“Napoleon Returning From Exile”: 37 Historical Events That Sound Fake, But Are True

As Mark Twain famously said, “Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.”

As a kid, I always found history class incredibly boring. Why would I care about what happened way back then when I’m living now? But boy was I wrong. It turns out that there are hundreds of stories from the past that read just like scripts of films that you'd pay money to see in a theater.