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In 1932, Australia faced an unlikely nemesis: emus. Post WWI soldiers tried to curb their rampant numbers in Western Australia using military might. The emus proved too agile, outmaneuvering soldiers and dodging gunfire. Despite their best efforts, the army declared defeat. The "war" ended with emus emerging victorious, underscoring nature's unpredictability and resilience.

Cher Ami, a carrier pigeon during World War I, heroically saved nearly 200 soldiers in 1918. Despite being shot through the chest, losing an eye, and barely hanging on, Cher Ami delivered a crucial message to Allied forces in France. This brave bird was awarded the French Croix de Guerre for extraordinary service, proving that even pigeons can be wartime heroes.

After Albert Einstein's death in 1955, pathologist Thomas Stoltz Harvey autopsied him and kept his brain, hoping to unlock the secrets of his genius. In an astonishing twist, Harvey stored slices in cookie jars, moving them cross-country before finally returning them, decades later, to Princeton Hospital. The wandering brain, kept in plain sight, is a bizarre chapter in the legacy of a genius.

In 1951, a dinner club in New York City claimed to serve a dish made from a prehistoric woolly mammoth, which had been found perfectly preserved in the Siberian permafrost. The Explorers Club dinner became legendary, but later analysis in the 2000s revealed the "mammoth" meat was actually from an extinct giant sloth. Nonetheless, it was a sensational feast with a mammoth-sized myth!

In 1518, in Strasbourg, a woman began dancing fervently in the streets. Within a week, dozens joined her, unable to stop. Known as the "Dancing Plague," the hysteria struck hundreds, some dancing to exhaustion or even death. The bizarre episode, still unexplained, is a reminder of history's strangest phenomena and the mysteries of mass psychological events.

In 1838, a project known as the Thames and Severn Canal and Railway managed something wildly innovative: transporting a canal boat over a hill by train. Using a locomotive, the boat was lifted six miles over a ridge. This curious blend of land and water travel was a rare spectacle, showcasing early engineering ingenuity long before modern multimodal transport systems.