TehBamski@lemmy.world to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 5 months agoWhat ridiculous history fact is your favorite?message-squaremessage-square111fedilinkarrow-up1155arrow-down12
arrow-up1153arrow-down1message-squareWhat ridiculous history fact is your favorite?TehBamski@lemmy.world to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 5 months agomessage-square111fedilink
minus-squareThavron@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up42·5 months ago“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 months agoAllegedly 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 months agoYou’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 months agoThe only confirmed bow and arrow kill of WW2!
“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!