The world can certainly be a strange place at times, and there’s no shortage of stories to prove it. Here are three tales from the history books that will have you scratching your head.
You are what you eat. Odd as it may seem, in 16th and 17th century Europe a form of cannibalism was actually an accepted practice. The practice began with the notion that Ancient Egyptians mummies had magical curative powers, and so they were ground up and included in several different medical remedies. From there the practice led to the inclusion of bone, blood, and fat from contemporary humans in medical concoctions.
Lightning never strikes twice, it strikes seven times. Roy Cleveland Sullivan, a park ranger at the Shenandoah National Park in Virginia, was struck by lightning on seven different occasions between 1942 and 1977. Seven... Nicknamed the “Human Lighting Rod,” Sullivan earned himself an entry in the Guinness Book of World Records for his feat. Miraculously, he survived all seven lightning strikes and lived to the age of 71.
A lover of the Opera. Kim Jong Il, North Korea’s enigmatic Supreme Leader from 1994-2011 was actually born Yuri Irsenovich Kim in 1941 in the Soviet village of Vyatskoye, near Khabarovsk. He was a great lover of music, and actually wrote six operas while in office.
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