‘What’s a bizarre piece of history that sounds completely made up but is 100% real?’ – 21 strange but true happenings from the past

Jun 28, 2025 - 09:02
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‘What’s a bizarre piece of history that sounds completely made up but is 100% real?’ – 21 strange but true happenings from the past

‘The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there’. So says the opening phrase of L.P Hartley’s novel The Go-Between, and it’s true: the past is an absolutely wild place, where unbelievable things occur. They’ve been chatting about this on Reddit, after user Perfect-Philosophy23 asked: ‘What’s a bizarre piece of history that sounds […]

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