25 Absurd Random History Facts

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After Vladimir Lenin’s death in 1924 Josef Stalin’s first move to try and secure power for himself was volunteering to organise Lenin’s funeral and then intentionally gave Leon Trotsky the wrong date for the funeral. Trotsky didn’t show up for the funeral and this worsened his public image with the public thinking he was power greedy and didn’t give a shit about Lenin.

C_Cooke

Vlogging Through History introduced me to this gem of a channel! Keep up the great work!

micayahc.wilson

A weird story you left out was of Violet Jessup. She was on the Olympic in 1910 when it collided with HMS Hawke. She was on the Titanic in 1912 when it struck the iceberg and sank and she survived. Finally she was on the Britannic when it struck a mine and sank during WW I. Again, she survived. She died in 1971 at the age of 84. I'm not sure if she was the luckiest or unluckiest woman in the world.

Valicroix

Vlogging Through History gang is on the way. Great content. This is why I love VTH, you learn and discover new amazing channels.

philipopperman

Life's biggest oxymoron: One of history's most evil men being responsible for the commission of one of most recognizable car brands today.

coachgoltzbizpro

Some honorable mentions include:

1) During WW2, Fanta was made due to the fact that the US banned exports going to Germany and as such, the head of Coca-Cola in Germany came up with a solution and mixed and mashed a bunch of leftover ingredients. When coming up with the name, the head told his team to "use their imagination, " and one team member spoke up and said "Fanta" because imagination in German is Fantasie.

2) The man that was Diogenes. Poverty was his career and begged on the streets for a living and lived in a giant jar in an active marketplace. He was an active critic of Plato and used to disrupt Socrates lectures by eating and talking to Socrates' students. He also used to urinate on people and get off in public. Alexander the Great even wanted to meet the man and found him relaxing in the morning sunlight. When asked if there was anything he could do for him, Diogenes, being the Chad he was, only wanted Alexander to move out of the way so he could enjoy the sunlight. Alexander then said, "if I were not Alexander, then I should wish to be Diogenes." Diogenes then replied, "if I were not Diogenes, I'd still wish to be Diogenes." Alexander also found him looking through piles of bones to which Diogenes said; "I am looking for the bones of your father, however I can't distinguish from those of a slave." When was asked on how he would like to be buried, he simply said to throw his body outside the city walls and allow the wild animals to feast on it.

3) Before the infamous Mount Vesuvius eruption in 79AD, Pompeii was basically the sex paradise for Romans. After being rediscovered, archeologists found many erotic art and graffiti that was polar opposite in terms of writing to classical Latin. Some of the graffiti included phrases such as; "Weep, you girls. My penis has given you up. Now it penetrates men's behinds. Goodbye, wondrous femininity!" "I screwed the barmaid" "We have pissed in our beds. Host, I admit that we shouldn't have done this. If you ask: Why? There was no potty" "Apollinaris, the doctor of the emperor Titus, shat well here."

4) Louis III of France died at the age of 18 after being a little creep and chased after a girl on his horse. He then hit his head on the lintel of a door frame and fractured his skull.

5) In 1859, war between the US and the UK almost erupted after a tense showdown on the San Juan Islands after an American farmer shot and killed a pig that belonged to an Irish farmer who worked for the Hudson's Bay Company. The American wanted to give the Irishman $10 for compensation, but the Irishman wanted $1000. British authorities got involved, and so the American farmer and other American settlers asked for military protection. Things only escalated when General William Harney was assigned the situation and both sides increased military aide, when word got back to Washington and London, officials from both governments went over to the islands and deescalated things quickly and agreed for a joint military occupation until a final say in whether the islands belong to the US or British Colombia. Oversimplified made a good video on it and how much of an idiot Harney really was.

6) US President Zachary Taylor died after eating too many cherries and cold milk. There's not much to say for this, it's just a funny and interesting fact.

Fool

Random fact: no matter what people say, pets are our masters. We serve them food, entertain them and pamper them.

LivingEpicness

Cody executing order 66 in the intro absolutely broke me

Also I was wondering if you could do a video on Phenious Gage

slicedbread

Second video so soon? A terrific start!

_____das

As a massive fan of history and game lore, plus you two guys running it? Can’t wait for these crazy ass facts 😂

fazefailure

One of my favourite weird history stories is the mass panic hysteria that was apparently caused by a Halloween 1938 radio broadcast of the novel war of the worlds. A lot of Americans at the time supposedly turned on that specific channel about 12 minutes into the broadcast causing as it conflicted with another radio drama at the time. which then caused most people to miss the pre-show message saying it was fiction and because of how it was scripted listeners believed the invasion to be accurate. With some bombarding police stations with calls for help and others volunteering for the war against mars. I just find it funny that mass hysteria was potentially caused because people just forgot what was on.

Also im also not 100% how bad the panic was cause i haven't really fact checked all that much i think i read somewhere media at the time may have made it a bigger thing then what it was, but i just find it funny that it happened. the first time i heared about it i thought to myself "that's the right level of stupid to be real"

lukesweeting

They think the idea of tomatoes being poisonous was actually due to the fact that people would eat them off pewter plates which would leach lead due to the acidic nature of the fruit, and could actually poison a person.

ChristopherSibert

Vlogging Through History sends his regards, and with that said, great content, friend. Let's get you over 10k!

dennypetrosian

Off the top of my head, here’s another 5 you can add to the list:

26. In the ninth century, former Pope Formosus was put on trial by his successor, Stephen VI in the Basilica of Saint John for the crimes of perjury and having ascended to the Papal Throne illegally. The problem was that at the time of the trial, Formosus had already been dead for several months and Stephen had his corpse exhumed and put on display in what would be called the Cadaver Synod before sentencing him and throwing his body in Tiber where some claimed Formosus’ body began to perform miracles. Stephen’s successor would have the synod declared void and Formosus rehabilitated.

27. Vladimir the Great, Grand Prince of Kiev who converted to Orthodox Christianity and thus brought Russia and Eastern Europe into the Orthodox Church had actually been offering up the faith of his people to the highest bidder and while he almost converted to Islam, he eventually declined the emissaries of the Muslim World, citing the Kievan peoples love of alcohol as a reason for why Islam would not be an appropriate religion for them.

28. While King James VI of Scotland was remarkably tolerant for the time towards his Catholic subjects, especially when he would later become the King of England, he was nowhere near as tolerant towards those he believed practised witchcraft. Indeed, James was one of the most fierce persecutors of witches in Europe especially seen during the North Berwick Witch Trials. This persecution was caused by a storm that prevented James’ wife, Anne of Denmark, from crossing to Scotland, an event James believed was the work of witchcraft. In the ensuring trials, between seventy and two hundred people were accused of High Treason, including the Earl of Bothwell though how many people were executed remains unknown.

29. During the First Crusade, a group of zealous pilgrims became convinced that a goose was possessed by the Holy Spirit and would thereafter be their guide towards the Holy Land. The chronicle in which it’s mentioned doesn’t say whether their venture was successful but given what happened to Peter the Hermit’s peasant army when they tried to claim land for Christendom, one hopes that the goose led them to happier lands instead.

30. During his conquest of Scotland, my account’s namesake, Edward I, besieged Sterling Castle with the War Wolf, the largest trebuchet ever constructed and would be capable of levelling the castle, which the Scottish defenders knew which was why they yielded the castle to Edward… a surrender he refused as he was too anxious to try out the War Wolf for himself so he attacked the castle anyway and only after seeing the trebuchet in action did he accept their surrender.

Longshanks

Loved this kind of content! I adore history so I know this Channel is going to be right up my alley. Can’t wait to see where it goes from here.

Can definitely see this type of video becoming a series on the channel eventually with it just getting better and better.

RandomWavelength