Ridiculous Events in History
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What's an event in History thats so ridiculous it just sounds fake?
Remember when no one could buy loo roll or pasta and could only meet outside? 
The UK having 3 prime ministers in 2 months!
The loo roll one was absurdly hilarious and remember people were pushing and shoving for some black Friday deals .. I remember this woman and man fighting over a TV
Nadiaparveen I remember seeing on the news a few years ago people fighting over a TV in Asda - nuts!
China Used More Concrete In 3 Years Than The U.S. Used In The Entire 20th Century
Before He Became President, Abraham Lincoln Was a Wrestling Champion
www.mentalfloss.com/article/84081/he-became-president-abraham-lincoln-was-wrestling-champion
Between the 17th and 19th centuries, wife-selling was a real thing in England.
Getting a divorce back then was really expensive. So, several lower-class British people couldn’t afford them. Instead, they sold their wives.
The custom seems outlandish today, but it could be found taking place in public places like markets, taverns, and fairs.
www.history.com/news/england-divorce-18th-century-wife-auction
Imnotcheap The more you look into the past the more you realise that is was worse back then! 
Our ancestors could be a little weird. And when we say weird, we mean it in a bad, dangerous, and at times lethal, way.
Imagine using one of the most deadly and addictive substances in history in the same way your grandma uses Werther’s sweets.
And heroin was not just used to treat the coughs of adult peeps … we’re talking about children’s coughs too!!!
Mask wearing in shops. I look at the few who still like they are weird. Smoking was a cure for asthma
Like him or not, the fact is that Joseph Stalin was well ahead of his time. See, the Soviet dictator used “Photoshop” before the software was even invented.
How exactly did he accomplish this? He would often retouch his photos in order to remove people who had died or had been removed (usually violently) from the office.
A true tech pioneer, regardless.
www.history.com/news/josef-stalin-great-purge-photo-retouching
President Reagan reigned as an actor and president way before Baywatch was a thing. It turns out that the former president could have easily grabbed a role in the famous TV show.
Before he even pursued an acting career, Reagan worked six summers as a lifeguard in Lowell Park in Dixon, working on the treacherous Rock River.
According to newspaper reports of the time and later research, he saved 77 people from drowning.
millercenter.org/president/reagan/life-before-the-presidency
Many of you are probably familiar with Suffragettes and women’s struggle for the right to vote. Not as many know that women had to fight for their right to smoke too.
In 1929, a group of women took to the streets, smoking cigarettes and carrying signs stating that cigarettes were “torches of freedom.”
China having 2 suns, when I saw the video I laughed my head off, how anyone believes this nonsense is beyond me
This truly incredible story sounds more like a wild scenario from an action film than a true story. However, it REALLY happened 48 years ago.
Vesna Vulović was born in Serbia when it was part of a united Yugoslavia. She worked as a flight attendant for the former Yugoslavian airline JAT. At the age of twenty-two, she was onboard Jat Flight 367 bound for Copenhagen.
Ironically, she wasn’t scheduled to fly that day (January 26, 1972). Due to some name confusion, she was mistakenly mixed up with another flight attendant with the same first name.
A briefcase bomb went off, causing the plane to crash. Vulović was the only survivor and is the only person who has survived a fall from such a height.
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