Pig war to coffee ban: ten strange historical events that are thankful not to shape history

There is no dearth of world war, moon landing, invention of internet, collapse of empires, and epic, world-conversion events in the revolutions revolutions. This article is not about any of them.So the bucksua (preferably with a cup of coffee-before anyone restraints it), and prepare for a crash course in the second type of history: surprisingly strange, almost-class, and brilliantly in vain moments that thank the world that the world did not have to write again.

The United States and Britain went almost to fight on a pig. Yes, just a pig. When an American settlement on San Juan Island shot a British -owned pig in his garden, both sides sent the soldiers to the disputed area.The warships looked, rifles were taken … and the pig remained the only casualties. The coolers became major strong, and the “war” ended with a peaceful joint business. It could have sprinkled a war – but it ended in humble waiting and paperwork.

Prior to Starbucks, coffee was considered an intoxicating in the Ottoman Empire. Sultan Murad IV thought that it is an entrance drug to rebel and banned it. The ruler also cited religious reasons behind his action- seems familiar?He personally enforced – wandering the roads in disguise and reduced coffee drinkers. Thankfully, the empire’s caffeine did not return. Coffee made a strong comeback, and we avoided an irritable rebellion.

In a stunning strange chapter of Australian history, the government declared war on Emus. These large, fast-teej birds were destroying wheat crops, so soldiers were sent to drive them away with machine guns.AIMS defeated the soldiers and ended his military strategy. After several unsuccessful campaigns and a lot of ruined bullets, birds won. Officially, EMU was never defeated.Bird brain: 1; Army: 0.

Meet a legendary woman, a great woman to meet a great marriage from St. Vilegfortis. Her father tried to force her into the wedding, but the hair of the divine face saved the day.While historians argue about the facts, the Catholic Church (at a point) saw him as the mentor saint of a beard and difficult marriages. Imagine a world where shaving your face was a sacred task of rebellion.

In 1983, the Soviet officer Stanislav Petrov received a warning of the upcoming American missiles. Their orders were to retaliate immediately.But felt something – and he pressed the button. It jumped from the clouds and became a wrong alarm due to sunlight.Petrov’s intestine instinct may literally save the world. No medal, no film deal – just humanity avoids extinction of nuclear extinction at a radar mess.

In Boston, a huge storage tank filled with jaggery exploded, which sent a 25 -foot wave of syrup at a distance of 35 mph.The buildings collapsed, horses drowned, and 21 people were killed – in jaggery. It looks like a cartoon, but it happened.Floods gave rise to strict construction rules, which proved that sticky conditions could lead to sweet improvements.

In one step to prevent “delay and distraction”, French authorities banned kisses at train stations. The signals were posted, and the gender was assigned to implement the law.Of course, lovers ignored it. The policy quickly derailed. France remains the land of romance, and the train platform hosts tear -filled neck and dramatic smooch.

Medieval politics found additional strange when Pope Stephen VI dug the rotten corpse of his predecessor, Pope Formosus, dressed him in Papal Robs, and put him in a test.Unexpectedly, the dead pope was lost. His body was thrown into the Tiber River. This real moment of justice posthumously caused large -scale public outrage – and is still one of the most strange tests in history.

In a 1990 research resolution, the US Army considered developing a non-fatal weapon, which will release female sex pheromones to confuse the enemy soldiers-Authority is that it would cause “disruptive sexual behavior”. The so -called “gay bomb” was never made (or was not deployed), but it acquired the army of IG Nobel Prize in 2007 for its creativity to remember the point.

In the 19th century, New Zealand introduced sparrows to control crop pests. Sparrows preferred crops better and caused more harm than basic disabilities.The farmers announced the war, formed the “Sparrow Club” to kill them – but the sparrow multiplied rapidly. Nature had the last chill, and New Zealand learned a difficult way of ecological balance.

History could have been very different – and very strange – if these incidents had gone in another way. But thanks to restraint, cause, and sometimes just thanks to fate, the world did not spirals in chaos on pigs, jaggery, or unwanted kisses.So the next time history seems very serious, just remember: We are all away from a very different timeline.