Circus Facts

Pierce Brosnan once worked with the circus as a fire eater!

Dolly Dimples, a circus sideshow performer who weighed over 500 lbs, lost more than 400 lbs by eating nothing but baby food, becoming a weight-loss celebrity in the 1950s.

P.T. Barnum led 21 elephants - including the famous Jumbo - across the Brooklyn Bridge to prove it was safe. Six days after it opened in 1883, a stampede rumor sparked a panic that left 12 people dead and shattered public confidence. The elephant parade fixed it. It worked.