Random historical facts

It's always fun watching episodes like this from history. A group that is more a nuisance than anything else goes one step too far and promptly gets exterminated for their troubles. The Sicarii being another good example for the Roman period.

Throw me your most random historical facts!

I'm talking about Russian Zombies scaring off the German army sort of random! (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_of_the_Dead_Men)

japanese samurai would commit harakiri (suicide by cutting abdomen) to restore honour for themselves if they committed a serious offense.

I didn't know you liked History.

Of course, i've always liked history

Gandhi used to test his celibacy by sleeping next to naked women without touching them.
See: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/oct/01/gandhi-celibacy-test-naked-women

This is a nice thread...let me think of an interesting, random historical fact that not many people know about....hmmmmm.

OK, this one may be a little contemporary, but its linked to a historical figure and it's very interesting. It came to my attention a couple of months ago on another website. So there's this guy named Victor Noir. He's a famous French journalist who was shot and killed in the 1800s for his anti-authoritarian, anti-imperialist views. He was buried in Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris, France where his burial site/grave has since turned into a haunt for women, who like to pose with the statue, which apparently has a large male appendage.






The statue has been molested so often that the crotch area and the face have become worn out.




Apparently in 2004 a fence was erected around the statue to stop people from touching and damaging it...but this fence was taken down after protests from the "female population of Paris" led by a couple of media outlets and now people are back to molesting the statue of this brave man, much undermining what he died for.