In 1918, a homing pigeon saved over 190 American soldiers by delivering a message to nearby support despite having been shot through the breast, blinded in one eye, covered in blood, and with a leg hanging on by just a tendon.
22
The Rain Man (Laurence Kim Peek) was the only savant known to science who could read two pages of a book simultaneously - one with each eye.
17
In 1976, an underachieving Princeton junior undergraduate wrote a term paper detailing how to make a nuclear bomb. He got an "A", but never got his paper back because it was seized by the FBI.
16
In 2007, a Bosnian couple found out that they had been cheating on one another in online chatrooms... with each other.
75
There is a surgical implant being developed that will give you an orgasm at the touch of a button.
20
A scorpion can hold its breath for up to 6 days.
19