Many surgeons have been accused of sexual assault on their patients. Most of these allegations can be proven false by witnesses, etc. The cause is just now becoming understood. It seems that the sedatives given to patients before surgery can sometimes cause bizarre sexual fantasies.
Category: Bad Things
Raining Snails
One day in August 1892, in Germany, it started to rain. This rainstorm was unusual because somehow there were thousands of snails caught up in the clouds and they all came crashing down with their shells breaking to bits as they hit the ground.
Atom Bomb
Although most people know that many people were tragically killed by an atom bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan (141,000 people), most don’t know that 140,000 people were also killed in one day in Tokyo by conventional bombing. Throughout the war, 220,000 Japanese people were killed by the two atom bombs (Hiroshima and Nagasaki) and 600,000 were killed by ordinary bombs.
Before The US dropped the atom bombs on Japan, the allies had already destroyed over two million buildings.
Japan actually surrendered a couple of days before the first bomb was dropped, but because they had faked surrenders before, American politicians did not believe this surrender was real.
When scientists were preparing to test the first atom bomb, they calculated there was a three percent chance they’d set the atmosphere on fire, and kill everyone and everything on earth. They went ahead and ran the test.
A Pig Caused the War of 1812
You can be mad at your neighbor, or your neighbor’s pig in this case, but overall it is best to really think about possible repercussions, even remote, before taking any drastic action.
It is possible that a single pig caused the War of 1812. This pig was always getting into the neighbor’s yard and eating up prized shrubs and flowers. Finally the neighbor got mad and killed the pig with a pitchfork. The pig’s killer was a congressional candidate who lost the election by one vote. This was the vote cast against him by the late pig’s owner presumably because he was upset about the loss of his pig. When the matter of deciding about the war was voted upon, the issue passed by one vote. This was the vote of the candidate who had won the election by one vote.
France’s First Lady, Strange Kidnapping
It’s been told that in 1914, France’s first lady was kidnapped by an orangutan who had escaped from the Paris zoo. He carried her up into a tree and kept her for hours. She was so embarrassed by this incident that the government kept it a secret for forty years.
American Candy
If you filled trucks with all the candy American kids eat in one year, they would line up bumper to bumper from San Diego to San Francisco.
Sugar is highly addictive. Some have said it’s more addictive than cocaine. Sugar is also strongly implicated in numerous scientific studies covering a wide range of diseases from high blood pressure to cancer and especially diabetes.
Alcohol and Grain Saved
If everyone quit drinking alcoholic beverages, twenty million starving people could be fed on the grain saved.
Public domain via Wikimedia Commons
