A $4 million 16th-century gold pendant was discovered in 2010 by a three-year-old boy using his father’s metal detector. […]
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Kevin Berthia traveled to the Golden Gate Bridge in 2005 to commit suicide. He ended up spending 92 minutes on the edge of the bridge talking to officer Kevin Briggs about his life. In much better circumstances, they cross paths at the same bridge ten years later. […]
Dan Black, who was paralyzed in a bike accident, spent four years raising 20,000 for a stem cell treatment that could let him walk again. However, after learning about a five-year-old boy with cerebral palsy, he donated the funds for the boy’s medical treatment in order to enable him to take his first steps. […]
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Queen Elizabeth II, who ruled Britain for 70 years, has away at the age of 96. She was the country’s longest-reigning monarch. Here are some little-known facts about her. […]
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A woman from Cleveland named Susan Warren was detained in 2012 after breaking into random homes, cleaning them, and then leaving a bill and her contact information. She broke in, cleaned the inside of the house with a vacuum and duster, washed a few coffee cups, removed some trash, and so on. […]
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In 2004, the whole Sri Lankan national handball team disappeared. Later, the Sri Lankan government denied the existence of such a team. The location of the team is still unknown. […]
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In 1981, a doctor helped save the life of a 3.2 pounds premature baby boy. Thirty years later, the boy, who had grown up to be a firefighter-paramedic, helped in saving the same doctor from a car accident. […]
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A rabies epidemic struck foxes in Switzerland in the 1960s. The government wanted to vaccinate foxes against rabies, but manual vaccination was difficult and expensive. Instead, they began dropping vaccinated chicken heads across the countryside for the foxes to consume, and the rabies vanished. […]
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Hollywood actress Hedy Lamarr was also a mathematician and the inventor of frequency hopping spread spectrum, a technology still used for bluetooth and wifi […]
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A Greek prime minister in 1830’s tried to spread the potato in Greece but people weren’t interested so he put armed guards in front of shipments of potatoes so people would think they were important. People later started stealing these potatoes a lot which spread the crop to all of Greece. […]
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