Colgate faced big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking countries because Colgate translates into the command go hang yourself

The liver not the heart is the sign of romance in northern Morocco When a Moroccan girl falls in love she says Darling you have stolen my live

According to a British law passed in 1845 attempting to commit suicide was a capital offense The punishment? The offense was punishable by hanging

According to a British law passed in 1845 attempting to commit suicide was a capital offense The punishment? The offense was punishable by hanging

The world s greatest lover was King Mongut of Siam He had 9 000 wives Before dying of syphilis he was quoted in saying he only loved the first 700

The expression Tying the Knot comes from an old Roman custom where the brides clothes were tied up all in knots and the groom was supposed to untie the knots

Tokyo has had 24 recorded instances of people either killed or receiving serious skull fractures while bowing to each other with the traditional Japanese greeting

A pig started a cold war In 1859 an American-owned pig wandered into a British-owned potato patch on San Juan Island off the coast of Washington The pig was shot starting a cold wa

Iraqi terrorist Khay Rahnajet didn t pay enough postage on a letter bomb It came back with return to sender stamped on it Forgetting it was the bomb he opened it and was blown to bits

The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building

A judge in Louisville decided a jury went a little bit too far in recommending a sentence of 5 005 years for a man who was convicted of five robberies and a kidnapping The appeal court reduced the sentence to 1 001 years

A psychology student in New York rented out her spare room to a carpenter in order to nag him constantly and study his reactions After weeks of needling he snapped and beat her repeatedly with an axe leaving her mentally retarded

Two animal rights protesters were protesting at the cruelty of sending pigs to a slaughterhouse in Bonn Suddenly the pigs all two thousand of them escaped through a broken fence and stampeded trampling the two hapless protesters to death

In 1992 Frank Perkins of Los Angeles made an attempt on the world flagpole-sitting record Suffering from the flu he came down eight hours short of the 400 day record his sponsor had gone bust his girlfriend had left him and his phone and electricity had been cut off