History is full of serious moments that changed the course of so many people’s lives, and then there are some moments that feel like a glitch; twists that feel a little too strange too be real, yet they’re verified and very very true.
These events have us believing someone’s playing a joke on us and we’re all part of a big trick, but no, these are the odd moments that are not part of history books because it would make them too silly.
1
A war was fought over a pig in 1859
Someone shot a farm pig and the U.S. and Britain nearly battled over it.
2
The Great Emu War, 1932
Australia deployed soldiers with guns to fight emus, the most surprising thing was that they lost.
3
The year without summer, 1816
A volcanic eruption changed global weather and caused summer to disappear.
4
The U.S. tested a nuclear bomb on a fake town
They actually built a suburban neighborhood to see what a nuclear blast could do to it.
5
A town elected a dog as mayor
The small town of Rabbit Hash, Kentucky, elected a dog named Goofy Borneman.
6
A pope put a dead pope on trial
Pope Stephen VI dug up his predecessor's corpse and put it on trial.
7
The first alarm clock could only ring at 4 A.M.
The inventor set it for his own wake-up time.
8
A baseball game once lasted 33 innings, 1981
A minor league game kept going for more than 8 hours before they suspended it.
9
The CIA trained cats to spy
"Acoustic Kitty" wired cats with listening devices during the Cold War.
10
There was a "war" over a slice of bread
An officer stole a loaf, this escalated into the "bread riot".
11
A man survived both atomic bombs
Tsutomo Yamaguchi lived through Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
12
Once it rained jellyfish-like blobs
In 1994, Oakville, Washington, gelatinous blobs fell from the sky and the mystery is still unresolved.
13
Switzerland accidentally invaded Liechtenstein, 2007
Swiss troops got lost during a training exercise and crossed the border accidentally.
