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In WWII they tried to use potato beetles as bioweapons but failed beause kids were used to collect them
(www.sussex.ac.uk)
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FDR, what the hell?
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The British government recruits a young officer to work in Northern Rhodesia… but nobody seems to know where it is!
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OH NO YOU DIDN’T.
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A battlefield practical joke gets all too real! [WWII]
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American Civil War + St. Patrick’s Day + Irish Brigade = OH GOD MAKE IT STOP THESE IRISHMEN ARE FANATICS.
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Henry Halleck hated Corinth, Mississippi so much that he named a poop after it!
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The opening of Britain’s first automobile race track was led by the builder of the track, who let his wife drive while he sat in the passenger seat and smoked a pipe. A most British affair.
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American trooper plays a practical joke, gets a good scare for his troubles! [WWII]
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A most un-Presidential problem.
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Alexander the Great tries to troll future generations into thinking he and his men were literally giants.
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Captain Morgan, later the governor of Jamaica, invites a bunch of pirates to the worst dinner party ever.
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History may have missed out on a great and memorable speech because a man didn’t bother to pay attention to what he was drinking!
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English gentleman in Africa gifts a bushbaby to his aunt and uncle back in London, where it crashes a fancy party.
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Sally Collins, a 19th century resident of Jones County, Mississippi, wouldn’t take her divorce lying down!
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Early 18th century man becomes governor of New Hampshire as a direct result of a failed business venture!
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Austrian army mistakes itself for hostile Ottomans, consequently defeats itself and forces the Kaiser himself to fall into a ditch in the middle of all the confusion
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William Byrd II of Virginia sure writes a lot about fighting with, and having intercourse with, his wife. Seriously, a lot.
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An AAF training accident that was only funny because everyone survived.
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Abraham Lincoln trolls Alexander McClure.
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Sir Henry Morgan is doctor-shopping because of his poor health, settles on a local “doctor,” decides to move on after being covered with clay and having a bunch of urine flushed into his colon.
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Manning Up in Ancient China
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Antigonus III of Doson had a sick burn for one of his generals who was out-generaled by one of his own men!
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Newton Knight robs a Confederate warehouse by making his own door!
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Douglas MacArthur’s lobbying saves army pensions during Roosevelt’s 1933 budget cuts, later receives a grateful missive from a famous benefactor!
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