Bill Murray wanders around New York, ramdomly crashing parties and giving fatherly advice to people.
Valentine Tapely promised to never shave again if Abraham Lincoln was elected again president. He died in 1910 with a 12 foot long beard.
Chocolate Diamonds are nothing more than unwanted diamonds just marketed well.
The shortest correspondence in history is between Victor Hugo and his publisher. Hugo was on vacation when les Minserables was published. He telegraphed the single-character message "?" to his publisher, who replied with a single "!".
When trains were introduced in the U.S, many people believed that "women's bodies were not designed to got at 50 miles an hour." And that "uteruses would fly out of their bodies as they were accelerated to that speed."
Mini golf was invented in 1867 because women couldn't play 'real golf' because Victorian manners meant women couldn't raise clubs over their shoulders on backswings.
An Australian guy Bill Morgan was declared dead for 14 minutes. He somehow survived. To celebrate his survival, he bought a scratch card & won a $27000 car. The media/news asked him to re-enact the scratch card monent so he bought another card & won another $250,000 jackpot.
A woman painted the man of her dreams two months before meeting him in real life
Chloe Mayo, an amateur artist from Surrey, England, painted a depiction of her dream man two months before meeting him on an online dating site. She was so shocked by the resemblance that she hid the painting for fear he would think she was a stalker. They are now married for three years.
Chloe Mayo, an amateur artist from Surrey, England
Chloe Mayo, an amateur artist from Surrey, England
In 1786 when Louis XVI had bodies removed from France's Saints Innocents Cemetery into the Catacombs, many of the bodies had decomposed into fat. The fat was then collected and turned into candles and soap.
When spinning a standard U.S. penny the chances of landing on tails is 80%, contrary to the popular belief that there is a 50/50 chances either way.
Soy sauce contains 10 times the antioxidants of red wine. Also, ingesting a quart of soy sauce in one go can send you into a coma.
In 1979, 4.000 people in Australia rioted because a pub closed.
A size 8 at "Banana Republic" is a size 2 at "The Gap".
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