Funny/Wierd History Facts

Fact 1:
When Hitler was asked about the Jewish "problem" and the plans of mass deportation to Madagascar, workforce and etc he said "Why must you make things complicated, its simple, kill them" or something like that (freestyle translation of something that I read from my encyclopedia)

Fact 2:
Napoleon didn't have any mirrors in his palace because of his complex, and when he was painted, he was usually painted on a mount or sitting

Fact 3:
Hitler had serious gas
 
I'm not terribly surprised about Fact 1. I didn't know about Facts 2 and 3. I kind of see an ironic statement in Fact 3, but I won't say it because it's not P/C
 
NedimNapoleon said:
Fact 2:
Napoleon didn't have any mirrors in his palace because of his complex, and when he was painted, he was usually painted on a mount or sitting
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I'm pretty sure this is a myth. There's also the problem that monarchs in general were usually painted either on their thrones or standing in front of them, so this doesn't distinguish Napoleon from others a great deal.
 
Fact 1 seems like it was written by somebody from the 1960s. Way to fly in the face of modern Holocaust scholarship
 
Fact 1:
An Interview with the Beatles, they asked each member how do they think they were going to die, John Lennon said "I'm probably gonna be whacked by some loony" - Irony at work

Fact 2:
Atila the Hun had a wedding and got drunk fell broke his nose, couldn't get up and drowned in his own blood
 
Not necessarily. It's the generally accepted story, since it originates in the nearest contemporary account (that of Priskos, who actually met Attila). There's some interesting revisionism that people like Michael Babcock have been writing that claims that either Attila's wife assassinated him or that the Emperor Markianos' agents succeeded where those of Theodosios II failed, but I haven't read the relevant papers and dunno how reliable that is.
 
I thought it was believed that the nosebleed was just the external symptom and died of internal blood loss, rather than that he choked on the blood. Though this is just vague memory.
 
As far as I'm aware, the only thing attested in Priskos is the nosebleed itself, and any modern speculation as to the cause of the nosebleed is just that - modern speculation.
 
Died as he was born! Screaming and bathed in blood, though I guess Attila was too drunk to scream :p
 
Death from a nosebleed???? It sounds really far fetched.
 
Not really if you are drunk off your ass and choke on blood flowing through your throat, even more likely if you pass out. Or, given the right circumstances (such as hemophilia), bleeding out is possible.

Keep in mind, we aren't talking a minor scratch in the nostril but a serious blow to the nose.
 
Tycho Brahe's death was worse.
 
Oh, yes, the bladder explosion. When I found out about that, I was afraid to hold it in for a week :lol:
 
Whenever your parents ask you to be more polite at the dinner table, just mention Tycho Brahe.

Interestingly enough, Tycho also owned a pet moose that died by falling down the stairs.
 
Vortilex said:
Oh, yes, the bladder explosion. When I found out about that, I was afraid to hold it in for a week :lol:
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Reminds me of a story I heard from my father - of what his father had apparently once witnessed in a bar of a riverboat: some guy made a wager for quite significant amount of money that he can drink down a whole basket (crate) of beer without rising from the table once. After winning the wager for everyone's complete astonishment, the guy rose from the table, collected the money, walked straight to the railing and poured the contents of his fisherman's boots overboard. :D
If only poor Tycho had had such boots...
 
My dad says in the Bosnian war you were afraid to pee outside, apparently some guy went into a forest that the Serbs mined last night and he claims (it didn't kill him) that he peed on the mined and he tried not stop peeing but he did and it activated the mine
 
Monty after the war called his dog Rommel in respect of his brilliant enemy.

(or humiliation...) :P
 
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