12 Forbidden Bits of Trivia That Must Not Be Read by a Virgin, Unless You Want a Trio of Witches to Rise from the Dead and Wreak Havoc Upon Salem

A tourist in Singapore thought she had agreed to a $20 crab meal, but found out she’d signed up for $20 per 100 grams. The restaurant brought the Alaskan King Crab out to the table before they cooked it, to drive home just how much crab she was in for, but she thought they were just kind of showing it off. When the $1,000 bill came, she assumed she was being scammed, and called the police.

A New Zealand couple requested a seat change when they found out they were seated next to an exceptionally stinky, flatulent dog on a 13-hour flight. They were in “premium economy,” but the only available seats were in plebeian economy. They made the switch, and spent the next few weeks haggling for a refund, which ultimately came out to $1,410.

Australian researchers believe that by 2050, the seasons will shift in a way that will eliminate winter to make room for a long-ass summer, which will be bookended by a brief autumn and a brief spring.

Executive producer Terence Winter said he got feedback from the FBI, who was wiretapping the actual mob at the time, about how paranoid mobsters got after every episode aired: “Real wise guys used to think that we had somebody on the inside. They couldn’t believe how accurate the show was.”

The U.S. Navy used to use high-tech helicopter joysticks to control their periscopes, which cost them $38k each. They eventually realized they could do the exact same thing with a $30 Xbox controller.

Mermaids: The Body Found was a “docufiction” — a mockumentary, but not funny — that aired on Animal Planet in 2012. The National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Agency got so many calls from hopeful weirdos that they had to release a statement: “No evidence of aquatic humanoids has ever been found.”

Cosmonaut Aleksandr A. Serebrov brought his Game Boy to space, as any sane person would when going on a road trip in 1993. He popped in Tetris, making that the first video game ever played outside of Earth.

McMurdo Research Station has a population of anywhere from 250 to 1,000 people, and they all need cash to buy groceries or play CeeLo or whatever scientists do. Wells Fargo has trained local staff to make some repairs to the machine, and even has a second zombie ATM nearby that can be harvested for parts.

A key feature of Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino’s famous abs was the Abercrombie underwear that framed them. After the first season, the company reached out and offered him a “substantial” payment to keep their logo off his body, saying his behavior “may be distressing to many of our fans.”

Due to complicated ties to the British Royal Crown, it’s almost impossible to pinpoint when Canada became an independent nation. Their Supreme Court looked into it, and decided that “sovereignty was acquired in the period between its separate signature of the Treaty of Versailles in 1919 and the Statute of Westminster, 1931.”

Founded in 1873, the town’s official motto is “It’s a Location, not a Vocation.” That’s cute and all, but it was named after cattle rancher John “Hooker” Threlkeld — if “Hooker” is a nickname, can we be sure it doesn’t actually mean sex worker?

Willie Nelson had a ton of his assets seized by the IRS in 1990, due to some unfortunate, ultimately illegal investments he’d made in the 1980s. A bunch of his fans pooled their money, bought the property that was being auctioned and gave it back to him.