31 Funny Bits of Historical Trivia That No-Doubt Embarrass the Ghosts of Our Ancestors

For shame, Great Great Great Grandfather. For shame

You silly gooses got up to some pretty zany stuff back there, didn’t you? 

Sorry, we’re just having a conversation with the ghosts in our office. We were plugging away at this list of historical facts at the stroke of midnight when we heard some regretful sighs behind us. We weren’t scared in the slightest. Anyone who pulled off this silly stuff would elicit more laughs than screams.

The Birthday Party That Caused the Nazis to Lose D-Day

The Man Who Made Up the Martians

The Largest Unintentional Human-Made Explosion in History

The Printing Error That Made Adultery Mandatory

The Bay of Pigs’ Time-Zone Mix-Up

The Unlocked Gate That Toppled Constantinople

The Reason the Berlin Wall Really Came Down

Why Hannibal Lost Nearly Half of His Army

The First Copyrighted Motion Picture

The Battle of Stalingrad’s Battle for a Local Railway Station

The Civil War Battle That Stopped So Everyone Could Watch a Fistfight

Stone Pillows

Ancient Roman Laundromats Ran on Urine

Spider Webs As Bandages

The Naked Truth Behind the Word Gymnasium

The Duct Tape That Exposed Watergate

Draco of Athens Was Smothered by Gifts

Antiphanes’ Prickly (Pear) Death

Shoe the Mare Christmas Dinner Game

The World War II Reindeer

Salt Lake City’s Wide Streets

Mary Todd Lincoln at Lincoln’s Deathbed

Coffee Sniffers

Ornamental Hermits

Knocker Uppers

Lice Feeders

Professional Mourners

Crossing Sweepers

The Smelly Bull Cryptid

The First Ever Sci-Fi Convention

The Guy With a Famously Long Beard Who Almost Died from It

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