Napoleon Dynamite had a budget of only $400,000 and Jon Heder was paid only $1,000 for his role as Napoleon. 10
The Navy’s stealth destroyer, the USS…
The Navy’s stealth destroyer, the USS Zumwalt, can’t fire its guns because the ammo is too expensive. 00
Lucy Gafford calls herself the Shower Hair Master…
Lucy Gafford calls herself the Shower Hair Master because she creates art out of shower hair. She then posts photos of her creations on Twitter. She’s currently up to “Shower Hair Masterpiece” #420. 00
Between the 1930s and 1970s, employees at Merriam-Webster…
Between the 1930s and 1970s, employees at Merriam-Webster created a massive “backward index.” It was a card catalog, containing all the words in its dictionary typed backwards. It eventually included around 315,000 index cards. The reason for creating this thing was to allow the company to find words with similar endings. Such as all words […]
In 1980 William Bergstrom arrived at Binion’s Horseshoe Casino..
In 1980 William Bergstrom arrived at Binion’s Horseshoe Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada with two suitcases: one containing $777,000 in cash, the other empty. He placed the full amount on a single bet of dice which he won and packed the winnings in the empty suitcase. 00
In 2002, a cow jumped a 6 foot fence at a slaughterhouse…
In 2002, a cow jumped a 6 foot fence at a slaughterhouse in Cincinnati, only to evade police officers for 11 days, making national news headlines, and eventually living out the rest of its life in NY. 10
The first person to perform a cardiac…
The first person to perform a cardiac catheterization was not allowed to perform the procedure on a patient, so he decided to perform it on himself and then walk all the way to the X-ray room with the catheter still in his arm to prove that the tube had reached his heart. 10
The modern English word phoenix derives…
The modern English word phoenix derives from the Middle English word phenix, itself from the Old English fenix, which was borrowed from Medieval Latin phenix, which is derived from Classic Latin phoenix. 00
In 2000 a man looking for a barber chair…
In 2000 a man looking for a barber chair at a garage sale purchased a two deteriorated boxes of items for $45. He later found the boxes contained 65 glass plate negatives from photographer Ansel Adams worth $200 million. 00
An Italian mob pulled an elaborate heist…
An Italian mob pulled an elaborate heist involving olive oil, using adulterated and chemically treated oils and labeling their containers as extra virgin. The profit margin of this heist was said to have “three times the profit margin of cocaine.” 00