r/Askreddit What Are The CRAZIEST Moments from History?

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🗓️ 11 December 2021

⏱️ 12 minutes

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r/Askreddit Have you ever heard the phrase that truth is stranger than fiction? That's never been truer than today's Ask Reddit post, where users recount some of the most absolutely bizarre moments from history. I wasn't going to read this post, but honestly these stories are so crazy that I pretty much had to, like the one about the clown vs firefighter gang war. WTF?

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0:00.0	Welcome to our Slash Ascreddit where we answer the question,
0:03.2	what historical events are so absurd that they would be too strange for a fiction story or a movie?
0:08.8	And I'll be honest, I didn't think that I was going to cover this post because I'm not much
0:12.8	of a history buff, but these stories are so good I had to cover it.
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1:21.7	Our first reply is from ERO. The marathon at the 1904 Olympics in St. Louis. The first place
1:28.1	finisher did most of the race in a car. He had intended to drop out and got a car back to the stadium
1:34.4	to get his change of clothes and just kind of started jogging when he heard the fanfare.
1:38.8	The second place finisher was carried across the finish line, legs twitching by his trainers.
1:44.3	They had been refusing him water, instead giving him a mixture of brandy and rat poison for the
1:50.1	entire race. Doping wasn't illegal yet, and this was a terrible attempt at it. So he got the
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