THESE ACTUALLY DID HAPPEN

IN 1982 KEY WEST DECLARED THAT IT WAS

SECEDING FROM THE US. IT THEN DECLARED WAR,

IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWED BY PEACE, AND THEN

ASKED FOR $1 BILLION IN AID. THE ENTIRE

ORDEAL WAS SYMBOLIC.

SADDAM HUSSEIN WAS GIVEN THE KEY TO THE

CITY OF DETROIT

IN THE LAST 3,500 YEARS THE CIVILIZED WORLD HAS

ONLY SEEN ABOUT 200 YEARS OF SIGNIFICANT PEACE

SEVEN OUT OF TEN OF THE DEADLIEST WARS IN

HISTORY WERE FOUGHT IN CHINA

THE MAYANS SACRIFICED PEOPLE BY PULLING THEIR

STILL BEATING HEARTS OUT OF THEIR CHESTS

WHEN SOME PHARAOHS IN ANCIENT EGYPT DIED THEY

WERE SEALED INTO THEIR TOMBS ALONG WITH ALL

OF THEIR STILL-ALIVE SERVANTS

2.5% OF THE AMERICAN POPULATION PERISHED

DURING THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR

ROMAN EMPEROR COMMODUS ONCE ROUNDED UP ALL

OF THE DISABLED PEOPLE IN ROME AND HAD THEM

FIGHT TO THE DEATH IN THE COLOSSEUM