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Cecil De Mille was a horrible person and a great problem solver.
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Good Guy Napoleon rewards a man for building a fine bridge.
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America’s first Japanese POW in World War II was a hapless minisub commander who got lost!
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Henry II knew how to dinner party!
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Punishment by… hen impersonation?
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Sometimes being lazy really pays off! [WWII]
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Tsarevna Sophia took the phrase “the power behind the throne” rather literally!
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AWKWARD.
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Queen Njinga of the West African kingdom of Ndongo kept a large male harem and dressed them in drag!
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American troopers looted all sorts of luxury vehicles when they advanced on Berchtesgaden. Upset they were ordered to turn them over to upper brass, they first performed ‘experiments’ on them. [WWII]
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Pyrrhus of Epirus conquers Macedon and deposes its king by… putting on his helmet.
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Taiwan makes everyone register their ‘flotation devices’ in an effort to deter defections.
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The Bemba tribe of Central Africa once marched off to conquer the entire continent, failed to do so, settled down by a lake, where most of them were killed or run off in a failed crocodile holocaust. TA DA.
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Blackbeard, what the hell?
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German diarist’s village is occupied by the Americans in the end of the Second World War, finds it so completely underwhelming that he has to be reminded to even write about it.
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Worried about a potential Union invasion, South Carolina blocks its port by sinking old ships at the mouth, which turns out to accomplish little but convince merchants to take their business elsewhere!
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All attempts at artificial aviation are not only dangerous but foredoomed to failure from an engineering standpoint
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Peter the Great, what the hell?
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Alexander the Great’s project to reach the city of Tyre by connecting it to the mainland with a mole quickly becomes very un-funny!
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Badass American gunner doesn’t let a horrendous wound hold him back!
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When kings get bored.
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George Washington decides that he is not the man to sink the entire island of Great Britain into the ocean. The navy can do that.
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Roadblock? What roadblock? [WWII]
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Technically correct.
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King James of England has to pass an official proclamation making it illegal to lynch the Earl of Tyrone.
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