A piece of Apollo 12 floated around the sun for 31 years only to return to orbit around the earth in 2002 and leave earth’s orbit again. It may return to orbit the Earth in the mid-2040s. –

   In 1994, when the Northridge earthquake knocked out the power in Los Angeles, people contacted authorities and observatories wondering what the strange bright lights (stars) in the sky were. – 

   Crows hold funerals for fellow crows. Often neighboring crows who didn’t know the now deceased crow or even see it die will attend these funerals. –

  In 1798 when Napoleon came to Egypt the Sphinx was buried up to its neck. It wasn’t until between 1925-1936 the french engineer Emil Baraize was successful in clearing the sand to reveal the base of the Sphinx. –

   There was a cow named Big Bertha that drank whiskey, lived until she was 48, had 39 calves, broke two Guinness world records and raised $75,000 for cancer research. She was born on St. Patrick’s day. 

   In 1938, a Los Angeles Kindergarten teacher who witnessed a burglary was jailed for five days because she wore a pair of slacks into court the day she was called to testify.

   There is a sausage restaurant in Regensburg, Germany which has been business for 900 years. This means they have been selling sausages well before the Inca Empire existed and are still serving 6,000 sausages a day. 

   One of the longest wars in history, between the Netherlands and the Isles of Scilly, lasted from 1651 to 1986. There were no casualties. –

   Under the Geneva Convention, it’s a war crime to change another country’s weather. 

 In ancient Egypt, couples were considered married whenever they moved in together. Wedding ceremonies were reserved for the upper classes. 

   On February 5, 1958, United States Air Force lost a 7,600 pound hydrogen bomb in the Wassaw Sound in Savannah, Georgia and it remains to this day unfound. 

 Former USA president Teddy Roosevelt was the first and only President to kill a cougar with a knife.

  The youngest United States citizen to receive a life sentence was Florida’s Lionel Tate, due to accidentally killing his neighbor while wrestling. At the time of the accident, he was only 12 years old. 

   There is a pass in Wyoming where a stream splits and half the water goes to the Pacific Ocean and half goes to the Atlantic Ocean. 

  The “folds” in a Chefs Hat are meant to represent the many different ways the chef can cook an egg.

Hot water will turn into ice faster than cold water.

   South African residents can legally attach small flamethrowers to the side of their cars to provide defense against carjackers

   During nuclear testing in Los Alamos in the 1950s, an underground test shot a 2-ton steel manhole cover into the atmosphere at 41 miles/second. It was never found. 

  An employee has embezzled almost $17M from a bakery for years, while living the most lavish lifestyle in a tight-knit community, and no one has suspected a thing. – 

   Wilt Chamberlain once challenged Muhammad Ali to a boxing match. Wilt was a foot taller and 60 pounds heavier with a huge reach. During a joint press conference, Ali answered every question with “Timberrrrr!” After breaking to meet with his lawyers, Wilt returned and called the fight off.

  Ostrich testicles can be purchased online for human consumption. 

Richard Branson bought Necker Island when he was just 28 years old. It was on sale for $6 million, but he negotiated the price down to $180,000. – S

n 2008 a dog tried to save his owners lives after 5 armed pirates hijacked their yacht off the coast of Venezuela. After the men climbed aboard the dog furiously attacked them, biting and snapping until he was stabbed and then shot. The dog survived and the pirates left almost empty-handed. –

  There is a battery-powered bell at Oxford University that has been continuously ringing for over 175 years. No one knows what the battery is composed of and no one wants to take the device apart in order to figure it out.

 Up until 1915 it was legal to mail a baby by US Mail. In 1914, to save money on train fare, May Pierstorff’s parents paid the 53 cents postage, and mailed the 5-year old to her grandparents for a visit. She rode the whole way in the mail car, and was delivered to her grandparents’ house by the mail clerk on duty.

   Two conductors have died while conducting the second act of Wagner’s opera ‘Tristan und Isolde’. They collapsed from heart attacks at exactly the same point in the music due to its technical demands. –

 Julius Caesar’s body was the subject of the earliest known recorded autopsy. Of the 23 stab wounds recorded, only one was potentially fatal on its own. The physician ruled his death due “mostly to blood loss.”

  Henry Ford became a billionaire in 1920, which would be, in today’s money accounting for inflation and GDP, worth $194 billion, making him the 7th richest man in history. – 

 A cat named Pudding saved his new owner’s life just hours after his adoption. The Wisconsin resident originally had no intention of actually adopting one of the animals but had a strong attraction to Pudding who later that evening saved her from a diabetic seizure. 

  The Dutch Santa Claus (Sinterklaas) delivers presents on a gray horse accompanied by black men and kidnaps children to bring to Spain if they’re naughty. –