HISTORICAL EVENTS THAT SOUND LIKE FICTION BUT ARE ACTUALLY REAL!

1. In 1325, the rival cities of Modena and Bologna had a war due to stolen a bucket. The city of Bologna declared a war on Modena which still has the bucket to this day.

2. The "Great Stink" was an event in central London in 1858. The hot weather exacerbated the smell of untreated human waste and industrial effluent that was present on the banks of the River Thames.

3. In 1859, English settler Thomas Austin released only 24 rabbits onto his property in Australia. He underestimated the consequences of his deed, and by the 1920s, the rabbit population reached a staggering 10 billion.

4. One day in 1871, Canada was perfectly visible from Rochester, NY. The phenomenon was known as the "Rochester Mirage."

5. During Christmas of 1914, a truce was held between Germany and the UK. They decorated their shelters, exchanged gifts across no man's land, and played a game of football between the soldiers.

6. Jack, a baboon, was employed to change rail signals. He was paid twenty cents a day and a half a bottle of beer each week. During his nine years of employment, Jack never made a mistake.

7. The town in Germany was spared when Count Von Tilly declared that if anyone in the town could drink a 3.5-liter tank of wine in one go, he would spare the town and move on. One person successfully did it prompting the army to leave.

8. On March 13, 1989, the entire province of Quebec, Canada suffered an electrical power blackout caused by a solar storm.

9. King Edward I of England built the largest trebuchet ever made called "the Warwolf." The Scots inside the castle surrendered by the mere sight of it.

10. During the marathon at the 1904 Olympics in St. Louis, the first place finisher did most of the race in a car. He had intended to drop out and got a car back to the stadium. He started jogging when he heard the fanfare.

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