Unbelievable Historical Military Facts
Some of the weirdest, funniest, and most incredible events from military history.
Humanity has fought wars for about as long as agriculture has existed, but when one thinks of war one might be tempted to think of words like “heroism” and imagine stylized battlefields lit by the explosion of shells, where brave soldiers vie in a desperate struggle for some strategically-vital piece of land.
What you probably do not think of is the penguin in charge of those soldiers or that when those soldiers call for support, it might come in the form of Pepsi’s navy.
Most people would certainly not think about the vital role that a bunch of art school majors played in the Allied victory in World War 2, and few would probably believe that the British military created an entire warship out of ice.
And yet, all of these are true pieces of military history, as strange and incredible as anything the most head-in-the-clouds writer could possibly create.
A Meteor Strikes A Roman Battlefield
