What's the funniest thing in history
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What's the funniest thing in history
*farts*
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that u fkn nerd.
Lucian's True Stories were pretty amusing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unusual_deaths
>Aeschylus, the great Athenian author of tragedies. Valerius Maximus wrote that he was killed by a tortoise dropped by an eagle that had mistaken his bald head for a rock suitable for shattering the shell of the reptile. Pliny, in his Naturalis Historiæ, adds that Aeschylus had been staying outdoors to avert a prophecy that he would be killed by a falling object.
>One ancient account of the death of Chrysippus, the 3rd century BC Greek Stoic philosopher, tells that he died of laughter after he saw a donkey eating his figs; he told a slave to give the donkey neat wine to drink to wash them down with, and then, "...having laughed too much, he died"
>The deacon Saint Lawrence was roasted alive on a giant grill during the persecution of Valerian.[20][21] Prudentius tells that he joked with his tormentors, "Turn me over—I'm done on this side".[22] He is now the patron saint of cooks, comedians, and firefighters
>>516134
Don't forget about Li Bai. Drunk poet who drowned in a river after he saw the moon's reflection in the water and tried to hug it.
That guy who died from laughter is pretty funny in itself.
>>516155
This; the fact that he was a Stoic is the icing.
>>516103
http://mentalfloss.com/article/50409/tycho-brahe-astronomer-drunken-moose
The history of the German "people"
>>516103
Kettle war
>>516152
he was fucking depressed at that time
>>516103
Belgium
Some Belgians actually believe they're of Celtic/Gaullic decent and that all of the Netherlands (Low Countries) up to the Rhine belongs to them.
>>517993
>druken
>poet
was he ever not fucking depressed?
>>517935
10/10, how did Tsushima go?
>>516103
Pompeian graffiti.
>>517773
Fuck this made me laugh. Fuck you.
>>518293
This.
requesting pic of Gaius and Aulus, bros for life
>>518351
too few women for such a stallion
I found the way Brazil got independent quite funny.
