Professional cheese smeller Nigel Pooley of Somerset, England has his nose insure for 5 million pounds
Martin Sheen did a very nice job playing Robert E. Lee in the movie "Gettysburg", but was already in production (in Washington) for The West Wing when he was asked to play Lee in "Gods and Generals". He told Warner Bros. he wanted a million dollars and bought a ticket to LA to close the deal, but WB said no and brought in Robert Duvall. Had they said yes, Sheen would have been on American Airlines Flight 77, which crashed into the Pentagon on 9/11.
In the late 1980's India released 25,000 flesh eating turtles into the Ganges River to clean up corpse pollution.
The last trial for the crime of witchcraft in England took place in 1941. The defendant was a medium who "foresaw" during a seance the sinking of a battleship in the Pacific with great loss of life. The sinking had already occurred but not yet been announced. On trial she revealed that she learned about the sinking from a friend in the Navy.
Carlos May is the only Major League baseball player to ever wear his birth date on the back of his uniform - May 17
WHO WAS THE RICHEST MAN OF ALL TIMES? Mansa Musa was a glorious mansa (supreme ruler) of Mali, a medieval country in Africa. He descended from the dynasty of Keita and was in power from 1307 (or 1312) till 1332 (or 1337). His uncle, Sundiata Keita, was a founder of Mali Empire. During Mansa Musa's regiment Mali reached the highest degree of its power, size and cultural advance. The main reason for his incredible glory that exceeded the bounds of Mali was his Hajj to Mecca in 1324. All the way to the sacred site the ruler rode a horse and was accompanied by a huge group of people numbered, according to different data, from 60 to 80 thousand. Musa's journey through Cairo and Medina, trains of camels and hundreds of slaves, the grandeur of the whole procession and the ruler's lavishness brought him great fame across Asia and Europe. It's amazing but in 2012 the experts of the Сelebrity Net Worth announced him the richest man of all times. Under the conditions of 2012 his fortune was estimated at 400 billion US dollars! Thus, Mansa Musa occupied the first place in top 25 of the richest men in history edging even the Rothschilds and the American entrepreneur John Rockefeller.
