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John Smith was a pirate, beheaded three Turks in jousting matches while fighting for the Holy Roman Army, and was enslaved in Russia until he escaped by killing his master. He did all this before he set sail for present day Virginia, United States.

Scottish Town Arnprior population of 200 people painted wiggly lines on a straight road to confuse and slow down fast drivers.

Thomas Granger was the first person to have been executed in the Massachusetts Bay colony. He was guilty of sex with a turkey.

The driest place on Earth is in Antarctica in an area called the Dry Valleys, which have seen no rain for nearly 2 million years. There is absolutely no precipitation in this region.

When actress Delores Moran was 15 years-old she delivered a coffee to a man and never saw or heard from him again. He never mentioned her to anyone but, when he died over 20 years later, he had left her $300,000.

When Albert Einstein was told of the publication of a book entitled, ‘100 Authors Against Einstein’, he replied: “Why one hundred? If I were wrong, one would have been enough.”

In 1974, the 1946 movie “It’s A Wonderful Life” fell into the public domain because the studio failed to renew its copyright. As a result, it was aired a lot, which explains why it became so popular even though it flopped in theaters. The studio got rights to the movie back in 1993.

A female Nazi doctor named Karin Magnussen collaborated with Josef Mengele to conduct experiments on hundreds of Jewish people to make them "Aryan." They injected blue dyes and other chemicals into their eyes to change their eye colors. No change of eye color ever took place during these experiments and many of the test subjects were blinded.

In the aftermath of World War II, the United States contemplated launching a preemptive nuclear strike against the Soviet Union. The idea behind this strategy was the belief that by annihilating Russia with nuclear weapons before the Soviets could mass-produce their own, a nuclear war could be won. While ultimately discarded, this notion was seriously considered during the early years of the Cold War.

In 1959, Rena Kanokogi donned male attire and entered a men's judo competition, ultimately clinching the first-place title. Her medal was taken away when she admitted to being female, but it was rightfully given back to her in 2009.