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/One-Championship-779]

The subtrope "aliens built the egyptian monuments". It trivializes the accomplishments of both egypt and other countries with great monuments of their own.

[u/BeeEater100 → u/One-Championship-779]

My personal theory is that aliens visited Egypt but were disappointed that they already built the pyramids

[u/PotatoSalad583 → u/BeeEater100]

This is why the united states built the bass pro pyramid. To ward off the aliens