TehBamski@lemmy.world to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 5 个月前What ridiculous history fact is your favorite?message-squaremessage-square109fedilinkarrow-up1154arrow-down12
arrow-up1152arrow-down1message-squareWhat ridiculous history fact is your favorite?TehBamski@lemmy.world to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 5 个月前message-square109fedilink
minus-squareThavron@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up41·5 个月前“Mad” Jack Churchill, who fought in the Second World War with a longbow, a basket-hilted Scottish broadsword, and a set of bagpipes.
minus-squareFippleStone@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up20·5 个月前Allegedly German soldiers said that they didn’t shoot him because they assumed he’d lost his mind, and took pity on him
minus-squareArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·5 个月前You’d think it’d make them do the opposite, idk about you but I’d be more scared of that guy than regular troops and I’d be gunning for him. “He’s clearly crazy, lord knows what he’ll do.”
minus-squareRandom Dent@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·5 个月前The only confirmed bow and arrow kill of WW2!
minus-squareCaptain Aggravated@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·5 个月前And after the war he went on to become an early pioneer in surfing!
“Mad” Jack Churchill, who fought in the Second World War with a longbow, a basket-hilted Scottish broadsword, and a set of bagpipes.
And still survived. Legend
Allegedly German soldiers said that they didn’t shoot him because they assumed he’d lost his mind, and took pity on him
You’d think it’d make them do the opposite, idk about you but I’d be more scared of that guy than regular troops and I’d be gunning for him. “He’s clearly crazy, lord knows what he’ll do.”
The only confirmed bow and arrow kill of WW2!
And after the war he went on to become an early pioneer in surfing!