Strange But True: Elvis Mowing
By Lucie Winborne
In Switzerland, it is illegal to mow a front lawn while dressed as Elvis Presley.
Have a yen for learning about things that go bump in the night? You can get a Ph.D in parapsychology at the University of Edinburgh.
Red Bull energy drink was originally called Red Water Buffalo.
There was a Russian game show that would have you steal a car, and if you didn't get caught by the police within 35 minutes, you'd win the car. Otherwise, you would be arrested.
Benjamin Franklin invented a mechanical arm for reaching books on high shelves.
When English Romantic poet William Blake was only 4 years old he claimed to see God through a window. Throughout the rest of his life, Blake said he often communed with angels, and he incorporated these visions into his art.
Sulfhemoglobinemia is a condition that causes a person to develop green blood.
Translated literally, the Japanese words for wrist and ankle are "hand neck" and "foot neck."
In 2015, two brothers from Spain attempted to sell a fake portrait by Francisco de Goya to a sheikh for a cool 1.5 million euros, only to discover that he'd paid them in photocopied money. The pair were arrested when they tried to deposit their ill-gotten gains in a Geneva bank.
A study done by the University of Glasgow found that dogs appear to prefer reggae and soft rock over other genres of music.
The first mention of the word "pizza" was in a Latin text written in southern Italy in 997 CE.
The eponymous character in Dolly Parton's hit song "Jolene" was based on a bank teller who flirted mercilessly with Dolly's husband.