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Neil DeGrasse Tyson considered becoming a male stripper to make money to graduate school. When he visited the club, the dancers came out with lighter fluid soaked jockstraps and set them ablaze while dancing to "Great Balls of Fire." He chose math tutoring instead.

Armenian fin swimmer Shavarsh Karapetyan was finishing a 12-mile run when he heard a bus crash into the water. He dove down 33 ft and rescued 20 people, 1 at a time. He is an 11-time World Record holder, 17-time World Champion, 13-time European Champion and 7-time USSR Champion.

Stephen Colbert exists in the Marvel Universe. After departing from a campaign event, he saw Spider-Man battling Grizzly. He tried to help by pushing a statue off the building. It hit Grizzly on the head, Spider-Man thanked him for his help and gave him a ride home.

In the pilot episode of Friends tv show, Barry's surname was Finkel. In later episodes, his name was changed to Barry Farber.

The German Parliament has the graffiti "I f*ck Hitler in the a*s" preserved as a historic monument on one of its walls.

Benjamin Franklin’s last words were “A dying man can do nothing easy”, complaining about the difficulty to assume a more comfortable position on his deathbed.

Back in 2010, a man named Jon McLoone ran 15 million computer simulations of the game Hangman and found out that the most difficult word for that program to guess is "Jazz."

Screensavers were originally created to save CRT screens from burning an image into the display due to prolonged, unchanged use.

Naming of North and South American continent in honor of Amerigo Vespucci was a result of a mistake by a German cartographer while making a map of the world in 1507. He thought Vespucci rather than Columbus was the explorer who discovered America after reading a document called Mundus Novus.

In the 15th century, nuns in France and Germany exhibited bizarre behavior, with some imitating animals like cats, dogs, and birds. In 1491, a nun in a French convent started meowing, leading her sisters to follow suit, creating a "cat imitation" plague. Soldiers outside the convent brandished rods and threatened the nuns if the behavior persisted, while similar epidemics were reported across various nunneries. While "demonic possession" was the contemporary explanation, the more likely cause was mass hysteria stemming from the repressive conditions in which the nuns lived.