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Vincent Van Gogh shot himself in the chest with a 7mm revolver. He walked home, saw doctors but there was no surgeon to remove the bullet. The doctors left him alone smoking his pipe in his room. He died at 37 of infection two days later and his last words were "The sadness will last forever".

Before she married Tom Cruise, Katie Holmes’ father negotiated a prenuptial agreement for her that reportedly filled five bankers’ boxes. Because of it, when Katie Holmes made her bombshell announcement that she was divorcing Tom Cruise, the case was able to be resolved in a mere 11 days.

In the sitcom Frasier, the character "Maris" was initially meant to be off-camera for only a few episodes. However, as her descriptions became increasingly absurd, the show struggled to find an actress to match her unusual physical traits.

In 1962, US Air Force blew up a hydrogen fusion bomb in space. It turned the atmosphere green and blue, which could be seen for hundreds of miles.

President Lyndon B. Johnson often peed in public, even during his presidency. One time, a gust of wind blew his urine onto the leg of one of his Secret Service agents. When the agent informed him he was being peed on, President Johnson replied, "I know. That's my prerogative."

John Krasinski (Jim from The Office-US) shot the Scranton footage in the show's opening credits sequence on a research trip as he and his friends drove through the city.

In 1943, Winston Churchill called upon the Anglo-Portuguese Treaty of 1373 to allow the English Navy to lease ports in neutral Portugal. This gave England access to the Azores Islands and helped change the Battle of the Atlantic.

Popular hotels in New Orleans put grease on balcony support poles during Mardi Gras so that drunks can't climb in.

When Paris's Cemetery of the Innocents was moved, the human remains (decomposed to mostly fat deposits) were made into candles.

The Botafumeiro, a 172-year-old giant incense spreader (also known as a "thurible"), swings from the ceiling of Spain's Santiago de Compostela Cathedral at speeds of approximately 68 km/h, reaching a height of 21 meters from the ground during its 65-meter arc.