The Caesar Salad is unrelated to Julius Caesar – it was allegedly invented on the Fourth of July by Italian-American in Tijuana, Mexico Strangeness
In 1958 Mao Zedong ordered all the sparrows to be killed because they ate too much grain. This caused one of the worst environmental disasters in history News
The Paris Gun – The biggest gun of WWI. It was capable of firing a shell to a range of more than 70 miles News
Leona Harriet Woods – The only female member of the team which built the world’s first nuclear reactor News Featured
Adrian Carton de Wiart – shot in the head, stomach, face, ankle, hip, leg and ear. He said he enjoyed the war! News Featured
Hugh Thompson – American pilot who risked his own life to save Vietnamese villagers during the My Lai massacre News Featured
Nazi war criminal Ernst Kaltenbrunner was caught by the Allies because his mistress saw him by chance, called out his name and ran to hug him News Featured