Events that prove the world is crazy.

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Events that prove the world is crazy.

1. The Cadaver Synod:

In 897, Pope Stephen VI was so enraged by former Pope Formosas that he ordered the "exhumation" of a dead body nine months ago, sat on the throne, and set up a lawyer to purify him in the middle of the court, and as a result, the body was convicted, the three fingers of the blessing were cut off, and the body was thrown into the Tiber, the most haunting court in history.

Reference Source: Britannica - The Cadaver Synod

2. War because of the single "dog" (The War of the Stray Dog):

In 1925, tensions between Greece and Bulgaria reached a peak only because a Greek soldier chased "his dog" who had strayed across the border into the Bulgarian side. The Bulgarian border soldiers shot the Greek soldier dead, and it became a minor war with the loss of more than 50 lives before the League of Nations ordered a ceasefire.

Reference Source: History of Yesterday - The War of the Stray Dog

3. "Money is odorless" with the piss tax (Pecunia non olet):

In ancient Rome, "urine" was worth gold because of the ammonia used to wash and tanning, so the Emperor Vespasian ordered the collection of "pee tax" from the public pee tank. When his son complained that it looked too dirty, he put a gold coin on his nose and said, "Money doesn't smell." (Pecunia non olet) has become an immortal phrase to this day.

Reference Source: National Geographic - Why Ancient Romans Used Urine to Do Laundry

4. The Great Molasses Flood:

In 1919 in Boston, a giant syrup tank exploded, resulting in a brown syrup wave more than 4 meters high, spilling at 56 km / h, hitting the city, killing 21 people. Its viscosity made rescue difficult, and he said that on a hot day, Boston residents still smelled the sweet smell of syrup from the ground for decades afterwards.

Reference Source: History.com - The Great Molasses Flood of 1919

5. "The Great Stink" crisis changed the city:

In the summer of 1858, in London, the weather was so hot that the sewage in the Thames smelled so bad that the people in Parliament could not work, that they had to put a chlorine-plated curtain over the windows, and that the "hell" foul forced the government to put in a huge effort to build the world's most advanced sewage system, which remains the foundation for London to this day.

Reference source: The Guardian - The Great Stink: How London's sewage system was born

"Our world does not rotate for one reason...Sometimes it spins with resentment, hunger and stench. "

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