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More 1800s wrestling gems
"02-10-1871: During the month of January 1871 numerous newspapers across the United States ran a story about a butcher scheduled to wrestle s bear in San Francisco with little terms of the details. The walnut valley times newspaper out of El Dorado, KS on February 10, 1971 ran a story saying the butcher had defeated the bear but the match was a work (fixed) and the butcher made a lot of money cleaning up on bets."
"02-10-1871: During the month of January 1871 numerous newspapers across the United States ran a story about a butcher scheduled to wrestle s bear in San Francisco with little terms of the details. The walnut valley times newspaper out of El Dorado, KS on February 10, 1971 ran a story saying the butcher had defeated the bear but the match was a work (fixed) and the butcher made a lot of money cleaning up on bets."
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Not necessarily history related but I stumbled on this and I just can't help but laugh at the fact it's a real article on Wikipedia.
Pre-modern
Bal des Ardents | A masquerade ball in which the king and some noble dancers dress in wild man costumes and accidentally get set on fire by the king's drunk brother. |
| Burned house horizon | The horizon which consumed cultures in the Balkans and around the Black Sea. |
| Cadaver Synod | A deceased Pope was exhumed and put on trial! |
| A group that were a persecuted minority in France and Spain into the 20th century, and nobody really knows why. |
| Complaint tablet to Ea-nāṣir | The progenitor of the one-star Yelp review is a gripe about poor-quality copper. |
| Criterion of embarrassment | You know it's true because it's too embarrassing for anyone to have made it up. |
| Daughter of Emperor Xiaoming of Northern Wei | A disputed first female monarch of Chinese history before Wu Zetian, whom the Empress Dowager Hu declared was a boy and was emperor for a day before being replaced by another infant. |
| Elagabalus | The number one Syrian teenage sun cultist polygamist possibly-transgender Roman emperor! |
| Erfurt latrine disaster | It's incredible how quickly someone's life can go to shit. Literally. |
| Hegelochus | History will remember him for mispronouncing one word in an Ancient Greek play. |
| Henry Symeonis | The University of Oxford held a grudge against him so long they forgot why. |
| House of Colleoni | A former Italian noble family whose arms included three pairs of testicles. |
| John the Posthumous | King of France from the minute he was born to the minute he died (total: 5 days). |
| Kottabos | The world's first drinking game. Care to play? All you need is a bronze "lamp stand" with a tiny statuette on top and some wine. |
| Máel Brigte of Moray | A Pictish nobleman who somehow managed to bite a man to death despite being long-dead himself. |
| Nika riots | Kind of like football hooliganism, except for chariot racing, and also if it resulted in tens of thousands dead, half of Constantinople being burnt to the ground and the Emperor nearly being lynched. |
| Onfim | A 7 year-old medieval Russian boy whose homework tablets, complete with doodles of himself as a "wild beast", were preserved for 700 years before being excavated and becoming a primary source for life in the Novgorod Republic. |
| Phantom time conspiracy theory | A theory by Heribert Illig that the Early Middle Ages (614–911) never occurred. Therefore, it is now 1728 rather than 2025. |
| Pope Benedict IX | He became pope at twenty, and later sold the papacy. He was pope three times. |
| Pope Celestine V | The pope who never wanted to be the pope and did everything in his power to stop it. |
| Pope Donus II | Turns out that maintaining a two millennium old list of popes leads to some confusion and the creation of a new, official, pope. |
| Pre-Columbian transoceanic contact theories | Native Americans are among the Ten Lost Tribes? The Zuni are related to Japanese peasants? This and more wild theories are found here. |
| Publius Afranius Potitus | If you're going to say you'd trade your life for your sick emperor's, make sure he doesn't get better. |
| Roland The Farter | If only we were all a jump, whistle & fart away from prosperity! |
| Sacred Band of Thebes | An elite fighting force consisting of a hand-picked groups of 150 pairs of male lovers. |
| Sanitation of the Indus Valley Civilisation | The home of the first flush toilet, as it turns out, is Punjab. |
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Sino-Roman relations | These empires inched progressively closer to each other in the course of the Roman expansion into the ancient Near East and of the simultaneous Han Chinese military incursions into Central Asia. Mutual awareness remained low, and firm knowledge about each other was limited. |
| Wise Men of Gotham | So-named after they acted like idiots so the king would go away. |