Strange But True: Escape from Alcatraz Marathon
By Lucie Winborne
The "Escape from Alcatraz Marathon," created in 1980, is an annual event designed to show that it is indeed possible to survive an escape from Alcatraz, and includes a 1.5-mile swim to San Francisco, an 18-mile bike ride and an 8-mile run.
In the seventh century B.C., the North African Berbers played a soccer-like game as a fertility rite.
Iceland had a cat reality show called -- wait for it -- "Keeping Up With the Kattarshians," in which four lucky kittens lived together in a furnished house and were filmed around the clock.
Minority children make up 65% of all non-family abductions.
Some police forces purposely assign at least one woman to their SWAT teams so their male counterparts will have a "den mother" to counteract some of the men's more violent tendencies.
The first arrest resulting from an emergency call occurred on July 8, 1937, at 4:20 a.m., when the wife of John Stanley Beard dialed 999 to report a burglar, Thomas Duffy, outside her home in England.
It is illegal to ride an ugly horse in Wilbur, Washington.
Of the roughly 300 million tons of plastic produced each year, half consists of single-use items.
In France, citizens are automatically registered to vote when they turn 18 years old.
Over the course of several decades, African American blues musician Daryl Davis made a point of befriending KKK members and questioning them about their beliefs. As of 2017, 200 of those Klansmen had given up their robes as a result.
People who worked at soda fountains were called soda jerks due to the classic jerking motion they used to pump soda water.