George Foreman and His Sons
Legendary boxer George Foreman named all five of his sons George! The full list: George Jr., George III (“Monk”), George IV (“Big Wheel”), George V (“Red”), and George VI (“Little Joey”). He said it was to remind them of the importance of their name, and to make life easier when calling them to dinner.
The Great Emu War
Australia declared “war” on emus in 1932. Australia lost!
The flightless birds were damaging crops in Western Australia, so the military was called in. Armed with machine guns, soldiers found the emus surprisingly hard to defeat. The emus kept dodging and scattering, making them nearly impossible to hit. The humans eventually admitted defeat, and the emus “won” the war.
Octopus Escape Artists
Octopuses are so smart that they’ve been known to break out of aquariums, crawl across the floor, and sneak into other tanks for a midnight snack—then return to their own tank like nothing happened.
Koala Fingerprints
Koalas have fingerprints almost indistinguishable from humans’. So much so that they could confuse forensic investigations.
King Tut’s Meteorite Dagger
King Tutankhamun’s (reigned c. 1334–1325 BC) burial treasures include a dagger made from meteorite metal. The dagger is currently displayed at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.
Longest Hiccup Record:
Charles Osborne hiccupped continuously for 68 years. He started in 1922 and finally stopped in 1990. Osborne was entered in the Guinness World Records as the man with the longest attack of hiccups, an estimated 430 million hiccups.
