32 Bits of History That Will Always Be Hilarious
‘The con man who sold the Eiffel Tower twice and got away with it’
Between all the plagues, wars and other cullings of various populations, history is in dire need of some comic relief. Luckily, that too is available, thanks to the mishaps of our ancestors. After all, idiots exist in every time.
To prove this, Redditors volunteered the bits of history that never fail to make them laugh. The resulting thread is a timeline of slapstick happenings from human history. The people involved might wish they didn’t make it into the record book, but if you lose a war to a bunch of emus, everyone remembers.