20 Bonkers Facts About Nikola Tesla, Steven Spielberg, And Octopi's Revenge
Is beer worth rioting over? For the students of Ghent, Belgium in 1949, the answer was a resounding yes. The Battle of Gravensteen Castle is now commemorated every year as one of the greatest student pranks in history. It all started when angry students stormed the castle walls, pelting police with fruit to protest a new tax on beer. And switching to jazz for a moment, Billy Tipton had an illustrious jazz career that spanned decades. There's just one thing nobody knew: Billy Tipton was actually a woman who lived as a man for 53 years. He kept everyone he knew in the dark – even getting married 5 times (and having sex with at least two wives) before his death finally revealed his true identity. And for our third fact, we turn to Adolfo Constanzo, who wasn't your average serial killer; he also happened to be a drug dealer and self-proclaimed “dark wizard.” His spell ingredients of choice? The organs from his victims, which he used in rituals. As leader of his own gang/cult known as The Narcosatanists, Adolfo Constanzo was a special kind of monster even in the world of Mexican drug cartels.
The Korean dish ‘sannakji’ can be deadly.
Some European cities have self washing public toilets.
The Ferengi were too funny looking to be the new Klingons.
Tesla loved to nurse injured pigeons back to health.
The deadliest blizzard was in Iran.
A teenager died from too much butane and propane in his blood thanks to canned deodorant.
In the 1930s, bridge construction projects expected one fatality for every $1 million in cost.
A chemical weapon will give a person hallucinations for days.
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A warship was paralyzed after someone divided by zero.
Do not use a banana as a reference point to show the scale of a beehive.
Pope John Paul II loved his Yoo-Hoo.
Ben Stein never had to use his own money on “Win Ben Stein’s Money.”
“Fat Bear Week” is celebrated every year at Katmai National Park.
A nun helped invent the computer language BASIC.
Redheads were feared in medieval times.
Spielberg’s first movie made one dollar.
A serial killer used his victims’ organs to make spells.
Musician Billy Tipton pretended to be a man to help her jazz career.
A battle over beer tax was the greatest prank in Ghent.
