A Japanese gymnast, Shun Fujimoto, once broke his knee at the Olympics in 1976 but didn’t tell anyone and performed miraculously despite his injury, winning his team the gold medal.
A book, called Ella Minnow Pea, is set on an island where the government…
A book, called Ella Minnow Pea, is set on an island where the government slowly bans letters. As the letters are banned, they disappear from the writing in the book as well.
30 minutes of kissing can reduce the effect of allergic reactions…
30 minutes of kissing can reduce the effect of allergic reactions among atopic and allergic patients.
A man woke up from a coma after 2 years but was unable to show any sign….
A man woke up from a coma after 2 years but was unable to show any sign of it, and so was trapped in a lifeless state for a further 10 years whilst being fully aware of everything going on around him.
When Conrad, the third man on the moon, who was somewhat shorter than Neil…
When Conrad, the third man on the moon, who was somewhat shorter than Neil Armstrong, stepped onto the lunar surface, his first words were “Whoopie! Man, that may have been a small one for Neil, but that’s a long one for me.” This was not an off-the-cuff remark: Conrad had made a US$500 bet with […]
A New Jersey Forest Fire Service firewarden can summon any person…
A New Jersey Forest Fire Service firewarden can summon any person aged 18 to 50 to assist in putting out wildfires—and it’s against the law to refuse.
The Iliad and the Odyssey are just two parts out of an eight-part…
The Iliad and the Odyssey are just two parts out of an eight-part epic, but the other six parts have been almost entirely lost to history.
In 1994 a 74 year old man unable to get a driver’s license drove…
In 1994 a 74 year old man unable to get a driver’s license drove 240 miles on a 1966 John Deere lawnmower to visit his brother who recently had a stroke. At a top speed of 5 mph, the journey took 6 weeks.
The man who first artificially cloned a fish was later forced…
The man who first artificially cloned a fish was later forced to give up his research and become a janitor by the Chinese government during the Cultural Revolution.
A man who wanted to create a whites-only town in North Dakota…
A man who wanted to create a whites-only town in North Dakota was found to be of African descent.