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You know the Mona Lisa, but do you know WHY you know the Mona Lisa? “Vincenzo Peruggia (8 October 1881 – 8 October 1925) was an Italian museum worker, artist, and thief, most famous for stealing the Mona Lisa from the Louvre museum in Paris on 21 August 1911.” More […]
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If you make it, they will break it. This is true for virtually everything, but especially so with the security features present in banknotes. After all, who doesn’t want to print their own money? “Arthur “Art” Williams Jr. is an American-born artist and former counterfeiter, who counterfeited the 1996 hundred […]
‘De Grote Donorshow’ is perhaps the most controversial game show of all time, ending with just one episode. “De Grote Donorshow (The Great Donor Show) was a reality television program which was broadcast in the Netherlands on Friday, June 1, 2007, by BNN. The program involved a supposedly terminally ill […]
Forming a human chain of people from coast to coast seems impossible – but it’s been tried, so is it? “Hands Across America was a public fundraising event on Sunday, May 25, 1986, when 5 to 6.5 million people held hands for 15 minutes in an attempt to form a […]
Why would someone plant bombs across the country in the shape of a smiley face? “Lucas John “Luke” Helder (born May 5, 1981) also known as the Midwest Pipe Bomber, is an American domestic terrorist and former University of Wisconsin–Stout student from Pine Island, Minnesota. He was arrested in 2002 […]
WHY do we blow to cool something down but breathe to warm it up? WHY shouldn’t you put your hands in wet cement? WHY do we get goosebumps? WHY is yawning contagious? WHY do birds suddenly appear every time you are near? WHY do we have leap years? WHY is […]
You probably wouldn’t want to undergo surgery with no anesthesia – but how would you feel if your surgeon asked everyone in the room to time him? “Robert Liston FRCSE, FRCS, FRS (28 October 1794 – 7 December 1847) was a Scottish surgeon. Liston was noted for his speed and […]
You’d have to be out of your mind to jump into the lion’s enclosure – and this guy is! “The Taipei Zoo, sometimes referred to as the Muzha Zoo, is a public zoological garden in Wenshan District, Taipei, Taiwan. It is the most famous zoological garden in Taiwan and a […]
