“The Swiss Air Force did not respond because the airplane hijacking occurred outside normal office hours, which are 08:00–12:00 and 13:30–17:00 Monday to Friday”
When Triboulet, a court jester, violated an order of Francis I forbidding Triboulet to make jokes about the queen and courtesans, the king ordered his execution.
Francis granted Triboulet the right to choose how he would die.
The jester said “Good sire, by Saint Goody Two-Shoes and Saint Fatbelly, patrons of insanity, I ask to die from old age.”
Laughing, the king ordered that Triboulet not be executed but instead be banished from the realm.
In 1983, the airplane ran out of fuel in flight, but it did not crash and began to plan.
“The co-pilot chose Gimli Air Base, where he used to serve, as the landing site. He didn’t realize the base had been converted into an automobile racetrack.”
Test pilot Jack Woolams as a bit of a practical joker.
While flying the still unknown experimental P-59 jet airplane, he would join formation with unsuspecting pilots flying propeller-driven fighters and to their surprise, wave at them while wearing a gorilla mask, and then fly away leaving them behind.
The culture does not talk much about the Greek Civil War of 1946-1949.
And yet it was the first proxy war of the Cold War. It was between the rights (backed by the US and Britain) and the lefts (backed by the USSR and Yugoslavia).
Turritopsis dohrnii is a species of immortal jellyfish. In case of old age or damage, they are able to transform back into a polyp (baby form) and start living from the beginning.
In addition to Stockholm syndrome (when hostages sympathize with the kidnappers), there is also Lima syndrome, when the kidnappers sympathize with the hostages.
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