The Taiping Rebellion of 1850 to 1864 was the second most deadly singular conflict in history. At 25 million deaths. Only beaten by the Second World War.

In 1809 Jane Todd Crawford rode on horseback from Greensburg, KY to Danville, KY (60 miles) at the age of 44. She needed an abdominal tumor removed. The surgery was performed on Christmas day by Dr. Ephraim McDowell on his Kitchen Table, without anesthetic.

When the Titanic was sinking the head chef aboard knew the ship was going down, so he decided to take as much wine as he could and drink it. His logic was it was going to the bottom of the ocean anyway so why not.

On September 16, 1920 there was a terrorist attack on Wall Street. At 12:01, 100 pounds of dynamite exploded in front of the corner at JP Morgan. Within minutes Wall Street looked like a war zone. Hundreds of pounds of metal fragments, which had been concealed inside the wagon that had hidden the bomb, filled the streets with shrapnel. Burned bodies littered the sidewalks and smoke filled the air.

On August 6, 1915, Russian infantry successfully defended Osowiec Fortress against German forces despite being heavily outnumbered.

When the Mongols at their height of power conquered China, they were still in their phase of killing all the people and burning their cities, to turn it back to pasture for their horses. Huge swaths of Central Asia had already been treated so, laid to waste.

In 1794, it rained toads in Lalaine, near a French city called Lille. This event was witnessed by soldiers.

In 1917 a munitions ship detonated, creating the largest non-nuclear manmade explosion in history.

There was a span of time where Clocks were already a thing but were too luxurious for the average citizen. But most cities had one on their church or something, and since the day starts a little bit different everywhere, every city had their own time zone.

That time a dentist got pissed at Japan because of the bombing of Pearl Harbor so he declared war on Japan and suggested making bombs using bats, and the U.S. military actually went through with attempting to make them. They only stopped making their bat bombs because they developed the nuke.

In the 1980s, Domino’s Pizza introduced a mascot named The Noid. Its main goal: stealing pizzas and making your pizza delivery late. The slogan: “Avoid the Noid.” Unfortunately, there was a man with paranoid schizophrenia named Kenneth Noid who thought this whole campaign was created to mock and persecute him, due to the mascot’s name. So one day, Noid entered an Atlanta Domino’s location and took two employees hostage.

In 1979 the US space station Skylab was de-orbited. Some of the debris that survived re-entry landed in rural Australia, and they jokingly gave NASA a $400 fine for littering. The fine was unpaid for 3 decades until a US radio host raised the money.

Thanks to Russia wanting Pepsi in the 80’s, and being unable to pay for it with cash, Pepsi was briefly the sixth largest naval power on the planet due to being paid in Russian naval vessels.