Til Danny Devito Asks For A Trampoline In His Dressing Room And Uses It As Part Of His Warm-Up Routine

Slaveholders in the US knew that enslaved people were escaping to Mexico, the U.S. tried to get Mexico to sign a fugitive slave treaty, but Mexico refused to sign such a treaty, insisting that all enslaved people were free once they set foot on Mexican soil.

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has disdain for money and large wealth accumulation. In 2017 he said he didn’t want to be near money, because it could corrupt your values. When Apple went public, Wozniak offered $10 million of his stock to early Apple employees, something Jobs refused to do.

The California Genocide, an oft-forgotten event in U.S. history due to occurring at the same time at the California Gold Rush. The Native American population of California decreased from as many as 150,000 in 1848 to 30,000 in 1870. Tribes such as the Yahi were hunted to extinction.

In 2014, four tenants refused to move out of their homes when developers wanted to create one of the most exclusive residences in Manhattan. Eventually, they all received huge payouts. The last tenant was so savvy and stubborn he received $17 million, plus use of a $2 million residence for life.

A pregnant mother with twins lost one fetus in the first trimester and the other developed a coccyx tumor the size of a fetus that was killing it. Doctors removed baby LynLee from the womb, cut off the tumor, then put her back in the womb and she was ‘born again’ healthy 12 weeks later.

A school principal once made a student who'd gotten into trouble sit in the basement & read the U.S. Constitution as punishment. That student (who committed the Constitution to memory as a result) was Thurgood Marshall, who went on to become the first Black Supreme Court justice.

Susan Travers, the only woman ever to serve in the French Foreign Legion, waited until she was 91 to write her autobiography so everyone mentioned had already died

Ancient Egyptians would shave off their eyebrows when their cats died and shave off all body hair (including their head) when their dog died to mourn until it grew back.

People who quit smoking before the age of 40 may live as long as people who never smoked at all. Researchers found a smoker loses roughly 10 years of life to the habit but regained most of that time if they quit before 40. The benefit is increased the sooner before 40 you quit.

Mexico passed a law that requires food packages to display large black octagonal "warnings" if the product is high in sugar, sodium, calories, or unhealthy fats.

When Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson was 15 years old, his family was going through a rough period. After losing their apartment, his mother Ata Johnson, stopped their car on a Nashville highway and tried to walk into oncoming traffic. The Rock grabbed her and pulled her back, saving her life.

In 1983 a Mexican pilot crashed landed in a small town in Ireland and the whole town came together to build a temporary runway for him to take off again and continue his flight.

A man was killed when he tried to shoot down a 125-year old Saguaro cactus. The man blasted most the way through and poked at one of the plants arms. The 500lb arm then fell crushing him.

In 1983 a Mexican pilot crashed landed in a small town in Ireland and the whole town came together to build a temporary runway for him to take off again and continue his flight.

Til About Brothel Candles, Which Burned For Precisely 7 Minutes And Were Heavily Used During Victorian Times. The Individual Would Pay The Fee, Light The Candle, And When The Candle Burned Out, The Session Was Over

Til After The Murder Of His Father, Genghis Khan Went Into Poverty, Even Being Enslaved At One Point. It Wasn’t Until He Was In His 50’s Did He Rise To Power And Become The Khan Of Mongolia

Til Leif Erikson Was A Norse Explorer From Iceland. He Is Thought To Have Been The First Known European To Have Set Foot On Continental North America, Approximately Half A Millennium Before Christopher Columbus

Til In 1991, 60 Minutes Suggested Red Wine Was The Answer To The "French Paradox" (France Enjoys A Low Incidence Of Heart Disease Despite A Diet High In Saturated Fats). Within A Year, American Consumption Of Wine Increased 40% And Some Wine Sellers Began Promoting Their Products As "Health Food"

Til Vietnamese Farmers After The War Repurposed External Fuel Tanks Jettisoned By American Planes Into River Canoes, Which Have Lasted For Nearly 5 Decades

Til When Prohibition Was Enacted In USA, It Took Less Than An Hour For The First Documented Violation Of It To Happen

Til That There Is An Australian Pine Growing Out Of An Old Railroad Bridge In The Florida Keys Named Fred The Tree. Fred Survives With Salt Spray, Lots Of Sunshine, And No Apparent Soil. Fred Even Withstood Hurricane Irma!

Til That Graffiti Artist Banksy Sought To Trademark His Image Of A Protester Throwing Flowers. The Trademark Office Denied It On The Grounds Of Him Having No Interest In Selling His Work. In The Ruling They Used A Quote From One Of Banksy's Books: "Copyright Is For Losers"

Til Steve Jobs Never Coded For Apple. According To Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak, He Didn't Do Any Original Design And One Of Apple's Earliest Employees Also Stated That Woz Was The Inventor While Jobs Was The Marketing Person

Til: Ninjas Would Carry Crickets Or Cicadas To Disguise Their Sound When They Needed

Til Edgar Allen Poe Wrote "William Wilson", A Story Where Doppelgangers Share A Name And Similar Traits. In The 1980s, There Were 2 Switch Hitter, Center Fielders, That Shared Similar Traits And Backgrounds, Playing In The Mlb. Their Names Were William Wilson

Til Charles Lightoller The Second Officer On The Titanic Stayed Onboard Untill The End. And Got Trapped Underwater Until A Boiler Explosion Blew Him Free. He Survived By Clinging To A Capsized Collapsible B. Later He Volunteered In Wwii And Helped Evacuate Over 120 Men From Dunkirk

Til That A Sports Writer Wrote A Rude And Snarky Article About The Wnba Even Though He Had Never Been To A Game. He Was Confronted By A Wnba Star, Rebecca Lobo, Who Chided Him And Invited Him To Watch Her Play. Two Years Later They Were Married

Til: Min Horses Are Used As Blind Guides. They Have A Very Wide Range Of Vision, With A Range Of Nearly 350 Degrees. Horses Are The Only Guide Animals Capable Of Independent Eye Movement And They Can Track Potential Danger With Each Eye. Horses Can See Clearly In Almost Total Darkness

Til - Caffeine Increases The Power Of Aspirin And Other Painkillers, That Is Why It Is Found In Some Medicines

Til That There Is An Area In The Middle Of The Pacific Ocean In Which Scientists Have Discovered Great White Sharks Congregate At Every Year. They Have Nicknamed This Stretch Of Ocean "The White Shark Cafe"

Til That Sudan Has More Pyramids Than Any Other Country On Earth – Even More Than Egypt. There Are At Least 223 Pyramids In The Sudanese Cities Of Al Kurru, Nuri, Gebel Barkal And Meroë. They Are Generally 20 To 30 Metres High And Steep Sided

Til In 2018 An Oregon Man Stole A Car In Front Of Deputies And LED Them On A 40-Mile Chase. When He Got Arrested, He Explained That He Had Taken Lsd And Thought He Was Living A Real-Life Version Of Grand Theft Auto

Til Robert Frost Couldn't Read The Poem He Wrote For John F. Kennedy's Inauguration Due To The Glare On The Snow Being Too Strong. So He Instead Recited One He Knew From Memory

Til Elizabeth Blackwell Became The First Woman To Be Accepted At A Medical School In The Us, Because The Students Thought Her Application Was A Prank From A Rival School And Voted To Let Her Attend

Til The Danish Police Resisted Nazi Command So Fiercely That 1,960 Of Its 10,000 Police Members Were Arrested And Sent To Concentration Camps. Faced With Nazi Demands, The Danish Police Administration Was Inclined To Accepted Them, But The Police Organizations Refused, Leading To The Deportations

Til Eminem Broke The "Fastest Rap In A #1 Single" World Record Three Times In A Row - After Having Set The Record With 6.46 Words Per Second In "Rap God", He Then Broke It In "Majesty" At 6.5 Wps And Later Broke It Once Again By Rapping At 7.5 Wps In "Godzilla"

Til Irène Curie And Her Husband Received A Nobel Prize For Their Discovery Of Artificial Radioactivity, 30 Years After Irène's Parents Received Their Nobel Prize. She Died Due To Overexposure To Radiation, Also Just Like Her Parents. Her Children Are Still Alive And Are Also Prominent Scientists

Til When The # And * Keys Were First Put On Phones They Had No Purpose Whatsoever And Were Only Included Because Touch Tone Phones Could Create Up To Twelve Tones

Til When France Increased The Price Of Cigarettes By 66% Over An Eight-Year Period, The Smoking Rate Among French Executives And Professionals Declined. However, The Smoking Rate Among Manual Laborers Remained About The Same And Among The Unemployed, It Increased