The hottest curry on earth is a British curry made in Grantham, Lincolnshire known as ‘The Widower.’ It is so hot, fit can make you hallucinate. – 

   Raiders of the Lost Ark: The filmmakers discovered to their chagrin that the snakes used for the Well of Souls sequence weren’t afraid of fire at all. In fact, they would always try to get closer to the fire to warm themselves. At one point director Spielberg was caught on camera picking up a snake and telling it, face to face, “In the script, you’re supposed to hate fire. Why do you like fire? You’re ruining my movie.”

One of Russia’s most popular ’90s TV shows challenged contestants to steal a car. If they could evade police for 35 minutes, they got to keep it. The show was pulled after being linked to a rise in car thefts. 

  In order to dissuade Germans from invading, Julius Caesar built a bridge into their territory, marched his armies across, returned, then destroyed the bridge. The Germans got the message and never invaded. – S

   On 27 July 1890, aged 37, Vincent Van Gogh is believed to have shot himself in the chest with a revolver. The bullet was deflected by a rib bone and passed through his chest without doing apparent damage to internal organs—probably stopped by his spine. He was able to walk back to an inn, and there was attended by two physicians; however, without a surgeon present the bullet could not be removed.-

  The Swiss Army Knife’s corkscrew tool is not made in Switzerland, but in Japan. All other parts are pure Swiss-made. 

 While Central Park looks natural, it is almost entirely landscaped and contains several artificial lakes. The construction of Central Park in the 1850s was one of the era’s most massive public works projects. Some 20,000 workers crafted the topography to create the English-style pastoral landscape. Workers moved nearly 3,000,000 cubic yards of soil and planted more than 270,000 trees and shrubs. –

  Ronnie Biggs, one of 15 robbers that stole $7million from a Royal Mail train escaped prison for 36yrs. Became a news-anchor, a punk rock icon, was kidnapped/released by MI6 and turned himself in at 69, only to be released after serving 1/3 of a 30yr sentence.

 Some zoos take donated Christmas trees and use them to feed their animals. –

  A Russian woman in the 1700’s gave birth to 16 pairs of twins, 7 sets of triplets and 4 sets of quadruplets in just 40 years with the same man. –

  One of the most accomplished American female recurve archers, Erika Eiffel, is married to the Eiffel Tower, dated her bow, and had a decades-long relationship with the Berlin Wall. She is currently dating a crane. 

 In 1933, three Japanese school girls crossed in love committed suicide by jumping into a volcanic crater on the island of Oshima. This act started a bizarre trend in Japan, and in the following year, 800 other people leapt into the same crater. –

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

   An atomic bomb cameraman ripped his safety goggles a split second before the bomb exploded. He immediately covered his eyes with his hand and saw his hand’s bones through his closed eyelids just like in an X-ray

  Victor Lustig was a con artist most known for a scam in which he literally managed to “sell the Eiffel Tower”. He also successfully scammed gangster Al Capone out of $5,000, In addition to running a counterfeit banknote operation which he was eventually caught and sent to Alcatraz Island for. –

  All the gold ever mined/collected wouldn’t be enough to fill 4 Olympic swimming pools.

  Maria Letizia Ramolino was known as the ‘Mother of Monarchs’. Her children were Napoléon (Emperor of France), Joseph (King of Spain), Jérôme (King of Westphalia), Louis (King of Holland), Caroline (Queen of Naples)

   King Faisal of Saudi Arabia abolished slavery and freed 1,682 slaves in 1962. –

   The largest recorded tsunami in the world occurred in Lituya Bay Alaska in 1958. The wave was 516 meters in height, and taller than the Empire State Building that stands 443 meters in height

  Ships sent to retrieve dead bodies of the victims of the Titanic disaster found so many bodies that they ran out of embalming supplies. They decided to only retrieve bodies of 1st class passengers due to “the need to visually identify wealthy men to resolve any disputes over large estates.” – 

   In 2011, Joao found a penguin (Dindim) covered with oil and nearly dead. He worked feverishly to save his life. Every year since Dindim swims 8,000 KM to meet and live with Joao in Brazil. 

   In Boston, if you report a pothole, you get back both a photo of the filled pothole and a photo of the team that filled it.

  In the 1880s and 1890s, a camel roamed the Arizona desert for a decade with a corpse strapped to its back 

  The U.S. military was only military force in WWI that did not supply condoms to its troops

   President Andrew Jackson once had a block of cheddar cheese delivered to the white house that was four feet in diameter and two feet thick, weighed nearly 1400 pounds. He invited 10,000 visitors to the White House to eat it and it was gone within two hours. 

   Victor Lustig was a con artist most known for a scam in which he literally managed to “sell the Eiffel Tower”. He also successfully scammed gangster Al Capone out of $5,000, In addition to running a counterfeit banknote operation which he was eventually caught and sent to Alcatraz Island for. 

 The whoopee cushion was invented by a 14-year old Roman Emperor, who used it frequently on guests. He was assassinated by the time he was 18. –

       Benjamin Harrison, the 23rd president of the US, was the first president to have electricity in the White House but he never touched any light switches because he was too scared of getting electrocuted.

  All of Australia’s snakes, spiders, sharks, crocodiles, and poisonous sea creatures combined only kill 5 people per year. Horseback riding accidents kill 20 Australians per year.

 Christmas started as a week of lawlessness celebrated by the Pagans in Ancient Rome. It marked the last day of a week of lawlessness known as Saturnalia. Where the courts were closed and no one could be tried for any crimes committed during that time.