We got pubic lice from gorillas, and we got head lice
from chimps.

Leave It to Beaver was almost called It’s a Small World.

Prince Vlad of Transylvania may have tortured victims by dripping salty water onto their feet and letting goats lick it off. English rebel Simon de Montfort reportedly tickled opponents to death with a feather.

India has started making tear-gas-like hand grenades using the bhut jolokia (ghost pepper).

The biggest U.S. moonshine bust was in 2001 when an eight-year investigation called Operation Lightning Strike resulted in the arrest of more than two dozen people in a corn liquor operation that stretched from Raleigh, N.C., to Philadelphia. The group had dodged almost $20 million in taxes on 1.5 million gallons of alcohol.

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