1The Anglo-Zanzibar War: the shortest war in history, only 40 minutes long Fought between the United Kingdom and Zanzibar on 27 August 1896, the conflict lasted approximately 40 minutes, making it the shortest war in history. The immediate cause of the war was the death of the pro-British Sultan Hamad bin Thuwaini and the subsequent …
1The Conqueror (1956): the radioactive set that caused cancer to John Wayne and 90 more Of the 220 persons who worked on The Conqueror on its location near Utah in 1955, 91 had contracted cancer as of the early 1980s and 46 died of it, including stars John Wayne, Susan Hayward, Agnes Moorehead, and director …
1Dumb and Dumber: Bandits rob a bank, pose with loot, get arrested Grinning stupidly for the camera and brandishing the proceeds of their ham-fisted raid, two Australian bank robbers demonstrate why they earned themselves the nicknames “Dumb and Dumber.”Anthony Prince, 20, and Luke Carroll, 19, were jailed last month after pleading guilty to the bungled …
We’re all going to die anyway, so at least do it like a man. Meet ten manliest ways to die. 1Steve Irwin: Impaled by a Stingray Is it even possible to start a manly list about anything without the Crocodile Hunter?Steve died as manly as possible on 2006, while filming a documentary entitled “Ocean’s Deadliest” …
1Star Wars Wedding: I Declare You Mon Calamari and Wife! Do you take this Mon Calamari to be your husband?There are Star Wars fan wedding, then there are hardcore Star Wars fan wedding! This one was documented by photographer Justin Winokur, undoubtedly one of the best Star Wars wedding ever. 2First Wedding Officiated by a …
1El Colacho: the Baby-Jumping Festival (Spain) In celebration of the Catholic festival of Corpus Christi, grown men leap over newborns, with full parental consent. Donning scary, vaguely Elvis-like costumes and wielding whips and truncheons, the men attempt to “cleanse” the babies of evil. Evidently, recklessly leaping over them is the best way to achieve this.The …
1He escaped from a derailed train, a door-less plane, a bus crash, a car into flames, another 2 car accidents… then won a million dollar lottery Here’s the story of how the world’s unluckiest man turned his fate upside down.Frane Selak, born in 1929, is a Croatian music teacher who used to be famous for …
In February 2005, tennis pros Roger Federer and Andre Agassi were in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, for the ATP’s Dubai Duty Free Men’s Open, a $1 million International Series Gold event. While in town, they took part in a publicity stunt, engaging in a friendly exhibition tennis match on the grass helipad atop the luxurious …
A mixed-race British mom, Kylie Hodgson, gave birth in 2005 to twins, one of each. No, not a boy and a girl. Two girls — one black, the other white. The odds of such a birth are about a million to one, experts said. Although occurrences of this nature sometimes occur when a woman conceives …
On 15 September 2007, a 250-pound bear wandered onto Rainbow Bridge on Old Highway 40 near Donner Summit in the Lake Tahoe, California, area of the Sierra Nevada mountain range. Apparently frightened by approaching automobile traffic, the large bruin went over the railing, then caught a ledge and pulled itself onto a concrete girder beneath …