his teeth and he had to bandage his entire head cuz literal holes were forming in his skull and it was the only way he could hold his disintegrating head together. Basically, his entire body was rotting from the inside out.
Ariel Andersen 2 years ago
And the radium girls, watch face painters who were encouraged to narrow the point of their paint brushes in their mouths. Many suffered similar effects.
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Isoroku Yamamoto. He studied at Harvard. His Pacific strategy for Japan was to knock US out of the Pacific in 2 years, having already taken over British, French and Dutch colonies for their resources. He knew Japan had force the US to accept peace, by winning a series of large naval battles, before the US industrial and manpower strength made a Japanese victory impossible.
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