(these are all stolen)

In March 2007, a 170-person Swiss infantry unit became lost during a training exercise and inadvertently crossed 1.5 km into Liechtenstein. The accidental invasion ended when the unit realized their mistake, and turned back. The Swiss army later informed Liechtenstein of the incursion and offered official apologies.

In the 1970s the small town of Vulcan, West Virginia asked for state funding to replace a bridge into town. The state legislature refused to grant Vulcan the funding they needed. Instead the town appealed to the Soviet Union for aid. After hearing about the request, the state legislature immediately granted over $1 million for the town to build a new bridge.

“Stop sending people to kill me! We've already captured five of them, one of them with a bomb and another with a rifle... If you don't stop sending killers, I'll send a very fast working one to Moscow and I certainly won't have to send another.”
~Tito to Joseph Stalin

Victor Hugo slept with so many prostitutes that on the day he died, all the brothels in Paris were closed, because so many of the prostitutes took the day off the mourn him.

Oliver Cromwell banned the eating of pie in 1644, declaring it a pagan form of pleasure. For 16 years, pie eating and making went underground until the Restoration leaders lifted the ban on pie in 1660.

A Spanish citizen named Juan Pujol Garcia decided he really didn't like either the communists or the facists, he decided to become a spy. He went to the British three times an offered to be their agent in the German friendly Spain. They rejected him three times. Undeterred, Juan managed to convince the Germans he was a super facist and that he was in Britain even though he was in neutral Portugal. Using whatever public information there was on Britian he could get his hands, Juan made up a convincing line of bullshet that convinced the Germans he created a vast spy network in Britain. The British managed to intercept his reports and started a full scale spy hunt for a spy network that didn't exist. Eventually, they realized what was happening, and that Juan had wasted the German navy's time looking for a non-existent convoy that they brought Juan into their own double agent system, giving him the code name GARBO. The Germans were so impressed with Juan's efforts that they stopped trying to recruit more spies in the nation. Juan did mix in actual military intelligence with the piles of bullshet, but always made sure it arrived to the Nazis JUST after it was useful. This spy network was instrumental to the success of D-day, as the Nazis were utterly convinced that the main invasion force was going to land at Calais, not Normandy. For his efforts, Juan recieved both the British Member of the Order of the British Empire... and the German Iron Cross.

80% of males born in the Soviet Union in 1923 were killed in WWII.

Toward the end of WWII, the 12th Armored Division of the US military teamed up with a division of the Wehrmacht and a rag tag band of French POWs to defend an Austrian castle full of actual celebrities from an assault by the SS.

John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, Founding Fathers and the 2nd and 3rd Presidents of the United States respectively, died within hours of each other on July 4, 1826 - the 50th anniversary of the adoption of The Declaration of Independence. Adams' last words were "Jefferson lives", unaware that his old friend and compatriot had died earlier that day.

Back in Colonial America, slaves could win their freedom through lawsuit. Although there was a low chance of succeeding, winning in court meant that slave was now a citizen. Since slaves often didn't have last names and needed a last name to be a citizen, they were often just given the last name of 'Freeman'. That's why so many Black Americans have the last name of 'Freeman'.

President Andrew Jackson was almost assassinated point blank. The shooter's gun jammed, and he ran away. Jackson chased the assailant down and beat him with his cane

In 1919 there was a molasses flood in Boston that killed 21 people and injured 150.

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.

A roll of toilet paper was priced at 2,600,000 bolivars, or 40 cents. The International Monetary Fund has estimated that Venezuela will have 1 million percent inflation by year-end. A kilogram of carrots was 3,000,000 bolivars, or 46 cents. A bar of soap was 3,500,000 bolivars, or 53 cents.

When FDR died in office the Manhattan Project (atomic bomb) was so secret that his Vice President didn’t even know about it, and upon taking oath Truman had to be briefed on the existence of the bomb.