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I like the story of guy in medival Münster who founded a classless christian society. When the army of his local loard came knocking, knew God was in his side, so he charged them alone. The army then cut him into pieces and nailed his balls to to towns gate.

Today there are 3 cages on the church of münster, containing the bones of the co-conspirtors

I probably got some details wrong, here are some sources:

https://www.dancarlin.com/product/hardcore-history-48-prophets-of-doom/

https://www.amusingplanet.com/2020/03/the-hanging-cages-of-st-lamberts-church.html

Jesus, Jews, Jerusalem, January, June, July...

The letter J wasn't invented until the year 1524...

Meanwhile, when Ghostwatch was on, people panicked even though it had been announced as a "Play on (BBC) One" for weeks.

I think it's still on YouTube somewhere.

Catherine the great sleeping with horses.

How much yo momma weighed

There's a story about how Zhuge Liang, a general and strategist during the Three Kingdoms period, protected a city from a 150,000 strong enemy army by hiding his force of 100 soldiers, leaving the gates wide open and playing a lute atop them, in plain sight of the enemy general. The enemy saw that, thought "No way I'm falling for this trap" and retreated.

That never happened, but Cao Cao did pull a similar feat against Lu Bu - the town had dense forests nearby, where forces could effectively hide. Lu Bu retreated the first time, but came back the next day and attacked, only this time Cao Cao's soldiers were actually hiding in the forest and fought Lu Bu.

That the USA saved europe in ww1 (they did in ww2 but they are also the once kinda at fault for it with forcing a weak democratic system on a weak germany), that they invented democracy (litterly italian republics and german hansiatic citys have been around for much longer at the same time as them)

That germany could have won ww2. No we could never have. Too much with too little resources.

The wehrmacht didnt so horrible things. Oooh yes they did. Where do you think the SS got the lists of the jews and who helped transport and kill jews and others?

Middle ages were all doom and dark. No they were pretty af!!