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Real, documented events that are funnier than fiction, from history’s strangest moments to the news you couldn’t make up.
True Stories · Nov 2, 2026The Herring Fart Submarines: How Sweden Hunted Soviet Subs That Turned Out to Be FishFor years Sweden hunted mystery Soviet submarines. A prime minister even wrote to Yeltsin. The culprit? Herring, passing gas. A true Cold War comedy.
True Stories · Nov 2, 2026The Bat Bomb: The WWII Plan to Firebomb Japan With Bats (That Torched a US Air Base Instead)A dentist convinced the US military to strap firebombs to bats. In testing, the bats escaped and set an American air base ablaze. The true Bat Bomb story.
True Stories · Nov 2, 2026The Pig War: The Time the US and Britain Almost Went to War Over a PigIn 1859 an American farmer shot a British-owned pig. Troops and warships followed. The true story of the Pig War, where the only casualty was the pig.Wear the joke
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