In Poole, ‘Pound World’ went out of business because of a store across the road called ’99p Stores’, which was selling the same products but for just 1 pence cheaper!
In 2010 Japan’s government decided to check up on many of the more-aged members of its community. What it found, however, was that many of Japan’s older citizens had died, and that their children had hid their deaths in order to carry on cashing their numerous pension checks!
The MMORPG Eve Online hosted the world’s largest ever online battle in space on the 28th July 2013. It lasted over five hours and was fought between four-thousand players!
It is predicted that the reason why night insects, such as moths, are attracted to lights is because they mistake them for the light of the moon, which they used to navigate the Earth before mankind made artificial lights.
During the First World War, so many starving wolves had amassed together in a great pack that opposing German and Russian forces formed a temporary alliance in order to fight them off!
Artist Salvador Dali would often get out of paying for drinks and meals by drawing on the cheques, making them priceless works of art and therefore un-cashable.