Welcome to watch Mojo.

And today we'll be counting down our picks for the top 10 weird historical events that actually happened.

They assumed he was a keeper bringing them food.

Hundreds of rabbits began charging at the emperor of the french for this list will be going over the strangest and oddest anecdotes and figures from throughout history.

If there's a bizarre historical story that we weirdly forgot about, share your favorites in the comments.

Number 10, the Emu war, Australia has several strange historical events, but easily the most striking is the so called Emu war.

During the great Depression, farmers in Western Australia were encouraged to grow wheat.

Unfortunately, this attracted migrating em use the large flightless birds devastated the crops and became a regular nuisance.

The farmers didn't trust the Minister of Agriculture though.

So they approached the Minister of Defense instead, who more or less declared war on the birds to deal with the issue, A small group of soldiers armed with automatic weapons were employed to wipe out the encroaching animals.

The scouts of the advancing army of keen eyesight and in order to get close to the main body, our lads have to do some real stalking with the enemy.

Watching events through their periscopes as far as animal coals go.

It's one of the most extreme instances during the operation, hundreds of Emu's were killed.

However, the emu population endured.

That's right.

Humans lost a war to birds.

While there were no human casualties, Only 986 of the roughly 20,000 were killed 9860 bullets have been used up.

# nine, the undefeated wrestling woman.

What does a girl know of battle?

What of your great grandmothers who rode into war with Genghis Khan to raise your doubts and ease your fears.

I will wrestle the best of you.

Genghis khan's descendants are innumerable and plenty of them have made their mark on the world.

One of the most interesting is the daughter of Chi do Hyun was a warrior in her own right and assisted her father in his campaigns.

She had many after her hand in marriage, but she insisted that whoever married her must first defeat her in a wrestling match.

You're not the butterfly I expected soon wagered horses with her would be suitors.

It said that although she eventually married, she was never defeated and had 1,000's of horses in her lifetime.

You think much of yourself if I wanted you, I would have had you years ago.

Number eight New Atlantis, founded by Hemingway's brother.

While Ernest Hemingway's time in the Caribbean has been much documented and was of great interest to the FBI.

His brother Lester also took interest in the waters south of the US Lester founded a micro nation in international waters off the coast of Jamaica.

He created the country on board a 30 ft raft in 1960 for we build a raft.

Don't say it like that man.

We need a little optimism here.

New Atlantis technically only constituted half of the raft, as he claims.

The other half belongs to the United States, briefly inhabited by Lester and a few others.

He hopes to fund the operation through the sale of stamps and by attracting tourists.

However, the micro nation sank beneath the waves a few years after its founding.

He probably jinxed it by naming it after Atlantis number seven.

Anti comet pills.

Halley's comet has been a frequent fixture of the night sky for thousands of years.

However, it wasn't until the early parts of the last century that scientists were able to observe it closely.

Unfortunately, this led to wild speculation on some astronomers, parts particularly after cyanogen, a toxic gas was discovered in the tail french astronomer and early science fiction writer took the news gravely.

He concluded that the cyanogen could impregnate the atmosphere and possibly snuff out all life on the planet.

Panic over the comet led to con men selling things like anti comet pills and umbrellas to protect them from deadly gas gas mask flew off of shelves.

It was reported that you could not find a tank of oxygen that you could purchase in Rome.

The comet was accused of affecting the weather of making people in indiana sleepier than usual naturally.

Scientists even then pointed out how ludicrous that is, and Halley's comet passed without incident, but the snake oil salesman of the day.

Still made a killing.

It is ironic that the panic of the Comet of 1910 was really based on a better scientific understanding of what comets were and how they work than we had ever had before.

Number six, napoleon attacked by rabbits, napoleon Bonaparte was a brilliant military commander.

While his final defeat was at Waterloo, his most humiliating one was against small, long eared bunnies.

No ordinary rabbit, that's the most fall cruel and bad tempered rodent you ever set eyes on?

According to the story.

In july 18 07, Bonaparte arranged for a rabbit hunt.

However, Rather than wild animals, Napoleon's chief of staff elected to round up tame rabbits anywhere from several 100 to up to 3000.

So the story goes, even though he was a military man, he wasn't the greatest of shots, and when the time came for the hunts to begin, instead of running away the rabbits charged Napoleon and his men on mass hoping for food and leaping and climbing all over them.

The French emperor had retreat to his carriage and make a hasty getaway napoleon got back in his carriage, flinging rabbits out of his window as he went needless to say, he was not amused.

Number five, the polish army's enlisted bear while transporting refugees west from Iran in 1940 to the 22nd Artillery supply company of the polish army encountered an orphaned Syrian brown bear cub, which they subsequently adopted as a mascot.

The newly adopted bear left his old life to go on an adventure with polish troopers in World War Two named Vojtech.

This bear grew up traveling alongside soldiers, wrestling with them and imitating their behaviors including enjoying beer and cigarettes.

Vojtech was initially fed condensed milk from a bottle, But as he grew, his tastes expanded to include, well, basically anything that was available when the ships that would take them to Italy denied him due to forbidding mascot animals.

The 22nd enlisted Vojtech officially into the army as a private.

He was even given his own paycheck rank and serial number.

This helped ensure his participation was recorded.

Vojtech was even promoted to corporal because he aided his comrades by moving artillery shells.

During the battle of Monte cassino.

After the war Vojtech retired from service, living the remainder of his life at Edinburgh Zoo in Scotland.

Number four, The father of tragedies tragic slash comic death escalates is often regarded as the progenitor of the greek tragedy.

Since his few surviving works are the earliest examples known to modern scholars.

Greek tragedies often featured characters whose deaths are ironic twists of fate escalates zone.

Fate is certainly a twist though.

It it's more comic than tragic when returning to jayla in Sicily escalates, died outside the city.

How an eagle dropped a tortoise on his head.

The bird mistook his bald head for a rock and tried to crack the reptile shell open by dropping it on him.

Yes, splat I was killed instantly.

Honestly, we're more surprised.

None of his peers wrote a play about it.

Number three straw hat riots.

New Yorkers have gotten angry over some weird stuff, but hats is one of the strangest in the early 20th century.

It was considered a fashion faux pas for men to wear a straw boater hat after september 15th.

By the turn of the century, straw boater hats were considered an essential part of summer wear, but they were subject to the odd cultural device of fashion rules.

If they did, they were often subject to public ridicule or having their hats knocked off when some enthusiastic kids started the tradition a few days early on some dock and factory workers, it sparked a series of riots that lasted over a week.

The workers fought back, the fighting turned into a brawl which stopped traffic on the Manhattan bridge, mobs of use destroying hats roamed the city while there were thankfully no deaths, there were still an unfortunate number of people injured and arrested over hats.

25 year old harry Gerber had to be taken to Harlem hospital after he was badly kicked and beaten while trying to find off straw hat.

Vandals.

America was in the midst of prohibition, so men were probably pretty angry already.

Number 2, 1904 is crazy.

Olympic marathon to call the 1904 ST louis Olympic Marathon a disaster would be an understatement of epic proportions.

of the 32 competitors, only 14 finished.

This was largely due to organizer James E.

Sullivan's insane belief that dehydration was good for the body, causing him to Only have one water station in the nearly 25 mile race on dusty, unpaved roads.

In July, the event organizers had fought.

It's a wise idea to ask the support vehicles to drive a few meters in front of the runners throughout the race.

The car wheels of course kicked up a tremendous cloud of dust, but it gets crazier because the racers journeys are even more bizarre.

First place hitched a ride in a car, He jumped into one of the support vehicles at the side of the road and caught a lift for the next 11 miles.

Second place took rat poison as a performance enhancer and had to be carried across the finish line and it was commonly believed that in small doses strict need was a stimulant that's enhanced athletes performance.

The fourth finisher slept off stomach cramps during the race.

It's a shame no one got it all on film.

Before we continue.

Be sure to subscribe to our channel and ring the bell to get notified about our latest videos, you have the option to be notified for occasional videos or all of them.

If you're on your phone, make sure you go into settings and switch on your notifications.

Number one Pepsi had the world's sixth largest military, the choice of a new generation.

We couldn't make this stuff up if we tried during the late 80s, the Soviet Union's love of Pepsi proved problematic for those in charge.

Their initial agreement with the American company had expired and their currency wouldn't be accepted.

So they did a trade 17 submarines and several other large naval vessels in exchange for $3 billion worth of Pepsi.

While Pepsi soon sold their newfound fleet to a Swedish company who scrapped it for a brief window.

Pepsi had more military might than all but five countries on earth.

They could have turned their cola wars with coca cola into a literal war.

Did you enjoy this video?

Check out these other clips from watch Mojo and be sure to subscribe and ring the bell to be notified about our latest videos.