The Wonderful Event in History: A True Story Listened to, What?

The Wonderful Event in History: A True Story Listened to, What?

1. "Wild rabbits expel the Emperor Napoleon's army" (Napoleon Rabbit Attack - France, 1807):

After signing the peace treaty, Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte wanted to celebrate by hunting rabbits, so the chief of staff procured rabbits to release in the middle of a thousand fields, but instead they ran away when the cage was opened, a herd of thousands of rabbits ran frantically at Emperor Napoleon and the captains simultaneously asking for food (because the organizers went to buy the house rabbits familiar with the people coming), a herd of rabbits snapped their clothes and climbed up Napoleon, until the great emperor had to run away in the carriage and order the door closed, fleeing in a frenzy.

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2. "Toad rain falls from the sky in the middle of the battlefield" (Lalain Toad Rain - France, 1794):

During the battle of the French soldiers near Lalang, a rainstorm suddenly erupted, but what fell from the sky with the rain came back not just a drop of water, but a "million little toads" falling on the soldiers' hats and shoulders. Many soldiers were so shocked that they were helpless because they thought it was a curse, but scientifically by a waterspout that carried the toad from a nearby swamp into the clouds and dropped it in the middle of the battlefield.

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3. "The Tornado That Helped Extinguish Fire and Save the Nation" (Tornado that Saved Washington - USA, 1814):

During the War of 1812, the British army invaded and burned Washington, D.C., so that the U.S. capital fell into a sea of fire and important buildings were burned down. But while the situation was desperate, suddenly a huge tornado hit the city center. Heavy rain completely extinguished the fire, and the storm force also blew down the cannon with the British soldiers splashing, so that the British army had to immediately withdraw as if nature had come down to save the city.

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4. "War without bleeding lasted 335 years" (Three Hundred and Thirty-Five Years' War - Netherlands / Scilly Islands, 1651-1986):

The Netherlands declared war on the "Scilly Islands" in 1651 because of a dispute in the English Civil War, but then the two sides dispersed and "forgot" that they were fighting. No one fired a shot at each other, no injury or death, 335 years later, until a historian discovered documents promising that the two sides were still at war, so the two sides had just held a formal peace treaty signing ceremony in 1986.

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5. "Pepsi Promos Give Out Jet Fighter" (Pepsi Points Fighter Jet - USA, 1996):

Pepsi launched a giveaway advertising campaign with points. In the ad, there was a picture of a "Harrier Jet" fighter with a message that it used 7 million points. But a young man named John Lennard found a loophole that he could buy more points at a few cents a point, so he raised funds from investors to buy 7 million points and actually put it on a fighter prize. The story escalated into a national court case in which the court had to decide whether the ad was just a joke.

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"Sometimes the true story of history is even more funny, insidious and irrational than a Hollywood screenplay, because man and nature always make unexpected jokes for the world.

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