Cazuza(Bi-sexual Brazilian composer singer and poet): During A show in Canecio ( Rio de Janeiro ) while smoking his cigarette he puffed out some smoke into the air and said: God that s for you He died at the age of 32 of LUNG CANCER in a horrible manne

Marilyn Monroe(Female Actor): She was visited by Billy Graham during a presentation of a show He said the Spirit of God had sent him to preach to her After hearing what the Preacher had to say she said: I don t need your Jesus A week later she was found dead in her apartment

If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air the person died as a result of wounds recieved in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground the person died of natural cause

The practice of Hirudotherapy is the method of using leeches to suck blood from a specific area of the body This method has been in use since ancient times but it has seen a surge in popularity since the 1990s Medicinal leeches are now commonly used to reduce swelling and blood clotting

In June 2011 a 17-year-old teenage male in the Anhui province in eastern China sold a kidney in order to purchase Apple s iPad 2 and a laptop The organ was removed without his parents knowledge or consent and sold for a mere RMB 22 000 (roughly 3 350 USD) to a company seeking organs in an online advertisement

The chef at a hotel in Switzerland lost a finger in a meat cutting machine and after a little shopping around submitted a claim to his insurance company The company expecting negligence sent out one of its men to have a look for himself He tried the machine and he also lost a finger The chef s claim was approved

Talkeetna is a small but fun town in Alaska with just 876 inhabitants It is an unincorporated area it is not governed by it s own local municipal corporation Therefore the Community Council decided to give the position of mayor to a cat named Stubbs He has been the honorary mayor since 1997 That s over 15 years of being in powe

All 11 members of a football team were killed in Congo by a bolt of lightning in October 1998 The two sides were drawing 1-1 in the match in eastern Kasai Province of Democratic Republic of Congo when the lightning struck the visiting team The athletes from the home team Basanga curiously came out of this catastrophe unscathed

On August 12 1895 Minnie Dean became the first woman to be hanged in New Zealand Her crime was baby farming She would adopt unwanted babies for a certain fee and then dispose of them a service she began in 1889 The police caught on to Minnie after six years and found her to be most certainly guilty when they dug up three bodies of infants in her flower garden

The halitosis bomb and gay bomb are informal names for two theoretical non-lethal chemical weapons which was proposed to be produced by the Wright Laboratory in Ohio a predecessor to today s United States Air Force Research Laboratory in 1994 which involved discharging female sex pheromones over enemy forces in order to make them sexually attracted to each othe

The Karosta Prison in Liepaja Latvia is a prison hotel One gets to sleep in a prison room and eat prison food after one signs an agreement; and follows rules and the staff s orders to be insulted and be treated like a prisoner during one s stay Once a person signs the contract and disobeys their staff s orders one is forced to do physical exercise or do the cleaning work

APOPO (an acronym for Anti-Persoonsmijnen Ontmijnende Product Ontwikkeling: Anti-Personnel Landmines Detection Product Development in English) is a registered Belgian non-governmental organisation which trains African giant pouched rats to detect landmines and tuberculosis APOPO s mission is to develop detection rats technology to provide solutions for global problems and inspire positive social change

A greek immigrant Archie Karas living in Los Angeles had the best winning streak in Las Vegas history best known as The Run With only 50 in his pockets he made 17 million while playing on a combination of poker and pool Eventually he turned to high stakes poker and on his way he beat some of the best poker players in the world thus amassing over 40 million Sadly he ended up losing all that money in a period of just 3 weeks in gambling only

William Seabrook a New York Times reporter yearned for an adventure and quickly began traveling around the world and publishing tales of his experiences He had an obsession with occultism and Haitian Vodou and is actually credited with popularizing the concept of the zombie to popular culture While in West Africa Seabrook stayed with the Guere tribe and inquired what human meat tasted like The chief could not describe it well enough so Seabrook decided he d get some from the local hospital Normal right? He ate several different pieces and his consensus was that it tastes strikingly like veal and is not too tough or stringy to be agreeably edible