Rasputin, Russian mystic healer, was killed by cyanide poisoning, beating, execution blank range, and finally thrown into an icy river. His autopsy revealed that it was the river that killed him.

Elvis Presley's first guitar cost 12.95 $.

Castaways from the ship Utile have survived 15 years on the small Tromelin Island, which is only 200 acres almost without any vegetation.

The greek playwright Aeschylus was killed by a tortoise, dropped on his head by an eagle.

Teresa of Ávila died in the night of the 4th to the 15th of October, 1582.

The famous anecdote that explains the absence of a Nobel prize in mathematics by the fact that Alfred Nobel's wife cheated on him with some mathematician is false!

Orson Welles asked Walt Disney to make an adaptation of “The Little Prince” with him. Walt Disney refused.

Nicolas Sarkozy never graduated from Sciences-Po (French School of Political Science) due to an insufficient command of the English language.

James Brown has served 3 years in prison (from 1988 to 1991). He was convicted of carrying an unlicensed pistol and on drug consuming charges.

King Edward II of England (1284 – 1327) is believed to have been killed by the insertion of a red-hot iron rod in his rectum.

Arthur Rimbaud suddenly abandoned poetry in 1875, and was later known as a weapons merchant in Abyssinia.

Tsutomu Yamaguchi is the only man who survived both atomic bombs (at least the only that was officially recognised)...

Charlie Chaplin secretly took part in a Chaplin look-alike competition in San Francisco. He came in third.

The first magnetic audio recording dates from 1898.

The well-known Pandora's box is actually a jar.

Mansuetus and Lynx, Spontex administrators, got married in fall 2007.

Osama Bin Laden and Chuck Norris celebrate their birthdays on the same day!

Jimi Hendrix played 4 opening acts for… Johnny Hallyday !

Bob Marley drove a BMW in order to see the name of his band written on his car!

The modern pizza (as we know it nowadays) has been invented in 1889 by Raffaele Esposito.