Dark History

The Great Molasses Flood of 1919 killed 21 people when a tank containing 2.3 million gallons burst in Boston

The Dancing Plague of 1518 saw hundreds of people dance themselves to death in Strasbourg over several months

The Bone Wars of the 1870s saw rival paleontologists dynamiting fossil sites to prevent competitors from finding dinosaurs

The London Bridge that was sold to Arizona in 1968 was actually the wrong bridge - the buyer thought he was getting Tower Bridge

In 1518, hundreds of people in Strasbourg danced themselves to death in a plague that lasted for months, with some dancing for days without stopping.

In 1919, Boston was flooded with 2.3 million gallons of molasses moving at 35 mph, killing 21 people in what became known as the Great Molasses Flood.

During the 1904 Olympics, marathon runners were given brandy and strychnine as performance enhancers, and one athlete nearly died from rat poison.

In 1932, Australia declared war on emus and lost after the birds destroyed crops and evaded machine gun fire for weeks.