Comedian Richard Pryor suffered panic attacks before performing, Nina Simone rocked him like a baby to calm him News
Franz Kafka’s famous novel “The Castle” ends mid-sentence because of the writer’s untimely death News
Sherlock Holmes’s address was flooded with so many fan letters that they decided to hire a secretary News
Before creating the famous ‘Star Trek’ television series, Gene Roddenberry flew 89 combat missions during the World War II News
Famadihana is a bizarre funerary ritual in Madagascar during which people dig out the bodies of their dead and dance with them Strangeness News
Glenn Gould was an eccentric piano virtuoso who kept his childhood piano chair throughout his entire career News
Bulla Felix was the Robin Hood of the Roman Empire who allegedly commanded a group of 600 bandits News
The surviving “trysting trees” are living historical landmarks that tell stories of gatherings shrouded in secrecy News
Punker of Rohrbach, the German equivalent of William Tell, was accused of witchcraft and allegedly had to defend his innocence by shooting a penny off the head of his own son News