Alfred Nobel created the Nobel Prize as a false obituary declared him “The Merchant of Death”
Jim Morrison’s father, upon hearing the first “Doors” album, wrote a letter to his son : “Give up any idea of singing”
When Fidel Castro was 14-years-old he wrote a letter to Franklin Roosevelt & asked him for a 10 dollar bill
The 1854 cholera outbreak of Broad Street- everyone got sick except for those who drank beer instead of water
In 1958 Mao Zedong ordered all the sparrows to be killed because they ate too much grain
Carl Emil Pettersson – the Swedish sailor who became king of Tabar Island in Papua New Guinea
Om Banna is a shrine in India where riders pray for a safe journey and worship a motorcycle
The Skeleton Coast of Namibia is one of the harshest places on earth with ghostly remains of ships scattered along the shoreline
Geghard Monastery is a medieval monastery in Armenia named after the spear that stabbed Jesus
1,000-year-old Viking sword found lying on the ground in Iceland
