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Humor
Humor That Backfired Horribly – The Tyrant Who Was Killed Over a Gay Joke
Heraclitus of Ephesus: The Philosopher Eaten Alive by Dogs While Immobilized in a Cow Dung Body Cast
When Surrounded US Marines Requested Ammunition and Got Tootsie Rolls Instead
The Shaggs: A Prophecy, a Dad’s Delusions, and an Awful Album that Became a Cult Classic
“Tell Them I Said Something!” – Pancho Villa’s Last Words
The Great Molasses Flood: When Boston Was Engulfed in a Sticky Tsunami
Ten Cent Beer Night Riot: The Worst Promotion in American Sports History
Zeuxis, the Ancient Greek Painter Who Laughed Himself to Death
The 1855 Toronto Clown Riot, Sparked by Clowns Beating Up Firefighters in a Brothel Brawl
WWII Battle of Los Angeles Panic: The Night LA Was Engulfed by Hysteria and Wild Antiaircraft Firing
Operation Flagship: The Sting that Captured 101 Fugitives With the Promise of Free Redskins Tickets
Saint Lawrence, Patron Saint of Comedians, Cracked Jokes During His Execution
The Immovable Ladder that Stayed Put in a Church for Three Centuries
Filippo Brunelleschi Revolutionized Architecture, and Pulled off the Renaissance’s Greatest Prank
The Lovable Tramp’s Kinky Side: The Scandals That Got Charlie Chaplin De Facto Deported from the US
Corporal Wojtek the Bear: World War II’s Furriest Soldier
Meowing Nuns: The Weird Mass Hysteria that Swept a Medieval Convent
The Irish Fright of 1688: When Fears of Rampaging Irishmen Sent England Into Mass Hysteria
Farouk of Egypt: The ‘Pickpocket King’ Who Stole Winston Churchill’s Watch
The Erfurt Latrine Disaster: When Dozens of Aristocrats Were Drowned in Excrement
George Washington’s Sense of Humor: Cracking Jokes While Crossing the Delaware
The Man Who Laughed Himself to Death Watching ‘The Goodies’
Vespasian: The Down to Earth Emperor Who Cracked Jokes Until His Last Breath
The Great Cheese Riot: Fighting Soldiers With Wheels of Cheese
Humor That Backfired: Johnny Carson Was Slapped Silly For Cracking Gay Jokes About Wayne Newton
Deaths You’ll Go to Hell for Laughing At – Alexander of Greece, the King Killed by a Monkey
America’s Wilderness Could Have Been Full of Wild Elephants if Not for Abraham Lincoln
Cacareco: The Rhinoceros That Won an Election
Looty: Queen Victoria’s Looted Dog
Myths and Realities: Just How Short Was Napoleon?
Wilhelm Voigt: Drifter Who Robbed a Town By Dressing in an Officer’s Uniform and Ordering Officials to Hand Him the Treasury’s Contents
Ludgwig Hoge Fought in Three Wars, and Played in a Front Line Band That Got Shelled Whenever the Enemy Disliked the Music
History’s Deadliest Fart Killed More Than 10,000 People
The Great Moon Hoax: The Nineteenth Century Discovery of Life and Civilization on the Moon
The Math Mistake That Led to Columbus Discovering the New World
The Pilgrims Landed on Plymouth Rock Because They Were Running Out of Beer
Medieval Divorce Duels: When Couples Had to Fight Their Way Out of Unhappy Marriages
Joanna the Mad: The Queen Who Dug Up Her Buried Husband’s Corpse and Slept With it For Years
Agnes Sorel: The Royal Mistress Who Started a Bare Boob Fashion Fad
Thomas Jefferson’s George Costanza Moment: Shipping a Rotting Moose to France to Win an Argument
Bill Mauldin: The WWII Cartoonist Who Enraged General George S. Patton
When America’s Most Useless Vice President Fell for a Mean Political Prank
Victorians Feared that High Train Speeds Might Make Women’s Uteruses Fly Out of Their Bodies
Beefs: Rick James vs Prince, and the Time the Super Freak Wanted to Beat Up the Purple One
Al Basus: The Forty-Year War Fought Over Disrespect Shown a Camel
‘Old Hickory’ Andrew Jackson: The US President Who Almost Beat His Would-Be Assassin to Death
Awkward Misunderstandings: George S. Patton and the Honored Latrine
Emperor Heliogabalus’ Practical Jokes Ranged From Tame to Terrifying
Bizarre Rulers: The Mad Caliph’s Mad Reign
Humor That Backfired Horribly – The Emperor Who Was Slain for Making Fun of a Woman’s Age
Pythagoras Invented a Special Cup to Prank – and Punish – Greedy Wine Drinkers
Weird Weapons – WWII’s Great Panjandrum: Intended to Destroy Germans, it Almost Destroyed Allied Admirals and Generals
The Chauvinist Prank That Backfired and Led to the Election of America’s First Woman Mayor
Chrysippus, the Ancient Greek Philosopher Who Laughed Himself to Death
When Napoleon Bonaparte Was Beaten by Bunny Rabbits
When Virginia Woolf Put on Blackface to Prank the Royal Navy
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