Johnny Winters manager had been slowly lowering his methadone dosage for 3 years without Johnny’s knowledge and, as a result, Johnny was completely clean of his 40 year heroin addiction for over 8 months before being told he was finally drug free

In Japan, a diver named Hiroyuki Arakawa and a sheepshead wrasse named Yoriko have been friends for over 25 years

Otzi the Iceman lived 5,000 years ago. His two last meals were deer and chamois, he was likely a copper smelter, was 45 when he was killed by an arrow wound, had 61 tattoos, and probably grew up in the still existent village of Feldthurns. Recent DNA analyses claim they revealed traces of blood from at least four other people on his gear: one from his knife, two from the same arrowhead, and a fourth from his coat. Interpretations of these findings were that Ötzi killed two people with the same arrow, and was able to retrieve it on both occasions, and the blood on his coat was from a wounded comrade he may have carried over his back. Ötzi’s posture in death (frozen body, face down, left arm bent across the chest) could support a theory that before death occurred and rigor mortis set in, the Iceman was turned onto his stomach in the effort to remove the arrow shaft.

In 1937 the Nazis held an exhibition of art you should dislike (“Degenerate Art”), the work of artists such as Ernst, Kandinsky, Mondrian, and Picasso.

“Something” by the Beatles, and “Layla” by Eric Clapton are both about the same woman Pattie Boyd

There is a vault in the arctic that stores over 860k different varieties of food crop seeds as an insurance policy for the world’s food supply

In 2007 a man named Jeremy Harper counted to one million. He did not leave his apartment or shave until he finished, and it was all broadcast live on a webcam. It took him 3 months.

Alboin, King of the Lombards took his wife Rosamund as a spoil of war after he killed her father in War. At one point he made her drink from her father’s skull, which he kept as a trophy and fashioned into a mug, telling her to “drink merrily with your father.” She had him assassinated.

American Army during WWI employed champion Skeet Shooters to protect the trenches by shooting enemy grenades out of midair and deflecting them

Diarrhea was the leading cause of death in the American Civil War and soldiers had an honor code against shooting someone that was pooping

The term “genuine leather” isn’t reassuring you that the item is made of real leather, it as an actual distinct grade of leather and is the second worst type of leather there is The grades of leather as listed in the article in descending order of quality are: Full-Grain Leather Top-Grain Leather Split-Grain Leather Genuine Leather Bonded Leather

Elephants can tell the difference between human languages and know which languages belong to people with a history of hurting elephants. When the elephants heard the Maasai, they were much more likely to cautiously smell the air or huddle together than when they heard the Kamba. Indeed, the animals bunched together nearly twice as tightly when they heard the Maasai.

When Willie Nelson’s assets were auctioned by the IRS, fans bought the items and gave them back to Willie. He also released an album called “Who’ll Buy My Memories? (The I.R.S. Tapes)” to help pay down his debt When the auctions didn’t make a dent in Nelson’s bill, the two sides (the IRS and Willie) reached a rather unusual compromise: Nelson would release a compilation album and would share the proceeds with IRS. The album, called The IRS Tapes: Who’ll Buy My Memories?, was written completely by Nelson and recorded with – what else – Nelson’s trusty guitar, Trigger. It was the first (and maybe only) record album ever released under a strict revenue-sharing agreement IRS.

70% of elite distance running races have been won by Kenyans from the Kalenjin community, who make up just 0.06% of the world’s population