In 1949, an official boxing match between a bear and a man was held. The bear won.
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When Charles Darwin first discovered the Galapagos Tortoises, he tried to ride them!
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Just before the US started bombing Baghdad, nearly $1 billion dollars was stolen from the Central Bank of Iraq and is now the largest bank robbery in history.
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It has been calculated that every 2 minutes, we take more pictures than all of humanity in the 19th century.
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In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
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In 1999, a fisherman found a love letter in a bottle from a soldier in WWI. He returned said letter to the now deceased widows 86 year old daughter.
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