weird history facts and bizarre historical events for short form content

Here are some weird history facts and bizarre historical events that are perfect for short-form content:

• The Great Emu War was real, and Australia lost to emus in 1932. Soldiers with machine guns tried to stop the birds from wrecking crops, but the emus proved way too hard to beat.^[7][14]

• Napoleon was attacked by rabbits. During a rabbit hunt in 1807, domesticated rabbits swarmed him and his men instead of running away.^[7][10]

• The shortest war in history lasted only about 38 minutes. The Anglo-Zanzibar War began and ended on August 27, 1896.^[8][18]

• The longest war in history lasted 335 years, and nobody fought a single battle. The Dutch-Scilly War dragged on from 1651 to 1986 because no one bothered to declare peace.^[4][13]

• A pope put a dead pope on trial. In 897, Pope Stephen VI exhumed Pope Formosus, dressed the corpse in papal robes, and held a trial over him.^[14][19]

• Boston once got buried in molasses. In 1919, a storage tank burst and sent a wave of molasses through the city, killing 21 people and injuring 150 more.^[4][10]

• A whole army once held out through a shipwreck, ice, and near-impossible odds. The Shackleton expedition survived for nearly two years after their ship got trapped in ice, and all 28 men lived.^[14]

• The CIA once tried using cats as spy tech. One cat implanted with recording equipment was sent to eavesdrop on Soviet agents, but the mission failed almost immediately when it got hit by a taxi.^[14][19]

• The Great London Beer Flood was exactly what it sounds like. In 1814, a brewery vat burst and sent a huge wave of beer through the streets, killing eight people.^[14][19]

• A British newspaper once announced, “There is no news.” On April 18, 1930, the BBC said exactly that and played piano music for the rest of the broadcast.^[7][10]

• The “Great Stink” shut down London politics. In 1858, the River Thames smelled so awful that Parliament could barely function.^[10]

• A single bucket helped spark a war. The War of the Bucket in 1325 began after one wooden bucket was stolen between Modena and Bologna.^[19]

If you want, I can turn these into:
1. 10 TikTok hooks,
2. carousel slide text, or
3. a fast-paced voiceover script.