1 Charlie Chaplin once entered a Charlie Chaplin Lookalike Contest and didn't even make the finals
I guess they thought he was cheating.
He won the third prize...
LOL, deserves to be #1
I heard about this!
2 The word “school” comes from the ancient Greek word “scholḗ” which means free or leisure time
I wanna say this to my maths teacher. Because she gives out horrible homework. Thankfully, school doesn't come back until February for me!
Yeah, the ancient guys idea of leisure is listening to boring teachers rant about stuff you don't understand.
School is actually torture and stressful
Heart aches at this...
3 The only member of ZZ Top who doesn’t have a beard is Frank Beard
Haha, I knew this but I always laugh when somebody mentions it.
Why me? He thinks when he sees his surname.
4 In 1985, a man in New Orleans drowned at a party. The Party was being thrown by a group of lifeguards who were celebrating a year without drownings at the pool they all worked at.
5 Bosnian couple Sana Klaric and Adnan officially split in 2007 after the couple discovered that the secret online affairs they were both having happened to be with each other
Oh no, LOL, LOL. Why did they split? It proved once again they were made for each other...
@Metal_Treasure true
6 St. Patrick was Welsh
7 China censored the word 'Censorship'
Wow. Let's kick the ass of Kick-Ass
Are you kidding me?
8 The fear of long words is called hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia
Why is there a hippo at the beginning?
Looking it makes you scared already.
Hold up this fear actually exists?
What, who came up with THAT word
9 Match founder Gary Kremen lost his girlfriend to another man whom she met on Match
10 Mithridates VI, the King of Pontus, was so paranoid of being poisoned that he took small doses of poison all his life to build immunity. When he was defeated by the Romans, he tried to kill himself with poison but couldn’t because he was immune
Why could he not just use a different poison? surely they don't all work in the same way?
The Contenders
11 A Texas man was asked not to swim in a marina as there were sightings of an alligator. He replied “F*** that alligator” before plunging into the water and was killed immediately by an alligator
12 The pine tree planted in 2004 in memory of George Harrison, the lead guitarist of The Beatles, has died after being infested by beetles
I guess that's sad and ironic.
13 Vangelis, having pioneered the electronic scores that defined such movies like Blade Runner and The Bounty and having won an Oscar for the score for Chariots of Fire, still can’t read a note of music
14 The lawyers who Donald Trump hired to defend him from the lawsuits by unpaid workers are suing him for unpaid bills
15 In 1904, a Swedish sailor shipwrecked on an island in Papua New Guinea and found by the cannibalistic tribe inhabiting there. He was carried to their king whose daughter fell in love with him. He married her and after the king’s death became the king
Also makes one wonder..how did a cannibalistic woman fell in love with him AND whether he accepted the 'food' to be consumed or not.
16 Christine Maggiore, an AIDS skeptic who wrote What If Everything You Thought You Knew about AIDS Was Wrong?, died from AIDS-related pneumonia at 52
17 In 2007, the First Mount Olive Free Will Baptist Church purchased a $150,000 Bentley, neglected to pay $12,000 water bill and had a mortgage default of $1.5 million on 9-acre property. The church was struck by lightning and the subsequent fire destroyed i
18 O. J. Simpson was supposed to play the Terminator, but didn't because nobody would buy him as a remorseless killer
So gosh darn ironic.
19 J. J. Thomson won the Nobel Prize in Physics (1906) for showing that cathode rays contained charged “particles” called electrons. In the year 1937, his son, G. P. Thomson, won the same for showing that electrons are “waves”
20 No one knows who invented the fire hydrant because the patent office burned to the ground in 1836 destroying all US patent records
21 In 2007, the First Mount Olive Free Will Baptist Church purchased a $150,000 Bentley, neglected to pay $12,000 water bill and had a mortgage default of $1.5 million on 9-acre property. The church was struck by lightning and the subsequent fire destroyed t
22 Garry Hoy threw himself over a glass wall on the 24th story of the Toronto-Dominion Center and fell to his death when the window frame gave way. He was attempting to prove to a group of prospective articling students that the glass was unbreakable
He had done this stunt many times before too
23 In 2009, an expert in Mexico kidnappings who negotiated the release of at least 100 victims was kidnapped in Saltillo where he went to give lectures on how to avoid kidnapping
Felix Batista received a phone call while eating at a restaurant after which he was seen getting in a car with someone, Hours after Batista disappeared a local security expert and a friend who was abducted was released.
24 In the 2017 UK Election, a Conservative Politician who published a book on how not to lose a marginal seat lost his marginal seat
Still has me laughing! Justice!
25 American operatic tenor Richard Versalle suffered a heart attack at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York after delivering the line: "Too bad you can only live so long."
There you are people...proof that not only does God exist, but that He has a sense of humour too.