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And then every single crew member survives.
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Throughout cinematic history, humans have made a lot of movies. As of 2025, the world has recorded over 698,754 movies, with the number increasing daily. So, such a huge number is bound to have quite a few weird ones among them.
The question is, what is considered to be a weird movie? After all, we all have different understandings of what is weird for us and for others – essentially, it’s very subjective. Yet, this doesn’t stop people from sharing their opinions about it. Here, there’s this public list on IMDB of “The Top 100 Weirdest Movies of All Time” in no particular order.
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In Western Australia in the 1930s, the military was called in to eradicate a large emu population that was destroying wheat crops. They failed spectacularly and had to withdraw.
Australias military went to war with a flock of giant birds and were beaten.
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Sounds like the nightmare of a 5 year old with a fever.
It includes titles like Pulp Fiction, Fight Club, Donnie Darko, The Shining, and many others. Maybe you don’t find them particularly weird, but some others do, enough to include them in such lists. You know, to each his own.
At the same time, as Mark Twain said, “Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.” The first part of the quote is the most important for us today – truth or reality can be stranger, and usually is, stranger than fiction.
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I can’t remember the country, but it was a small European one.
Edit: It was Lichtenstein and the austroprussian war. Also, 80 soldiers initially with 81 returning. Thanks to those who corrected me.
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Fortune shaved his head, plaited the hair at the back into the classic braid, and wore silk robes. When sometimes challenged about his strange accent and poor Chinese, he would tell questioners he was from up North in China.
He did this for years, and made multiple trips.
It should be the plot for a long forgotten racist comedy from the 1970s, but it actually happened, and he did get the samples, as well as exposing some massive fraud in the Chinese tea industry where they were treating some of teas with cyanide to make them look like the more expensive versions to sell to foreigners.
You might wonder – how can that be? After all, movies can have ghosts, zombies, and other various creatures that, as far as we know, don’t exist in our world. So, how can reality be a reality weirder than that? Well, it only takes opening a history book to realize how.
Today, you don’t even have to open a book; opening this article was more than enough. It’s because here you will find a full-blown list of various weird historical events. And they’re not simply weird – they are so odd that many netizens say that if they were suggested as a movie plot, people would write them off as too unrealistic.
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In 75 BC, the future dictator of Rome was kidnapped. He himself insisted that the pirates raise the ransom. After his release, he organized a fleet, caught them and crucified them.
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Without spoiling too much, we’re going to mention that this collection of historical events includes such things as The Great Emu War, stories of various historical personalities, like Joan of Arc, The Great Molasses Flood, and many other stories. Did we pique your interest? Take a look at the list and don’t forget to upvote!
Basically, humanity has survived through a lot of good, bad, ugly, and interesting things. Our experiences inspired a bunch of movies, from documentaries to stories that are very loosely based on something that happened.
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All the alliances built just feel like a series of contrivances some writer put in place to get to the conclusion of starting a war.
Then the actual match that lit the powder keg, the assassination of Franz Ferdinand, was a series of insane incompetency and coincidences.
In the middle of it all, one of the longest running and largest empires, Russia, collapses.
A global war too boring? Okay, let’s throw in a pandemic that may have been responsible for 50 million deaths in just 2 years.
Then finish it such an unsatisfying and inconclusive way that it’s obvious you left an opening for a sequel.
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Still, there are more than enough events that weren’t turned into screenplays – our history is very broad. So, if you’re someone who's looking for inspiration for your next great project, maybe our list can provide it.
What other weird historical events would you add to this list? We’ll be waiting for your suggestions in the comments!
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So Barry did what any scientist would do. He took a solution containing the H. Pylori bacteria, drank it, and waited to see what happened. 3 days later he started developing symptoms of stomach ulcers.
More research was published, his work was now taken seriously, and he won a Nobel Prize in the early 2000s with his partner on the research project.
Moral of the story: they say don’t be resentful of others because it’s like drinking poison and hoping the other people suffer.
That’s usually true, but sometimes it gets you a Nobel Prize and an immediate write-up in every medical school textbook.
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Eventually her husband died, so she married her adoptive son, further consolidated power and led the largest pirate force in human history: over 40,000 pirates and 400 vessels, absolutely terrorizing the Pearl River Delta (where Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Macau are located)
The Chinese navy was so overwhelmed that they requested British and Portuguese aid.
Zheng Yi Sao continued the fight but realized that with time, they were going to lose. She negotiated a surrender and got amnesty for herself and her crew.
She quietly lived out the rest of her life running a gambling house.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zheng_Yi_Sao.
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The assassination of Kim Jong Un's older brother sounds like something out of a television show.
They basically tricked these two young ladies into thinking they were on like a television prank show for like a year, and they went around pranking peoplein different locations. The prank was that one girl would run up and rub hand sanitizer on someone's face and then giggling run away. Then the other girl would run up and squirt perfume on their face and giggle and run away. Haha funny prank right? They were taught carefully exactly how and where to apply the products, and to run away and wash their hands immediately.
Well little did these girls know they were training to k**l Kim Jong un's older brother. On the day of the actual m****r, it wasn't hand sanitizer and perfume anymore, it was two components of a deadly neurotoxin that once combined cause a rapid, painful death.
So they're "pranking" people and filming their videos at the airport, and here comes Kim Jong-Nam with his family through the airport. The "producers" of the "prank show" have the girls target him. They run up on him and the first girl rubs the first half of the poison on his face, giggles and runs away. The second girl runs up squirts him with perfume but it's not perfume it's the other half of the neurotoxin, then giggles and runs away.
He figured out something terrible was up immediately because of the pain, and approached security, but he was dead within minutes.
The girls were caught immediately due to the extensive CCTV, but not the people directing the whole thing. They had no idea they'd just k****d someone. They thought they were gonna be TV stars.
Of course, it's widely believed that Kim Jong Un and his sister had Jong Nam k****d because he was an embarrassment to the family as he he favored Western pop culture a bit too much.
Edit: I have multiple details wrong (thank you for the correction u/palookaboy) but that's the gist of it. It's easy enough to look into if anyone is interested.
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In the Death of Stalin, they had to downplay how evil he was because they thought the audience wouldn't believe it.