James Dean’s car curse
In September 1955, James Dean was killed in a horrific car accident whilst he was driving his Porsche sports car. After the crash the car was seen as very unlucky.
1) When the car was towed away from accident scene and taken to a garage, the engine slipped out and fell onto a mechanic, shattering both of his legs.
2) Eventually the engine was bought by a doctor, who put it into his racing car and was killed shortly afterwards, during a race. Another racing driver, in the same race, was killed in his car, which had James Dean’s driveshaft fitted to it.
3) When James Dean’s Porsche was later repaired, the garage it was in was destroyed by fire.
4) Later the car was displayed in Sacramento, but it fell off it’s mount and broke a teenager’s hip.
5) In Oregon, the trailer that the car was mounted on slipped from it’s towbar and smashed through the front of a shop.
6) Finally, in 1959, the car mysteriously broke into 11 pieces while it was sitting on steel supports.
The Most Expensive Things You’ll Never Actually Need
Why would you use your money to feed a starving country, when you can pay $1,500,000 for a Box of Chocolates, or buy a $1.3 Million Cell Phone. What you choose? 
Pay $1,500,000 for a Box of Chocolates
Le Chocolat features a selection of Lake Forest Confections gourmet chocolates, selected by the confectioners master candy maker, as well as an arrangement of magnificent jewelry from Simon’s personal jewelry and gemstone vault. The price tag is $1,500,000. The jewelry that comes along with the box of chocolates includes a "priceless" collection of natural yellow and blue diamonds, emeralds, and sapphires from Simons Jewelers. (How priceless can it be with a price tag?)
Famous Things Invented by Accident
We tend to hold inventors in high esteem, but often their discoveries were the result of an accident or twist of fate. This is true of many everyday items, including the following surprise inventions. One smell most people remember from childhood is the odor of Play-Doh, the brightly-colored, nontoxic modeling clay. Play-Doh was accidentally invented in 1955 by Joseph and Noah McVicker while trying to make a wallpaper cleaner. It was marketed a year later by toy manufacturer Rainbow Crafts. More than 700 million pounds of Play-Doh have sold since then, but the recipe remains a secret. Fireworks originated in China some 2,000 years ago, and legend has it that they were accidentally invented by a cook who mixed together charcoal, sulfur, and saltpeter—all items commonly found in kitchens in those days. The mixture burned and when compressed in a bamboo tube, it exploded. There’s no record of whether it was the cook’s last day on the job.
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The 25 Most Bizarre Travel Insurance Claims Ever
What links a tourist who lost 84 kilograms of Bombay mix on holiday with another who had his camera stolen by a monkey? Both are among the more unusual claims received by travel insurance companies. Times Money has trawled through the files of some of the UK’s biggest insurers to bring you the 25 most bizarre travel insurance claims ever. So, here’s the list: 1. One thing you don’t expect when you go on holiday is to be harassed by a monkey. One British traveller in Gibraltar, however, was so besieged by the attentions of an over-friendly primate that he asked his insurer to refund the cost of his trip. The insurer refused but did pay out for his camera, which the monkey had run off with one evening. 2. Monkeys also blighted the romantic getaway of a couple in Malaysia, who foolishly left the window to their chalet open during the day. They returned to find their underwear, clothing and belongings strewn across the resort and neighbouring rainforest. Luckily for the clothes-less couple, their insurer paid the claim. 3. One unlucky pensioner managed to lose his false teeth after throwing up over the side of a cruise ship on the choppy seas of the Bay of Biscay. Thankfully for the squeamish septuagenarian, his misplaced dentures were covered in his travel insurance policy under lost baggage, so his claim was paid.
Hitler is known for being one of the most evil and murderous leaders in history. Yet few people know that he also produced a large amount of paintings, focusing on flowers, country sides and cathedrals. 
Adolf Hitler, failed dictator of Germany during the Second World War, produced a variety of oil and watercolor paintings. In addition to being responsible for the deaths of tens of millions of people, including the genocide of six million Jews, Hitler was an artist who used cathedrals and flowers as subject matter for many of his paintings.
To make our travel life easier we build various streets and roads. Among those roads and streets there are peculiar which everyone should know about to liberalize. The shortest street Ebenezer Place, in Wick, Caithness, Scotland, is credited as being the world’s shortest street in the Guinness Book of Records at 2.06 m (6.8 ft). There is a single address on the street, 1 Ebenezer Place, which was constructed in 1883. The owner of the building, a hotel at the time, was instructed to paint a name on the shortest side of the hotel. It was officially declared a street in 1887.
It was a dramatic moment as Bush and Iraqi President Nouri al-Maliki held a news conference in Baghdad. It was a farewell of sorts for Bush, who made a surprise visit to the country to celebrate the newly adopted security agreement between the two countries that would result in the withdrawal of all U.S. troops by the end of 2011. Not long into the presser, an Iraqi journalist stood up and threw a shoe at Bush — the ultimate insult in Iraq — and shouted, "This is a gift from the Iraqis. This is the farewell kiss, you dog! ... This is from the widows, the orphans and those who were killed in Iraq!" The journalist missed his intended target, and missed a second time when he threw his other shoe. Bush made light of the incident, though it clearly shook up U.S. and Iraqi officials. This may very well prove to be a defining moment for Bush and his war policy, but it’s not the first time a shoe became a metaphor in politics. 
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On average a human laughs 13 times per 24 hours. The slogan of New Hampshire automobile license plates is “Live free or die”. However those are produced in the state prison in Concord. Coca-cola was originally green. The Queen, the Church of England and Trinity College, Cambridge are the three largest land-owners in England.
