"If you do the math, the math kind of shows that it's only going to be a matter of a couple of years [before] we are not going to have any cheetahs."

Incredibly, none of the passengers on the inflatable vessel were injured — and neither was the walrus.

Mickey Finn's scam inspired Chicago restaurant workers to rebel against stingy tippers by poisoning their food and would later be immortalized with the nefarious phrase "slip a Mickey."

According to government officials and agencies, the peculiar red sky over Indonesia's Jambi province was a result of the country's severe forest fires.

Botanist Robert Fortune was commissioned by the East India Trading Company to infiltrate China's tea industry and topple the country's monopoly on the beverage.

"Who’s so stupid to steal a toilet?" the toilet's creator pondered before remembering that his piece was made out of solid gold.

The jellyfish expanded to ten times its original size in the course of the show it gave researchers.

"I had seen parts of it peeking out from the water before, but this is the first time I've seen it in full."

"What is the joke? That we're trying to help people get rid of diseases? We promote stopping alcohol consumption, drugs and fornication—is this laughable? ... Let them laugh and we will do our job."

After being rejected by their male literary peers, women writers of New York City joined forces to create their own club called Sorosis — where men weren't allowed.

According to an eyewitness who first found the bodies, four of the family members appeared to have been laid out in a pattern-like position on a rug on a Fiji cliff.