What's the funniest historical story you know?

Mine has to be The War of the Oaken Bucket basically it's this medieval conflict, it began when soldiers from Modena, Italy, stole a wooden bucket from Bologna. Enraged by the theft, Bologna declared war on Modena, resulting in the Battle of Zappolino. Modena won and kept the bucket as a trophy. To this day, the original bucket is still kept in Modena’s city hall lol

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Thats_cap_(ﾟ∀ﾟ) 07 11,2024

Okay so, I’m christian & pretty religious so I read the bible n allat, but there’s a story in the bible where Jesus was walking around and he was hungry, and he came across a tree (it was a fruit tree of some sort, i can’t remember what fruit it bore again but that’s irrelevant right now). So Jesus reached for the tree and since it wasn’t...... 2 reply

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PEEPEE- DRINKER 07 11,2024

Does Tararre count as historical? I'm not sure if that all was FUNNY per se but I am very entertained by it https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarrare for the uninformed reply

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Smiles 07 11,2024

There is a rock with old Greek carving in it. The carving saids the following “(Name) The shitter” with a dick carving beside it And it the most funniest shit I seen It actually exist and if I remember correct . They wrote it down to piss off one of their enemies reply

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Scout 07 11,2024

that one story of the ancient chinese poet who wrote a poem about being so enlightened that not even the eight winds could move him, sent it to his master who lived down the river and the master knew he was full of it so he scribbled the word 'fart' on the poem and sent it back. the poet was so upset he got on a boat and went to confront the master...... reply

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