The most popular guide animal for the blind is a guide dog, but those who are allergic or have other reasons to can't have a dog there are guide horses. Yup, horses.

Frank Hayes was a jockey who, on June 4, 1923 suffered a fatal heart attack in the midst of a steeplechase at Belmont Park in New York State, USA. His horse came first and was considered winner despite having no living human on her back.

There are many crazy stories about Pablo Escobar; one of them says that when Pablo Escobar's daughter wanted a unicorn, he bought her a horse and stapled a cone to its head and wings to its back. The poor animal died from infection.

Speaking of eccentric, rich and cruel people Emperor Caligula made a publicity stunt in AD 39 that humiliated his critics. Astrologer Thrasyllus predicted that Caligula had "no more chance of becoming emperor than of riding a horse across the Gulf of Baiae". So what did Caligula do after he became emperor? That's right- he crossed the gulf of Baiae on a horse.

Right now Europe is criticizing cars and emission. But about 100 years ago cars saved England from "drowning in horse shit". A study from 1894 said that in 1940s the city of London will be covered in horse manure, all because horses where the most popular form of transport.

Remember the Godfather horse's head in the bed scene? It was so realistic because the head was real. They had a fake head but decided it was too fake. The problem was no one told the actor of the switch, so his reaction is quite real. Someone should give him heads-up, huh?

Speaking about bad experiences with horses Truman Everts was part of the 1870 Washburn-Langford-Doane Expedition exploring the area which later became Yellowstone National Park. He became lost for 37 days during the expedition and became more widely known after writing about his experiences. All of his troubles started when he fell of a horse... which ran off with his supplies. The explorer managed to also fall into a geyser and burn himself so I guess the horse wasn't guilty for his perils.