In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed,
but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance...
I lol'd.
Your topic reminded me of the Tosh.0 video where the man fell through the tin ceiling and a brick almost removed him from the gene pool.
... In Switzerland they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years
of democracy and peace, what did they produce? The cuckoo clock.