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What's your favorite "History is Stranger than Fiction" moment from world history?

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What's your favorite "History is Stranger than Fiction" moment from world history?
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March 13, 2016 at 2:16 am (This post was last modified: March 13, 2016 at 3:49 am by Eclipse.)
Sergeant Schultz (John Banner) and Corpral LeBeau (Robert Clary) from the late 60's TV sitcom Hogans Heroes (based on allied prisoners held captive in a German P.O.W camp for those that don't know) were actual prisoners in Nazi concentration camps during WW2 and lost most of their families in these camps.
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RE: What's your favorite "History is Stranger than Fiction" moment from world history?
March 13, 2016 at 5:50 am
On April 3rd 1856, lightning struck the church of St John on Rhodes, which was being used by the town as a storm shelter. It blew up a forgotten cache of gunpowder in the vault.

The resulting explosion is thought to have killed almost 4,000 people. Not the act of a compassionate God.

https://dailydisaster.wordpress.com/2009...on-rhodes/
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