This Week's Top 11 True Stories That Sound Fake

This week's most-watched true stories, counted down to number one. A college football team lost 222 to nothing, America glued firebombs to bats, and a pet fish charged its owner's credit card. Chapters: 0:00 Intro 0:13 #11 The College Football Game That Ended 222 to Nothing 1:02 #10 China's War on Sparrows: 2 Billion Reported Killed 1:51 #9 A Baboon Worked Train Signals for a Real Railway 2:37 #8 America Glued Tiny Firebombs to Bats in World War II 3:07 #7 A Runner Took 54 Years to Finish One Marathon 3:55 #6 A Gaming Fish Charged Its Owner's Credit Card 4:24 #5 Britain's Cold War Nuclear Mines Had a Chicken Problem 5:14 #4 A US Destroyer Fired a Live Torpedo at the President 6:04 #3 Did Danish Farmers Turn Their Pigs Into Living Flags? 6:45 #2 A Pigeon Pecked Over 10,000 Times to Learn to Steer a Bomb 7:15 #1 Scientists Killed a 507-Year-Old Clam to Learn Its Age Watch the original Shorts:    • Scientists Killed a 507-Year-Old Clam to L...   - Scientists Killed a 507-Year-Old Clam to Learn Its Age    • A Pigeon Pecked Over 10,000 Times to Learn...   - A Pigeon Pecked Over 10,000 Times to Learn to Steer a Bomb    • Did Danish Farmers Turn Their Pigs Into Li...   - Did Danish Farmers Turn Their Pigs Into Living Flags?    • A US Destroyer Fired a Live Torpedo at the...   - A US Destroyer Fired a Live Torpedo at the President    • Britain's Cold War Nuclear Mines Had a Chi...   - Britain's Cold War Nuclear Mines Had a Chicken Problem    • A Gaming Fish Charged Its Owner's Credit C...   - A Gaming Fish Charged Its Owner's Credit Card    • A Runner Took 54 Years to Finish One Marat...   - A Runner Took 54 Years to Finish One Marathon    • America Glued Tiny Firebombs to Bats in Wo...   - America Glued Tiny Firebombs to Bats in World War II    • A Baboon Worked Train Signals for a Real R...   - A Baboon Worked Train Signals for a Real Railway    • China's War on Sparrows: 2 Billion Reporte...   - China's War on Sparrows: 2 Billion Reported Killed    • The College Football Game That Ended 222 t...   - The College Football Game That Ended 222 to Nothing Images (Wikimedia Commons, full credits on each file's Commons page): GT Cumberland 222 scoreboard.jpg, Unknown (Public domain) Georgia Tech Auburn football game Thanksgiving 1921.jpg, Unknown authorUnknown author (Public domain) Tech Tower-7.jpg, Mistercontributer (CC BY-SA 3.0) 1917 Georgia Tech backfield.jpg, Unknown authorUnknown author (Public domain) John Heisman plaque, Georgia Tech.jpg, JJonahJackalope (CC BY-SA 4.0) John Heisman statue, Georgia Tech.jpg, JJonahJackalope (CC BY-SA 4.0) 16gatech.jpg, Unknown authorUnknown author (Public domain) Tree-Sparrow-2009-16-02.jpg, Andreas Trepte (CC BY-SA 2.5) Kill bird and insect.jpg, China Government (Public domain) Eradicate pests and diseases and build happiness for ten thousand generations.jpg, Red Cross and the Health Propaganda Office of the Health Dep (CC BY-SA 4.0) Tree Sparrow August 2007 Osaka Japan.jpg, Laitche (Public domain) Eurasian tree sparrow at Tennōji Park in Osaka, December 2015.jpg, Laitche (CC BY-SA 4.0) A Great Leap Forward Propaganda Painting on the Wall of a Rural House in Shanghai.jpg, Fayhoo (CC BY-SA 3.0) Statue of Mao Zedong in Chili Garden, Changsha, Hunan, China.jpg, Uploaded by Huangdan2060 (CC BY 3.0) Jack.signalman.jpg, Unknown authorUnknown author (Public domain) Disabled Signalman with his trained Baboon assistant - Uitenhage railway - Cape Colony 1884.jpg, Unknown authorUnknown author (Public domain) Uitenhage Station a.JPG, Col André Kritzinger (CC BY-SA 3.0) Chacma baboon (Papio ursinus griseipes) male head.jpg, Charles J. Sharp (CC BY-SA 4.0) Chacma baboon (Papio ursinus griseipes) juvenile.jpg, Charles J. Sharp (CC BY-SA 4.0) Carlsbad AAF Fire after Bat Bomb Accident.jpg, United States Army Air Forces (Public domain) Tadarida brasiliensis - Bahamas - Long Island (sic) - Cartwright Cave - March 2006 - 2.jpg, Matti Mero (Public domain) Mexican free-tailed bats exiting Bracken Bat Cave (8006845825).jpg, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Headquarters (Public domain) Mexican free-tailed bats exiting Bracken Bat Cave (8006833815).jpg, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Headquarters (Public domain) Animal life of the Carlsbad cavern (1928) (18009682330).jpg, Internet Archive Book Images (Public domain) Shiso Kanaguri 1924.jpg, Unknown authorUnknown author (Asahi Shinbun) (Public domain) First Hakone Winners, Tokyo Higher Normal School.jpg, Unknown authorUnknown author (Public domain) Members of Track & Field Team, Tokyo Higher Normal School.jpg, Unknown authorUnknown author (Public domain) Track & Field Team of Tokyo Higher Normal School.jpg, Unknown authorUnknown author (Public domain) Olympic marathon 1912 turnpoint.JPG, Johannes Scherman (CC BY 2.5) Turning point Olympic marathon 1912.jpg, Johannes Scherman (CC BY-SA 4.0) #history #weirdhistory #truestory