In 2014, a boy named Noah Wall was born in Cumbria, England, with only 2% of his brain. Doctors diagnosed him with spina bifida and severe hydrocephalus, predicting he wouldn’t survive long after birth. His parents, Shelley and Rob Wall, were advised to prepare for the worst.

Schlitzie, born around 1901, likely in the Bronx, New York, had microcephaly, which resulted in a small, misshapen head and intellectual disabilities. Known by names such as Simon Metz or Shlitze Surtees, his true identity remains uncertain due to being passed between foster parents.

Petrus Gonsalvus was born in 1537 in Tenerife, one of the Canary Islands. He was afflicted with a rare condition known as hypertrichosis, which caused excessive hair growth over his body, giving him an appearance similar to that of a wild man. This condition earned him the moniker “The Man of the Woods.”

On the night of August 18, 2018, British tourist Kay Longstaff fell from the Norwegian Star cruise ship while it was sailing in the Adriatic Sea near Croatia. Longstaff, a former flight attendant, had been enjoying her holiday before the accident occurred. The details of how she fell remain unclear, but it was reported that she fell overboard around midnight.

In July 2018, an unusual incident at the International Garden municipal park in Cairo, Egypt, caught worldwide attention. Mahmoud Sarhan, an Egyptian student, visited the zoo and quickly noticed something odd about the zebras in the enclosure. Upon closer inspection, he realized the animals appeared different from typical zebras. Suspecting something was amiss, Sarhan took photos and shared them on social media, sparking a global conversation.

In the early 1930s, New Zealand farmers faced a severe problem with the invasive weed ragwort, which is toxic to livestock. To combat this, the government recommended the use of sodium chlorate, a potent herbicide.

In 1969, Skamania County, Washington, passed Ordinance No. 69-01, making it illegal to kill Bigfoot.

This law came into effect due to numerous reported sightings of the creature, also known as Sasquatch, in the Pacific Northwest. The ordinance was later amended in 1984 to designate Bigfoot as an endangered species.

During World War II, Britain devised an extraordinary plan to build aircraft carriers out of icebergs, known as Project Habakkuk. The idea was conceived by Geoffrey Pyke, an eccentric inventor who believed icebergs could be turned into unsinkable aircraft carriers to protect Allied shipping convoys from German U-boats in the Atlantic Ocean.

In 1980, loggers working for the Georgia Kraft Corp. made a bizarre discovery inside a chestnut oak tree in southern Georgia. When they cut the tree down, they found a mummified dog trapped inside the hollow trunk. The dog, later named “Stuckie,” had become a natural mummy.

Clement Vallandigham was a prominent Ohio politician and lawyer known for his strong opposition to the Civil War. As a leader of the Copperhead faction of anti-war Democrats, he frequently clashed with President Abraham Lincoln’s administration. In 1863, Vallandigham was arrested for his outspoken criticism and subsequently exiled to the Confederacy.