In 2005 a Baltimore man was arrested and handcuffed to a pole for 3 hours for paying a $114 fee with 57 $2 bills. The Secret Service was called to make sure it wasn’t counterfeit money – which it indeed was not.
A Quizno’s store manager kept her abandoned store open…
A Quizno’s store manager kept her abandoned store open for months by using the cash from sales to buy bread and discount lunch meats. With paychecks bouncing and vendors refusing to deliver on credit, she used cash from the till to buy cold cuts and bread each morning. She paid herself and her crew in […]
A Canadian creationist who believes the world is only around…
A Canadian creationist who believes the world is only around 6,000 yrs old, accidentally discovered a 60-million-year-old fish fossil while excavating a basement in Calgary.
A man who was attacked and beaten outside of a bar turned…
A man who was attacked and beaten outside of a bar turned into a math genius. Jason Padgett never made it past pre-algebra but after the injury, he began seeing the world in pixelated, geometrics shapes, understood the concept of pi and had a sudden ability to hand-draw complex fractals.
The experience of hearing voices among schizophrenia…
The experience of hearing voices among schizophrenia patients is influenced by culture. In the US, patients typically report hearing angry/violent voices. In India and Africa, patients are more likely to report hearing friendly/entertaining voices.
People of Sweden love Donald Duck so much…
People of Sweden love Donald Duck so much, they had to make voting for him illegal.
In a 2011 experiment where rats were presented…
In a 2011 experiment where rats were presented with chocolate chips and a caged rat, test subjects would first free the caged rat, then share the food.
Ancient Egyptian workmen who dug the pharaohs…
Ancient Egyptian workmen who dug the pharaohs’ tombs got paid sick leave, according to 3000 year-old records.
In 1965, a Ukrainian farmer dug up the lower jawbone of a mammoth…
In 1965, a Ukrainian farmer dug up the lower jawbone of a mammoth. Further excavations revealed the presence of 4 huts, made up of a total of 149 mammoth bones. These dwellings, dating back some 15,000 years, were determined to have been some of the oldest shelters ever built.
Judy Garland was put on a diet while filming The Wizard…
Judy Garland was put on a diet while filming The Wizard of Oz. That diet, consisted of chicken soup, coffee, and … 80 cigarettes a day. She was 16 years old.