In the history of mankind, over time, various events have taken place, some of them more strange. So here are a few of them, some of which are hard to believe have any grain of truth – yet they do.
Bumpy hats sent people to the hospital
In 1922, the Straw Hat Rebellion was happening in the United States of America, a strange but extremely real event.
It seems that it all started with a convention that unofficially regulated how the hat should be worn. In the summer, Americans wore cool hats, often made of straw. It applied, in particular, to farmers who were forced to stay in the fields for hours.
Oddly enough, after September 15, it was “no longer allowed” to wear such an accessory, it was replaced by a textile hat. At that time, the straw hats were trampled and destroyed.
Those who did not conform to tradition were humiliated and somehow misclassified in society.
On September 13, several married young men decided to crush straw hats, two days earlier than would have been “normal”.
They didn’t stop there and rip off the hats of certain workers in Manhattan, then do the same to other workers on the docks.
What came out of here? A full-fledged battle, as a result of which many of the participants in the riot ended up in the hospital. They were obviously joined by others “put to the test and scandal”. And when you think that it all started with some common hats…
The huge cloud that covered Europe: people died of hunger and cold
In the year 536 AD, Europe was enveloped by a bizarre cloud, foreshadowing disaster. As a result, people in Europe experienced an 18-month winter.
During all this time, our continent was gripped by an indescribable cold, which absolutely led to terrible famine, since people could no longer rely on agriculture, but also on animals, for the same reasons.
A third of the population of Europe died during this period from hunger and cold.
Perhaps the strangest thing is that even to this day it is not known what could have produced the strange phenomenon, but it is suspected that it was, in reality, the eruption of a volcano whose ash spread over the continent, blocking the sun’s rays from penetrate
Last day of Prohibition, first day of alcoholic coma: Dozens of Americans died from toxic drinks
Prohibition in the United States of America took place between 1920 and 1933, and during it, the production and sale of alcoholic beverages in this country was prohibited by law.
Intuitively, this is how alcohol smuggling developed, with America’s big mobsters amassing huge fortunes from illegal activities.
Another problem came in here, the fact that not all the alcohol sold “under the hood” was good to drink, many of the liquors being downright toxic.
“By mid-1927, the new formulas for denaturing alcohol contained numerous poisonous substances, including kerosene and brucine (a toxic alkaloid, a relative of strychnine), gasoline, benzene, cadmium, iodine, chloroform, ether, nicotine, zinc, camphor, carbolic acid, quinine and acetone,” he wrote for Deborah Blum at the time.
In 1933, this whole story came to an end when the American government abolished prohibition. And hence, another problem: on the first night of “love”, Americans all over the country partied properly, consuming huge amounts of alcohol, many of them inevitably ending up in an alcoholic coma, or later in the hospital.
On another note, it is suspected that prohibition was nothing more than another way to enrich some, at the expense of certain legal producers of alcoholic beverages.
