During the 1980s, a Navy Seal commander by the name of Richard Marcinko had been given the task to test Navy bases for their security. Marcinko took a few of his most experienced commandos and acted as if they were terrorists.
Dental technician pranks Japanese WW2 prime minister
When Hideki Tojo, the Prime Minister of Japan during WWII, was in a Tokyo jail recovering from his attempted suicide, it was decided that he needed dentures to speak more clearly during his trial for war crimes.
When oil was first discovered in Arabia
Bahrain is a tiny island in the Persian gulf. Up until the early 1930s, it’s main exports were palm oil and pearls.
The invention of eyeglasses
While many rumors exist that eyeglasses were invented in China or India, the only factual evidence points to an unknown Italian as the inventor.