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Married dad Hugh Hefner launched “Playboy” magazine in his Chicago kitchen at age 27
When an 890-pound bluefin tuna was auctioned for $323,000 at a Tokyo fish market, it was a price comedown
The tomb of Mayan “God-King” discovered in Guatemala, his status determined by carved jade mask
Britain: The Principality of Sealand a pirate “micro-state” & band of Dutch & German mercenaries armed with assault rifles and charged the platform with a speedboat, jet skis, & helicopters
The traveling Sutherland Sisters: Seven women and 37 feet of hair between them
Victorian fashion: Restrictive, uncomfortable, one fashion item killed over 3000 women
In 1974, the legendary pharaoh Ramesses II was issued a valid Egyptian passport so that his 3,000-year-old mummy could be flown to Paris for necessary repair
The Nightingale floors: a Japanese flooring system which was used for catching intruders
Visionary architect Antoni Gaudí never managed to finish the magnificent Sagrada Familia because he was hit by a tram and, mistaken as a beggar, left on the street
Hitchcock’s animosity for his former producer, David O. Selznick, inspired the villain in “Rear Window”
