A 12 year old boy who saw his own father murdered by a family friend, avenged the death of his father by killing the alleged murderer in a revenge attack he had planned for 12 years. He cut him into 12 pieces, one each for the years of wait. With a smile on his face, the accused, 24-year-old Alam Khan, told reporters outside Mughapura police station that he waited for 12 years to “realize his dream and was happy about it”.

Giorgio A. Tsoukalos, famous meme and ‘Ancient Aliens’ expert, has no academic background in any field relevant to the show. Instead, he holds a bachelor’s degree in sports information and was previously a bodybuilder promoter.

Dolly Parton has a program that will mail your child a free age-appropriate book once a month from birth to age 5. No obligation, no catch, she just wants to make sure that every child has books.

The NHS in the UK had only one man registered as a rectal teaching assistant, offering his anus to be examined by trainee doctors. He has lost his job to a robot anus.

A Master-Level NY Baker claims he was fired after reporting to his employer the that flour used for making bread was infested with insects. His boss told him to just go ahead and use the infested flour for multi-grain bread, presumably because customers would not be concerned about the crunch

For each new film, a movie is set up as its own corporation, the entire point of which is to lose money. This is so actors, writers, and other individuals who are promised a share of the profits actually earn nothing since the movie, as a corporation, technically lost money. This happened to the guy who wrote Forrest Gump (the novel). He was promised a share of the profits of the film, but got nothing other than his $350,000 licensing fee because the film (which grossed $700 million on a budget of $55 million) “lost money”. Years later, supposedly, he was approached by Paramount Pictures to license his sequel to his novel, but he declined, snarkily saying “I don’t understand why you’d want to make a sequel to a movie that didn’t make any money.”

Ronald Reagan was 3,761 votes shy, in Minnesota, of winning every state in the 1984 Presidential Election Mondale went on to lose the Senate election in Minnesota in 2002, becoming the first and only person to lose a statewide election in every state as a nominee of a major party.

Ted Nugent dodged the draft by pooping in his pants for a week

The longest marriage on record ended this year when Karam Chand died in England. He and his wife had been married for 90 years.

Following Marilyn Monroe’s death, Joe DiMaggio was so devastated he held a private funeral barring all the Hollywood elite, delivered roses to her grave three times a week for over 20 years, never remarried, and his last words were “I’ll finally get to see Marilyn.” Joe’s original order to the flower shop (Parisian Florist in Hollywood if anyone is interested) stated, “Six fresh long-stemmed red roses, three times a week . . . forever.” When all was said and done, more than 18,000 roses had been delivered to Marylin’s grave.

A group of women in Kampala, Uganda who earn around $1.20/day breaking rocks into gravel sent $900 of their wages to help Hurricane Katrina victims Their act received world-wide attention. The women were awarded the Vision Award by the New York Women’s Foundation in 2008. The AVSI foundation organized an international sale of colored paper necklaces in exchange for donations . Through the sale, AVSI raised enough funds for a high school for 400-600 students in the area.

Bloodhound Gang recorded a track called “The Ten Coolest Things About New Jersey”. The “song” consists of ten seconds of silence