What ridiculous history fact is your favorite?TehBamski@lemmy.world to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml – 151 points – 1 weeks ago112Post a CommentPreviewYou are viewing a single commentView all commentsThere are lots of great answers here so I want to post something entirely silly and much much more recent: About 8-9 years ago someone on Reddit transcribed and revised the entirety of Edgar Allen Poe's The Raven to instead be about an Emu. For the life of me I have never been able to find it again.Oh great. First, the Emus won a war against Australia, greatly boosting their egos. And later on, they started censoring their mention online. In other news... there seems to be a bird in my backyard that keeps taping on my backdoor window.Upvoted bc i want someone to find and share it.Good luck. It wasn't a post, it was a top level comment and I have a dim memory of it only being slightly related to the post topic.
There are lots of great answers here so I want to post something entirely silly and much much more recent: About 8-9 years ago someone on Reddit transcribed and revised the entirety of Edgar Allen Poe's The Raven to instead be about an Emu. For the life of me I have never been able to find it again.Oh great. First, the Emus won a war against Australia, greatly boosting their egos. And later on, they started censoring their mention online. In other news... there seems to be a bird in my backyard that keeps taping on my backdoor window.Upvoted bc i want someone to find and share it.Good luck. It wasn't a post, it was a top level comment and I have a dim memory of it only being slightly related to the post topic.
Oh great. First, the Emus won a war against Australia, greatly boosting their egos. And later on, they started censoring their mention online. In other news... there seems to be a bird in my backyard that keeps taping on my backdoor window.
Upvoted bc i want someone to find and share it.Good luck. It wasn't a post, it was a top level comment and I have a dim memory of it only being slightly related to the post topic.
Good luck. It wasn't a post, it was a top level comment and I have a dim memory of it only being slightly related to the post topic.
There are lots of great answers here so I want to post something entirely silly and much much more recent:
About 8-9 years ago someone on Reddit transcribed and revised the entirety of Edgar Allen Poe's The Raven to instead be about an Emu.
For the life of me I have never been able to find it again.
Oh great. First, the Emus won a war against Australia, greatly boosting their egos. And later on, they started censoring their mention online.
In other news... there seems to be a bird in my backyard that keeps taping on my backdoor window.
Upvoted bc i want someone to find and share it.
Good luck. It wasn't a post, it was a top level comment and I have a dim memory of it only being slightly related to the post topic.