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Lorenzo Music, the voice of Garfield used to volunteer at a suicide hotline. Callers would sometimes change their tone to remark, “Hey, you sound just like that cat on TV!”

The Peregrine Falcon hunts by diving at more than 230 mph straight down and killing the prey on impact with its balled foot. It kills other birds with a literal falcon punch.

Luz Long was a German competitor against Jesse Owens in the 1936 Olympics. Owens was later quoted saying “You can melt down all the medals and cups I have and they wouldn't be a plating on the twenty-four karat friendship that I felt for Luz Long.” Owens was the best man at his son’s wedding.

Lewis Williams was an escaped slave who managed to evade recapture by switching with a body double at his crowded trial and then crossdressing as a woman to flee town. He was aided by a reverend, who dressed him up as his “daughter” with a veil and bonnet, then got him out of town.

In 2014, Korean Air vice president Heather Cho was so angry about receiving macadamia nuts in a bag instead of on a plate, she forced the plane to taxi back to gate and unload the offending flight attendant. "Nutgate" ended up costing her 5 months in jail.

British banknotes increase in size as they increase in value to help blind people tell them apart.

Captain Samuel Whittemore was an American farmer who at the age of 78 was shot in the face by a musket and repeatedly stabbed with a bayonet by British soldiers in 1775 during their march to Lexington & Concord. He survived and went on to live another 18 years.

Insane Clown Posse was once on a Disney-owned record label. On the scheduled day of release for their record "The Great Milenko" however, Disney recalled all 100,000 shipped units upon discovering the graphic nature of the album's lyrical content.

In 1965, the Swedish government pledged to build 1 million new apartments in a country of 8 million people in 10 years. All in all, they built 1,006,000 apartments.

The Crab Nebula recently emitted the highest-energy photons ever recorded, with gamma rays reaching well over 100 TeV (ten times what the most powerful human-made particle accelerator can produce). These gamma rays likely originate from a pulsar lurking in the heart of the nebula.