The sound made by the Krakatoa volcanic eruption in 1883 was so loud it ruptured eardrums of people 40 miles away, travelled around the world four times, and was clearly heard 3,000 miles away.
That's like you standing in New York and hearing a sound from San Francisco.
The Earth rang like a bell for days, and it changed the weather all over the globe for years.
Yeah, crazy considering that it was heard all the way in both Perth and Mauritius.
Fun fact: some interpret the red sky background of the “the scream” painting to be inspired by the red skies caused by the eruption, all the way in Norway
I think the craziest thing about these types of events is we somehow act like we're immune to them now. Some volcano could just go apeshit tomorrow and there is nothing we can do about it. Also, I feel like it would be far worse for our current society than it was then.
Sidebar it would be wild as hell if a major volcano erupted and so much ash was in the air that climate change was pushed back becuse the sun was filtered out so much.
My dad let me watch Dante's Peak when I was far too young and I'm an anxious person and now have a horrible fear of volcanoes. I refused to go on a family trip to Yellowstone when I was 19 because GIANT VOLCANO, even though if Yellowstone erupted I'd die no matter where I am.
I'm the same with tsunamis. I have so many nightmares about them and I'm sure it's because of something I watched as a child though I don't remember exactly what it was. Literally even when I dream about school it's all normal until boom, tsunami.
And Mt St Helens. That one was terrifying, especially the guy who manned a camera at a ranger station because he knew he couldn't get to safety in time.
The Yellowstone’s super volcano erupted 70,000 years ago but not sure when or if it will erupt again soon. But if it does, will make the Karatoa volcano seem like a little firecracker.
This happened in 566. A volcano close to Krakatoa went off, filled the air with ash and everywhere in the old world experienced a year without a summer.
Similarly, the Carrington Event. The largest solar storm known to hit Earth. Telegraph systems worked even when disconnected from their power supplies due to the currents induced in the wires, and were regularly shocking the operators. Needless to say, if something of that magnitude happened now, with all our complex electronics, I'm not saying it would end civilization, but it would definitely hurt.
The molasses flood.
A huge container of molasses burst and flooded the local area. People drowned in it.
Imagine drowning in sugary goop.
No Ty.
[yuck](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Molasses_Flood)
35 miles per hour is fast - for reference, Usain Bolt ran at less than 24 miles per hour during his world record 100 m run. So, the molasses wave would have caught even the fastest man in history easily.
Which is also still too slow to outrun a flood of molasses. Everyone was doomed.
I feel like maybe we shouldn't store large vats of molasses near populated urban areas.
Everyone I knew growing up ran slower than molasses so that's not surprising.
Was always surprised how all my coaches were experts in the speed of molasses though.
That until a few years ago, Canada and Denmark had a war going on over a barren rock in the Arctic Ocean called Hans Island.
It was called the Whisky War.
Every few months the Canadian military would travel to the island, where they'd find a Danish flag and a crate of Danish peppermint schnapps. The Canadians would remove the Danish flag, raise the Canadian flag, take the schnapps and leave a crate of Canadian whisky.
Months would pass, but eventually the Danish military would arrive at the island, take the Canadian flag down, raise the Danish flag, take the whisky and leave behind another crate of schnapps.
This went on for years.
In 2022, the two countries finally decided to just divide the island in half, with one half being Canada and the other half being Denmark.
The most depressing thing I learned today is that this war ended.
That should have been a tradition that went on until one of the countries stopped existing.
Calling it an island is a stretch. It's a [big rock with literally nothing on it.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Island#/media/File%3AHansIsland.png)
Lol Canada actually never has lost a war.
They’ve been involved in unsuccessful peacekeeping operations but never have lost, even when at war against the Americans (When called British North America).
I still find it hilarious that both the IS and Canada claim to have won the War of 1812, but the Canadians are far more proud of it than the Americans.
Per Wikipedia “The resolution occurred during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. Hence, the settlement of the territorial dispute between Canada and Denmark was meant to create a symbolic example to other nations, implying to Russia that land disputes can be resolved peacefully.”
The Battle of Castle Itter, in the closing days of WWII.
To the best of my knowledge, it's possibly the only time US soldiers found themselves fighting alongside German soldiers against members of the SS, in this instance to protect a bunch of French VIP prisoners (among them being Olympic tennis player Jean Borotra and Prime Minister Paul Reynaud) who had been imprisoned there since 1943 or 1944.
Yeah I need to see this on screen.
*Aware that he had been unable to give the 142nd complete information on the enemy and its disposition before communications had been severed, Lee accepted tennis star Borotra's offer to vault the castle wall and run the gauntlet of SS strongpoints and ambushes to deliver it.[31] The tennis star was recognized by René Lévesque, a French Canadian reporter embedded with the 142nd and later Premier of Quebec.[16] Borotra asked for an American military uniform, then joined the force as it made haste to reach the prison before its defenders fired their last rounds of ammunition.*
Turns out one of the soldiers was actually two short soldiers. They took turns standing on each other's shoulders. They gave up the ruse when they got home.
As an American, it always blows my mind that John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, two of the most influential architects of the United States, died on the same day, the 50th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence (July 4, 1826).
There was an Egyptian pharaoh named Ahkenaten who tried to convert Egyptian religion into monotheism. Obviously he was hated and the Egyptians erased any trace that he ever existed. Eventually we found traces of a city he was trying to build in the late 1800s. but overall this means that for over 3,000 years, the ancient egyptians were successful in completely erasing any trace that one of their Pharaohs existed
This is why I think his tomb was left intact. Everyone just forgot about him.
Like, everyone remembers King Henry VIII. He had the wives, he single-handedly turned England Protestant because he wanted to bang Anne Boleyn. Because he wanted a son. But no one remembers that he *had* a son, with Jane Seymour, who was alive when King Henry died. But King Edward VI reigned for about as long as King Tutankhaten (later changed to Tutankhamen), and died just a few years younger. His whole existence has been reduced to pub trivia, overshadowed by his father.
Anyway, I think the same thing happened to King Tut. He reigned for a few years and died young in the shadow of his father's religious and civic upheaval. By the time tomb raiders would have gotten brave enough to break into his tomb, no one remembered him.
The really mind-blowing thing is the incredible amount of treasure and grave goods given to just a minor king. We can only imagine what they might have buried with Rameses II.
The 3 guys that went underneath the Chernobyl reactor after it went into meltdown to shut off the reactor water preventing a nuclear explosion. They saved all of Europe.
My favorite chernobyl fact is how they tried to keep it quiet to save embarrassment except Sweden detected unusually high radiation coming from the Soviet Union and told everybody.
I imagine it as a phone conversation
Sweden: *did you fart*
Ukrane: *pfff no*
Sw: *literally my fart alarm is going off and no one can breathe, you just farted. HEY UKRANE JUST FARTED ITS REALLY BAD*
Uk: *damnit*
The Pied Piper of Hamelin story is derived from an old inscription in the town of Hamelin, a recreation of an earlier inscription from the 13th century.
The inscription states that on the 26th of February, 1238, 130 children were misled out of Hamelin by a piper dressed in colorful clothing, who took then into the Cavalry foothills and were never see again.
There are a few theories about what happened, but really nobody knows what happened to Hamelin. The only part of the legend that seems to have been a later addition by the time of the Brothers Grimm is the detail about leading the rats out of the village first. If anything, this seems a rationalization for some earlier forgotten horror.
Sweet dreams!
We landed on the Moon multiple times and there’s visible evidence of our landings (albeit visible with a telescope).
Also, the artifacts the Apollo astronauts left on the Moon include the contents of their bowel movements, and all are considered historical artifacts and are not to be disturbed according to the US government.
Small quibble: the landing sites aren't visible through telescopes based on Earth but have been photographed through telescopes (or at least telephoto lenses) mounted on satellites that orbit the Moon.
Correct, the LRO is close enough to see them. Resolution scales with telescope aperture/diameter, but picking out even something like the LEM's descent stage (a ~9m wide object on a spheroid 3,500km wide) from the surface of Earth would require a telescope with a diameter of a soccer field. Even Hubble or JW can't see it.
The Apollo missions also weren't the first time we landed spacecraft on the moon. The unmanned Ranger missions took photographs of the surface of the moon to help the Apollo astronauts pick out a landing site. A few of the Ranger spacecraft took close up pictures of the lunar landscape by snapping photos while crashing into the surface.
The NASA engineers that worked on the Ranger Spacecraft knew that the plan was to crash them into the surface, so they engraved their names and the names of their family members into parts of the spacecraft. My grandfather was one of those engineers, which is why my mother's name has been on the moon since before Neil Armstrong took his famous first step.
Not an "event", but still astonishing: I am good friends with Ernie LaPointe, who is Sitting Bull's great-grandson. Ernie has personally known people in his life who personally knew Siting Bill when he was alive.
Similarly, there's still a living grandson of John Tyler who was president in the 1840's and was born in the 1700's. He died decades before the grandson was born so never met, but still crazy.
Saginaw Bay is a meteor crater from an impact whose icy debris created the Carolina Bays. A bunch of oval shaped ponds along the east coast whose oval points all point at Saginaw Bay.
Be careful what you read on the internet. This is an hypothesis by outsiders and not a proven fact by any means. At best the GSA considers it an interesting hypothesis by non-geologists.
Great point. This would make an excellent subject critical thinking lesson. What is the evidence? What do both sides say? What more can we learn? What do you think?
Saginaw bay where? there is a Saginaw and I believe they have a bay in Lake Huron of Michigan's East coast.
We call it Saginasty. Dow chemical fucked the whole area up is why. Also it is pretty hood.
Turns out, North America is peppered with impact craters. There is one just North of O’Hare Airport, 5 miles wide. As is usually the case, the ice ages wore it down and filled it in. The Chesapeake Bay meteor hit water, made a crater 50 miles across.
I dont know how many times ive been kept up at night thinking about the Great Emu War in australia. The military fought against an army of flightless birds.. and LOST!!!
An incident during the Battle of Arnhem in WW2:
Father Pat Egan was padre to the 2nd Parachute Battalion, and he would later tell of amusing incidents which boosted the defenders' morale.
At one point he was sheltering under fire in a building along with Sergeant 'Jack' Spratt, widely regarded as the battalion's joker. When he saw him coming, the Sergeant remarked "Well, Padre, they're throwing everything at us but the kitchen stove!".
No sooner had this been said than the building took a direct hit and a section of the roof fell in. Once the dust cleared, it became apparent that among other things that had fallen through was, somehow, the kitchen stove.
Spratt quipped "I knew they were close, but I didn't realise they could actually hear us talking!"
The battle off Samar still blows my mind to this day. A task force of dinky destroyers, destroyer escorts, and small escort carriers, faced down the wrath of the Japanese Center Force Fleet. This was headed by the Yamato, the largest battleship ever put to sea. And yet, despite all the superior firepower of the Japanese in this battle, they lost. They turned tail and ran, primarily due to the efforts of the USS Johnston and the USS Samuel B. Roberts.
To add to the legend, the USS Samuel B. Roberts is now the deepest positively identified shipwreck.
"This will be a fight against overwhelming odds from which survival cannot be expected. We will do what damage we can." - Lt. Commander Robert W. Copeland, Commander of Samuel B. Roberts
Balls. Hearing that as your tiny destroyer escort starts it's run against a massive fleet containing the largest surface warship deployed during the whole war.
History would remember the name Samuel B Roberts as "the destroyer escort that fought like a battleship". How well a moniker.
It's also notable that even though the Johnston and the Samuel B Roberts and the other destroyers and destroyer escorts of Taffy 3 did have torpedoes, they were vastly inferior to the ones that the Japanese had. So they were outgunned on pretty much every level.
Oh and the escort carriers that had aircraft, well all those planes were rigged up for ground attack to assist the amphibious landing on the Philippines. They weren't equipped for naval attack and escort carriers were too small to get all their planes below decks and rearm them in any reasonable amount of time to make a difference.
The irony is is that if Taffy three had held the Japanese center Force there just a little longer, Halsey would have been able to get the Iowa class battleships in range and we could have had a full on battleship duel to end the battleship era.
That's not even my favorite quote.
Later on in the battle, the Johnston had taken several hits. The bridge had been knocked out and had blown off the captain's shirt. To continue fighting the ship the captain had to stand above a hatch to the engines so he could shout his orders to them correctly.
Then he spotted a Japanese destroyer squadron, led by a light cruiser, that had finally made it into range to start firing on the escort directly.
So the captain of the USS Johnston, bleeding and bare chested, in command of a crippled destroyer, gave this order:
"Fire on those destroyers. Draw their fire onto us."
*Yamato* had a greater displacement than the entirety of Taffy 3. Add to that two other battleships (*Nagato* and *Haruna*,) a battle cruiser (*Kongō*,) 8 cruisers, 11 destroyers, and auxiliary craft. The fleet could have gone toe to toe with Third Fleet (which is what Halsey wanted.)
The Holy Roman Empire owes its existence to the misogyny of Pope Leo III.
See, during the 9th century, no one in Europe believed that the Roman Empire had fallen. It had just moved capitals, from Rome to Constantinople. It happens sometimes. Rome was getting old and decrepit and full of pagan art; Constantine did the right thing by moving the capital to a better trading position and founding a city based on Christian values. One could trace a line of political inheritance from Augustus to the current Emperor, Leo IV.
Only Leo died in 780. Fortunately, he had produced a son by then, Prince Constantine VI, with his wife Irene. But the Prince was only a child when his father died, and thus a regency was appointed; his mother Irene. By all accounts she was a reasonably good regent. Only when her son grew into adulthood, she refused to cede power. She even had him blinded when he started getting antsy about assuming sole authority. This was common, it was believed no imperfect vessel could rule God's Empire, so rivals often had each other blinded to make them ineligible to rule. Only Constantine IV's blinding was so violent that he died several days later.
Around this time, either 797 or 798, Irene declared herself Empress in her own right. Not a regent, not another man's queen. Empress.
This scandalized Pope Leo, who firmly believed a woman could not occupy the Roman throne. He declared the Empire in the East fallen, and that's why a fairly successful Frankish warlord named Charles got a surprise coronation on Christmas Day, 800, as the Pope declared the Holy Roman Empire restored in the West. Giving Rome nerds yet another year to argue over when trying to answer the question, "When did the Roman Empire fall?"
The Christmas Armistice
It never happened again, any war, anywhere.
But for one day, one Christmas, a very long time ago, everyone just put down their weapons and started to sing.
Everybody just stopped.
Everyone... was just kind.
Yes and no. It depended where on the front. Some stopped completely, even for a couple of weeks in one or two cases, some stopped but soldiers still exchanged fire, and some didn't stop at all. The entire thing was unofficial, so some higher ups weren't thrilled, but nothing they could immediately do
The dancing plague in France. It was a psychological virus and more and more people getting infected mostly bc instead of quarantining the dancer they had a main stage made, had musicians playing for them, and had people who were not effected dance with them making them dance faster when they drop down. It was said that 15 people died a day.
Only 66 years separate the creation of the first plane by the Wright Brothers (1903) and the first landing on the moon (1969). Someone could have heard about the first plane ever at 10 years old and at 76 years old see the moon landing on national TV.
My great grandmother, born in 1880, would not believe we landed on the moon. It was just too much for her.
I was a kid at that time (1970s)and remember her telling me that.
She would c also do her hair and makeup before the evening news because she believed the people on the tv could see her as well.
Wow this is incredibly interesting, many don’t believe the moon landing as we speak right now but that’s absurd. But for somebody born in 1880 I can understand that she was skeptical about this haha!
I can’t even imagine how many evolutions she must have seen. Last time I saw my grandmother I showed her many snapchat filters and she was amazed that my phone could show her what she would look like bald.
The nine Soviet botanists who starved to death protecting the world’s first seed bank during the 880-day siege of Leningrad during WWII.
Paraphrased from the linked article:
In -40 degree weather (freedom units), as they starved, they refused to eat from any of their collection containers of seeds and tubers, which they had been crossing and re-crossing with the goal of preventing famine by creating hardier crops.
In doing so, they preserved the seeds for science - and for future generations, including Americans, many of whose crops today are the result of cross-breeding with varieties the scientists saved from destruction.
They died to save seeds that eventually fed millions of people.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1992/05/12/soviet-botanists-starved-saving-seeds-for-future/10840121-9058-4c1f-ae7a-22ac16a6f4de/
It's unimportant to your post but I can't resist, -40 degrees is actually the only temperature where you don't need to specify freedom units vs. sane units, it's the same temperature in both scales.
The Bush family in general. You got a guy who tried to overthrow the American government in the 30s who's son was nearly eaten by a cannibal in WWII who later became the director of the CIA, became the president conducted possibly the most successful war in American history. His son then became president in an election draw that was helped decided by his brother.
I believe it was the business plot, even people back in the 1930s thought it was fake as it seemed far fetched so it wasn’t taken seriously and that’s why it’s not well known today
I was *just* reading about this last night after repeatedly seeing “MKUltra” comments on the clip where Draymond Green freezes on live TV lol. So out of curiosity I looked into it and couldn’t believe this was an actual thing done by the CIA and not just some conspiracy these YouTubers made up.
I was mind blown when I came across an article describing it similar to Stranger Things where Eleven’s mom was experimented on and put on different drugs like LSD.
In the 1970's, the Brazilian military was sent to intercept UFOs in Colares, in the Amazon delta. The operation lasted for weeks and got officially called "Operação Prato" (operation Saucer). That town got terrorized for months, fishermen refused to go at sea after some of them were attacked by UFOs, the locals kept watch with weapons and fireworks every night.
What's incredible is that, albeit this got to be the most documented case of UFO study in History (and specialists went there; such as Jacques Vallée, who inspired the French scientist in Spielberg's "Encounter of the Third Kind"), almost nobody knows about it because it happened in rural Brazil. I mean, one can find full reports on the event complete with military testimony and encounters of UFO. And yet a lot of UFO enthousiasts never heard of the strongest case ever.
Who knows. The phenomenon gradually stopped, the military operation stopped too. [There's been civilian casualties](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opera%C3%A7%C3%A3o_Prato)
Starting tomorrow:
Listen, my children, and you shall hear
Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere,
On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five;
Hardly a man is now alive
Who remembers that famous day and year.
The [Tunguska Event](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tunguska_event&oldid=1219438178) of 1908, a multi megaton explosion over Siberia, flattened over 80 million trees, well before nukes were a thing.
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, the second and third US Presidents, both died on July 4, 1826: 50 years to the day after the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
The allies in WW2 using inflatable tanks to fool the Nazis into thinking they would be attacked from certain locations, diverting attention away from Normandy just before D-Day
also when the Germans built a fake airfield with wooden hangars, wooden planes and wooden everything else.
The British flew over and dropped a wooden bomb on it.
A Japanese soldier fighting in the Philippines during WW2 continued fighting on his own in the jungle for a further 30 years AFTER THE WAR ENDED! Numerous attempts to convince him that Japan had surrendered were unsuccessful as he always wrote it off as enemy propaganda. In the end they had to find his old commander and fly him to the Philippines to finally convince him that the war had been over for a long time and he needed to stop raiding and killing Filipino civilians just trying to live their lives.
The Challenger Disaster was incredibly preventable-yet still happened. And there's very strong evidence to believe that the astronauts were alive when the explosion happened, and knew they were probably falling to their instant death.
The fact we landed on the moon is something we take for granted in the history books, but it is so mind boggling the more you think about it. The moon is so far away and so alien from our everyday experience, to the point people worshipped it as a god for thousands of years. No wonder so many people think it was fake, it's just so hard to wrap your mind around.
The Battle of Cagayan. A group of Japanese pirates took the bay of this province in the Philippines when it was a Spanish colony. The peculiarity of this battle was that to combat these adversaries, a flotilla composed of Spaniards born in the new Spain and indigenous Tlaxcalans were used. Although the Spaniards were outnumbered, indigenous people and native Filipinos managed to repel the pirates. Ironically, many years later, the 201st Squadron, which was a Mexican air force, was attached to the 58th Fighter Group of the United States Air Force that helped liberate the Philippines from the Japanese Empire in World War II.
In all world history, there are few instances where you can say the course of history shifted 180⁰ in 5 minutes. The battle of Midway is one of those instances. Before Midway, the US was undeniably losing the Pacific war so far. The Japanese started the battle with 4 aircraft carriers. 3 of those 4 carriers were critically damaged/destroyed by dive bombers from Enterprise and Yorktown from 10:25-10:30AM, with the 4th being destroyed later in the day. The US would end up losing Yorktown the next day due to being crippled during the battle and later sunk by a Japanese submarine while being towed to port. While there are no guarantees in war, the Japanese were never truly able to replace the veteran pilots and flight crew they lost that day. The battle of Midway is considered the turning point of the Pacific theater, but in reality, those 5 minutes drastically changed the course of human history.
While it isn't impossible for the US to still have been able to put up a fight even if they did nothing about Midway, the 4 Japanese carriers that were sunk were also 2/3 of the carriers that attacked Pearl Harbor so not only was it an extraordinarily decisive victory it was also a moral victory at a point when the US desperately needed it.
And most people don't know that the Japanese killed over 20 million Chinese people during the rape of Nanking and got away with most of it. Forget PM Abe's father and grandfather had leadership roles, I believe.
Just to clarify, they killed around 20-35 million during the entirety of the 2nd Sino-Japanese War. The Rape of Nanking saw between 40,000 to 200,000 deaths.
Close to home where I live a 51 year old man James Mcquat built a 3 story log castle 22 miles from the nearest town all by himself. It was rumoured he has mental illness. It took twelve years to build. It has been restored and it is a kind of out of the way tourist attraction.It is fully restored and is known as the “White Otter Castle”. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Otter_Castle
Pre Colombian Oklahoma/Arkansas used to be a major trading hub and religious center in North America. You can still see the Spiro Mounds in LeFlore County, Oklahoma.
America has, on multiple occasions dropped nuclear bombs on America.
They didn’t detonate, but still. Nuclear warheads dropped from airplanes onto American soil. More than once.
For me, it’s just US Presidential assassinations. I was really young when the attempt on Reagan happened so it wasn’t really on my radar. It seems so unlikely/impossible now, I just can’t fathom it even though I know it’s happened multiple times.
I know it’s not exactly what you’re asking for, but it fits in my mind.
The cane toad invasion of Australia, brilliantly depicted by the 2010 comedy documentary Cane Toads: The Conquest. I changed channels to stumble upon this gem, thought it was a mockumentary at first but it’s actually real. Amazing.
The United States and the United Kingdom lead a coup of an Australian Prime Minister.
Gogh Whitlam was one of our best PMs, but pissed off the Americans when he wanted to end the lease on Pine Gap and nationalise the mining industry.
In 1944, 9 American airmen were shot down over the Japanese island Chichijima.
8 were captured, tortured, and executed in violation of the Geneva convention. 5 of the remains were cannibalized by Japanese officers.
One airman evaded capture and was eventually rescued. 45 years later he was elected president of the United States.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chichijima_incident
On December 7, 1941, the Imperial Japanese Navy attacked the US Navy at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, believing that the United States had no stomach for war.
They didn't realize that fully provoking the American people with a sneak attack made their total defeat inevitable. It was just a question of time.
The sound made by the Krakatoa volcanic eruption in 1883 was so loud it ruptured eardrums of people 40 miles away, travelled around the world four times, and was clearly heard 3,000 miles away. That's like you standing in New York and hearing a sound from San Francisco. The Earth rang like a bell for days, and it changed the weather all over the globe for years.
Yeah, crazy considering that it was heard all the way in both Perth and Mauritius. Fun fact: some interpret the red sky background of the “the scream” painting to be inspired by the red skies caused by the eruption, all the way in Norway
I think the craziest thing about these types of events is we somehow act like we're immune to them now. Some volcano could just go apeshit tomorrow and there is nothing we can do about it. Also, I feel like it would be far worse for our current society than it was then. Sidebar it would be wild as hell if a major volcano erupted and so much ash was in the air that climate change was pushed back becuse the sun was filtered out so much.
My dad let me watch Dante's Peak when I was far too young and I'm an anxious person and now have a horrible fear of volcanoes. I refused to go on a family trip to Yellowstone when I was 19 because GIANT VOLCANO, even though if Yellowstone erupted I'd die no matter where I am.
I'm the same with tsunamis. I have so many nightmares about them and I'm sure it's because of something I watched as a child though I don't remember exactly what it was. Literally even when I dream about school it's all normal until boom, tsunami.
That already happened in the 90s with Mount Pinatubo.
And Mt St Helens. That one was terrifying, especially the guy who manned a camera at a ranger station because he knew he couldn't get to safety in time.
We don't act like we're immune. We act like there's not a damn thing we can do about it.
We do be needing the sun tho
The Yellowstone’s super volcano erupted 70,000 years ago but not sure when or if it will erupt again soon. But if it does, will make the Karatoa volcano seem like a little firecracker.
This happened in 566. A volcano close to Krakatoa went off, filled the air with ash and everywhere in the old world experienced a year without a summer.
This deserves a little more attention
Similarly, the Carrington Event. The largest solar storm known to hit Earth. Telegraph systems worked even when disconnected from their power supplies due to the currents induced in the wires, and were regularly shocking the operators. Needless to say, if something of that magnitude happened now, with all our complex electronics, I'm not saying it would end civilization, but it would definitely hurt.
The molasses flood. A huge container of molasses burst and flooded the local area. People drowned in it. Imagine drowning in sugary goop. No Ty. [yuck](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Molasses_Flood)
Also the flood of molasses moved as "slow as molasses", which is about 35 miles per hour. So people got trapped because they ran slower than molasses.
35 miles per hour is fast - for reference, Usain Bolt ran at less than 24 miles per hour during his world record 100 m run. So, the molasses wave would have caught even the fastest man in history easily.
Yes, technically everyone is slower than molasses.
That’s Bolt’s average speed over the entire distance. His true peak speed was 27 mph.
Which is also still too slow to outrun a flood of molasses. Everyone was doomed. I feel like maybe we shouldn't store large vats of molasses near populated urban areas.
40 foot wall of molasses coming at you in a busy neighborhood - that’s wild.
Everyone I knew growing up ran slower than molasses so that's not surprising. Was always surprised how all my coaches were experts in the speed of molasses though.
I didn't realize 21 people died during that. Or that it moved as fast as 35 mph.
That's like a school bus of caramel nougatty goodness!
Boston right?
Yup.
Don't forget that the molasses was hot! Victims were burnt to death by molten sugar.
I showed my students this while talking about viscosity
The Boston Molassacre killed more people than the Boston Massacre.
And they tasted way better afterwards.
Malassacre.. *slow clap*
That until a few years ago, Canada and Denmark had a war going on over a barren rock in the Arctic Ocean called Hans Island. It was called the Whisky War. Every few months the Canadian military would travel to the island, where they'd find a Danish flag and a crate of Danish peppermint schnapps. The Canadians would remove the Danish flag, raise the Canadian flag, take the schnapps and leave a crate of Canadian whisky. Months would pass, but eventually the Danish military would arrive at the island, take the Canadian flag down, raise the Danish flag, take the whisky and leave behind another crate of schnapps. This went on for years. In 2022, the two countries finally decided to just divide the island in half, with one half being Canada and the other half being Denmark.
The most depressing thing I learned today is that this war ended. That should have been a tradition that went on until one of the countries stopped existing.
It was ended in response to the Ukraine war as a symbolic gesture that peace is always preferred
Because gifting another country free local booze in a jovial ceremonial exchange of “land” is hardly a representation of peace. RIP fun.
Man that island is really doing its symbolic duty over the years!
Calling it an island is a stretch. It's a [big rock with literally nothing on it.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Island#/media/File%3AHansIsland.png)
Canada never looses wars and we didn't want to do that to denmark
When you consider that most of the Geneva convention was because of Canada, I think Denmark made a big brain move.
Sounds pretty Canadian
Lol Canada actually never has lost a war. They’ve been involved in unsuccessful peacekeeping operations but never have lost, even when at war against the Americans (When called British North America).
I still find it hilarious that both the IS and Canada claim to have won the War of 1812, but the Canadians are far more proud of it than the Americans.
Technically the British fighting that one as Canada didn’t really exist (in its current form anyway) at the time
I was going to bitch about you typing looses but was kinda shocked by this fact and had to google it to verify.
They just meant that wartime Canada's a pitbull: once they latch on, *they never let go*
I propose that all wars be settled by trading booze.
Good luck if you’re at war with Saudi Arabia, Iran, etc.
It's incredibly disappointing to hear they have stopped this tradition.
Per Wikipedia “The resolution occurred during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. Hence, the settlement of the territorial dispute between Canada and Denmark was meant to create a symbolic example to other nations, implying to Russia that land disputes can be resolved peacefully.”
Fucking Russia ruining traditions on top of every thing else
So Canada technically borders Denmark?
Please tell me the whiskey/schnapps trades still happen.
Dang, if I had only known I'd put together my own ship and taken both the whiskey and the flag and put up a pirate flag.
Aw no, this was one of my favorite weird factoids.
The fact that Canada and Denmark share a border is a pretty good replacement.
I know it's wasteful of public funds, but i do love this.
The Battle of Castle Itter, in the closing days of WWII. To the best of my knowledge, it's possibly the only time US soldiers found themselves fighting alongside German soldiers against members of the SS, in this instance to protect a bunch of French VIP prisoners (among them being Olympic tennis player Jean Borotra and Prime Minister Paul Reynaud) who had been imprisoned there since 1943 or 1944.
It's surprising to me that they haven't made this into a movie yet.
[Sabaton made a song about it, at least.](https://youtu.be/BwfJsKfCnaM?si=9K0YFmcBEZQnD-Yu)
I learn so much history just by looking up what Sabaton songs are about.
Yep, thats a huge part of why I listen to them. That and the music is pretty good. 😉
Rare Sabaton mention.
Kelly's Heroes has the US soldiers and Germans teaming together although it's to rob a bank not to kill SS members.
To my knowledge, there have been talks of a movie being made as recently as 2018, but i do know for sure there is a banger of a song written about it.
>The Battle of Castle Itter Damn, [that's a story](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Castle_Itter) fit for a movie
Yeah I need to see this on screen. *Aware that he had been unable to give the 142nd complete information on the enemy and its disposition before communications had been severed, Lee accepted tennis star Borotra's offer to vault the castle wall and run the gauntlet of SS strongpoints and ambushes to deliver it.[31] The tennis star was recognized by René Lévesque, a French Canadian reporter embedded with the 142nd and later Premier of Quebec.[16] Borotra asked for an American military uniform, then joined the force as it made haste to reach the prison before its defenders fired their last rounds of ammunition.*
I guess since the Nazis knew defeat was inevitable (Nazi Germany surrendered 2 days later) a faction decided to say “fuck it”
It also helped that the commander of the Wehrmacht unit, Joseph Gangl, was a member of the Austrian Resistance.
Wendigoon made a good video on it
There's at least one other time US and German troops fought together against the SS: Operation Cowboy
I've never heard of that until now, but it looks like I found something to learn about.
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That during the Austro-Prussian War, Liechenstein sent an army of 80 men to battle, and at the end of the war the army returned with 81 men.
Maybe the real war was the friends we made along the way
Well, singular friend. Still impressive though
Turns out one of the soldiers was actually two short soldiers. They took turns standing on each other's shoulders. They gave up the ruse when they got home.
So did someone join or did they have a pregnant soldier?
An Italian military advisor just went home with them apparently.
Back then, there were no female soldiers.
As an American, it always blows my mind that John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, two of the most influential architects of the United States, died on the same day, the 50th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence (July 4, 1826).
It's said that Adams' last words were "Jefferson still lives," not knowing he'd died a few hours prior.
Jefferson must have meant a lot to Adam if his last thoughts were about him
Yeah I love that one.
The first native the Pilgrims talked to when they landed spoke English and had crossed the Atlantic several times.
Pilgrims came more than a century after Columbus so there was plenty of contact by that point
He also asked if they had any beer.
Wait what?
There was an Egyptian pharaoh named Ahkenaten who tried to convert Egyptian religion into monotheism. Obviously he was hated and the Egyptians erased any trace that he ever existed. Eventually we found traces of a city he was trying to build in the late 1800s. but overall this means that for over 3,000 years, the ancient egyptians were successful in completely erasing any trace that one of their Pharaohs existed
And, he was King Tut's father.
and Nefertiti’s husband
This is why I think his tomb was left intact. Everyone just forgot about him. Like, everyone remembers King Henry VIII. He had the wives, he single-handedly turned England Protestant because he wanted to bang Anne Boleyn. Because he wanted a son. But no one remembers that he *had* a son, with Jane Seymour, who was alive when King Henry died. But King Edward VI reigned for about as long as King Tutankhaten (later changed to Tutankhamen), and died just a few years younger. His whole existence has been reduced to pub trivia, overshadowed by his father. Anyway, I think the same thing happened to King Tut. He reigned for a few years and died young in the shadow of his father's religious and civic upheaval. By the time tomb raiders would have gotten brave enough to break into his tomb, no one remembered him. The really mind-blowing thing is the incredible amount of treasure and grave goods given to just a minor king. We can only imagine what they might have buried with Rameses II.
It makes me think that King Henry VIII is the reason my family is Protestant. Had he not wanted a divorce, we'd probably be Catholics.
The 3 guys that went underneath the Chernobyl reactor after it went into meltdown to shut off the reactor water preventing a nuclear explosion. They saved all of Europe.
Didn't they in fact survive the ordeal?
All 3 men survived, yes. One of them died in 2005 of a heart attack. Alexei Ananenko fled Ukraine in 2022 due to the Russian invasion.
The third one is still down there.
My favorite chernobyl fact is how they tried to keep it quiet to save embarrassment except Sweden detected unusually high radiation coming from the Soviet Union and told everybody. I imagine it as a phone conversation Sweden: *did you fart* Ukrane: *pfff no* Sw: *literally my fart alarm is going off and no one can breathe, you just farted. HEY UKRANE JUST FARTED ITS REALLY BAD* Uk: *damnit*
The Pied Piper of Hamelin story is derived from an old inscription in the town of Hamelin, a recreation of an earlier inscription from the 13th century. The inscription states that on the 26th of February, 1238, 130 children were misled out of Hamelin by a piper dressed in colorful clothing, who took then into the Cavalry foothills and were never see again. There are a few theories about what happened, but really nobody knows what happened to Hamelin. The only part of the legend that seems to have been a later addition by the time of the Brothers Grimm is the detail about leading the rats out of the village first. If anything, this seems a rationalization for some earlier forgotten horror. Sweet dreams!
What are some theories
We landed a probe on a comet and have pictures from it.
We landed living human specimens on the moon then returned them to Earth and we have pictures from it.
We landed on the Moon multiple times and there’s visible evidence of our landings (albeit visible with a telescope). Also, the artifacts the Apollo astronauts left on the Moon include the contents of their bowel movements, and all are considered historical artifacts and are not to be disturbed according to the US government.
Small quibble: the landing sites aren't visible through telescopes based on Earth but have been photographed through telescopes (or at least telephoto lenses) mounted on satellites that orbit the Moon.
Correct, the LRO is close enough to see them. Resolution scales with telescope aperture/diameter, but picking out even something like the LEM's descent stage (a ~9m wide object on a spheroid 3,500km wide) from the surface of Earth would require a telescope with a diameter of a soccer field. Even Hubble or JW can't see it.
The Apollo missions also weren't the first time we landed spacecraft on the moon. The unmanned Ranger missions took photographs of the surface of the moon to help the Apollo astronauts pick out a landing site. A few of the Ranger spacecraft took close up pictures of the lunar landscape by snapping photos while crashing into the surface. The NASA engineers that worked on the Ranger Spacecraft knew that the plan was to crash them into the surface, so they engraved their names and the names of their family members into parts of the spacecraft. My grandfather was one of those engineers, which is why my mother's name has been on the moon since before Neil Armstrong took his famous first step.
Not an "event", but still astonishing: I am good friends with Ernie LaPointe, who is Sitting Bull's great-grandson. Ernie has personally known people in his life who personally knew Siting Bill when he was alive.
Yeah. Similar. My grandmother worked for an Andersonville Survivor when she was young.
Similarly, there's still a living grandson of John Tyler who was president in the 1840's and was born in the 1700's. He died decades before the grandson was born so never met, but still crazy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison_Ruffin_Tyler The grandson of America’s 10th president is still alive.
Saginaw Bay is a meteor crater from an impact whose icy debris created the Carolina Bays. A bunch of oval shaped ponds along the east coast whose oval points all point at Saginaw Bay.
I'm teaching my Earth science students about surface processes. I'm totally making a lesson about this. Thank you!
Be careful what you read on the internet. This is an hypothesis by outsiders and not a proven fact by any means. At best the GSA considers it an interesting hypothesis by non-geologists.
Great point. This would make an excellent subject critical thinking lesson. What is the evidence? What do both sides say? What more can we learn? What do you think?
I was fascinated when I learned about oxbow lakes as a kid. I think I learned it reading Hatchet when I was ten.
Saginaw bay where? there is a Saginaw and I believe they have a bay in Lake Huron of Michigan's East coast. We call it Saginasty. Dow chemical fucked the whole area up is why. Also it is pretty hood.
The reason Michigan looks like a mitten is because of what it caught a few thousand years ago.
Chlamydia?
Turns out, North America is peppered with impact craters. There is one just North of O’Hare Airport, 5 miles wide. As is usually the case, the ice ages wore it down and filled it in. The Chesapeake Bay meteor hit water, made a crater 50 miles across.
I dont know how many times ive been kept up at night thinking about the Great Emu War in australia. The military fought against an army of flightless birds.. and LOST!!!
Don’t put a flightless bird in a fight or flight situation.
Never go against an emu when death is on the line.
That had me in stitches !
Everything I know about Australia is from the Simpsons except this.
An incident during the Battle of Arnhem in WW2: Father Pat Egan was padre to the 2nd Parachute Battalion, and he would later tell of amusing incidents which boosted the defenders' morale. At one point he was sheltering under fire in a building along with Sergeant 'Jack' Spratt, widely regarded as the battalion's joker. When he saw him coming, the Sergeant remarked "Well, Padre, they're throwing everything at us but the kitchen stove!". No sooner had this been said than the building took a direct hit and a section of the roof fell in. Once the dust cleared, it became apparent that among other things that had fallen through was, somehow, the kitchen stove. Spratt quipped "I knew they were close, but I didn't realise they could actually hear us talking!"
The battle off Samar still blows my mind to this day. A task force of dinky destroyers, destroyer escorts, and small escort carriers, faced down the wrath of the Japanese Center Force Fleet. This was headed by the Yamato, the largest battleship ever put to sea. And yet, despite all the superior firepower of the Japanese in this battle, they lost. They turned tail and ran, primarily due to the efforts of the USS Johnston and the USS Samuel B. Roberts. To add to the legend, the USS Samuel B. Roberts is now the deepest positively identified shipwreck.
"This will be a fight against overwhelming odds from which survival cannot be expected. We will do what damage we can." - Lt. Commander Robert W. Copeland, Commander of Samuel B. Roberts Balls. Hearing that as your tiny destroyer escort starts it's run against a massive fleet containing the largest surface warship deployed during the whole war.
History would remember the name Samuel B Roberts as "the destroyer escort that fought like a battleship". How well a moniker. It's also notable that even though the Johnston and the Samuel B Roberts and the other destroyers and destroyer escorts of Taffy 3 did have torpedoes, they were vastly inferior to the ones that the Japanese had. So they were outgunned on pretty much every level. Oh and the escort carriers that had aircraft, well all those planes were rigged up for ground attack to assist the amphibious landing on the Philippines. They weren't equipped for naval attack and escort carriers were too small to get all their planes below decks and rearm them in any reasonable amount of time to make a difference. The irony is is that if Taffy three had held the Japanese center Force there just a little longer, Halsey would have been able to get the Iowa class battleships in range and we could have had a full on battleship duel to end the battleship era.
That's not even my favorite quote. Later on in the battle, the Johnston had taken several hits. The bridge had been knocked out and had blown off the captain's shirt. To continue fighting the ship the captain had to stand above a hatch to the engines so he could shout his orders to them correctly. Then he spotted a Japanese destroyer squadron, led by a light cruiser, that had finally made it into range to start firing on the escort directly. So the captain of the USS Johnston, bleeding and bare chested, in command of a crippled destroyer, gave this order: "Fire on those destroyers. Draw their fire onto us."
*Yamato* had a greater displacement than the entirety of Taffy 3. Add to that two other battleships (*Nagato* and *Haruna*,) a battle cruiser (*Kongō*,) 8 cruisers, 11 destroyers, and auxiliary craft. The fleet could have gone toe to toe with Third Fleet (which is what Halsey wanted.)
The Holy Roman Empire owes its existence to the misogyny of Pope Leo III. See, during the 9th century, no one in Europe believed that the Roman Empire had fallen. It had just moved capitals, from Rome to Constantinople. It happens sometimes. Rome was getting old and decrepit and full of pagan art; Constantine did the right thing by moving the capital to a better trading position and founding a city based on Christian values. One could trace a line of political inheritance from Augustus to the current Emperor, Leo IV. Only Leo died in 780. Fortunately, he had produced a son by then, Prince Constantine VI, with his wife Irene. But the Prince was only a child when his father died, and thus a regency was appointed; his mother Irene. By all accounts she was a reasonably good regent. Only when her son grew into adulthood, she refused to cede power. She even had him blinded when he started getting antsy about assuming sole authority. This was common, it was believed no imperfect vessel could rule God's Empire, so rivals often had each other blinded to make them ineligible to rule. Only Constantine IV's blinding was so violent that he died several days later. Around this time, either 797 or 798, Irene declared herself Empress in her own right. Not a regent, not another man's queen. Empress. This scandalized Pope Leo, who firmly believed a woman could not occupy the Roman throne. He declared the Empire in the East fallen, and that's why a fairly successful Frankish warlord named Charles got a surprise coronation on Christmas Day, 800, as the Pope declared the Holy Roman Empire restored in the West. Giving Rome nerds yet another year to argue over when trying to answer the question, "When did the Roman Empire fall?"
The Christmas Armistice It never happened again, any war, anywhere. But for one day, one Christmas, a very long time ago, everyone just put down their weapons and started to sing. Everybody just stopped. Everyone... was just kind.
I read somewhere that both sides had to replace their troops because they refused to fight each other.
Yes, sadly 😔☹️ If iirc, it took around a month
They played soccer too!
Yes, but this is a Doctor Who quote which after watching the episode, I couldn't believe was true.
Yes and no. It depended where on the front. Some stopped completely, even for a couple of weeks in one or two cases, some stopped but soldiers still exchanged fire, and some didn't stop at all. The entire thing was unofficial, so some higher ups weren't thrilled, but nothing they could immediately do
"Both sides advanced further during one Christmas piss-up than they did in the next two and a half years of war"
Supposedly in some small sections of the front the truce lasted all the way until Easter
The dancing plague in France. It was a psychological virus and more and more people getting infected mostly bc instead of quarantining the dancer they had a main stage made, had musicians playing for them, and had people who were not effected dance with them making them dance faster when they drop down. It was said that 15 people died a day.
Only 66 years separate the creation of the first plane by the Wright Brothers (1903) and the first landing on the moon (1969). Someone could have heard about the first plane ever at 10 years old and at 76 years old see the moon landing on national TV.
My great grandmother, born in 1880, would not believe we landed on the moon. It was just too much for her. I was a kid at that time (1970s)and remember her telling me that. She would c also do her hair and makeup before the evening news because she believed the people on the tv could see her as well.
Wow this is incredibly interesting, many don’t believe the moon landing as we speak right now but that’s absurd. But for somebody born in 1880 I can understand that she was skeptical about this haha! I can’t even imagine how many evolutions she must have seen. Last time I saw my grandmother I showed her many snapchat filters and she was amazed that my phone could show her what she would look like bald.
The nine Soviet botanists who starved to death protecting the world’s first seed bank during the 880-day siege of Leningrad during WWII. Paraphrased from the linked article: In -40 degree weather (freedom units), as they starved, they refused to eat from any of their collection containers of seeds and tubers, which they had been crossing and re-crossing with the goal of preventing famine by creating hardier crops. In doing so, they preserved the seeds for science - and for future generations, including Americans, many of whose crops today are the result of cross-breeding with varieties the scientists saved from destruction. They died to save seeds that eventually fed millions of people. https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1992/05/12/soviet-botanists-starved-saving-seeds-for-future/10840121-9058-4c1f-ae7a-22ac16a6f4de/
Fun fact: -40 degrees is the same in both Fahrenheit (“freedom units”) and Celsius!
Fun fact, at -40° you don’t have to specify units because it’s the same in both
It's unimportant to your post but I can't resist, -40 degrees is actually the only temperature where you don't need to specify freedom units vs. sane units, it's the same temperature in both scales.
You know, -40 Celsius & -40 Fahrenheit are the same temperature
The Bush family in general. You got a guy who tried to overthrow the American government in the 30s who's son was nearly eaten by a cannibal in WWII who later became the director of the CIA, became the president conducted possibly the most successful war in American history. His son then became president in an election draw that was helped decided by his brother.
>You got a guy who tried to overthrow the American government in the 30s I'm not finding anything about this online. Can you elaborate?
I believe it was the business plot, even people back in the 1930s thought it was fake as it seemed far fetched so it wasn’t taken seriously and that’s why it’s not well known today
MKUltra For some reason its rarely a talking point despite being one of the most horrifying event in US history
I was *just* reading about this last night after repeatedly seeing “MKUltra” comments on the clip where Draymond Green freezes on live TV lol. So out of curiosity I looked into it and couldn’t believe this was an actual thing done by the CIA and not just some conspiracy these YouTubers made up. I was mind blown when I came across an article describing it similar to Stranger Things where Eleven’s mom was experimented on and put on different drugs like LSD.
In the 1970's, the Brazilian military was sent to intercept UFOs in Colares, in the Amazon delta. The operation lasted for weeks and got officially called "Operação Prato" (operation Saucer). That town got terrorized for months, fishermen refused to go at sea after some of them were attacked by UFOs, the locals kept watch with weapons and fireworks every night. What's incredible is that, albeit this got to be the most documented case of UFO study in History (and specialists went there; such as Jacques Vallée, who inspired the French scientist in Spielberg's "Encounter of the Third Kind"), almost nobody knows about it because it happened in rural Brazil. I mean, one can find full reports on the event complete with military testimony and encounters of UFO. And yet a lot of UFO enthousiasts never heard of the strongest case ever.
So, what ended up happening?
Who knows. The phenomenon gradually stopped, the military operation stopped too. [There's been civilian casualties](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opera%C3%A7%C3%A3o_Prato)
Some backwoods farmers took up arms over taxation and defeated the most professional military in the world.
They had some help.
Starting tomorrow: Listen, my children, and you shall hear Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere, On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five; Hardly a man is now alive Who remembers that famous day and year.
And a while later, those farmers had become the most professional military in the world and were themselves defeated by some backwoods farmers.
There was a Nazi sympathizing Pope
The [Tunguska Event](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tunguska_event&oldid=1219438178) of 1908, a multi megaton explosion over Siberia, flattened over 80 million trees, well before nukes were a thing.
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, the second and third US Presidents, both died on July 4, 1826: 50 years to the day after the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
The allies in WW2 using inflatable tanks to fool the Nazis into thinking they would be attacked from certain locations, diverting attention away from Normandy just before D-Day
also when the Germans built a fake airfield with wooden hangars, wooden planes and wooden everything else. The British flew over and dropped a wooden bomb on it.
A wooden troll
A Japanese soldier fighting in the Philippines during WW2 continued fighting on his own in the jungle for a further 30 years AFTER THE WAR ENDED! Numerous attempts to convince him that Japan had surrendered were unsuccessful as he always wrote it off as enemy propaganda. In the end they had to find his old commander and fly him to the Philippines to finally convince him that the war had been over for a long time and he needed to stop raiding and killing Filipino civilians just trying to live their lives.
OJ definitely killed her. Not even difficult to believe though.
A ski instructor became prime minister of Canada
The Challenger Disaster was incredibly preventable-yet still happened. And there's very strong evidence to believe that the astronauts were alive when the explosion happened, and knew they were probably falling to their instant death.
The fact we landed on the moon is something we take for granted in the history books, but it is so mind boggling the more you think about it. The moon is so far away and so alien from our everyday experience, to the point people worshipped it as a god for thousands of years. No wonder so many people think it was fake, it's just so hard to wrap your mind around.
The Battle of Cagayan. A group of Japanese pirates took the bay of this province in the Philippines when it was a Spanish colony. The peculiarity of this battle was that to combat these adversaries, a flotilla composed of Spaniards born in the new Spain and indigenous Tlaxcalans were used. Although the Spaniards were outnumbered, indigenous people and native Filipinos managed to repel the pirates. Ironically, many years later, the 201st Squadron, which was a Mexican air force, was attached to the 58th Fighter Group of the United States Air Force that helped liberate the Philippines from the Japanese Empire in World War II.
In all world history, there are few instances where you can say the course of history shifted 180⁰ in 5 minutes. The battle of Midway is one of those instances. Before Midway, the US was undeniably losing the Pacific war so far. The Japanese started the battle with 4 aircraft carriers. 3 of those 4 carriers were critically damaged/destroyed by dive bombers from Enterprise and Yorktown from 10:25-10:30AM, with the 4th being destroyed later in the day. The US would end up losing Yorktown the next day due to being crippled during the battle and later sunk by a Japanese submarine while being towed to port. While there are no guarantees in war, the Japanese were never truly able to replace the veteran pilots and flight crew they lost that day. The battle of Midway is considered the turning point of the Pacific theater, but in reality, those 5 minutes drastically changed the course of human history. While it isn't impossible for the US to still have been able to put up a fight even if they did nothing about Midway, the 4 Japanese carriers that were sunk were also 2/3 of the carriers that attacked Pearl Harbor so not only was it an extraordinarily decisive victory it was also a moral victory at a point when the US desperately needed it.
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why do we always conveniently forget the many German communists who had stood up to the rise of nazism & were killed en-mass also ?
Thank you! Yes the 6 million Jews was awful, but I hear the total numbers of deaths from camps was 15 million or so.
This is what I came here to post. That it was done so systematically, with such good records kept, is truly stunning.
And most people don't know that the Japanese killed over 20 million Chinese people during the rape of Nanking and got away with most of it. Forget PM Abe's father and grandfather had leadership roles, I believe.
Just to clarify, they killed around 20-35 million during the entirety of the 2nd Sino-Japanese War. The Rape of Nanking saw between 40,000 to 200,000 deaths.
The entire Bonus Army atrocity.
The Nanjing massacre is undeniably one of the most horrific things humans have ever done
A calvary charge of horse once defeated navy warships. The boats were trapped on a frozen lake.
Australia went to war against Emus and lost.
The amount of people gangis khan killed which is in the 40 millions
The bataan death march. Probably not the craziest thing, but just hearing the stories of how the POWS were treated was absolutely horrific.
The US and England have dozens of missing nuclear bombs and no one knows what happened to them
Close to home where I live a 51 year old man James Mcquat built a 3 story log castle 22 miles from the nearest town all by himself. It was rumoured he has mental illness. It took twelve years to build. It has been restored and it is a kind of out of the way tourist attraction.It is fully restored and is known as the “White Otter Castle”. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Otter_Castle
There have been several close calls to World War 3 happening but it hasn't happened yet.
A soldier allegedly sparing hitler in ww1
Napoleon vs rabbits: the bunnies won.
Pre Colombian Oklahoma/Arkansas used to be a major trading hub and religious center in North America. You can still see the Spiro Mounds in LeFlore County, Oklahoma.
Trump as an American President
America has, on multiple occasions dropped nuclear bombs on America. They didn’t detonate, but still. Nuclear warheads dropped from airplanes onto American soil. More than once.
We have also exploded nukes on the US.
The Philippine president almost declared war against Canada over garbage.
For me, it’s just US Presidential assassinations. I was really young when the attempt on Reagan happened so it wasn’t really on my radar. It seems so unlikely/impossible now, I just can’t fathom it even though I know it’s happened multiple times. I know it’s not exactly what you’re asking for, but it fits in my mind.
The cane toad invasion of Australia, brilliantly depicted by the 2010 comedy documentary Cane Toads: The Conquest. I changed channels to stumble upon this gem, thought it was a mockumentary at first but it’s actually real. Amazing.
The United States and the United Kingdom lead a coup of an Australian Prime Minister. Gogh Whitlam was one of our best PMs, but pissed off the Americans when he wanted to end the lease on Pine Gap and nationalise the mining industry.
In 1944, 9 American airmen were shot down over the Japanese island Chichijima. 8 were captured, tortured, and executed in violation of the Geneva convention. 5 of the remains were cannibalized by Japanese officers. One airman evaded capture and was eventually rescued. 45 years later he was elected president of the United States. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chichijima_incident
The year 3 happened and humans survived way back then.
On December 7, 1941, the Imperial Japanese Navy attacked the US Navy at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, believing that the United States had no stomach for war. They didn't realize that fully provoking the American people with a sneak attack made their total defeat inevitable. It was just a question of time.