When Benjamin Franklin first proposed the idea of daylight saving, he meant it as a joke
3 guys tried to sell cocacola secrets to Pepsi, but Pepsi contacted the FBI
From the time Pluto was discovered and the time it was disqualified as a planet, it didn't even make one revolution around the sun
The insect with the most painful sting in the world is the bullet ant, which is said to feel like being shot
A software company buried a $1000 dollar prize deep in its Terms of Service to see if anyone would actually read them. After 5 months and over 3000 sales, someone finally asked about the prize.