FRIDAY SURPRISE: A little bit of history.

Friday, April 24, 2009 Filed in: Friday Surprise!, Completely irrelevant, History

Back in 1959, Peter Sellers made a film that, today, is sadly forgotten: "The Mouse That Roared."

The film relays the story of the tiny Duchy Of Grand Fenwick, which declares war on the United States. (There is a lesson in the clip that seems to have been lost in the intervening decades, but I'll leave that to your discovery.)

The mythical Duchy, though, has little on some of the tiniest 'countries' in the world, places whose origins and history are even more bizarre than Hollywood could concoct.

Cracked has the true stories of six of these mice.

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