The Top 10 Most Strange Historical Occurrences

10: 1932’s Emu War

There have been a number of peculiar historical occurrences in Australia, but the “Emu War” is undoubtedly the most notable. Farmers in Western Australia were encouraged to plant wheat during the Great Depression. Sadly, this drew emus that were migrating. The big, inert birds decimated the crops and proved a persistent annoyance. In order to solve the problem, a small unit of troops equipped with automatic weapons was sent in to exterminate the invading animals. It is one of the most severe cases of animal culling. Hundreds of emus were slaughtered in the course of the “operation”. But the population of emus survived. Yes, birds defeated humans in a “war.”

9: Khutulun, the Unbeatable Female Wrestler

(1260–1306)

There are countless descendants of Genghis Khan, and many of them have left their mark on the globe. Khutulun is one of the most intriguing. Khutulun, Kaidu’s daughter, supported her father in his campaigns and was a formidable fighter in her own right. She demanded that whoever married her must first defeat her in a wrestling bout, even though she had many suitors desiring her hand in marriage. Khutulun bet horses to potential suitors. Despite her eventual marriage, legend has it that she never lost and amassed hundreds of horse victories during her lifetime.

8: The New Atlantis Started by the Brother of Hemingway

(1964–66)

Although the F.B.I. was very interested in Ernest Hemingway’s well-documented time in the Caribbean, his brother Leicester was also interested in the waters south of the United States. Off the coast of Jamaica, in international seas, Leicester established a micronation. In 1964, he invented the “country” while floating on a 30-foot raft. He asserted that the United States owned the other half of the raft, making “New Atlantis” officially only make up half of it. Leicester and a few others lived there for a short while, with the intention of selling stamps and drawing tourists to help finance the enterprise. But only a few years after its establishment, the micronation was submerged under the waters. I think naming it after Atlantis put it under a curse.

7 Anti-Comet Tablets

(1910)

For millennia, Halley’s Comet has consistently graced the night sky. But scientists weren’t able to make a thorough observation of it until the early 20th century. Regretfully, that also sparked a lot of irrational conjecture among astronomers, especially once the poisonous gas cyanogen was found in the tail. Con artists profited from the comet’s panic by peddling items like umbrellas to shield against the “deadly gas” and anti-comet medications. Even back then, experts had pointed out how absurd it was, and Halley’s Comet had gone through without any problems, but the snake oil sellers of the day continued to make a tidy sum.

6: Rabbits Attack Napoleon

(1807)

Napoleon Bonaparte was an exceptionally skilled military leader. His most embarrassing defeat came from little, long-eared bunnies, even if his final one was at Waterloo. The narrative goes that Bonaparte organized a rabbit hunt for July 1807. But according to legend, Napoleon’s chief of staff decided to gather domestic rabbits instead of wild ones, numbering in the hundreds or even thousands. When the hunt was about to start, the bunnies charged Napoleon and his troops in large numbers, leaping and climbing all over them in the hopes of finding food, rather than fleeing. The French ruler was forced to quickly retire to his carriage!

5: The Enlisted Bear of the Polish Army

(1942–63)

The Polish Army’s 22nd Artillery Supply Company came upon an abandoned Syrian brown bear cub during their refugee transport from Iran in 1942, and they decided to use it as their mascot. This bear, Wojtek, was raised traveling with troops, grappling with them and adopting their habits, such as smoking and drinking beer. Upon being turned away by the ships that were supposed to transport them to Italy because they prohibited mascot animals, Wojtek was formally enlisted as a private by the 22nd. Because of his assistance to his friends in the Battle of Monte Cassino by relocating artillery shells, Wojtek was even given a promotion to corporal. Following the war, Wojtek left the military and spent the rest of his life at Scotland’s Edinburgh Zoo.

4: The Tragic/Comic Death of the Father of Tragedy

(455 or 456 BC)

Because the few pieces of Aeschylus that have survived are the first that contemporary scholars are aware of, he is frequently recognized as the founder of Greek tragedy. Characters in Greek dramas frequently meet tragic ends as a result of ironic circumstances. Even while Aeschylus’ own fate is more comedic than tragic, it is still a twist. Aeschylus passed away outside of Gela, Sicily, on his way back to the city. How? A turtle was dumped on his head by an eagle! The bird attempted to break open the reptile’s shell by dumping it on him, mistaking his bald head for a rock. To be honest, we’re more shocked that no play about it was written by his peers.

3: Riots involving straw hats

(1922)

Hats are among the weirdest things that have infuriated New Yorkers. It was considered a fashion faux pas for males to wear straw boater hats after September 15th in the early 20th century. If they did, they were frequently the target of jeers from the public or had their caps stolen. There were riots for more than a week after some eager children began the custom on some dock and factory workers a few days early! Youth mobs tearing off hats prowled the city! Despite the fortunately low number of fatalities, there were regrettably many injured and detained individuals — bravo! Since Prohibition was in effect in America at the time, men were presumably already somewhat irate.

2: The Crazy Olympic Marathon of 1904

(1904)

To describe the 1904 Olympic marathon in St. Louis as a fiasco would be an enormous understatement! Just 14 of the 32 participants were able to complete. The main cause of this was race director James E. Sullivan’s irrational notion that the body benefited from dehydration, which led him to set up just one water stop over the roughly 25-mile event. on unpaved, sandy roads. July. The racers’ increasingly strange adventures just make things weirder! The winner took a ride in an automobile. Rat poison was used by second place as a performance booster, and they had to be carried over the finish line! During the race, the fourth finisher took a nap to relieve stomach problems! I wish someone had captured it all on camera!

1: Pepsi Has the Sixth-Biggest Military in the World

1989

This is not anything we could make up! The Soviet Union’s obsession with Pepsi proved troublesome for the ruling class in the late 1980s. Their original contract with the American corporation was no longer valid, and their money was not going to be taken. They so made a deal wherein they traded three billion dollars’ worth of Pepsi for seventeen submarines and several other sizable naval vessels! For a short while, Pepsi possessed greater military power than all but five nations on Earth, even if they quickly sold their newly acquired fleet to a Swedish firm that demolished it! They could have started a real war as a result of their Cola Wars with Coca-Cola!