When Cristiano Ronaldo was asked to donate his cleats for a charity auction benefiting 10-year old Erik Ortiz Cruz, who had a brain disorder that can cause 30 seizures a day, he instead paid the whole $83K for his surgery.
A 25 year old contestant on the French version of Survivor…
A 25 year old contestant on the French version of Survivor died during the first competition on the first day. A week later, the staff doctor of the show killed himself. His suicide note claimed the media was making unjust accusations and assumptions about him.
In 1954, an Irishman, after taking “a good swig” from a beer bottle…
In 1954, an Irishman, after taking “a good swig” from a beer bottle, saw leprechauns all over the place. Unfortunately, the beer bottle contained not beer but a highly poisonous industrial chemical. He realized his mistake at once, drunk salt water and got some of it up. Nevertheless he was “deeply inebriated” and went into […]
A Pan-Am flight crashed in the Syrian desert, killing fourteen passengers…
A Pan-Am flight crashed in the Syrian desert, killing fourteen passengers. Two crew survived – one of the two was the co-pilot, named Gene Roddenberry. He was so disturbed by the crash that he quit to become a writer, and shortly after he created Star Trek.
It is illegal for pet stores in Beverly Hills to sell…
It is illegal for pet stores in Beverly Hills to sell dogs and cats that are not from a shelter or rescue.
With a permanent population of less than one million people, Qatar…
With a permanent population of less than one million people, Qatar hires migrant workers to fill their empty stadiums in the Qatar Stars League, paying them one dollar an hour to “sit in the stadiums and pretend to have fun”.
When trains were introduced in the U.S, many people believed…
When trains were introduced in the U.S, many people believed that that “women’s bodies were not designed to go at 50 miles an hour,” and that their “uteruses would fly out of [their] bodies if they were accelerated to that speed.”
If you’re flying aboard a spaceflight leaving from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan…
If you’re flying aboard a spaceflight leaving from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, you’ll be ordered to pee on the back-right tire of a bus. It’s tradition.
If you or your pet have accidentally consumed antifreeze…
If you or your pet have accidentally consumed antifreeze, vodka can be used as an antidote.
During a visit to Boeing, Soviet scientists secretly applied adhesive…
During a visit to Boeing, Soviet scientists secretly applied adhesive to the bottom of their shoes in order to covertly collect metal samples from the floor.