Events

Before teenagers slipped on banana peels on purpose, they stuffed themselves into phone booths and swallowed goldfish for fun.

History is packed with incredibly odd moments, and it's sometimes difficult to learn the facts behind these strange stories.

Pepsi, the soda company, once had the 6th largest military in the world.

An unknown beast that led a deadly rampage through 1760s France? An unexplained explosion as powerful as 1,000 atomic bombs in Siberia? These little-known, interesting events bring history to life more than any textbook ever could.

In 2014, two separate Reddit users—ShyneBox and mitch3a—posted essentially the same question to AskReddit, several months apart: What are some events in history that you never would’ve guessed happened around the same time? The response was awesome, with almost 15,000 combined comments.

Woolly Mammoths Still Existed When the Great Pyramids Were Being Built Woolly mammoths, such as Manny from the Ice Age animated movie franchise, flourished during the Pleistocene epoch. The now extinct pachyderms were roughly the size of modern African elephants, with males reaching shoulder heights greater than 11 feet, and weighing in at around 6 …

In the late 1980s, the Soviet Union wanted to have Pepsi on hand permanently. But paying was an issue, so Moscow came up with a creative solution.

Orson Welles causes a nationwide panic with his broadcast of “War of the Worlds”—a realistic radio dramatization of a Martian invasion of Earth. Orson Welles

How was Y2K? Who was Y2K? And also, where was Y2K? These are all terrible questions. --------- Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/internethistorian Twitter: ht...

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Sugary-sweet molasses turned deadly on January 15, 1919, when a holding tank burst and sent 2.3 million gallons of the sticky liquid sweeping through the streets of Boston.

In July 1518, residents of the city of Strasbourg (then part of the Holy Roman Empire) were struck by a sudden and seemingly uncontrollable urge to dance. The

Did the great poet really build a tomb for a household pest?

Most people associate Switzerland with mountains, chocolates, watches, and Swiss Army knives. They also think of a peaceful and neutral country that’s

In the midst of the Austro-Turkish War, the Austrians engaged in a deadly battle in the town of Karansebes — against itself — all because of one bottle too many of Schnapps.