When Jai Singh, Maharaja of a princely state of India, visited the Rolls-Royce showroom in London, he was affronted when the salesman implied that he couldn’t afford to purchase the car. He purchased ten, shipped them to India, and ordered to use them for collecting and transporting garbage.

 The Greek name for the Mosquito is Anopheles, translating to “good-for-nothing.”

                         Female cheetahs live alone and male cheetahs live in small permanent groups called coalitions. 

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    Death row inmates in Japan are held in solitary confinement and “told [when] they are to be hanged just hours before they are taken to the gallows.”Their families are notified only after their demise. 

There is a Japanese sweet snack called “English toast”, which is neither English nor toast. It consists of two slices of white bread, covered with a layer of margarine, sprinkled with sugar and put together. 

 In Rwanda, plastic bags are illegal and carry with them a 100-$150 fine. In fact, at airport customs all plastic bags are confiscated which has resulted in Rwanda is one of the most litter-free countries in Africa

          Margaret Sanger was jailed for 30 days for establishing the first birth control clinic in the United States. Police confiscated everything 9 days after the clinic’s conception, including condoms. 

Lawyers helped a man who slaughtered his wife’s friend and attempted to murder his wife avoid the death penalty by claiming he had the “warrior gene” which is a gene that a study showed to be linked to aggression. –

                 . There is a fire in a Kyoto temple that has been perpetually burning for over 1200 years. 

     The time machine in ‘Back to the Future’ was originally a refrigerator, but was changed since they were concerned kids would start to lock themselves inside after seeing the movie.

  The last man to cross over Niagara Falls on a tightrope was required to submit his passport to border agents upon arrival. 

      . Robert Williams, a Ford assembly line worker, is the first human in history to have been killed by a robot. He was hit by a robotic arm in 1979. –

n 2006 Ireland blocked the US from transporting arms to Israel through Shannon Airport, “segments of the Irish public see the airport as a symbol of Irish complicity in perceived US wrong doing in the Middle East.” 

  A man named Chen Si spends every weekend of his life at the Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge (the World’s #1 suicide site) and saves people from jumping.  – 

    Pet turtles in the U.S. must be at least 4 inches long so children can’t fit them in their mouths and contract salmonellosis. –

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    When skydiver Joan Murray’s main parachute and backup parachute failed, she approached the ground at 130 kilometers per hour, landing on a mound of fire ants. Doctors believe that the shock of being stung over 200 times by the ants released a surge of adrenaline, which kept her heart beating. –

 In 1978, Charlie Chaplin’s body was stolen and held for ransom. His widow refused to pay ransom demands of £400,000 because “Charlie would have thought it ridiculous.” The body was found 11 weeks later.