The lawless San Pedro prison in La Paz, Bolivia, where the laws are created by the inmates
Evelina Haverfield – The Scottish suffragette and freedom fighter
Young Sean Connery earned the respect of a notorious Edinburgh gang by beating up six of its members at once
Sir Isaac Newton spent the final years of his life hunting money counterfeiters and convicting them to death
Carl Linnaeus wanted to create the “flower clock,” a garden that would tell the time through plants that open their flowers at different times of day
Benjamin Franklin pretended to be an old widow so that his letters could be published
The lives of Olivia de Havilland and Joan Fontaine were marked by a lifelong feud which was never resolved
Pope Francis briefly worked as a bouncer at a Buenos Aires nightclub when he was young
Oscar Wilde ended up in prison for sodomy and “gross indecency” after he had sued the father of his lover
Some Say We Never Went to the Moon: America’s Thirty Billion Dollar Swindle