Each day is longer than the previous by 0.00000002 seconds, or 13 seconds every 100 years.
The notebooks of scientist Madame Curie are still too radioactive to handle, 70 years on.
Pope Adrian IV choked to death on a fly he’d accidentally swallowed.
A guard in an armoured van was killed when a bag with $50,000 worth of coins fell on him.
When Nelson died at sea his body was pickled in a barrel of rum to stop it decomposing!
(Taken from “Unbelievable Facts” by Geoff Tibballs, Parragon: ISBN 0-75254-381-4)