Auction Facts

A 4-foot walrus penis bone sold at auction in 2007 for $8,000.

Premium watermelons in Japan can sell for thousands of dollars, with rare Densuke watermelons fetching up to $6,100 at auction!

An American urologist bought Napoleon's penis at auction for $2,900 in 1977.

Boxer Wladimir Klitshko auctioned his Olympic gold medal to raise money for underprivileged Ukrainian children. He raised $1,000,000. The buyer immediately returned the medal to Wladimir as he wanted it to remain in the Klitschko family.

The most expensive license plate is the number '1', bought by an Abu Dhabi businessman - costing a staggering $14.3 million!

In 2006, an Australian man tried to sell New Zealand on eBay. The starting price was $0.01 AUD and managed to reach $3000 before eBay closed the auction.

Nicolas Cage got into a bidding war with Leonardo DiCaprio over a 67-million-year-old Tarbosaurus skull. Cage won with a bid of $276,000. Seven years later, the skull was identified as having been illegally smuggled from Mongolia. Cage had to return it to the Mongolian government. He got nothing back.

Michael Sparks paid $2.48 at a Nashville thrift store for a yellowed scroll he thought was an engraving. It was one of only 200 official copies of the Declaration of Independence, printed for John Quincy Adams in 1823. The previous owner had donated it by mistake after his wife cleared out the garage. It sold at auction for $477,650.

Jean-Pierre Osenat was doing a routine appraisal of a Paris townhouse when he noticed a painting on the wall. It turned out to be a Rubens masterpiece - a 1613 work called Christ on the Cross that had vanished for over 400 years, known to the art world only through engravings. Authenticated by microscopic paint analysis, it sold for $2.7 million.