Rabbits – terrorising man since 1807 .
History can be fascinating, terrifying, illuminating, and… Hilarious. So whenu/crooked_yellowrecently asked Redditwhich events from historywill always be funny, the responses flooded in. Here are some of the best ones…
1.“During most of the Roman Republic and Empire, generals would keepseveral sacred chickensto consult whether to go into battle or not. They’d throw seed in front of the chickens, and if they ate, it was battle. If they didn’t eat, they’d abstain.”
2.“When Persian King Xerxes punished the sea for ruining his bridge.”
3.“The con man who sold the Eiffel Tower twice and got away with it.”
4.“During the Napoleonic wars, a French ship sank off the coast of Hartlepool, England. The only survivor was The Captain’s pet monkey, which he always dressed in a French military uniform.”
5.“Ancient Korea had special recording officials, whose job was to record everything. They were considered separate from the Government, so The Emperor at the time wasn’t allowed to give them orders or tell them not to record something. Of course, some emperors would try anyway.”
6.“Spanish chicken farmer Juan Pujol Garcia tried to become a spy for the MI5, but they rejected him. He then applied to become a spy for the Nazi SS, who accepted him. The SS gave him the order to start a spy network in London, but instead he set up shop in Lisbon. There, he started feeding the Nazi commanders a bunch of horseshit intel”.
7.“The Kettle War. It was the 8th October 1784, and the Dutch kingdom and the then Holy Roman Empire had a short naval battle. The only casualty was akettle full of soupthat got hit by a cannonball from the only shot that was fired.”
8.“In 1945, the Americans were pushing through Germany. Commander General Eisenhower sent General Patton a message, instructing him not to take the city of Trier because it would require four divisions to seize the city. Patton sent a message back saying ‘Have takenTrier with two divisions… what do you want me to do, give it back?'”
9.“President Jimmy Carter was attacked by a rabbit while paddling around in a rowboat. The president was minding his own business rowing around a small pond and fishing when a rabbit left the shore and swam deliberately towards the boat, apparently crazed.”
10.“Nobles of the Holy Roman Empire once congregated to discuss a dispute, but end upcollapsing the wooden floorof a citadel due to their weight. 60 to 100 people ended up drowning in a latrine cesspit below the floor.”
11.“During the height of the Cold War, somewhere deep in the halls of the CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, intelligence officers came up with the idea to parachute thousands of XLcondoms labeled Mediumonto the Soviets. The idea behind the operation was to undermine the morale of people living in the USSR by implying that the men of US were… Superior.”
12.“Mary Toft convincing a load of doctors and clergymen – including the personal doctor to the King of England – that she couldgive birth to rabbits.”
13.“Back when India was under British colonial rule, there was a littleproblem with cobras. The ‘obvious’ solution was to put a bounty on them. The only problem was that the price for each cobra the British were offering was greater than the cost of breeding and raising a cobra.”
14.“A 1631publication of the Biblecaused an uproar when it was discovered that one of the Ten Commandments had been misprinted to read ‘Thou shalt commit adultery’.”
15.“Napoleon was once forced to flee from an army of rabbits.”
