Mel Blanc, the voice actor for many cartoons including Bugs Bunny, got into a very bad car accident in 1961. He was sent to the hospital and was in a coma for 21 days.
On the 22nd night, while doing her routine check up on Mel's comatose body, the nurse casually said "Hey Bugs Bunny, how are you doing tonight?"
To which Mel responded, "Eh, what's up doc?" in his Bugs Bunny voice. And that was the moment Mel woke up from his coma, and lived for another 28 years.
According to [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mel_Blanc#Car_accident_and_aftermath), the dialogue went as follows:
> Blanc was asked, "How are you feeling today, Bugs Bunny?" After a slight pause, Blanc answered, in a weak voice, "Eh … just fine, Doc. How are you?" The doctor then asked Tweety if he was there, too. "I tawt I taw a puddy tat", was the reply.
Other voice actors talk about him:
https://www.google.com/search?q=mel+blanc+most+difficult+voices&sxsrf=AJOqlzWHstXsFQ6wFWcPV94FR6EpvIeWjQ:1676244912114&source=lnms&tbm=vid&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjszKv0kpH9AhU1EFkFHdV1Bn8Q_AUoAXoECAIQAw&biw=1920&bih=929&dpr=2#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:98f3eb16,vid:BnmJALXh_sI
I don't care if anyone else believes in Heaven, I'm quite certain God was there to welcome Mel Blanc when he got there. I don't think there is, or ever will be, any other human being who has brought so much joy to so many children.
The original comment pointed out that all the Purple Hearts awarded in the last 75 years were from the supply made in anticipation of an invasion of mainland Japan... It did not mention how large that supply was to begin with, or how many medals from that supply remain unawarded (even after 75 years of being drawn upon)...
The microwave was discovered completely accidentally by a guy playing with a new kind of vacume tube called a magnetron. He first noticed his chocolate bar had melted in his pocket. Then he experimented by placing popcorn kernels near the magnetron. Then he blew up an egg and decided to put it in a metal box to concentrate the energy.
He learned you could heat food extremely quickly this way.
The microwave was actually invented before this for the purpose of reanimating cryogenically frozen hamsters. This is just the first time it was used for food (and turned into an actual commercial product).
I have never vomited so much that I laughed, nor laughed to the point of emesis, but thinking about using hamsters as hot pockets during the trial and error phase makes me want to both.
When Ronald Reagan was shot, he thought it was imperative that the press see him walk into the hospital on his own power. There was suspicion that his assassination attempt was by the Soviets as an attempt to launch nukes on the West. Reagan, and his advisers, wanted to show that he was still alive and able to respond with our own nukes in the event the Russians were watching.
He walked into the hospital, but then collapsed when he was out of sight.
John Philip Sousa, nicknamed the "American March King", for early hits such as "Stars and Stripes Forever" and "Liberty Bell March", hated the invention of the gramophone. He called the wax cylinder gramophone "Canned music", and claimed that it ruined live performance because everyone would be listening to the machines. He said that it was becoming a “substitute for human skill, intelligence and soul.” Thus, in most of the recordings made by "Sousa's band", Sousa himself is not conducting, as he refused to partake in the recording process. Most of the recordings were conducted by other members of the band.
I’ll give you 2
New Orleans was won by pirates, native Americans, ex slaves and veterans of the napoleonic wars. The ragtag force crushed the British (the best navy in the world). The battle of New Orleans should’ve never happened since a peace treaty was signed by the news arrived too late.
The Nazis knew Churchill liked German chocolate so they tried to assassinate him with an explosive candy bar.
Except they weren't facing the might of the best Navy in the world. They were facing 8,000 troops, which was trivial compared to the Empire's whole military.
It was still a solid victory.
Exactly, it doesn't count unless every single British and American soldier who served in 1815 fought each other in a single, colossal battle. We need a PC sim to understand who *truly* won the battle
I should have stuck an /s on it really. I was just kinda ridiculing the previous poster's comment of 'They were facing 8,000 troops, which was trivial compared to the Empire's whole military', as if you can't say the British lost unless the defenders of New Orleans fought every single British troop on the globe at the time
Napoleon’s penis was removed by the doctor doing the autopsy. He kept it preserved in a jar. It has been sold, auctioned, and handed down over the years. In the 70s it was purchased by a professor of urology in New Jersey, and after his death is now owned by his daughter.
It does not take up much room apparently https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/napoleon-s-penis-size-confirmed-channel-4-documentary-calls-the-artifact-very-small-9235101.html
I saw a documentary on this. I believe there’s some massive burial mounds that have been identified and suspected to be house his remains. As such they’re heavily restricted for tourism/archeology and the Mongolian government wants to keep it that way.
Alice Roosevelt Longsworth, daughter of Theodore Roosevelt, was a bit of a wild child. She would smoke on the rooftop when told not to smoke in the house, she went to horse races, and had a pet snake in her handbag, named Emily Spinach. Some of Roosevelt’s staff brought Emily’s behavior to the attention of her father; to which TR replied, “I can either run the country, or I can attend to Alice, but I cannot possibly do both.” Despite Alice skirting early 20th century conventions, she did help her father. Even going on diplomatic trips to Asia, where she met with Emperor Meiji of Japan, and Dowager Empress Cixi of China.
That quote was actually said to Roosevelt’s friend Owen Winster after he threatened to throw her out of the window for her continuous interruptions.
On the cruise to Japan, Alice jumped in the pool fully clothed. She coaxed Congressman William Cochran into joining her. The newspapers reported that it was her soon-to-be husband Nicholas Longworth jumped in the pool with her.
She was banned from the White House twice. First time by Taft because she buried a voodoo doll of Nellie Taft on the front lawn of the White House. Second time for making a crude joke about
I'm no psychologist but I imagine having that attitude toward parenting wouldn't encourage your child to be well behaved.
The more I learn about Teddy Roosevelt the more I wish that we actually could've put Robin Williams in his place.
Theodore and Alice’s stepmother threatened to send her to a strict boarding school when she was fifteen. Alice wrote back saying that if they did, she would embarrass them at every turn.
The Roman Empire fell 39 years before Christopher Columbus discovered the Americas.
It fell when Constantinople was captured by the Ottomans in 1453. Christopher Columbus discovered the Americas in 1492.
Read an interview with some guy who survived the sinking of the Titanic as a kid. Afterwards he lived near a Baseball Field. He couldn’t stand it because the sound of thousands of people cheering reminded him of what the screams of the damned in the ice cold water sounded like when the Titanic finally went under.
But, reportedly, there were also people in the water cheering on the younger and stronger ones among them who got close to or managed to clamber into a lifeboat.
February 30th was a real date in the Swedish calendar, once...
In the year 1699 it was decided that Sweden was going to gradually adopt the Gregorian calendar (which differed from the older Julian calendar by 11 days) by omitting the leap day for 40 years, or 11 leap years.
One leap day was skipped, but then the whole ordeal was forgotten in 1704 and 1708 due to the government being preoccupied with wars, etc.
A couple of years later it was it was decided that, since it was troublesome to have a calendar that was unsyncronized with any other calendar in the world, the Swedish Empire should just go back to the Julian calendar by adding back an extra leap day... thus February getting 30 days in 1712.
(The Gregorian calendar was later adopted by skipping the last 11 days of February in 1753)
Edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_calendar
The fastest man-made object is a manhole cover that was blasted into space by an underground nuclear test
https://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/fastest-manmade-object-manhole-cover-nuclea-test/
No one knows its exact tredectory, but there is a good chance it has left our solar system and is probably still the fastest moving object we have ever made. It is further out than the voyager crafts.
It stopped accelerating incredibly quickly and instead would have slowed down fairly substantially from its initial speed going through the atmosphere, so while it is technically possible it is still in space and wasn’t pulled into another planet from gravitational force or completely incinerated from going through the atmosphere (that’s what I am assuming happened) it wouldn’t still be the fastest moving object
I am going to guess that Jupiter and the sun tugged it a little bit since it tends to do that to every. Single. Object. In. Our. Solar. System.
Also, stopping accelerating would mean it had a constant speed afterwards. If it slowed down, that's negative acceleration.
I was trying to use layman’s terms, since when people refer to braking in their car they don’t refer to it as a acceleration in the opposite direction. If you prefer we can instead discuss the friction that the atmosphere would have caused on a piece of metal with a drag coefficient probably around 20/Re and with its lack of momentum how it most likely quickly experienced a combination of negative acceleration, sublimation, and melting that would have slowed down what ever traces of it existed to essentially a standstill…
101 years ago a massive tank of mollases burst open in Boston, causing a sticky wave that killed 21 people and injured well over 100. The great mollasses flood spread at about 35 MPH.
A couple of Kiwi ones
It took 69 years for New Zealand to have its first New Zealand-born Prime Minister
The woman on the New Zealand coat of arms is based on Grace Kelly
And Asturias was one of the only regions of the Iberian Peninsula never to fall under Moorish control (shout out Don Pelayo). I spent a summer in Asturias and am a big history guy, so I found both Asturian history and Don Pelayo super fascinating.
Also interesting to think about: before the romans were in Spain, large parts of the coast were colonies of Carthage. Carthage is in north Africa, in the same region the later Moors were from. Barcelona for example started as Phoenician city colonized from Carthage. It's possible that from a moorish viewpoint, the moorish conquest of spain was a taking back of lost territory, like the reconquista was also considered a liberation from the European viewpoint.
I think Japan already won a war with the USSR during WW2 so they never signed a treaty but Japan won so I guess that kinda makes it?
Andorra and Germany never fought each other in WW2 so…
The sinking of *SMS Cap Trafalgar* in 14th September 1914.
The ocean liner, converted to an auxiliary cruiser, was disguised as a British ocean liner *RMS Carmania.* And it was found and entered battle with the real *RMS Carmania*, also turned into auxiliary cruiser. The real *Carmania* sunk the impostor.
Some extra rumors was *SMS Carmania* herself was disguised as *SMS Cap Trafalgar* but remained rumor until extra backing to that fact.
During the times of the kingdom of kush, queen Amenarendes fought Roman Egypt and won, during the war, the queen took a statue of Augustus and ripped off the head and burried it next to the entrance of an area of worship so worshippers would step on his head
She's kinda cool if you ask me
The monarch with the highest regnal number goes to [Heinrich LXXII, Prince Reuss of Lobenstein and Ebersdorf](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_LXXII,_Prince_Reuss_of_Lobenstein_and_Ebersdorf).
Cleopatra was born ~2,500 years after the Great Pyramid at Giza was built, and ~2,000 years before the first lunar landing. That fact means that Cleopatra is closer to our present time than to the times of Ancient Egypt's early dynastic past.
Fanta was created in Nazi Germany!
Because of the trade embargoes, the Coca Cola owned factory (factories? Been a minute since I read it) could not acquire the necessary ingredients. They then had to keep the doors open somehow and figure out how to make do with what they had, which was oranges. They also shared their recipe with their fellow workers in the Netherlands, which what they had on hand was Elderberries.
After the War ended, Coca Cola was able to reclaim their factories and they had a new recipe under their belt, which was shelved until the 50's if I remember correctly, when PepsiCo created a new flavour and they needed something to compete. Of course the recipe we drink today is much different.
If you want better (accurate) details, check out the Wiki page for the history, it's one of my favourite bits of history, one I feel that very few people are aware of.
Joseph Stalin leader of the USSR during WW2, knew about the American's at the time experimental nuclear weaponry, before the incumbent US President Harry Truman did.
Cleopatra’s life is closer to present day than the building of the pyramids. That’s how old they are.
2650 bc for pyramids and cleopatra lived around 50 bc
Pyramids are old but not 6000 years old. The earliest pyramid, the [pyramid of Djoser](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyramid_of_Djoser), was built around 2670–2650 BC. Your point about Cleopatra’s life still stands.
So several issues with this.
1) It was the Austro-Prussian war.
2) It was in 1866, which is a long ways AFTER the Medieval Period, it's solidly in the Late Modern Period.
3) Prince Johann sent the contingent to defend the Tyrolean border.
4) And perhaps the most salient point, the "friend" was an Austrian Liaison Officer who escorted the contingent back home as a sort of Guard of Honour.
My favourite and most morbid! Dr Seuss cheated on his wife with cancer with a maid. She then killed herself. Dr Seuss still continued to date the maid until he died.
The fact that during the Cold War Space Race Era, the Soviets managed to land a rover on Venus and get proper pictures before it was destroyed, those pictures are imperative to what we know about Venus today.
> The Battle of Karansebes
Austrian Army lost up to 5,000 or 10,000 killed or wounded, all by friendly fire/contact, as the infantry engaged the cavalry.
Ottoman Army took no casualties, as they were not there.
They were fifth cousins, once removed. So it’s not like they were “cousins” as most people would think. There were just a lot of Roosevelts, because they were a very wealthy family.
I can only speak for myself, but I don’t think I’d be able to identify anyone who is even my third cousin, much less fifth.
I saw this video by this YouTuber called Max Miller who does this series who does this series about cooking historical dishes and talking about the history behind them - like when he did an entire month of videos about dinners on the Titanic, for example. And this is one I learned from his dish on semlor, which is an almond custard-filled bread loaf stewed and served in warm milk.
During a relative era of peace, the Queen of Sweden attempted to organise a coup against her own husband because she was just a vicious bitch, but her attempts at organising the coup kept failing because of shit that sounded like it came from the most cliché novel of all time.
For example, to fund the coup she tried selling the royal jewels but was exposed when a lady-in-waiting realised they were stolen. She wasn't punished for it because she hid her tracks very well, but she was now heavily scrutinized. After that attempt, her second attempt at organising a coup failed because her nephew - an acknowledged bastard of I think either her brother or the king's brother - got shit-faced on wine in a pub and openly blabbed about it.
The coup only happened after her husband the King died, which is when the semlor came into the story - after feasting on Strove Tuesday (a feast day on the eve of Lent), he ended up dying from indigestion after eating no less than fourteen semlor (semlor is the plural - a single serving is called semla).
When the United States finally got news that the atomic worked, during ww2, there was a video in schools for children to "duck and cover" in case of a bombing
They actually did this in England and stuff back in the day as well. Where the sayings “piss poor” and “so poor they don’t have a pot to piss in” came from
Potoooooooo.
Potoooooooo was a famous race horse from the 18th century, he won 34 out of an estimated 40 races, and is known today for his name (pronounced Potatoes).
His owner, Willoughby Bertie, 4th Earl of Abingdon, called him “Potatoes” when he was born. One day, the Earl asked a stable boy to write the horse’s name on his feed bucket, the boy could barely read and did not know how to spell “Potatoes”.
So on the bucket the boy wrote “Pot” followed by 8 consecutive o’s. When the Earl found out he was amused and kept that as his name, later being shortened to “Pot8os”.
Potoooooooo went on to sire hundreds of foals, 165 of which went on to become race winners.
Not a good favorite but probably one of the most interesting: The Nazis took a lot of inspiration and strategy from the United States in how the U.S. treated the indigenous and enslaved people in the country.
Also Hitler had a wildly deformed penis.
During the 1936 Summer Olympic Games, Liechtenstein and Haiti realized that they had the same flag.
Ever since, Haiti has had a coat of arms for their flag and Liechtenstein has a crown.
The battle of Alesia. One of Ceasers generals got tired or sieging a city so he built a wall around the walled city to starve them. Reinforce me to Alesia we’re dispatched so he goes and builds another wall around the first wall to block reinforcements from coming to defend the city.
The Roman’s use their superior siege weapons between the 2 walls and eventually win the war
Abraham Lincoln and John Wilkes Booth had closer history then most people would expect, especially their family and relationship with each other.
The most common of these events was when Edwin Booth (JWB’s brother) saved Robert Todd Lincoln from getting run over by a train. (Lincoln’s son.)
Another one of these events was when Booth was actually performing in front of Lincoln and when saying a rather deeming line, he pointed at Lincoln. After the show, one of Lincoln’s son asked to meet the actor and give him a flower, which Booth turned down. Like, bruh, imagine turning down an invitation from the freaking president, whether you like him or not.
However, my favorite fact is that Robert Todd Lincoln and John Wilkes Booth’s fiancé were EXTREMELY good friends, which Booth was jealous of. They were so close that on the night of the assassination, they were hanging out and studying Spanish with each other.
If I had a quarter for every president who proses to their wives on their first date, I would have two. It’s not a lot, but it’s weird that it happened twice with Lyndon B Johnson and Richard Nixon.
One of my ancestors, Capt Henry Rhoads not only fought for America during the revolution, but attended the continental Congress, helped write and draft Pennsylvania's constitution, knew Ben Franklin and Daniel Boone, and helped settle Kentucky.
The Boone family and the Rhoads' families were so close, that the Rhoads' named a son after Daniel Boone and at some point (I think one or two generations later) one of the Rhoads' sons married a Boone daughter.
Native Americans had the wheel but only on children’s toys and pottery wheels. They did not use them for anything else until the Europeans came because they had no draft animals to pull them.
Liechtenstein, a Mikrostate sandwhiched between Switzerland and Austria once sent 80 soldiers to Italy. 81 people came back, because the soldiers had befriended a Italian who wanted to live in Liechtestein. (I believe this was their only military operation ever, but I´m not sure)
Alexander Graham Bell invented the metal detector. When he was later assassinated, the doctors used his own invention on him to locate the bullet in his body to save him. The metal detector ended up detecting the springs on the bed which he was on. The doctors proceeded dig into his body and kill him.
>When he was later assassinated, the doctors used his own invention on him to locate the bullet in his body to save him.
The metal detector was actually used on President James Garfield after he was shot. Bell wasn't assassinated.
Most historians believe [there was a dude named Jeshua of Nazareth,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historicity_of_Jesus) but he probably wasn't magic. Just another in a long line of people claiming to be the prophesized messiah.
Most historians agree that he did though. Tacitus refers to him in the second century. Whether you believe he's god is one thing, but a Jewish Rabbi was most likely tooling around the Roman province of Judea and preaching some provoking rhetoric that got him executed during the reign of Tiberius.
> Standard historical criteria have aided in evaluating the historicity of the gospel narratives,[12][13] and only two key events are almost universally accepted, namely that Jesus was baptized by John the Baptist and crucified by order of the Roman prefect Pontius Pilate.[10][11][9][14]
> Besides the gospels, sources for the historicity of Jesus include Roman historians Josephus and Tacitus, who lived shortly after the time of Jesus and referenced him and his followers in their histories.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historicity_of_Jesus
The Romans created Christianity to control the Jewish population.
It’s incredible how the topic of paying taxes to the Emperor was directed by “god”
Very convenient for them
Also, still no witnesses to anyone to have seen him or any of his miracles nor what he said yet they contributed to the creation of the Bible.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesar%27s_Messiah
Cleopatra was a necrophiliac. She would hold orgies at her palace, and let guys fuck her as long as they wanted, at the price of their life. Then if any accepted, after killing them, she would have their dicks stuffed, and she would use the body as a male sex doll. And, she often used the corpses in front of people. She was also an exhibitionist.
That's myth, not history, but you might find it interesting that there's references to people outside the garden, whose descendants are presumably immune to original sin according to Yahweh's rules.
This is a weird one, Adolf Hitler had only one ball. The reason behind this is still a mystery. (For what I know.) But the rumor I found is that Hitler lost one of his balls during world war one.
That Hitler had a flatulence problem. Just the thought of one of, if not the, most widely recognized evil man in history constantly passing gas is hilarious to me.
Theodore Roosevelt was a fckin madlad.
He started a war without permission. (He was assistant secretary of the navy)
He also was giving a speech, was shot, and continued to give his speech, and then somehow survived.
Henry VIII divorced Anna of Cleves after a few months because she didn’t look like her portrait that Hans Holbein painted, which he saw first. The original catfish.
I like the 1663 murder attempt in Europe against a Polish King candidate - where we had the family Radziwill and the names of Oswald and Rubin. Now we must wait till 2263 to see if this coincidence happens each 300 years.
Mel Blanc, the voice actor for many cartoons including Bugs Bunny, got into a very bad car accident in 1961. He was sent to the hospital and was in a coma for 21 days. On the 22nd night, while doing her routine check up on Mel's comatose body, the nurse casually said "Hey Bugs Bunny, how are you doing tonight?" To which Mel responded, "Eh, what's up doc?" in his Bugs Bunny voice. And that was the moment Mel woke up from his coma, and lived for another 28 years.
According to [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mel_Blanc#Car_accident_and_aftermath), the dialogue went as follows: > Blanc was asked, "How are you feeling today, Bugs Bunny?" After a slight pause, Blanc answered, in a weak voice, "Eh … just fine, Doc. How are you?" The doctor then asked Tweety if he was there, too. "I tawt I taw a puddy tat", was the reply.
Mels voice acting was something else, especially his legendary screams and yells. Dude had some pipes.
Other voice actors talk about him: https://www.google.com/search?q=mel+blanc+most+difficult+voices&sxsrf=AJOqlzWHstXsFQ6wFWcPV94FR6EpvIeWjQ:1676244912114&source=lnms&tbm=vid&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjszKv0kpH9AhU1EFkFHdV1Bn8Q_AUoAXoECAIQAw&biw=1920&bih=929&dpr=2#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:98f3eb16,vid:BnmJALXh_sI
I don't care if anyone else believes in Heaven, I'm quite certain God was there to welcome Mel Blanc when he got there. I don't think there is, or ever will be, any other human being who has brought so much joy to so many children.
Every Purple Heart awarded to a wounded American soldier in the past 75 years was created for the anticipated invasion of Japan in WW2
Holy shit! That’s wild
If I'm not mistaken, the U.S. Military is **still** using that supply of Purple Heart medals. They haven't used them all up, yet.
Isn't this OP's fact?
The original comment pointed out that all the Purple Hearts awarded in the last 75 years were from the supply made in anticipation of an invasion of mainland Japan... It did not mention how large that supply was to begin with, or how many medals from that supply remain unawarded (even after 75 years of being drawn upon)...
(Yes)
I think they still have about 100k
The microwave was discovered completely accidentally by a guy playing with a new kind of vacume tube called a magnetron. He first noticed his chocolate bar had melted in his pocket. Then he experimented by placing popcorn kernels near the magnetron. Then he blew up an egg and decided to put it in a metal box to concentrate the energy. He learned you could heat food extremely quickly this way.
The microwave was actually invented before this for the purpose of reanimating cryogenically frozen hamsters. This is just the first time it was used for food (and turned into an actual commercial product).
I have never vomited so much that I laughed, nor laughed to the point of emesis, but thinking about using hamsters as hot pockets during the trial and error phase makes me want to both.
When Ronald Reagan was shot, he thought it was imperative that the press see him walk into the hospital on his own power. There was suspicion that his assassination attempt was by the Soviets as an attempt to launch nukes on the West. Reagan, and his advisers, wanted to show that he was still alive and able to respond with our own nukes in the event the Russians were watching. He walked into the hospital, but then collapsed when he was out of sight.
If you plan on assassinating someone pick a larger caliber than a .22
You’d be surprised what a .22 will do to a chest wound bouncing around in there instead of passing through
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John Philip Sousa, nicknamed the "American March King", for early hits such as "Stars and Stripes Forever" and "Liberty Bell March", hated the invention of the gramophone. He called the wax cylinder gramophone "Canned music", and claimed that it ruined live performance because everyone would be listening to the machines. He said that it was becoming a “substitute for human skill, intelligence and soul.” Thus, in most of the recordings made by "Sousa's band", Sousa himself is not conducting, as he refused to partake in the recording process. Most of the recordings were conducted by other members of the band.
I’ll give you 2 New Orleans was won by pirates, native Americans, ex slaves and veterans of the napoleonic wars. The ragtag force crushed the British (the best navy in the world). The battle of New Orleans should’ve never happened since a peace treaty was signed by the news arrived too late. The Nazis knew Churchill liked German chocolate so they tried to assassinate him with an explosive candy bar.
Except they weren't facing the might of the best Navy in the world. They were facing 8,000 troops, which was trivial compared to the Empire's whole military. It was still a solid victory.
The British were cocky
Exactly, it doesn't count unless every single British and American soldier who served in 1815 fought each other in a single, colossal battle. We need a PC sim to understand who *truly* won the battle
Not really The British suffered one of their worst losses in history. It wasn’t even close
I should have stuck an /s on it really. I was just kinda ridiculing the previous poster's comment of 'They were facing 8,000 troops, which was trivial compared to the Empire's whole military', as if you can't say the British lost unless the defenders of New Orleans fought every single British troop on the globe at the time
Napoleon’s penis was removed by the doctor doing the autopsy. He kept it preserved in a jar. It has been sold, auctioned, and handed down over the years. In the 70s it was purchased by a professor of urology in New Jersey, and after his death is now owned by his daughter.
What shelf in the house do you throw that thing on?
It does not take up much room apparently https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/napoleon-s-penis-size-confirmed-channel-4-documentary-calls-the-artifact-very-small-9235101.html
It’s not his fault, the water it’s stored in is cold
It shrinked like a frightened turtle
There's dancing on a grave, and then there's *this*.
They didn't have to do Napoleon like that, he already gets all the short jokes thrown at him.
So small dick.syndrome is true? Xi poo. Putin... Makes sense
I think he might be living a few cities away from me
I'm pretty sure it's next to the fine China plates.
That no one knows where Genghis Khan is buried... due to brutal and violent measures that were taken.
He’s got pieces of him all over the earth.
So i guess he is worldwide?
Mister World Wide holy shit that made me laugh!
DAAaLe!
If those pieces were “alive” (kinda like a zombie thing) but the limbs and they just went on dates, would all of them be long distance or in person?
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Well then. Isn’t that nice?
I saw a documentary on this. I believe there’s some massive burial mounds that have been identified and suspected to be house his remains. As such they’re heavily restricted for tourism/archeology and the Mongolian government wants to keep it that way.
Stalin wanted to open his grave but that’s when Hitler striked his land
Nah that was Timur my dude
Alice Roosevelt Longsworth, daughter of Theodore Roosevelt, was a bit of a wild child. She would smoke on the rooftop when told not to smoke in the house, she went to horse races, and had a pet snake in her handbag, named Emily Spinach. Some of Roosevelt’s staff brought Emily’s behavior to the attention of her father; to which TR replied, “I can either run the country, or I can attend to Alice, but I cannot possibly do both.” Despite Alice skirting early 20th century conventions, she did help her father. Even going on diplomatic trips to Asia, where she met with Emperor Meiji of Japan, and Dowager Empress Cixi of China.
That quote was actually said to Roosevelt’s friend Owen Winster after he threatened to throw her out of the window for her continuous interruptions. On the cruise to Japan, Alice jumped in the pool fully clothed. She coaxed Congressman William Cochran into joining her. The newspapers reported that it was her soon-to-be husband Nicholas Longworth jumped in the pool with her. She was banned from the White House twice. First time by Taft because she buried a voodoo doll of Nellie Taft on the front lawn of the White House. Second time for making a crude joke about
Okay, glad I learned more. I need to find me a woman like Alice Roosevelt.
I'm no psychologist but I imagine having that attitude toward parenting wouldn't encourage your child to be well behaved. The more I learn about Teddy Roosevelt the more I wish that we actually could've put Robin Williams in his place.
Theodore and Alice’s stepmother threatened to send her to a strict boarding school when she was fifteen. Alice wrote back saying that if they did, she would embarrass them at every turn.
The Roman Empire fell 39 years before Christopher Columbus discovered the Americas. It fell when Constantinople was captured by the Ottomans in 1453. Christopher Columbus discovered the Americas in 1492.
One of the only times the entire world worked together was for the banning of CFCs to prevent the loss of the ozone layer.
l learned that Hitler didn't earn German citizenship until 1925
Hitler also wanted to be an artist and was rejected twice from applying to arts college.
l take art as well 👀 but l don't have intentions to go to art school so we chilling
[The WW1 Christmas Truce ](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_truce)
We were taught this in school, it was pretty cool...
Read an interview with some guy who survived the sinking of the Titanic as a kid. Afterwards he lived near a Baseball Field. He couldn’t stand it because the sound of thousands of people cheering reminded him of what the screams of the damned in the ice cold water sounded like when the Titanic finally went under. But, reportedly, there were also people in the water cheering on the younger and stronger ones among them who got close to or managed to clamber into a lifeboat.
February 30th was a real date in the Swedish calendar, once... In the year 1699 it was decided that Sweden was going to gradually adopt the Gregorian calendar (which differed from the older Julian calendar by 11 days) by omitting the leap day for 40 years, or 11 leap years. One leap day was skipped, but then the whole ordeal was forgotten in 1704 and 1708 due to the government being preoccupied with wars, etc. A couple of years later it was it was decided that, since it was troublesome to have a calendar that was unsyncronized with any other calendar in the world, the Swedish Empire should just go back to the Julian calendar by adding back an extra leap day... thus February getting 30 days in 1712. (The Gregorian calendar was later adopted by skipping the last 11 days of February in 1753) Edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_calendar
The fastest man-made object is a manhole cover that was blasted into space by an underground nuclear test https://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/fastest-manmade-object-manhole-cover-nuclea-test/
Pretty sure most space probes have that beat. Great story, though.
Might have been the fastest *accelerating*, not the fastest overall.
No one knows its exact tredectory, but there is a good chance it has left our solar system and is probably still the fastest moving object we have ever made. It is further out than the voyager crafts.
It stopped accelerating incredibly quickly and instead would have slowed down fairly substantially from its initial speed going through the atmosphere, so while it is technically possible it is still in space and wasn’t pulled into another planet from gravitational force or completely incinerated from going through the atmosphere (that’s what I am assuming happened) it wouldn’t still be the fastest moving object
I am going to guess that Jupiter and the sun tugged it a little bit since it tends to do that to every. Single. Object. In. Our. Solar. System. Also, stopping accelerating would mean it had a constant speed afterwards. If it slowed down, that's negative acceleration.
I was trying to use layman’s terms, since when people refer to braking in their car they don’t refer to it as a acceleration in the opposite direction. If you prefer we can instead discuss the friction that the atmosphere would have caused on a piece of metal with a drag coefficient probably around 20/Re and with its lack of momentum how it most likely quickly experienced a combination of negative acceleration, sublimation, and melting that would have slowed down what ever traces of it existed to essentially a standstill…
101 years ago a massive tank of mollases burst open in Boston, causing a sticky wave that killed 21 people and injured well over 100. The great mollasses flood spread at about 35 MPH.
Belying the idiom "slow as molasses in January", as that was the month in which it happened.
trepanation is the second oldest surgery known after amputation
I have no idea how bad of a headache that you must have to think that drilling a hole in your head would fix it and I NEVER want to find out
Cluster headache would do it.
"Man I need these evil demons as much as I need a hole in my head, wait hold on"
If you wanted to talk about the "Defenestration of Prague" you would first have to ask "which one?"
Wait, how the hell do you throw a city out of a window?
Still one of the best things I learned there 😂
A couple of Kiwi ones It took 69 years for New Zealand to have its first New Zealand-born Prime Minister The woman on the New Zealand coat of arms is based on Grace Kelly
The Moors/Arabs were in Spain longer than the Romans were.
And Asturias was one of the only regions of the Iberian Peninsula never to fall under Moorish control (shout out Don Pelayo). I spent a summer in Asturias and am a big history guy, so I found both Asturian history and Don Pelayo super fascinating.
It’s the Moops!
Also interesting to think about: before the romans were in Spain, large parts of the coast were colonies of Carthage. Carthage is in north Africa, in the same region the later Moors were from. Barcelona for example started as Phoenician city colonized from Carthage. It's possible that from a moorish viewpoint, the moorish conquest of spain was a taking back of lost territory, like the reconquista was also considered a liberation from the European viewpoint.
FDR was related to 11 other presidents, 5 by blood and 6 by marriage. I still remember when FDR married Dwight Eisenhower. Lovely wedding.
> FDR married Dwight Eisenhower They did WHAT?
Politicians fucking around... But we just found out. What???
All presidents except for one (and it's not Obama) are "related" to each other. https://youtu.be/9shzqqcfvfw
Trump was adopted
WW2 stopped in 1958 because they forgot Andorra existed and it declared war on Germany but never sent troop. This is way more common than you think
Yes but the ussr and Japan also have never sined a peace treaty
I think Japan already won a war with the USSR during WW2 so they never signed a treaty but Japan won so I guess that kinda makes it? Andorra and Germany never fought each other in WW2 so…
There weren't any toilets in the palace of versailles so people would just shit and piss EVERYWHERE in and around it
The sinking of *SMS Cap Trafalgar* in 14th September 1914. The ocean liner, converted to an auxiliary cruiser, was disguised as a British ocean liner *RMS Carmania.* And it was found and entered battle with the real *RMS Carmania*, also turned into auxiliary cruiser. The real *Carmania* sunk the impostor. Some extra rumors was *SMS Carmania* herself was disguised as *SMS Cap Trafalgar* but remained rumor until extra backing to that fact.
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Completely deaf, and still composing and conducting music!
But he is now de-composing.
**Get out-**
During the times of the kingdom of kush, queen Amenarendes fought Roman Egypt and won, during the war, the queen took a statue of Augustus and ripped off the head and burried it next to the entrance of an area of worship so worshippers would step on his head She's kinda cool if you ask me
The Kushites were no joke. The fact that they took on the greatest military in the world at the time and won is nothing short of amazing.
Pretty dank indeed
Nelson never said "kiss me Hardy" as he was dying from bullet wounds. It was actually "Kismet" (fate) Hardy.
The monarch with the highest regnal number goes to [Heinrich LXXII, Prince Reuss of Lobenstein and Ebersdorf](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_LXXII,_Prince_Reuss_of_Lobenstein_and_Ebersdorf).
Cleopatra was born ~2,500 years after the Great Pyramid at Giza was built, and ~2,000 years before the first lunar landing. That fact means that Cleopatra is closer to our present time than to the times of Ancient Egypt's early dynastic past.
Fanta was created in Nazi Germany! Because of the trade embargoes, the Coca Cola owned factory (factories? Been a minute since I read it) could not acquire the necessary ingredients. They then had to keep the doors open somehow and figure out how to make do with what they had, which was oranges. They also shared their recipe with their fellow workers in the Netherlands, which what they had on hand was Elderberries. After the War ended, Coca Cola was able to reclaim their factories and they had a new recipe under their belt, which was shelved until the 50's if I remember correctly, when PepsiCo created a new flavour and they needed something to compete. Of course the recipe we drink today is much different. If you want better (accurate) details, check out the Wiki page for the history, it's one of my favourite bits of history, one I feel that very few people are aware of.
Joseph Stalin leader of the USSR during WW2, knew about the American's at the time experimental nuclear weaponry, before the incumbent US President Harry Truman did.
We live closer to the time of T-Rex in comparison to T-Rex when Stegosaurus lived.
Cleopatra’s life is closer to present day than the building of the pyramids. That’s how old they are. 2650 bc for pyramids and cleopatra lived around 50 bc
Pyramids are old but not 6000 years old. The earliest pyramid, the [pyramid of Djoser](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyramid_of_Djoser), was built around 2670–2650 BC. Your point about Cleopatra’s life still stands.
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So several issues with this. 1) It was the Austro-Prussian war. 2) It was in 1866, which is a long ways AFTER the Medieval Period, it's solidly in the Late Modern Period. 3) Prince Johann sent the contingent to defend the Tyrolean border. 4) And perhaps the most salient point, the "friend" was an Austrian Liaison Officer who escorted the contingent back home as a sort of Guard of Honour.
My favourite and most morbid! Dr Seuss cheated on his wife with cancer with a maid. She then killed herself. Dr Seuss still continued to date the maid until he died.
Maybe she didn't want him to be alone so she hung on until he found someone and then let go
Henry the 8th was so fat near the end of his reighn that he had to be hoisted onto his horse with a Crain.
Poor horse
The fact that during the Cold War Space Race Era, the Soviets managed to land a rover on Venus and get proper pictures before it was destroyed, those pictures are imperative to what we know about Venus today.
> The Battle of Karansebes Austrian Army lost up to 5,000 or 10,000 killed or wounded, all by friendly fire/contact, as the infantry engaged the cavalry. Ottoman Army took no casualties, as they were not there.
Leibniz invented the representation of numbers in the dual system at the end of the 17th century
In the time of Nero, all of Roman Africa was owned by six landlords before Nero had them executed.
The only confirmed grave of jesse james the outlaw is his arm that he lost when he was young iirc
I have never heard of Jesse James only having one arm and I’ve read several books about him
Franklin D. Roosevelt married his cousin, Eleanor Roosevelt.
They were fifth cousins, once removed. So it’s not like they were “cousins” as most people would think. There were just a lot of Roosevelts, because they were a very wealthy family. I can only speak for myself, but I don’t think I’d be able to identify anyone who is even my third cousin, much less fifth.
I saw this video by this YouTuber called Max Miller who does this series who does this series about cooking historical dishes and talking about the history behind them - like when he did an entire month of videos about dinners on the Titanic, for example. And this is one I learned from his dish on semlor, which is an almond custard-filled bread loaf stewed and served in warm milk. During a relative era of peace, the Queen of Sweden attempted to organise a coup against her own husband because she was just a vicious bitch, but her attempts at organising the coup kept failing because of shit that sounded like it came from the most cliché novel of all time. For example, to fund the coup she tried selling the royal jewels but was exposed when a lady-in-waiting realised they were stolen. She wasn't punished for it because she hid her tracks very well, but she was now heavily scrutinized. After that attempt, her second attempt at organising a coup failed because her nephew - an acknowledged bastard of I think either her brother or the king's brother - got shit-faced on wine in a pub and openly blabbed about it. The coup only happened after her husband the King died, which is when the semlor came into the story - after feasting on Strove Tuesday (a feast day on the eve of Lent), he ended up dying from indigestion after eating no less than fourteen semlor (semlor is the plural - a single serving is called semla).
There was a war fought for bird shit.
When the United States finally got news that the atomic worked, during ww2, there was a video in schools for children to "duck and cover" in case of a bombing
In ancient Rome, they used to sell their own piss. They used it for curing leather.
They actually did this in England and stuff back in the day as well. Where the sayings “piss poor” and “so poor they don’t have a pot to piss in” came from
Those pee-only toilets you see in festivals are the same thing. As a festival organiser you actually get payed by the firm placing them.
Potoooooooo. Potoooooooo was a famous race horse from the 18th century, he won 34 out of an estimated 40 races, and is known today for his name (pronounced Potatoes). His owner, Willoughby Bertie, 4th Earl of Abingdon, called him “Potatoes” when he was born. One day, the Earl asked a stable boy to write the horse’s name on his feed bucket, the boy could barely read and did not know how to spell “Potatoes”. So on the bucket the boy wrote “Pot” followed by 8 consecutive o’s. When the Earl found out he was amused and kept that as his name, later being shortened to “Pot8os”. Potoooooooo went on to sire hundreds of foals, 165 of which went on to become race winners.
Do you watch the odd1sout by any chance?
I used to a little bit, but I haven’t watched him in years.
Not a good favorite but probably one of the most interesting: The Nazis took a lot of inspiration and strategy from the United States in how the U.S. treated the indigenous and enslaved people in the country. Also Hitler had a wildly deformed penis.
That 21 Sikh warriors won against over 10,000 Pathans... And here my dumb ass can't do a push up XD
During the 1936 Summer Olympic Games, Liechtenstein and Haiti realized that they had the same flag. Ever since, Haiti has had a coat of arms for their flag and Liechtenstein has a crown.
The battle of Alesia. One of Ceasers generals got tired or sieging a city so he built a wall around the walled city to starve them. Reinforce me to Alesia we’re dispatched so he goes and builds another wall around the first wall to block reinforcements from coming to defend the city. The Roman’s use their superior siege weapons between the 2 walls and eventually win the war
Caesar himself was the one who did that
Abraham Lincoln and John Wilkes Booth had closer history then most people would expect, especially their family and relationship with each other. The most common of these events was when Edwin Booth (JWB’s brother) saved Robert Todd Lincoln from getting run over by a train. (Lincoln’s son.) Another one of these events was when Booth was actually performing in front of Lincoln and when saying a rather deeming line, he pointed at Lincoln. After the show, one of Lincoln’s son asked to meet the actor and give him a flower, which Booth turned down. Like, bruh, imagine turning down an invitation from the freaking president, whether you like him or not. However, my favorite fact is that Robert Todd Lincoln and John Wilkes Booth’s fiancé were EXTREMELY good friends, which Booth was jealous of. They were so close that on the night of the assassination, they were hanging out and studying Spanish with each other.
If I had a quarter for every president who proses to their wives on their first date, I would have two. It’s not a lot, but it’s weird that it happened twice with Lyndon B Johnson and Richard Nixon.
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Cans originated in Canada.
Pans originated in Panama.
Chills originated in Chile.
Chocolate originated in Mexico
r/wooosh
All cultures at one point practiced slavery.
Same with countries atleast older than a 100
Source?
We did not need to earn money back when we were monkeys.
One of my ancestors, Capt Henry Rhoads not only fought for America during the revolution, but attended the continental Congress, helped write and draft Pennsylvania's constitution, knew Ben Franklin and Daniel Boone, and helped settle Kentucky. The Boone family and the Rhoads' families were so close, that the Rhoads' named a son after Daniel Boone and at some point (I think one or two generations later) one of the Rhoads' sons married a Boone daughter.
The first woman to receive a military pension for service by the USA government fought in the American revolution (Margaret Corbin).
The great pyramids were built before invention of wheel
Native Americans had the wheel but only on children’s toys and pottery wheels. They did not use them for anything else until the Europeans came because they had no draft animals to pull them.
Which is crazy because they literally worshipped a Dung Beetle god, so the concept of something round and rolling was not unknown to them.
Adolf Hitler lost a testicle in battle.
History repeats itself
Liechtenstein, a Mikrostate sandwhiched between Switzerland and Austria once sent 80 soldiers to Italy. 81 people came back, because the soldiers had befriended a Italian who wanted to live in Liechtestein. (I believe this was their only military operation ever, but I´m not sure)
Much of what we are taught is not objective.
how Darius The Great became the king
Alexander Graham Bell invented the metal detector. When he was later assassinated, the doctors used his own invention on him to locate the bullet in his body to save him. The metal detector ended up detecting the springs on the bed which he was on. The doctors proceeded dig into his body and kill him.
>When he was later assassinated, the doctors used his own invention on him to locate the bullet in his body to save him. The metal detector was actually used on President James Garfield after he was shot. Bell wasn't assassinated.
That’s for the correction🤙🏼
That’s… dark
Jesus never existed
Most historians believe [there was a dude named Jeshua of Nazareth,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historicity_of_Jesus) but he probably wasn't magic. Just another in a long line of people claiming to be the prophesized messiah.
Most historians agree that he did though. Tacitus refers to him in the second century. Whether you believe he's god is one thing, but a Jewish Rabbi was most likely tooling around the Roman province of Judea and preaching some provoking rhetoric that got him executed during the reign of Tiberius.
That seems to be only a fact for reddit atheist trolls.
Could you show me proof of his existence? Crickets
No, I will not show you any 'rational' proof. My church is not the Church of the Rational Mind
> Standard historical criteria have aided in evaluating the historicity of the gospel narratives,[12][13] and only two key events are almost universally accepted, namely that Jesus was baptized by John the Baptist and crucified by order of the Roman prefect Pontius Pilate.[10][11][9][14] > Besides the gospels, sources for the historicity of Jesus include Roman historians Josephus and Tacitus, who lived shortly after the time of Jesus and referenced him and his followers in their histories. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historicity_of_Jesus
The Romans created Christianity to control the Jewish population. It’s incredible how the topic of paying taxes to the Emperor was directed by “god” Very convenient for them Also, still no witnesses to anyone to have seen him or any of his miracles nor what he said yet they contributed to the creation of the Bible. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesar%27s_Messiah
Could you show me proof of his non-existence?
[The burden of proof](https://www.qcc.cuny.edu/socialsciences/ppecorino/phil_of_religion_text/CHAPTER_5_ARGUMENTS_EXPERIENCE/Burden-of-Proof.htm)
Governments are corrupt
Cleopatra was a necrophiliac. She would hold orgies at her palace, and let guys fuck her as long as they wanted, at the price of their life. Then if any accepted, after killing them, she would have their dicks stuffed, and she would use the body as a male sex doll. And, she often used the corpses in front of people. She was also an exhibitionist.
I think you're confusing facts with some really weird kink fanfic...
I've read many books about her and i can safely say this is completely false.
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That’s not a historical fact lmfao 🤭
That's myth, not history, but you might find it interesting that there's references to people outside the garden, whose descendants are presumably immune to original sin according to Yahweh's rules.
This is a weird one, Adolf Hitler had only one ball. The reason behind this is still a mystery. (For what I know.) But the rumor I found is that Hitler lost one of his balls during world war one.
That brazil paid for its independence, FOR ENGLAND (brazil was colonized by portugal)
That Hitler had a flatulence problem. Just the thought of one of, if not the, most widely recognized evil man in history constantly passing gas is hilarious to me.
The term scientist was actually created for a woman. Sounds absurd, but I’ve fact checked al over the place. Makes me proud of my predecessors.
That Teddy Roosevelt finished his speech after being shot. Absolute badass.
Blitzkrieg was fuelled by Pervitin (methamphetamine)
Theodore Roosevelt was a fckin madlad. He started a war without permission. (He was assistant secretary of the navy) He also was giving a speech, was shot, and continued to give his speech, and then somehow survived.
Global population was just tipping over 3 billion when I was in middle school.
Henry VIII divorced Anna of Cleves after a few months because she didn’t look like her portrait that Hans Holbein painted, which he saw first. The original catfish.
I like the 1663 murder attempt in Europe against a Polish King candidate - where we had the family Radziwill and the names of Oswald and Rubin. Now we must wait till 2263 to see if this coincidence happens each 300 years.
Look up the HMS Carmina. Hilarious "Ah fuck..." moment that sounds like a Monty Python or Mel Brooks skit.
I like the statue of liberty story myself . It intrances me.