21 Historical Events That Sound Made Up
Movies that are based on true stories nevertheless tend to take liberties with the facts. This may shock you, but Marie Antoinette never wore Converses, no whirlwind star-crossed romances were known to have taken place aboard the Titanic and the cocaine bear just ate a bunch of cocaine and promptly died.
But it doesn’t have to be that way. There are plenty of historical events that are so strange that they require no embellishment to be entertaining. “For example: Immediately after being shot, Theodore Roosevelt continued by giving a 90-minute speech before going to the hospital,” user Aquatax recently told r/AskReddit. (Technically, he spoke for 50 minutes after being shot, and the bullet was slowed so significantly by the steel glasses case and 50-page speech in his jacket pocket that it barely penetrated muscle, but you don’t see us working through gunshot wounds.)
They then asked, “What historical events are so absurd that they would be too strange for a fiction story or a movie?” and honestly, we’d totally watch these.
