RIDICULOUS HISTORY FACTS #shorts #history

RIDICULOUS HISTORY FACTS #shorts #history

Potatoes were not very popular as a food in France. Like they were seen as fit only for animals. Not only that but they were considered generally not digestible by humans. So a pharmacist named Parmentier knew they were good food and wanted to popularize them among the working class. So he got a 2 acre farm to grow potatoes and placed armed guards around it at all times. People assumed armed guards meant something very valuable was growing there so they began to steal the potatoes.

That's how potatoes became popular in france's working class.

General Omar Bradley was stopped by MP during the Battle of the Bulge in World War 2 due to them thinking he was a Nazi infiltrator. The irony was that he was stopped because he correctly identified the capital of Illinois as Springfield when the officer thought it was Chicago.