Real life is often stranger than fiction, and a deep dive into history will certainly reveal many such cases. While not all of these examples may have made it into the history books used in schools, these often bizarre occurrences are a part of our history nonetheless. Here are three strange tales from different times.
Your teeth look ghostly white. While stories may swirl regarding George Washington’s dentures and what they may or may not have been made of, a perhaps stranger denture story revolves around the battle of Waterloo. Waterloo dentures, as they would eventually become known, were made from the pulled teeth of soldiers who had fallen in battle.
Mermaids so fair. In 1493, on his second voyage from Spain Christopher Columbus spotted what he believed to be three mermaids nothing that the mermaids were: “not half as beautiful as they are painted.” Given the information we have today, it is believed that Columbus in fact observed three manatees.
Wrong place at the wrong time. Among the many tragedies of the second World War were the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which directly and indirectly took the lives of an estimated 129,000 to 226,000 people. Among the survivors was a man named Tsutomu Yamaguchi, who witnessed the first bomb drop in Hiroshima only to return home to Nagasaki a day before the second bomb was dropped. Astonishingly, Yamaguchi would live to be 93 years old until his passing in January of 2010.
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