@@maieen2665 I don’t think the anarchy part that current “activist” rioters is worth repeating. I don’t know if the police are generally corrupt enough to consider an overhaul, unless you count the mayors ordering them to not enforce the laws to the point where _Serve and protect_ is no longer a relevant motto.
I'm imagining an army of clowns armed with chainsaws and water sqerters, battling an army of fire fighters armed with fire hoses, axes, and helligen bars (thank you to those who pointed that out)
My favorite historical crazy was a Scottish gentleman who's wife smuggled him out of an English prison dressed as a woman. She and two other women went into the cell at various times, bringing in dress, and undergarments, there were at least three "women" in the cell at any given time. When he was out, his good wife told the gaurds that he wanted to pray, and to please not bother him for at least an hour.
Something similar happened in Mexico in the 90s. An American man was arrested in Mexico and his girlfriend visits him every week * disguised as a man disguised as a woman * and announced that they were "getting married" (a way of saying they were having sex ) to have more time alone to themselves. After months of doing that, one day the girlfriend brought a change of clothes in her bag for herself and left earlier with regular visits and left her the costume with the boyfriend. The police did not see the girlfriend leave because she hid among the other women who came to visit her relative and they ignored the man in a wig and makeup because for them it was simply a regular visit.
The gentleman in question was the Earl of Nithsdale in 1716. Escaped from the Tower of London. I just visited it a few months ago and heard this story from the Yeoman doing the tour. Lol thanks for the reminder of this story Bucky’s girl.
My favorite history moment is the „Kappler Milch Suppe“ (The milk soup of Kappel) during some religious war (catholics vs. Protestants) in Switzerland the two armies met in Kappel, a valley. When they met, they decided that they didn’t want to fight, so instead they made a big pot of milk soup and sat together and broke bread and ate soup.
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Or on the opposite end of the spectrum, the Kettle War. A small war fought over a soup kettle that was stolen. It may, or may not, have contained soup when stolen.
Oh no I almost forgot "The Ballet of the Bum". Irishmen learning that a hoard of Vikings was coming went out into a swamp marking the safe path, so when the Vikings came towards them, they stopped at the edge of the big. The Irishmen dropped their pants, and mooned the invaders. The Vikings weren't too happy about that, and ran into the bog after the Irish, and they got stuck and sunk into the bog.
Flashing/mooning yourself was a way to humiliate an enemy in Gaelic Irish culture. It traces back to pre-christian beliefs and continued into the Elizabethan era. There’s a castle in Bandon, Co. Cork, Ireland with an image of a woman flashing her genitals. It’s called a Sheela na Gig. There are hypotheses that it was meant to ward off evil.
@@MCKevin289 Oh, that's interesting! A similar thing used to be in Slavic folklore where women had to flash their genitals at certain demons to fluster and intimidate them X'D
I remember when that assassination attempt of Jean Chrétien happened. It was 1995. The story on Reddit is embellished though. Neither Aline, nor Jean, beat André Dallaire with a statue. They locked themselves in their room and he didn’t attempt to get inside. One of them did hold a statue just in case, but there was no pummelling.
On the topic of the Olympics. In 1912 it was held in Stockholm. One of the games was a marathon held during a scorching hot day. The competitors was mostly not prepared for the race, and used gear that by todays measures would be laughable. Well, one of the competitors was this Japanese guy that decided to ditch the race. If I remember the story correctly he stopped to have a glas of berries juice in someone’s garden. 😅 But he returned to Stockholm some 50 years later to finish his race. “On 20 March 1967, Shiso Kanakuri (Japan) completed a marathon in Stockholm, Sweden, that he had started in 1912. His finish time of 54 years 246 days 5 hours 32 minutes 20.3 seconds represents the longest time to complete a marathon.”
What's even better was that there was a joke among Swedes during that period that he was still doing that race and was being lost. And there was plenty of jokes like they sighted the guy running past their houses and similar stuff.
During the Emu War, there were people in Australia's government that wanted to award some of the Emus for victory against the Australian Military. The whole Emu War sounds like a myth made up while higher than Snoop Dog, but that part about the actual governors wanting to award the emus for beating their own army men is just too good.
Ae, the Emu War, I was hoping it would be mentioned in this video. Hopefully two mentions of it will get it to appear in the next episode of this subreddit
What about The Great Emu War? To this day, Emus are the only Non-Human species that a human civilization formally declared war on. Australia is also the only country to have lost a war to a non-human species.....that being The Emus.
Some don’t have to imagine. Since I’m a night owl, my ex-husband and I slept at weird hours. He would always get pissed when I “see things” crawling around the house. We’ve had carpenter ants, scorpions, a garden snake, and some raccoons invade because he thought I was “seeing things”, but then if I told his mom he’d believe her. He’d get the issue fixed and apologize TO HIS MOM that he didn’t notice. One night I walked into the bedroom and saw the Godzilla of spiders above the headboard. Again, I tried to tell him, he shooed me away calling me crazy so I let a spider crawl above my ex-husband’s head while he was in bed. I let my sweet baby Liam Neeson (one of our chunky black cats-23 lb) play with the spider. My ex told me to get my crazy ass out while he was sleeping. 😈 He wasn’t sleeping for long! When all the ruckus stopped I opened the door and Liam came out triumphantly with the spider in his mouth. Liam got several treats after that.
Pfft i still love Mad Jack. He was a Scottsman that went into WW2 armed with a british Longbow, a Claymore (broadsword) and bagpipes. And he not only survived the war he won many battles. After the war he still served the military, even rescuing civilians while under fire. "If you smile at your enemy, youre less likely to get shot at"
Didn't expect to enjoy this but you got me cackling like a madman from the first story. Definitely gonna browse through more stories in this sub. Love your videos Rslash.
The runner being dosed with rat poison wasn’t that uncommon, in certain doses strychnine can boost athletic performance. Yes, they did use it in cycling 😂
My favorite historical moment involves a gentleman from Athens by the name of Alcibiades who went around knocking dicks off statues and had to flee to Sparta before he could be punished for sacrilege.
Oh, my grandmother told me about it. He got drunk and took them off bc he was pissed about constantly seeing dicks. He was banished and they made some poor dude reattach them. They later brought him back because they where going to war and he was a good general evidently
@@rosewolf5020 yep, he had quite the colorful career, but he never did quite grow out of the wild child phase. Apparently Socrates took him on as a pupil because he thought it might make him a more mature, rational person. (Spoilers: it didn't) they remained good friends though
I think my favorite crazy moment in history is when Pepsi became a military power after the Soviets offered to pay for their soft drinks with a portion of their navy.
@@buckysgirl4945 I bought the "Blood Curdling Box Of Books" last year... a little expensive in my country, but the best Horrible Histories in my collection now! Took the pain out of lockdown.
@@buckysgirl4945 I don't know about Terry Jones, but right now I could only get snippets of the Horrible Histories TV shows because of the network restrictions. I got into Horrible Histories, purely by accident... But I'm glad it's a happy one.
My favorite is Charles John Joughin English-Americanchief baker aboard the Titanic. He drank the entire time, threw luggage off lifeboats and put kids on instead. He literally Threw women and children into boats that were rocking too far away from the boat to step into. Then went to the top point to go down with the ship. He dang and drank the entire time. When the ship broke it flug him forward into the water where he treaded in the frigid water. He found a collapsible boat and survived. Very very drunk.
I wanted to take today's comment of mine to thank you for being part of my morning routine and giving me something to wake up to, it helps me get out of bed feeling happier. Thank you so much RSlash! :)
My favourite crazy historical moment is the Emu War, also known as the "The Great Emu War". From 2 November till 10 December 1932, the Australian military attempted to reduce the Emu (a large flightless bird) population in Western Australia because the birds were causing crop destruction with Lewis Guns. After several attempts and 10,000 rounds of ammunition used, the 'war' was deemed a failure because the number of Emus that was killed was too small.
Joe Medicine Crow. The last war chief of the Crow nation (passed away in 2016, may he rest in peace), he accomplished all four of the achievements needed for this during WWII. 1. Lead a successful war party on a raid. He was only a private, but his superior officer instructed him to take a team of seven men to get some dynamite from a captured American position to blow up German fortifications. This would involve fighting through barbed wire, bullets, and artillery fire. "If anyone can do this, it's probably you." He pulled it off and blew a hole in the Siegfried Line (which was basically Germany's version of the Maginot Line, but it actually worked). He was one of the first soldiers to set foot on German soil. 2. Take an enemy's weapon from him. He got separated from his platoon during a flanking maneuver, and ended up literally running into a German soldier. He crashed into the guy so hard he dropped his gun. 3. Touch an enemy without killing him. Right after this, he immediately dropped his own gun and got into a fistfight with the enemy soldier. He choked the guy until he started crying for his mother, then let go of his throat and took him prisoner. 4. Steal an enemy's horse. This one's the really crazy one. He didn't just steal one... he stole fifty. While behind enemy lines, they came across a farm where some German officers were holed up, along with about fifty thoroughbred racehorses. Joe, not wanting the horses to get hurt, asked for permission to do something about that. He got the ok, so he snuck in, hopped onto the best horse bareback, and took off with all of them all while singing a Crow war song. The soldiers were so caught off guard that they couldn't get any effective shots off.
The one with the prime minister of Canada's wife reminds me of the time a lunatic with a knife tried to kill George Harrison and Harrison's wife took him on.
This Charles guy isn't just a few sandwiches short of a picnic, he's missing the gosh dang BASKET! No wonder they put this guy's brain on display, I bet it's a beautiful mess of Alzheimer tangles and knots!!
The problem is that his "belief" wasn't that far off the mark. Back at that time Post Civil War, the corruption, graft, quid pro quo and nepotism for government jobs were rampant. Sadly, it's just about as bad nowadays but with a veneer of "nudge-nudge-wink-wink-say-no-more"
Omg I remember reading about Juan Pujol Garcia I think my favorite is Geoffery Tandy, a cryptogamist (guy who studies algae) who was hired by the British government during WWII. They needed a cryptogramist (guy who studies cryptic messages) but there was a typo in their casting call. One missing r later and they have a confused guy who studies algae in their ranks. Mr. Tandy still wanted to do his part for the war though, so even after he figured out the mistake he kept quiet. Good thing too, because the Brits torpedoed a German U-boat that had some important documents aboard. In order to make use of them,, the Brits needed someone who knew how to handle delicate wet materials - like a cryptogamist
Let me tell you something about the current crop of geriatrics in this world. They are tough freaking cookies! Unless an elderly is bed ridden for some reason, I have no doubt about their ability to hand me my own a$$!!
I imagine the phone call with the prime minister attacking guy's mom went like this; The Mom: "Yes hello? Oh, my son?" Pause. "To shreds you say. Wait, what did you say the prime minister's wife did?" Pause. "To *shreds* you say..."
Facepalm Fact: it has only been approx. 120-130ish years that hand washing has been standard practice. It took a Hungarian doctor (Semmelweis) to look at survival rates, test his theory, and still be met with ridicule.
That last story is the reason why we have the sanitary practices in medicine. It was becoming a new thing but most doctors at the time didn’t believe cleaning the wound or your hands would prevent infection. Till that very high profile case.
Back then the circus would have been down at Exhibition place...I am just trying to imagine the sight of clowns and firefighters fighting along Lakeshore Blvd in Toronto and what that would look like today 🤔 And PM Chretien was a stroke survivor so that is even worse for the guy who got beat
I'm pretty sure there's a plaque about this somewhere on Yonge St near College St. So it probably happened around there somewhere. Edit: Checked it out and I am wrong. The plaque is at King and Jarvis, which is where the brothel used to be. You're right - the fight was on a green space along the water, so basically, on Lakeshore Blvd E. That same fire brigade had previously shown up to a fire at the same time as another brigade. Back then there was no centralized fire department - just volunteer brigades who served on a first-come gets to fight the fire. The two brigades got into a brawl about who would fight the fire while it burned.
I don't usually call myself a history buff because when people think of history buffs, they usually think of people who mostly focus on wars. This. This is the history I love. The absurd shit. The stuff that sounds straight out of fiction novels. If you like strange and unique history, I recommend Tom Scott's old show "Citation Needed". Especially the last few seasons that had a live studio audience. It's a delight and filled with interesting history.
Late to the party and I know this will probably get lost in the comments. But as a new father myself I love how having a child has matured you and changed your outlook on life (not a dig, your maturity/outlook was still great before, but you can still tell you have become a dad.) Love your work and keep it up :)
the Olympic race honestly deserves a movie as there’s a lot of details he didn’t list - after the 4th racer lost money on the River boat casino, the guy hitch hiked and walked to the race - the reason racer 4 ate the rotten apple was that he hadn’t eaten for 40 hours prior to the race - the guy in the car actually admitted he took the car, got banned from marathons for life, and began saying he was joking -racer people complained that racer 9 “could’ve done better.” As if he wasn’t chased a mile off the track by wild dogs. -one racer finished the race, despite his stomach being cut open by all the dust he inhaled - marathons were almost permanently banned from the Olympics as a result of this -and the guy in the car was still one of the slowest Olympic race times ever recorded - out of 40 racers only 14 finished, out of the others, 17 racers never finished, and 8 racers died And many more catastrophic events happened
Okay where can I find that thumbnail. Also I know of one, the Rozwadow Outbreak. A pair of doctors in Rozwadów, Poland in WWII used dead proteus bacteria to fake typhus infections from 1942 to 1945. The patients were unharmed from the infection, but the Germans kept the area quarantined and kept a skellington crew the town as they were afraid of the infection. No Jewish patients were infected as they would have been immediately executed and those living with them. This created a safe haven for the Jewish in Poland as they faced less persecution there and no one was deported from the town in fear of potential infection spreading. One of the doctors with his family fled town in 1943 in fear of being found out while the other one fled with his family in 1945 when a German patient of his informed the doctor that they were on a Gestapo hit list when the eastern front closed in on Poland. It is believed that they saved over 8,000 people.
I thought those clowns were going to become the new firemen. With their love of horns the clowns implemented the use of loud horns for emergency vehicles.
I'm surprised Charles Lightholler is not in this video. The dude has the most epic life. Amongst the best parts :not only survived the titanic as the most senior, officer to have survived, but he also survived quite a few incidents when he was in the British navy like storms, ships going down or catching on fire, almost died of malaria. He also participated in the gold rush in klondike but failed so ended up as a cowboy, he lost all his belongings and had to go home by riding the rails illegally. He served during wwi which wasn't even luckier for him because he was on the oceanic when it sank but he did do some brave shit. He then finally retired.. Well almost he bought a boat the sundowner and at the beginning of WWII he and his wife being old used his boat to spy on the Germans and to top if all he was part of the little ships that went to save soldiers stuck in Dunkirk and carried 144 men on his tiny ass ship across the manche.
My favorite that as far as I know has not been made into a show or movie is the voyage of the Beagle (Charles Darwin). Might seem boring off the bat, but there are a few aspects to keep in mind: Darwin was in his mid 20s, you'll start to see why this is important soon; he joined the expedition as the expert geologist, but decided he wanted to stick his nose in everything; the voyage was meant to map the coast (travel from port to port by the Beagle), Darwin decided he wanted to travel by land when possible and meet the Beagle at the next port..... something that lead to many interesting situations. Some of those interesting situations: Darwin describing the taste of the different animals he ate such as puma, trying (and often failing) different activities the locals were known for like managing to get himself tangled on the bola he was trying to through, falling while hiking mountains that were out of route because he insisted on climbing pretty much every single one he saw (at one point he described how climbing down was his favorite part because a fall would still take you in the correct direction), having to mail himself out of a town that was held by guerrilleros..... Honestly it is a fun read.
The origin of the heart symbol ♥️ is quite.. interesting. The ancient Greeks had access to a plant called Silphium, which they overused to extinction, because of its ability to induce abortion. It was only able to be grown in an area of North Africa, Cyrenaica. The seed for this plant is where the ♥️ shape comes from. It can even be found on coins minted at the time. Interested how this became the symbol for love. 😂
My favorite is "The Great Emu War" in Australia in 1932, which lasted less then a month and the humans lost to those giant flightless birds 🤣 On the 2nd of November 1932 the military traveled to Campion in Western Australia, where some 50 emus had been seen. The birds were out of range of the guns, so the locals attempted to herd the emus into an ambush. However the birds split into small groups and ran so that they were difficult targets. The first series of shots fired was ineffective due to how far away the Emus were. A second round of gunfire was able to kill “a number” of birds. Later the same day a small flock was encountered, and “perhaps a dozen” birds were killed. On the 4th of November the Aussie Army had prepared for an ambush near a local dam and over 1,000 emus were spotted heading towards their position. This time they waited until the birds were at point blank range before opening fire. The gun jammed after only 12 birds were killed and the remaining Emu’s scattered before more could be killed. In the days that followed the army chose to move further south where the birds were “reported to be fairly tame”. By the 8th of November, only 6 days into the war, 2,500 rounds of ammunition had been fired. Considering so many shots were fired the emu casualties were not great. The number of birds killed is unclear: one account claims just 50 birds, but other accounts range from 200 to 500. Fortunately the military had not suffered any casualties at the ‘hand’s’ of the Emus, according to the official report anyway.
11:03 Actually Boris Godunov did take the throne... He was a tsar for 7 years. But his reign was accompanied by ravaging famine and also due to that he wasn't directly related to the previous ruling dynasty the people thought of him as "false tsar". That's mostly why False Dmitry had such a success (before the canon frying incident ofc).
James Garfield didn't even want to be president, he was initially asked to do a speech for another man to run for president. One of the representatives decided that he liked Garfield better than the man he was trying to introduce. It took like 2 days but he became the write in candidate and kept trying to tell people not to vote for him.
Puyol-Garcia once sent a report very late at night for information that was all accurate but delayed artificially to the point it couldn't be useful. He didn't get a response till the next morning as his German handler fell asleep ... So he rebuked his handlers commitment to the cause and said he couldn't tolerate such sloppiness. The Germans responded by assigning more handlers to him (diverting them away from real operatives) and sending him some of their best encryption code books, which of course went straight down to bletchly park
All I can imagine from the clown story is colored wigs and waffled neck collars flapping around while the nose honking sounds pop up as punches are thrown. After the punches, I see fireman’s hats flying, lol. Just a wildly weird and colorful brawl, LOL!! 🤜🏼💥🤡👨🚒🤣🤣🤣👨🚒🤡💥🤛🏼
The story of Lewis Curdes is an amazing story of an American fighter pilot in WW2 who shot down a US transport aircraft and then married the nurse who was on board that airplane after the war
I was born 100 yrs to the day of Garfield getting shot (July 2, 1881), & all 3 of my kids have famous 'death-day' birthdays. The days that: Billy the Kid, Betty Page, & Wyatt Earp died.
I'm Canadian and havent heard about this attempted assassination on the prime Minister but as I'm listening I kept thinking "this sounds like Jean Chrétien... It's gotta be Jean Chrétien". Sure enough, when I see the photo, yup. It's Jean Chrétien
The agent also informed the Germans that the allies were going to invade at Normandy France. BUT, this's information was given after the allies were landing. And that it "might" be a cleaver diversion!! I believe his code name was Garbo.
Actually the South Africans were apparently there for the World Fair's recreation of the Boyer War(Unsure of the spelling) in which they'd both served as dispatch runners
I can't remember who said it first: "Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense".
This is something that I *always* think about! It's so true.
That sounds like something Mark Twain would say.
@@adamb89 I believe it was him, iirc.
@@adamb89 - I thought it might be, but I hate misattributing quotes - it was easier to leave it out than to look it up!
Google says Mark Twain.
I love that instead of the gun he wanted on display in the museum they instead put his brain on display.
Probably it looks just like a smooth rock.
3:00 “The police did nothing, so the city fired all the cops…”
Oh, that’s why it’s unbelievable in our day and age.
Can..... Can we do that?..... Is that a thing that can happen?......
Sometimes repeating history can be a good thing…
@@maieen2665 I don’t think the anarchy part that current “activist” rioters is worth repeating. I don’t know if the police are generally corrupt enough to consider an overhaul, unless you count the mayors ordering them to not enforce the laws to the point where _Serve and protect_ is no longer a relevant motto.
1904 Race: Sounds like a Month Python sketch before Monty Python even existed.
So does the James Madison story
the marathon for the incontinent?
I'm imagining an army of clowns armed with chainsaws and water sqerters, battling an army of fire fighters armed with fire hoses, axes, and helligen bars (thank you to those who pointed that out)
Jaws of life?
The Haligan bar?
Looked it up and it sounds like you meant the Halligan bar
This story is too good. Clowns and firemen.Far too good.
My favorite historical crazy was a Scottish gentleman who's wife smuggled him out of an English prison dressed as a woman. She and two other women went into the cell at various times, bringing in dress, and undergarments, there were at least three "women" in the cell at any given time. When he was out, his good wife told the gaurds that he wanted to pray, and to please not bother him for at least an hour.
Now that should be a movie
Something similar happened in Mexico in the 90s. An American man was arrested in Mexico and his girlfriend visits him every week * disguised as a man disguised as a woman * and announced that they were "getting married" (a way of saying they were having sex ) to have more time alone to themselves. After months of doing that, one day the girlfriend brought a change of clothes in her bag for herself and left earlier with regular visits and left her the costume with the boyfriend. The police did not see the girlfriend leave because she hid among the other women who came to visit her relative and they ignored the man in a wig and makeup because for them it was simply a regular visit.
@@Vender02 Was her boyfriend ever found and sent back or did the make it back to the US and still live freely to this day?
The gentleman in question was the Earl of Nithsdale in 1716. Escaped from the Tower of London. I just visited it a few months ago and heard this story from the Yeoman doing the tour. Lol thanks for the reminder of this story Bucky’s girl.
@@tommoore2012 The news was old, but at the time I saw it, they were living in USA an were happily married
My favorite history moment is the „Kappler Milch Suppe“ (The milk soup of Kappel) during some religious war (catholics vs. Protestants) in Switzerland the two armies met in Kappel, a valley. When they met, they decided that they didn’t want to fight, so instead they made a big pot of milk soup and sat together and broke bread and ate soup.
Or on the opposite end of the spectrum, the Kettle War.
A small war fought over a soup kettle that was stolen.
It may, or may not, have contained soup when stolen.
That's wholesome
@ similar thing happened in Italy with a bucket stolen from Bologna.
Oh no I almost forgot "The Ballet of the Bum". Irishmen learning that a hoard of Vikings was coming went out into a swamp marking the safe path, so when the Vikings came towards them, they stopped at the edge of the big. The Irishmen dropped their pants, and mooned the invaders. The Vikings weren't too happy about that, and ran into the bog after the Irish, and they got stuck and sunk into the bog.
haha they showed their cracks 😂
Flashing/mooning yourself was a way to humiliate an enemy in Gaelic Irish culture. It traces back to pre-christian beliefs and continued into the Elizabethan era. There’s a castle in Bandon, Co. Cork, Ireland with an image of a woman flashing her genitals. It’s called a Sheela na Gig. There are hypotheses that it was meant to ward off evil.
Canadian PM story is 100% true. It was Jean Cretian and his wife Aline.
@@I_Heart_Hader Not really
@@MCKevin289 Oh, that's interesting! A similar thing used to be in Slavic folklore where women had to flash their genitals at certain demons to fluster and intimidate them X'D
I remember when that assassination attempt of Jean Chrétien happened. It was 1995. The story on Reddit is embellished though. Neither Aline, nor Jean, beat André Dallaire with a statue. They locked themselves in their room and he didn’t attempt to get inside. One of them did hold a statue just in case, but there was no pummelling.
On the topic of the Olympics. In 1912 it was held in Stockholm. One of the games was a marathon held during a scorching hot day. The competitors was mostly not prepared for the race, and used gear that by todays measures would be laughable. Well, one of the competitors was this Japanese guy that decided to ditch the race. If I remember the story correctly he stopped to have a glas of berries juice in someone’s garden. 😅 But he returned to Stockholm some 50 years later to finish his race. “On 20 March 1967, Shiso Kanakuri (Japan) completed a marathon in Stockholm, Sweden, that he had started in 1912. His finish time of 54 years 246 days 5 hours 32 minutes 20.3 seconds represents the longest time to complete a marathon.”
What's even better was that there was a joke among Swedes during that period that he was still doing that race and was being lost. And there was plenty of jokes like they sighted the guy running past their houses and similar stuff.
Theres something so innocent about the way Rslash does the clown nose thing. Lol.
During the Emu War, there were people in Australia's government that wanted to award some of the Emus for victory against the Australian Military. The whole Emu War sounds like a myth made up while higher than Snoop Dog, but that part about the actual governors wanting to award the emus for beating their own army men is just too good.
The Emu War is my favorite thing from Australia. It's just crazy.
I wa swondering where the Emu war was. This video should have started with Australias war against the evil Emus.
Ae, the Emu War, I was hoping it would be mentioned in this video. Hopefully two mentions of it will get it to appear in the next episode of this subreddit
Fun Fact: In the 1800's the U.S and Great Britain almost went to war because some guy shot a pig.
Even weirder is the fact that Britain and Iceland went to war in the 60s
So you watched the latest "Oversimplified" video too, huh? 😁
@@danielseelye6005 Well duh
Which country did the police officer belong to?
"STOP WITH THE OVERSIMPLIFIED REFERENCES OR I'LL EAT YOUR EYES!"
- American Customs Officer, probably.
What about The Great Emu War? To this day, Emus are the only Non-Human species that a human civilization formally declared war on. Australia is also the only country to have lost a war to a non-human species.....that being The Emus.
I believe the Australian Government also wanted to award the emus for winning some of the fights.
In an alternate world Australia is under Emu military rule.
@@MorganVsTheInternet You mean they're not right now?
You left out that the humans lost that war, lol
@@angelnegra No i didnt. That was the very end of the post. lol
No no, imagine being the "man" of the house, ignoring your wife and having her go beat the crap out of the murderer in your home🤣😹🤣
Some don’t have to imagine. Since I’m a night owl, my ex-husband and I slept at weird hours. He would always get pissed when I “see things” crawling around the house. We’ve had carpenter ants, scorpions, a garden snake, and some raccoons invade because he thought I was “seeing things”, but then if I told his mom he’d believe her. He’d get the issue fixed and apologize TO HIS MOM that he didn’t notice. One night I walked into the bedroom and saw the Godzilla of spiders above the headboard. Again, I tried to tell him, he shooed me away calling me crazy so I let a spider crawl above my ex-husband’s head while he was in bed. I let my sweet baby Liam Neeson (one of our chunky black cats-23 lb) play with the spider. My ex told me to get my crazy ass out while he was sleeping. 😈 He wasn’t sleeping for long! When all the ruckus stopped I opened the door and Liam came out triumphantly with the spider in his mouth. Liam got several treats after that.
Pfft i still love Mad Jack. He was a Scottsman that went into WW2 armed with a british Longbow, a Claymore (broadsword) and bagpipes. And he not only survived the war he won many battles. After the war he still served the military, even rescuing civilians while under fire. "If you smile at your enemy, youre less likely to get shot at"
Why do I get the feeling the Scotsman from Samurai Jack was meant to be a reference to this? :O
The spy dude sound like a writer, going around killing his fake spy buddies
Watch wendigoon he talk about it in more detail
The joke with "Godunov wasn't good enough" is just priceless. As a Russian I laughed out loud 🤣
Irony is that he was good enough. He was a tsar till his death in 1605 and only after his death false Dimitryes came along.
Didn't expect to enjoy this but you got me cackling like a madman from the first story. Definitely gonna browse through more stories in this sub. Love your videos Rslash.
Ok
3:15 I got so much serotonin hearing R/Slash make that honking noise
I made that my ringtone.
The runner being dosed with rat poison wasn’t that uncommon, in certain doses strychnine can boost athletic performance. Yes, they did use it in cycling 😂
My favorite historical moment involves a gentleman from Athens by the name of Alcibiades who went around knocking dicks off statues and had to flee to Sparta before he could be punished for sacrilege.
Oh, my grandmother told me about it. He got drunk and took them off bc he was pissed about constantly seeing dicks. He was banished and they made some poor dude reattach them. They later brought him back because they where going to war and he was a good general evidently
@@rosewolf5020 yep, he had quite the colorful career, but he never did quite grow out of the wild child phase. Apparently Socrates took him on as a pupil because he thought it might make him a more mature, rational person. (Spoilers: it didn't) they remained good friends though
I think my favorite crazy moment in history is when Pepsi became a military power after the Soviets offered to pay for their soft drinks with a portion of their navy.
You should do more of these... Terry Deary's Horrible Histories fan would love these kinds of stuff!
We do.
@@buckysgirl4945 I bought the "Blood Curdling Box Of Books" last year... a little expensive in my country, but the best Horrible Histories in my collection now!
Took the pain out of lockdown.
@@kairinase I would also recommend you look up the Tv series. Along with Terry Jones' Medieval Lives.
@@buckysgirl4945 I don't know about Terry Jones, but right now I could only get snippets of the Horrible Histories TV shows because of the network restrictions.
I got into Horrible Histories, purely by accident... But I'm glad it's a happy one.
My favorite is Charles John Joughin English-Americanchief baker aboard the Titanic. He drank the entire time, threw luggage off lifeboats and put kids on instead. He literally Threw women and children into boats that were rocking too far away from the boat to step into. Then went to the top point to go down with the ship. He dang and drank the entire time. When the ship broke it flug him forward into the water where he treaded in the frigid water. He found a collapsible boat and survived. Very very drunk.
The one about the prime minister and his wife is by far my favorite story on this thread
As a Canadian, I had never heard about the Prime Minister and Loon story, but I'm so glad I now know it.
He also grabbed a reporter by the throat when the reporter got up in his face. Seems like there were problems with chretiens security.
As a history buff myself i like this
I wanted to take today's comment of mine to thank you for being part of my morning routine and giving me something to wake up to, it helps me get out of bed feeling happier. Thank you so much RSlash! :)
My favourite crazy historical moment is the Emu War, also known as the "The Great Emu War". From 2 November till 10 December 1932, the Australian military attempted to reduce the Emu (a large flightless bird) population in Western Australia because the birds were causing crop destruction with Lewis Guns. After several attempts and 10,000 rounds of ammunition used, the 'war' was deemed a failure because the number of Emus that was killed was too small.
Joe Medicine Crow.
The last war chief of the Crow nation (passed away in 2016, may he rest in peace), he accomplished all four of the achievements needed for this during WWII.
1. Lead a successful war party on a raid. He was only a private, but his superior officer instructed him to take a team of seven men to get some dynamite from a captured American position to blow up German fortifications. This would involve fighting through barbed wire, bullets, and artillery fire. "If anyone can do this, it's probably you." He pulled it off and blew a hole in the Siegfried Line (which was basically Germany's version of the Maginot Line, but it actually worked). He was one of the first soldiers to set foot on German soil.
2. Take an enemy's weapon from him. He got separated from his platoon during a flanking maneuver, and ended up literally running into a German soldier. He crashed into the guy so hard he dropped his gun.
3. Touch an enemy without killing him. Right after this, he immediately dropped his own gun and got into a fistfight with the enemy soldier. He choked the guy until he started crying for his mother, then let go of his throat and took him prisoner.
4. Steal an enemy's horse. This one's the really crazy one. He didn't just steal one... he stole fifty. While behind enemy lines, they came across a farm where some German officers were holed up, along with about fifty thoroughbred racehorses. Joe, not wanting the horses to get hurt, asked for permission to do something about that. He got the ok, so he snuck in, hopped onto the best horse bareback, and took off with all of them all while singing a Crow war song. The soldiers were so caught off guard that they couldn't get any effective shots off.
The one with the prime minister of Canada's wife reminds me of the time a lunatic with a knife tried to kill George Harrison and Harrison's wife took him on.
This Charles guy isn't just a few sandwiches short of a picnic, he's missing the gosh dang BASKET! No wonder they put this guy's brain on display, I bet it's a beautiful mess of Alzheimer tangles and knots!!
The problem is that his "belief" wasn't that far off the mark. Back at that time Post Civil War, the corruption, graft, quid pro quo and nepotism for government jobs were rampant. Sadly, it's just about as bad nowadays but with a veneer of "nudge-nudge-wink-wink-say-no-more"
"You punch him, HONK HONK! Our next reply is from..."
I DIED LMAAAAAAAO
Omg I remember reading about Juan Pujol Garcia
I think my favorite is Geoffery Tandy, a cryptogamist (guy who studies algae) who was hired by the British government during WWII. They needed a cryptogramist (guy who studies cryptic messages) but there was a typo in their casting call. One missing r later and they have a confused guy who studies algae in their ranks. Mr. Tandy still wanted to do his part for the war though, so even after he figured out the mistake he kept quiet.
Good thing too, because the Brits torpedoed a German U-boat that had some important documents aboard. In order to make use of them,, the Brits needed someone who knew how to handle delicate wet materials - like a cryptogamist
The guy who made up spies sounds like he might have had a split personality.
Let me tell you something about the current crop of geriatrics in this world. They are tough freaking cookies! Unless an elderly is bed ridden for some reason, I have no doubt about their ability to hand me my own a$$!!
If this is RSlash's reaction to history, I want to see his reaction to "History of the Entire World, I Guess". That should be fun. XD
You should make more of these videos, I haven't laughed that hard in a while!
Garfield's assassin: "Oh no no no it would be rude to kill a man in front of his ill wife."
I see that Prime Minister's wife also shops for home decor on how good of a weapon it would make, lol
I imagine the phone call with the prime minister attacking guy's mom went like this;
The Mom: "Yes hello? Oh, my son?" Pause. "To shreds you say. Wait, what did you say the prime minister's wife did?" Pause. "To *shreds* you say..."
I always love crazy historical stories.
Facepalm Fact: it has only been approx. 120-130ish years that hand washing has been standard practice. It took a Hungarian doctor (Semmelweis) to look at survival rates, test his theory, and still be met with ridicule.
It's crazy what he went through for decades to prove it too.
Lady said "don't fuck with granny prime minister" lmfao
That last story is the reason why we have the sanitary practices in medicine. It was becoming a new thing but most doctors at the time didn’t believe cleaning the wound or your hands would prevent infection. Till that very high profile case.
how he said Trafalgar made me cry inside
Holy crap these stories were honestly more entertaining than most of entitled stories
The marathon and spy story were both in Ripley's Believe it or Not comics earlier this week
For a great history lesson i watch puppet history on the watcher channel. ❤They did a great episode on the first story 🤣🤣😂😂
Puppet history And Terrible histories fucking rocks!
4:46 I'm begining to imagine the look on James Maddison's face like "are we done?"
Back then the circus would have been down at Exhibition place...I am just trying to imagine the sight of clowns and firefighters fighting along Lakeshore Blvd in Toronto and what that would look like today 🤔
And PM Chretien was a stroke survivor so that is even worse for the guy who got beat
I'm pretty sure there's a plaque about this somewhere on Yonge St near College St. So it probably happened around there somewhere.
Edit: Checked it out and I am wrong. The plaque is at King and Jarvis, which is where the brothel used to be. You're right - the fight was on a green space along the water, so basically, on Lakeshore Blvd E.
That same fire brigade had previously shown up to a fire at the same time as another brigade. Back then there was no centralized fire department - just volunteer brigades who served on a first-come gets to fight the fire. The two brigades got into a brawl about who would fight the fire while it burned.
I remember the St. Louis marathon being covered on Cracked. Absolutely mental.
I don't usually call myself a history buff because when people think of history buffs, they usually think of people who mostly focus on wars.
This. This is the history I love. The absurd shit. The stuff that sounds straight out of fiction novels.
If you like strange and unique history, I recommend Tom Scott's old show "Citation Needed". Especially the last few seasons that had a live studio audience. It's a delight and filled with interesting history.
The story about Garfield's assassin was only the tip of the iceberg, his whole life was completely bizarre.
Late to the party and I know this will probably get lost in the comments. But as a new father myself I love how having a child has matured you and changed your outlook on life (not a dig, your maturity/outlook was still great before, but you can still tell you have become a dad.)
Love your work and keep it up :)
the Olympic race honestly deserves a movie as there’s a lot of details he didn’t list
- after the 4th racer lost money on the River boat casino, the guy hitch hiked and walked to the race
- the reason racer 4 ate the rotten apple was that he hadn’t eaten for 40 hours prior to the race
- the guy in the car actually admitted he took the car, got banned from marathons for life, and began saying he was joking
-racer people complained that racer 9 “could’ve done better.” As if he wasn’t chased a mile off the track by wild dogs.
-one racer finished the race, despite his stomach being cut open by all the dust he inhaled
- marathons were almost permanently banned from the Olympics as a result of this
-and the guy in the car was still one of the slowest Olympic race times ever recorded
- out of 40 racers only 14 finished, out of the others, 17 racers never finished, and 8 racers died
And many more catastrophic events happened
Okay where can I find that thumbnail. Also I know of one, the Rozwadow Outbreak. A pair of doctors in Rozwadów, Poland in WWII used dead proteus bacteria to fake typhus infections from 1942 to 1945. The patients were unharmed from the infection, but the Germans kept the area quarantined and kept a skellington crew the town as they were afraid of the infection. No Jewish patients were infected as they would have been immediately executed and those living with them. This created a safe haven for the Jewish in Poland as they faced less persecution there and no one was deported from the town in fear of potential infection spreading. One of the doctors with his family fled town in 1943 in fear of being found out while the other one fled with his family in 1945 when a German patient of his informed the doctor that they were on a Gestapo hit list when the eastern front closed in on Poland. It is believed that they saved over 8,000 people.
The RMS Caramia is one of my favorite stories because it’s so ridiculous
The RMS Carmania story was absolutely amazing
That second to last one is the war equivalent of the 2 Spiderman pointing at each other
2nd one, i see somehow happening in malcolm in the middle, lmao
I thought those clowns were going to become the new firemen. With their love of horns the clowns implemented the use of loud horns for emergency vehicles.
I'm surprised Charles Lightholler is not in this video. The dude has the most epic life. Amongst the best parts :not only survived the titanic as the most senior, officer to have survived, but he also survived quite a few incidents when he was in the British navy like storms, ships going down or catching on fire, almost died of malaria. He also participated in the gold rush in klondike but failed so ended up as a cowboy, he lost all his belongings and had to go home by riding the rails illegally. He served during wwi which wasn't even luckier for him because he was on the oceanic when it sank but he did do some brave shit.
He then finally retired.. Well almost he bought a boat the sundowner and at the beginning of WWII he and his wife being old used his boat to spy on the Germans and to top if all he was part of the little ships that went to save soldiers stuck in Dunkirk and carried 144 men on his tiny ass ship across the manche.
The most absurd thing I know happened was the attack of the dead men.
This spy NEEDS A MOVIE!
That ultimate spy puts even the TF2 spy to shame. Wow.
My favorite that as far as I know has not been made into a show or movie is the voyage of the Beagle (Charles Darwin). Might seem boring off the bat, but there are a few aspects to keep in mind: Darwin was in his mid 20s, you'll start to see why this is important soon; he joined the expedition as the expert geologist, but decided he wanted to stick his nose in everything; the voyage was meant to map the coast (travel from port to port by the Beagle), Darwin decided he wanted to travel by land when possible and meet the Beagle at the next port..... something that lead to many interesting situations.
Some of those interesting situations: Darwin describing the taste of the different animals he ate such as puma, trying (and often failing) different activities the locals were known for like managing to get himself tangled on the bola he was trying to through, falling while hiking mountains that were out of route because he insisted on climbing pretty much every single one he saw (at one point he described how climbing down was his favorite part because a fall would still take you in the correct direction), having to mail himself out of a town that was held by guerrilleros..... Honestly it is a fun read.
Ah, just on time! Love your videos bro!
Identity crisis - do I become a presidential writer or a spy?!
The origin of the heart symbol ♥️ is quite.. interesting. The ancient Greeks had access to a plant called Silphium, which they overused to extinction, because of its ability to induce abortion. It was only able to be grown in an area of North Africa, Cyrenaica. The seed for this plant is where the ♥️ shape comes from. It can even be found on coins minted at the time.
Interested how this became the symbol for love. 😂
My favorite is "The Great Emu War" in Australia in 1932, which lasted less then a month and the humans lost to those giant flightless birds 🤣 On the 2nd of November 1932 the military traveled to Campion in Western Australia, where some 50 emus had been seen. The birds were out of range of the guns, so the locals attempted to herd the emus into an ambush. However the birds split into small groups and ran so that they were difficult targets. The first series of shots fired was ineffective due to how far away the Emus were. A second round of gunfire was able to kill “a number” of birds. Later the same day a small flock was encountered, and “perhaps a dozen” birds were killed. On the 4th of November the Aussie Army had prepared for an ambush near a local dam and over 1,000 emus were spotted heading towards their position. This time they waited until the birds were at point blank range before opening fire. The gun jammed after only 12 birds were killed and the remaining Emu’s scattered before more could be killed. In the days that followed the army chose to move further south where the birds were “reported to be fairly tame”. By the 8th of November, only 6 days into the war, 2,500 rounds of ammunition had been fired. Considering so many shots were fired the emu casualties were not great. The number of birds killed is unclear: one account claims just 50 birds, but other accounts range from 200 to 500. Fortunately the military had not suffered any casualties at the ‘hand’s’ of the Emus, according to the official report anyway.
that spy could be the world's greatest catfish if he really wanted to
11:03 Actually Boris Godunov did take the throne... He was a tsar for 7 years. But his reign was accompanied by ravaging famine and also due to that he wasn't directly related to the previous ruling dynasty the people thought of him as "false tsar". That's mostly why False Dmitry had such a success (before the canon frying incident ofc).
James Garfield didn't even want to be president, he was initially asked to do a speech for another man to run for president. One of the representatives decided that he liked Garfield better than the man he was trying to introduce. It took like 2 days but he became the write in candidate and kept trying to tell people not to vote for him.
I enjoyed this very much! Please do more of this!😁👍
Ngl the letter one is basically everyone when having a conversation
I highly suggest looking up the SS Kamchatka and the Voyage of the Damned
It's a story about how truly awful Russia's navy was in the way back times.
Puyol-Garcia once sent a report very late at night for information that was all accurate but delayed artificially to the point it couldn't be useful.
He didn't get a response till the next morning as his German handler fell asleep ... So he rebuked his handlers commitment to the cause and said he couldn't tolerate such sloppiness. The Germans responded by assigning more handlers to him (diverting them away from real operatives) and sending him some of their best encryption code books, which of course went straight down to bletchly park
The great emu war is my favourite historical event. Dear lord, that shit is funny.
When RSlash made that joke I was like ಠωಠ oh he is a dad now... Also now I know why Garfield Hates Mondays... ಠωಠ
Gonna expect Garcia in an episode of Mad lads. Stories of Aleister Crowley and Sir Christophire Lee are pretty mental.
The little house where James Garfield passed away at is in Deal, NJ. Between Long Branch and Asbury park. Weird little place
It hasn't even started but it's gunna be crazy-
love the way rslash says Trafalgar. Imma do that from now on
This is one of my favorite videos so far.
More of this sub please!! Im a history major and your videos are my favorite things to listen to when walking around campus
this is far too good please make a part 2
I'm really happy you're covering more topics now!
This is the best rslash video because of how many times it makes Rslash break down into giggles.
All I can imagine from the clown story is colored wigs and waffled neck collars flapping around while the nose honking sounds pop up as punches are thrown. After the punches, I see fireman’s hats flying, lol. Just a wildly weird and colorful brawl, LOL!! 🤜🏼💥🤡👨🚒🤣🤣🤣👨🚒🤡💥🤛🏼
When he said Trafalgar like that i died a little inside
The story of Lewis Curdes is an amazing story of an American fighter pilot in WW2 who shot down a US transport aircraft and then married the nurse who was on board that airplane after the war
I was born 100 yrs to the day of Garfield getting shot (July 2, 1881), & all 3 of my kids have famous 'death-day' birthdays. The days that: Billy the Kid, Betty Page, & Wyatt Earp died.
This was a great video,haven't laughed this much in a long time
I'm Canadian and havent heard about this attempted assassination on the prime Minister but as I'm listening I kept thinking "this sounds like Jean Chrétien... It's gotta be Jean Chrétien". Sure enough, when I see the photo, yup. It's Jean Chrétien
The agent also informed the Germans that the allies were going to invade at Normandy France. BUT, this's information was given after the allies were landing. And that it "might" be a cleaver diversion!! I believe his code name was Garbo.
British captain of the Carmania: "There can be only one!"
I will never forget the tractor of sauron destroying a checkpoint
Actually the South Africans were apparently there for the World Fair's recreation of the Boyer War(Unsure of the spelling) in which they'd both served as dispatch runners
"Boer" (pronounced like bore.) Now you know