When columbus first arrived to the american continent he saw some walruses and thought they were mermaids (someone was a little bit horny i'm guessing)
Apparently before the Vikings the Chinese went there too, and before that an Irish monk named Saint Brendan went there (probably). He didn't leave anything behind so it's harder to prove but a few decades ago some guy recreated the boat so it was completely accurate and took the same route, he passed by the same things (small islands, areas where certain fish could be found etc)
I thought saint brendan was the one that camped on the back of a whale thinking it was a small island... yeah i just looked it up and that is what it is said to have happened
Apparently, the case of jack the ripper was left without solving because the main suspects were the queen, the prince and the royal family doctor because no one else knew enough about medicine to do those cuts (and obviously no one wanted to accuse the queen of murder)
King Goujian of Yue placed a row of convicted criminals at the front of his army. Before the battle the criminals would cut off their own heads to scare his enemy’s army by how motherfucking crazy Goujian’s army was.
Princess Olga of Kiev.
Her husband, Igor, was murdered by the Drevlyans, an Eastern Slavic tribe. Olga took over the Kievan Rus’, but the Drevlyans didn’t want a female ruler, so they sent her a group of suitors.
Still pretty pissed about her husband’s murder, Olga had the suitors carried by her servants on a boat to the courtyard of the castle. The boat was dumped into a giant hole and the suitors were buried alive.
She told the Drevlyans that she had accepted a suitor and organized a party in a bath house. After the guests arrived, the doors were barred shut and the bath house was burned down.
After the memorial to the people who died in the bath house, a party was held and the Drevlyan guests got drunk off their ass. Olga’s royal guard proceeded to kill all 5,000 of them that night.
When they requested her forgiveness, Olga asked the Drevlyans to give her three pigeons and three sparrows from each home from their capital of Iskorosten. When they arrived she had hot
coals tied to their legs and set them back home. As the city burned to the ground from the resulting fire, the people that ran out of the city were either killed, enslaved, or extorted by Olga’s army. The entire tribe was basically wiped out in the following years.
Olga is a saint in the Eastern Orthodox church.
During WWII at one point (possibly more than once, I only know of one time) the Red Army needed to get tanks and equipment over a minefield quickly, so instead of going around it (a longer route) they had the lowest ranked soldiers march over the landmines so the tanks could roll by unharmed
During the Russian Time of Troubles a Polish pretender claimed to be the heir to the throne, Dmitri. When people discovered him as an imposter, a mob chased through his palace and eventually forced him out a window. He broke his leg, was killed by the mob, cut into pieces, and then cremated. His ashes were promptly shot out of a cannon towards Poland.
In 1914 a Serbian nationalist/ terrorist group decided that anything that hurts Austria helps us so they sent some assassins to kill archduke Ferdinand when he was on parade or something. 2 different assassins were given bombs and they didn't do anything. The third dude threw his bomb but it missed and hit the next car in the parade. The fourth dude swallowed a cyanide pill and jumped in the river but the cyanide was expired and the river was 7 inches/ 13 centimeters deep so he survived and went to prison. Archduke Ferdinand only died because later that day, the driver of his car makes a wrong turn and they bump into one of the assassins who was allegedly buying a sandwich when he saw his target and decided to shoot. Thus, following a series of arguments and alliances, world war 1 began.
In early Rome a father could legally kill anyone in his family.
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Her husband, Igor, was murdered by the Drevlyans, an Eastern Slavic tribe. Olga took over the Kievan Rus’, but the Drevlyans didn’t want a female ruler, so they sent her a group of suitors.
Still pretty pissed about her husband’s murder, Olga had the suitors carried by her servants on a boat to the courtyard of the castle. The boat was dumped into a giant hole and the suitors were buried alive.
She told the Drevlyans that she had accepted a suitor and organized a party in a bath house. After the guests arrived, the doors were barred shut and the bath house was burned down.
After the memorial to the people who died in the bath house, a party was held and the Drevlyan guests got drunk off their ass. Olga’s royal guard proceeded to kill all 5,000 of them that night.
When they requested her forgiveness, Olga asked the Drevlyans to give her three pigeons and three sparrows from each home from their capital of Iskorosten. When they arrived she had hot
Olga is a saint in the Eastern Orthodox church.
The Nazis had special tank mines that four guys jumping up and down couldn't detonate one.