In the mid-1960s, the Beatles wanted to star in a “Lord of the Rings” film directed by Stanley Kubrick and featuring original songs
Agatha Christie disappeared for ten days in 1926, 1,000 officers and 15,000 volunteers searched for her until she was found in a hotel, registered as “Mrs Teresa Neele”
In 1980, chemist Glenn Seaborg solved a centuries-old problem in alchemy and turned a non-precious metal into gold
The TV series “Starsky & Hutch” was inspired by two real-life undercover policemen from New York City
Operation Vegetarian: in 1942, the British planned on killing millions of Germans by dropping anthrax onto their pastures
Jean-Paul Sartre’s bad mescaline trip led to the philosopher being followed by imaginary crabs for years
Patrick Stewart, prepared to play Data in “Star Trek: The Next Generation,” was reluctant to audition for the captain