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Three Truly weird Historical Events That Actually Happened, You don't know about.
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1. Robert Liston, a surgeon in the 1800s, performed an operation with a 300% mortality rate : Instead of saving the patient, he killed three people.

Liston was renowned for being one of the fastest surgeons alive, which at the time was a very good thing. Anesthesia as we know it didn't exist, so patients were awake for the entire procedure, meaning the shorter it was, the better.
Liston was performing a leg amputation,

but worked so fast that he accidentally cut off two fingers on his assistant's hand. Both the patient and the assistant died later of gangrene, most likely due to the saw being unclean.

What about the third death?

Well, doctors and other spectators would often watch these surgeries from the gallery, which was much more up close and personal than medical galleries today. During the procedure, Liston accidentally swiped near an elderly doctor with a blade,

slicing the fabric of the doctor's suit coat. Thinking he had been cut open, the doctor went into shock and died of a subsequent heart attack. Thus, three people died during an operation that was meant to save one life.
Really weird isn't it? 😀

2. A woman named Violet Jessops survived not only the sinking of the Titatanic, but also the destruction of both of the Titanic's sister ships.

Jessop was a stewardess aboard the RMS Olympic, one of the Titanic's sister ships, when it collided with another ship in September1911

The Olympic was damaged, but made it back to port with no casualties. Less than six months later, Jessop was aboard the Titanic, again as a stewardess, when it sank. After that, Jessop became a stewardess for the British Red Cross and served aboard the HMS Britannic during WWI.

There was an unexplained explosion (thought to be a deep-sea mine), causing the boat to sink quickly. Jessop had to jump out of the lifeboat she was on in order to avoid being sucked under the ship's propellors, and suffered a head injury in the process.

Despite all this, she returned to work for the same shipping company, White Star, about four years later.

Courage, persistence or ment?

3. At one point, the markers of Pepsi had the 6th largset military in the world.

The vice president of PepsiCo attended an American "exhibition" in Moscow in 1959 as part of an effort to convince the Soviet Union of the benefits of capitalism.
Apparently Pepsi was a big hit,

but there was a problem. Soviet money wasn't generally accepted worldwide. So the USSR bought billions of dollars worth of Pepsi by trading submarines, military ships and lots of vodka for the soda. For that brief time, pepsiCo had the 6th largset military in the world,

until it sold all of the ships and submarines for scrap recycling.

Really weird events, isn't it?
Source : buzzfeed.com

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