The King Who Died After Being Bitten by a Monkey!
Harperzz On October 2, 1920, King Alexander of Greece was walking through the grounds of the royal estate at Tatoi, near Athens, when an extremely bizarre accident unfolded. Alexander was accompanied…
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Library Book Returned After 150 Years!
A book borrowed from an Australian library in the 1870s has finally made its way home—and its journey back involved a sealed fireplace, a tea crate and roughly 150 years…
Hollywood Star Became Mayor After an Ice-Cream Controversy!
By 1986, Clint Eastwood was already one of Hollywood’s biggest stars. But when he decided to enter local politics, his campaign in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, became one of the strangest celebrity…
First Passengers in Flying Machine Were a Sheep, Duck and Rooster!
Before humans ever traveled in a balloon, three animals became the first living creatures to fly in a human-made aircraft. On September 19, 1783, the Montgolfier brothers demonstrated their hot-air…
Man Went 382 Days Without Food And Sets a World Record!
In 1965, 27-year-old Scottish man Angus Barbieri entered Maryfield Hospital in Dundee for medical supervision as doctors attempted to help him lose a substantial amount of weight. What happened next…
Hollywood Star Was Told She isn’t Beautiful Enough!
Before Barbra Streisand became one of the most successful entertainers in American history, she was a young performer whose unconventional appearance did not fit the traditional Hollywood image of a…
Man Who Ran 100 Kilometers Every Day for 100 Days!
Chinese ultramarathon runner Huang Zhenglong, better known as Long Shao, accomplished something that sounds almost impossible: he ran 100 kilometers every day for 100 consecutive days. His record-breaking challenge began…
The Man Who Survived 2,443 Bee Stings!
On January 28, 1962, Dutchman Johannes Relleke was working at the Kamativi Tin Mine in what was then Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe, when he and his dog were suddenly attacked by…
Man Lived for More Than 66 Years With Only One Lung!
When Donald Cantrell was 17 years old, doctors removed one of his lungs in a major operation known as a pneumonectomy. For most people, losing an entire lung would seem…
Eiffel Tower Jump That Was Filmed and Ended in Tragedy!
On February 4, 1912, Austrian-born French tailor and inventor Franz Reichelt climbed to the first platform of the Eiffel Tower wearing a parachute-like suit he believed could help aviators survive…