In order to escape arrest, a man feigned a heart attack. After being placed under a security watch in a hospital, he impersonated an FBI agent on the phone and told his guards he could be released. 00
J. Paul Getty refused to pay for his grandson’s ransom…
J. Paul Getty refused to pay for his 16-year-old grandson’s ransom. When an ear arrived by mail and the kidnappers lowered the sum to $3m instead of $17m, he agreed to pay only $2.2 million – the maximum amount that would be tax deductible. He lent his son the remaining $800.000, at a 4% interest. […]
Part of the reason why the Allied secret…
Part of the reason why the Allied secret services could fool the Nazis many times is that the deputy head of the German Abwehr, Hans Oster, actively sabotaged the Nazi war effort. 00
BuzzWinkle, a moose from Anchorage Alaska…
BuzzWinkle, a moose from Anchorage Alaska, frequently roamed the city drunk from eating fermented crab apples and more than once was found ripping down Christmas lights with his antlers or passed out in the street downtown. 00
70% of millionaires do not..
70% of millionaires do not consider themselves “wealthy”. 00
The inventor of the polygraph married…
The inventor of the polygraph married the first person he interrogated. 10
Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman in space, married…
Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman in space, married a fellow cosmonaut, and they had a daughter, Elena. Elena became the first person to have both parents that have been to outer space. 00
Ernest Hemingway hunted U Boats and Submarines…
Ernest Hemingway hunted U Boats and Submarines on his fishing boat with grenades and machine guns. 00
David Bowie could barely perform his…
David Bowie could barely perform his Broadway show in NY, The Elephant Man, the day after John Lennon was shot because there were three empty seats in the front row. Two belonged to John and Yoko. The third was Mark David Chapman’s, Lennon’s killer. Bowie was suppose to be next on his list. 00
Betteridge’s Law of headlines states…
Betteridge’s Law of headlines states: “Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no.” 00