Strange but True

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In 1778, the third Duke of Chandos arranged a christening for his new-born son.

The whole of fashionable society, including the Royal Family, was invited, and the Duke commissioned a lavishly embroidered christening robe.

At the moment of baptism the child was uncovered and found to have suffocated under weight of the robe, upon which the Duke died of shock.


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Sarky

Han Solo actually shot first.

PFJSplitter

As the Duchess burst into tears, one of the guests offered her condolences and said:
"Cheer up, Duchess. You know what they say: some things in life are bad. They can really make you mad. Other things just make you swear and curse. When you're chewing on life's gristle, don't grumble; give a whistle, and this'll help things turn out for the best. And... always look on the bright side of life..."

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then the Duchess slipped into the Christening font and drowned

Donkey Oaty

Even stranger than that, he was seemingly brought back to life because he went on to live until 1789.

His father bought a wife from her then-husband who was leading her around in an Inn yard with a halter around her neck.

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The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. It was the fashion in Renaissance Florence to shave them off!

Poor Uncle Tom

In 1798 the third Countess de Ville Franche drowned while walking with her twin three year old children and their nanny in the gardens of the Freedom Palace in southern Rossport after slipping and falling into an ornate fountain.

Upon questioning the nanny, a Miss Asumpta Bonepart Browne, it was established that the Countess could have been saved but the nanny couldn't be arsed taking her foot off the Countesses head.

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Taphephobia is the fear of being buried alive. The great 18th century clown Grimaldi was so frightened of being buried alive that he specified his head must be cut off first, which his family duly arranged.

Poor Uncle Tom

I wonder if he tasted funneh to the worms...

Solitaire

The Mona Lisa did have eyebrows! Failblog-worthy Restoration Fail eventually managed to paint over the faded and damaged eyebrows but they are still visible under X-ray analysis!

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Top hats have been fashionable for almost 200 years, but when the first one was worn in 1797 by James Heatherington, he was immediately arrested and fined 50 pounds for behaving in a manner 'calculated to frighten timid people'.

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When ants of the species Temnothorax unifasciatus get sick, they abandon their nest, walking far away from their relatives to die alone. They perform this act of heroism to prevent the illness that is killing them from spreading to the colony. The discovery, published in Current Biology, is the first time that such behaviour has been shown in ants or any other social insect.

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Mahatma Gandhi was the fourth son of his father's fourth wife. He was married at 13, had his first child at 18 and took a vow of celibacy aged 37.

Matt Holck

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All the numbers on a roulette wheel added together come to 666.

Matt Holck

the bell curve of probability becomes steeping as more dice are rolled

Poor Uncle Tom

Pot wrote:

All the numbers on a roulette wheel added together come to 666.

All the numbers on a roulette wheel multiplied together come to 0.

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Martin Luther (1483-1546), the man who started the Protestant Reformation, was the son of a miner. He was a law student at Erfurt University in July 1505 when he was struck by lightning and thrown to the ground. Seeing this as a sign from God, he vowed on the spot to become a monk, which he did two weeks later.