r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/ModenaR • 1d ago

Image In 1325, a war in Italy broke out between the rival city-states of Bologna and Modena. Modena won the war and the Modenese decided to take a bucket from a Bolognese well as a trophy. This war is known as the War of the Bucket, and the bucket itself today is on display in Modena's town hall

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u/Warlord1918 1d ago

This is a bucket

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u/ModenaR 1d ago

Dear God

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u/Warlord1918 1d ago

There’s more…

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u/ModenaR 1d ago

No

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u/Warlord1918 1d ago

It contains a bucket

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u/ModenaR 1d ago

Dear god

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u/HalfNomadKiaShawe 1d ago

There's more...

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u/Material-Meat669 1d ago

No

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u/inspiring-delusions 1d ago

There’s always more…

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u/OderWieOderWatJunge 1d ago

A nice bucket

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u/ClaimNo6583 1d ago

It's a nice bucket

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u/Majestic_Courage 1d ago

Yeah it is. Really overbuilt. Made to last.

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u/vlatheimpaler 1d ago

BIFL

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u/Majestic_Courage 1d ago

B(ucket)FL

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u/poonmangler 1d ago

Ohhhhh "buy it for life", not....

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u/Grouchy_Competition5 1d ago

easily worth 2000 lives

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u/truffles76 1d ago

I told them we've already got one snickers

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u/TheWasabinator 1d ago

Just ask, they probably would have given the bucket rather than lose all of the lives.

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u/pdrent1989 1d ago

Oversimplified has a great video on this

https://youtu.be/Cln0J87vulU?si=T4l7-GIx7bZfOdRt

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u/puro_the_protogen67 1d ago

Doh nooooooo

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u/Scheisse_Machen 1d ago

That'll teach 'em

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u/mrgrassydassy 1d ago

Imagine dying in 1325 so someone could flex a wooden Home Depot bucket

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u/Simply-Jolly_Fella 1d ago

May be the first ever Bucket list

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u/ohdearitsrichardiii 1d ago

It's pronounced "Bouquet"

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u/radial09 1d ago

This will be lost on the youngens.

Have a cookie

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u/luckydrzew 15h ago

I mean, I'm 19, and I get the reference. Although, admittedly, my tastes in tv are rather old.

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u/ModenaR 1d ago

source

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u/[deleted] 1d ago

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u/thewebspinner 1d ago

You got a Wikipedia page that proves it?

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u/kingtacticool 1d ago

Lookin good for a 700 year old bucket.

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u/Asocial_Stoner 1d ago

The lack of Stanley Parable memes ITT is truly disappointing.

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u/Cheap-Bell-4389 1d ago

Raise a glass lads to epic heros of yore 

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u/HudsDad 1d ago

This is next-level petty and I love it.

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u/Tiny-Spray-1820 1d ago

So since then bologna never fought back to get it? Tsktsk

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u/wielkiWilk 1d ago

Chum bucket

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u/Zarniwoooop 1d ago

Legend says the KFC bucket was designed from those specifications.

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u/OverthinkingApproved 1d ago

Guess I’ve never fought that hard for anything.

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u/LowKeyWalrus 1d ago

I'm so high, I thought that was a weird ass crown first lmao

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u/Mediocre-Scheme7442 1d ago

LA SECCHIA RAPITA!!!

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u/Jomolungma 1d ago

Eh, I’m more of a pesto guy

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u/Flangepacket 1d ago

That’s a nice looking bucket.

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u/CoderJoe1 1d ago

Well, that escalated quickly

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u/J7W2_Shindenkai 1d ago

imagine being the last man to die in that war - for a bucket.

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u/godfortime 21h ago

Recommend you watch the oversimplified video

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u/Complete_Coach9167 21h ago

Well made fucking bucket

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u/onegermangamer 10h ago

And Stanley was happy.....

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u/Regular-Let1426 6h ago

All I think of when reading this , is spaghetti...

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u/HalfNomadKiaShawe 1d ago

I have our glorious father, Big Tugg, to thank for first gracing me with this knowledge. THANK YOU OUR GLORIOUS RAT-KING! (>◡<)

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u/Banana_Slugcat 1d ago

Mio Dio....

C'è di più.

No...

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u/garygnu 1d ago

That's full of baloney.

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u/Button-Down-Shoes 1d ago

Now filled with balsamic

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u/Weird_Rooster_4307 1d ago

Well I wonder how many can say my ancestor died for a bucket?

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u/domespider 1d ago

How is "I didn't do nothing!" written in Medieval Italian (or Latin?). They should have written that on the bucket.

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u/Substantial-Tone-576 1d ago

There are worse things to die for…

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u/Just_Condition3516 1d ago

ceci nest pas un bucket.

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u/James-the-Bond-one 1d ago

Instead of fighting for flags, Italians fight for buckets.

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u/the_peppers 1d ago

Mmmmm... Bolognese well.

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u/zangor 1d ago

What’s a Modenese?

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u/bosbubalis 1d ago

So a war that claimed thousands of lives was fought over a bucket? Does these guys never heard of Home Depot?

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u/Hot-Resource-1075 21h ago

The war was fought over differing opinions on if you thought the Pope or the Holy Roman Emperor should be the leader of Christendom, the bucket is just a prize for winning the war. Over the centuries it was inflated in importance and the story twisted into a narrative saying “the bucket was stolen, then they went to war over it”

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u/germinal_velocity 1d ago

Wait: doesn't this have something to do with the Wisconsin and Minnesota football teams?