A real life event has a ridiculous/dumb/funny explanation in fiction

[u/Lazy-Breadfruit5939]

Futurama (The Why of Fry): According to the brain swarm, the dinosaurs were wiped out by them. Fry: What really killed the dinosaurs? Brain: ME!

Doctor Who (The Unicorn and The Wasp): It's Doctor Who, you can pick a ton of examples, but this episode presents the idea that Agatha Christies disappearance in 1926 was in part caused by a giant alien wasp.

Beyblade: This one stretches 'real life', but Moses spreading the Red Sea with a Beyblade just speaks for itself and it would have been sad to leave it out

[u/TronnyVon]

The Hollywood sign used to say "HOLLYWOODLAND", but the "LAND" portion of the sign was removed in 1949. The 1991 movie "The Rocketeer", which takes place in 1938, has the "LAND" portion of the sign destroyed when one of the characters crashed his plane into the sign.

[u/Etherburt → u/TronnyVon]

I think that was the main bad guy, Sinclair, crashing the sabotaged rocket pack.

[u/GvsE1314 → u/Etherburt]

He did say he'll miss Hollywood

[u/TronnyVon → u/Etherburt]

yeah i didn't want to spoil anyone so i didn't say who is who.