In 2010, police in Belfast, Northern Ireland, used ice cream van music to calm angry teen rioters - and it worked!
28
In 1386, a pig in France was executed by public hanging for the murder of a child.
469
In 1987, a Chicago TV station had its broadcast interrupted by a pirate signal that shows a man in a Max Headroom mask mumbling and being spanked with a fly swatter. Despite investigations by the FCC and FBI, this became the only known incident in which a hacker interrupted a major TV broadcast without getting caught.
19
Bank robber John Dillinger played professional baseball.
67
Native Americans do not have to pay tax on their land.
105
The people most often killed in robberies are the robbers.
466