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In the early 20th century(I forget which year) there were two registered cars in Ohio. They crashed into each other.
Gonorrhea is called "the clap" because world war 1 soldiers who caught it used to get the gunge out their dicks by flopping them out on a table and hammering it out with the butts of their rifles.
It did. I just didn't post that because I thought it was was he's known for. I wanted to post something different about him. It's not that him doing executing people and leaving them outside to strike fear in other armies didn't register.TheIronRuler said:
Dracula once nailed a man's turban to his head because the man refused to take it off when he went inside of his castle. He told the man that now he'll have his beloved turban on his head forever.
Frederick William I. of Prussia build the most powerful army in Europe(since the British army was running around all over the world) and never once went to war. He also recruited men from all over Europe for a special regiment. What was so special about all those people, all natural born killers? No, they were at least 185cm tall.
The Pig War is one of the strangest ones I've ever heard.
Basically, in 1859 an Irish farmer's pig ate an American farmer's potatoes on a disputed island off the coast of the USA.
The American shot the pig, so the Irishman called the police. The American did the same, and it eventually escalated into a stand-off between 5 battleships of the Royal Navy and 500 US Army soldiers. The commanders of each side realised that a pig probably wasn't worth fighting over, so for a few days the opposing forces just shouted insults at each other, until the matter was resolved when the President of the US (yes, the president got involved in a farming dispute) and a high ranking British general came to an agreement.
The pig was the only casualty.
More information here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pig_War
Basically, in 1859 an Irish farmer's pig ate an American farmer's potatoes on a disputed island off the coast of the USA.
The American shot the pig, so the Irishman called the police. The American did the same, and it eventually escalated into a stand-off between 5 battleships of the Royal Navy and 500 US Army soldiers. The commanders of each side realised that a pig probably wasn't worth fighting over, so for a few days the opposing forces just shouted insults at each other, until the matter was resolved when the President of the US (yes, the president got involved in a farming dispute) and a high ranking British general came to an agreement.
The pig was the only casualty.
More information here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pig_War
Good old Mad Jack, not only did he wear a kilt, play the bagpipes and carry a claymore but he got a confirmed longbow kill in WW2.NameIsRobertPaulson said:
I'll offer this; its quite long.
<spoiler=Napoleon's Battle of the Bunnies>Resting from his labors after rearranging the geography of Europe in the aftermath of the Peace of Tilsit (July 7-9, 1807), Napoleon proposed that the Imperial Court engage in a rabbit hunt, entrusting the arrangements to his brilliant chief-of-staff, Alexandre Berthier.
Using all the energy and attention to detail with which he normally managed the Emperor?s campaigns, Berthier soon had everything in order. The Imperial hunting party ? numerous enough to be mistaken for a regiment ? would be sustained by a logistical train to provide a lucullan repast under an elaborate tent, while large details of gun bearers, game keepers, and beaters would be available to lend a hand. Leaving nothing to chance, Berthier even arranged to insure the supply of rabbits, procuring some hundreds, lest nature fail to cooperate in providing sufficient targets for the Imperial pleasure.
And so, on the designated day, the Emperor proceeded in his coach to the appointed place, escorted by Guardsmen, Equerries, and various others of his household, and followed by a host of kings, marshals, barons, generals, counts, and lesser folk. But something went wrong. As the Imperial conveyance approached the designated killing fields, the game keepers began releasing the rabbits. When the Emperor dismounted, much to everyone?s surprise, the lepine horde, rather than fleeing in all directions, made straight for him, in all their hundreds.
Confronted by this flood of rabbits, the Emperor?s escort formed a skirmish line to protect him. But, in the words of historian David Chandler, ?with a finer understanding of Napoleonic strategy than most of his generals, the rabbit horde divided into two wings and poured around the flanks of the party.? As the Emperor fled to the relative safety of his coach, the rabbits pursued, some allegedly even leaping into it, so that he had to lend a hand in ejecting them even as his coachmen whipped up their horses.
In the aftermath, it transpired that Berthier, despite all his attention to detail, had procured not wild rabbits, but domesticated ones. Thus, when they espied the Emperor and his coach coming towards them, they though he was their keeper bringing good things to eat and acted accordingly.
That is just so much fail it's win. It broke the fail-o-meter!Canned Spam said:
OT: The Soviet Union made plans for the Tsar bomb. The biggest bomb ever. They never made a complete model. In the Cold War, the Soviet Union, decided that it was a bit excessive, and made one half the size.
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I want to drown in beer.
It's not particularly difficult to believe, but I've always loved the one where Victorian era ladies used to keep jars of bees in their powder rooms so they could grab one before a social event and sting their lips to make them puffy and sexy. There's just something about the combination of ancient botox, imprisonment of live animals in a dressing room, and the idea of "suffering for fashion" coming to fruition so literally that makes me giggle whenever I think about it.
I want to drown in beer.
It's not particularly difficult to believe, but I've always loved the one where Victorian era ladies used to keep jars of bees in their powder rooms so they could grab one before a social event and sting their lips to make them puffy and sexy. There's just something about the combination of ancient botox, imprisonment of live animals in a dressing room, and the idea of "suffering for fashion" coming to fruition so literally that makes me giggle whenever I think about it.
I present to you, ladies and gentlemen, the War of Jenkins' Ear.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_Jenkins%27_Ear
Yep, a war that started because a Spanish coast guard unit boarded a British ship and severed the man's ear.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_Jenkins%27_Ear
Yep, a war that started because a Spanish coast guard unit boarded a British ship and severed the man's ear.
505 with the sniper. he got an extra 200 with his SMG. and he wasnt in a coma, he got shot in the head. that makes him epic-er.letterbomber223 said:
if Cracked.com runs an article about war heroes, its shit like this. i'll offer one: Stephen Toboz, a Navy SEAL who thought the training (the really hard stuff) was fun. His team went into Afghanistan to rescue a comrade, and they were ambushed. he ended up with a massive hole in his leg, crawled around fighting the enemy and refused morphine. after 18 hours, he survived because the wound froze. he told the doctors to amputate the leg and give him a bionic one. then he went back into active duty as a trainer. why did he ask for amputation? because nature was taking too long to do the job.
Ci Xi, Empress Dowager of China around 1900, had a boat built out of marble.
Lincoln cribbed the Gettysburg address from Pericles's funeral oration, delivered in Athens during the second Peloponnesian War 2000 years prior.
Speaking of Athens and the Peloponnesian War, one of their generals, Alcibiades, switched side multiple times during the war: he betrayed Athens to Sparta, betrayed Sparta to the Persians, switched back to Athens for a while, then retired to a fortress he built (with money embezzled from his "allies") on the Aegean coast.
Lincoln cribbed the Gettysburg address from Pericles's funeral oration, delivered in Athens during the second Peloponnesian War 2000 years prior.
Speaking of Athens and the Peloponnesian War, one of their generals, Alcibiades, switched side multiple times during the war: he betrayed Athens to Sparta, betrayed Sparta to the Persians, switched back to Athens for a while, then retired to a fortress he built (with money embezzled from his "allies") on the Aegean coast.
When I Chilean (yay, Chile!) bought the rights to the Moon.
Thats right, the Moon belonged to a Chilean, until the UN said it belonged to humanity (bah!)
Can you believe that the President of USA (Kennedy I think) had to call this guy to have his permission to land on the Moon?
Thats right, the Moon belonged to a Chilean, until the UN said it belonged to humanity (bah!)
Can you believe that the President of USA (Kennedy I think) had to call this guy to have his permission to land on the Moon?
As far as I know, Chlorine gas doesn't do damage physical damage. It's just that it is so heavy that it rests in the lungs and prevents oxygen from getting into the lungs, effectively chocking the person.Jewrean said:
But re-incarnation is the transference of a soul into a new body. So the one thing that dog couldn't be was a lawyer...I_am_a_Spoon said:
I see you've been watching QI.Doc Theta Sigma said:
An interesting story about German spies in WW2, taken from the book "The Intelligence and Deception of the D-Day Landings";
"[The Abwehr instructor] had been up at Oxford and his function in Hamburg was to train the student agents to behave in every way exactly like Englishmen. He pointed out there was nothing to be gained by trying to avoid the police in Britain, and it was far better to get in touch with them as soon as possible in a way which would establish the respectability of the individual spy. He said that in Britain, respectability and the integrity of a citizen were judged by the size of the citizen?s bank balance. Therefore, when a graduate spy arrived in England he should place in the Post Office Savings Bank all the Abwehr funds supplied to him, and the post office would give him a savings book. After a while, the spy should go to the police and report the loss of this book and say how much was in it. The figure would be enough to convince the police that the spy was a very respectable person. When war was declared on September 3, 1939, the police had a list of practically all the agents in the second network, because the Abwehr instructor was a member of MI6."
Wasn't it also that having outflanked the Maginot Line, that the Germans launched a full-frontal attack on the line anyway and won with few casualties. The reason? The Maginot line was never built with air assault in mind so the Luftwaffe were able to bomb it largely with impunity before the German army rolled in.TheYellowCellPhone said:
Another funny WW2 Luftwaffe fact; they (more specifically, the Fallschirmjager paratroopers) captured the fort of Eben-Emael in Belgium it after landing gliders on the roof; apparently the plan was developed after Hitler joked the complex was so flat you could land on it.
Dusan Popov was one of the key inspirations for Ian Fleming's James Bond; he was a charming womaniser and a double agent, pretending to work for the German Abwehr when he was secretly in league with the British. He had early warnings of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour (the Germans showed significant interest in the US naval base there, despite it being on the other side of the world in a country they weren't at war with), but J Edgar Hoover ignored his evidence and several times tried to have him deported. He visited his handler in Lisbon regularly (Lisbon was the spy-capital of the world at the time) and Popov frequented the casinos as they were a common location for drops; had also a series of mistresses everywhere he frequently visited. His codename was Tricycle for reasons explained in his wikipedia article;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tricycle_(spy)
From what I gather, that is similar to what happened in WW1 as well; one of the key German spy-masters was actually a British double-agent, so he knew the cover names and destinations of every German agent sent into Britain.Player 2 said:
Somebody has already probably pointed this out, but read your sentence: You're not sure which world war it was, but it had Nazi's.Jewrean said:
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Since when did WW1 have NAZI'S?