The balls of events and stoppers of WWII [arguably the coldest world war]

Varnie 1, this is Cake 5, requesting context, over

I have concerns over what became of cake 1, 2, 3, and 4
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Anyway, it's from a book.
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A professor (of history iirc) in America was getting some strange answers from students on essays and exams, so he put a bunch of the more humorous/ridiculous ones together in a book that goes through different points in history from the oozing of the Nile, to pericles greatest erection, to the Canadian missile crisis and beyond

Canadians!! *shakes fist*

We were the promised land of milk and chocolate. Idk how we fell so low