The Bloke Who Kept Fighting Until Given Leave
A Japanese soldier hid in a Philippine jungle for 29 years refusing to surrender until a superior officer finally turned up with written orders.Read More 
When People Literally Whistle to Chat
There are towns where gossip, love notes and bad news are hurled as whistles across canyons and honestly it rules.Read More 
Byron Kept A Bear At College, Naturally
Before Instagram, Lord Byron solved 'no dogs' rules by bringing a tame bear to Trinity and pretending it was perfectly normal.Read More 
That Big Eye In The Sahara Is Just Bored Rock
There is a 40km circular 'eye' in Mauritania that makes people shout aliens, when really it's just rock peeling itself like an old pie.Read More 
The Bloke Who Got Hit By Lightning Seven Times (And Lived To Moan About It)
Roy Sullivan survived seven separate lightning strikes while working as a park ranger, which makes him the unluckiest lucky man in recorded history.Read More 
Bennu Spits Back: The Little Asteroid That Throws Stones
That cute near-Earth pebble? Turns out Bennu coughs up rocks - NASA watched it do the cosmic equivalent of hocking a loogie.Read More 
Don't Wear High Heels At The Acropolis, Apparently
Greece bans high heels at some archaeological sites because stilettos and ancient marble are a catastrophic romance and someone had to break it up.Read More 
The Mandela Effect: How Millions Remember Nonsense Like It's Gospel
Millions insist the past was different and blame parallel universes; the truth is duller, crueller and far funnier.Read More 
Casu Marzu: Sardinia's Maggot Cheese
They let fly larvae liquefy a sheep cheese into a gooey spread and then Europe bans the poor thing; of course I tasted it once.Read More 
Phossy Jaw: When Matches Ate Faces
Victorian match factories used white phosphorus and the result was a ghastly jaw-rot that glowed faintly in the dark and took a very long time for polite officials to notice.Read More 