[ SECRET POST #3372 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3372 ⌋

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Favorite things that sound surreal but really happened

[sparrow_lately]

I forget his name, but some guy was out for a fly in his own private plane for fun on the morning the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941. He saw what was happening, turned around, and flew home, momentarily the first American to engage (if not quite in combat) in World War II.

Aztecs evaporated their urine for salt. Nobody knows why they decided to do that or how they got the idea that they needed salt (they were right, though!). Incidentally, the Aztec empire and Oxford University co-existed.

For a brief period in 1956, during the Suez Canal debacle, French alliances shifted from Egypt to Israel and Britain, which meant that for a while, Israeli and Egyptian soldiers had to go into battle in identical French-supplied uniforms.

In 1993 there was a plan to make a billboard in space roughly the size/brightness of the moon. It inspired a bill to ban advertising in space.

In the late 80s the mayor of Quebec decided French absolutely had to be the language of commerce and it was enforced; there were fines of $700+, and Merry Christmas signs and Dunkin Donuts bags were seized, even though Quebec had something like 800,000 English speaking citizens
The Canadian Supreme Court ruled that parts of the bill were illegal and 15,000 French speakers marched in protest through Montreal and vandalized signs with bilingual signs
One was FIREBOMBED

Re: Favorite things that sound surreal but really happened

[(Anonymous)]

This isn't a discrete thing that happened but I've always been fascinated by the importance that was placed on astrology and magic during the pre-modern period - even quite late and for quite important people. Apparently during the 30 Years War it was considered important enough for generals (including Wallenstein iirc) to devote time to tracking down enemy generals' and statesmens' dates & places & times of birth.

Re: Favorite things that sound surreal but really happened

[(Anonymous)]

Lieutenant-Colonel Jack Churchill fought in World War II armed with a longbow, backpipes and a Scottish broadsword.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Churchill?oldformat=true#Second_World_War

Re: Favorite things that sound surreal but really happened

[(Anonymous)]

That was supposed to be bagpipes, of course.

Re: Favorite things that sound surreal but really happened

[sparrow_lately]

NICE

WWI saw soldiers on horseback with broadswords fighting in the same war that saw machine guns and aerial bombing. World War II....less so.

HOWEVER! Have you ever heard of the bat bomb?