- Sawney Beane, his wife, 8 sons, 6 daughters, and 32 grandchildren were a family of cannibals that lived in the caves near Galloway, Scotland in the early 17th Century. Although the total number is not known, it is believed they claimed over 50 victims per year. The entire family was taken by an army detachment to Edinburgh and executed, apparently without trial.
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Comment On This Amusing Fact - Abraham Lincoln's mother died when she drank the milk of a cow that grazed on poisonous snakeroot.
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Comment On This Amusing Fact - After the death of the genius, Albert Einstein, his brain was removed by a pathologist and put in a jar for future study.
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Comment On This Amusing Fact - Alexandre Gustave Eiffel, the man who designed the Eiffel Tower, also designed the inner structure of the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbour.
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Comment On This Amusing Fact - Behram, an Indian thug, holds the record for most murders by a single individual. He strangled 931 people between 1790-1840 with a piece of yellow and white cloth, called a ruhmal. The most murders by a woman are 612, by Countess Erzsebet Bathory of Hungary.
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Comment On This Amusing Fact - Bill Gates donated close to $100 million to fight AIDS in India. As a percent of his total wealth, this would be comparable to him donating ten cents if he only had $60.
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Comment On This Amusing Fact - Carolyn Shoemaker, famous astronomer, has discovered 32 comets and approximately 300 asteroids.
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Comment On This Amusing Fact - During his lifetime, artist Vincent Van Gogh only sold one of his paintings (The Red Vineyard).
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Comment On This Amusing Fact - Every photograph of the first American atomic bomb detonation was taken by Harold Edgerton.
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Comment On This Amusing Fact - Fidel Castro was once a star baseball player for the University of Havana in the 1940's.
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Comment On This Amusing Fact - French astronomer Adrien Auzout had once considered building a telescope that was 1,000 feet long in the 1600s. He thought the magnification would be so great, he would see animals on the moon.
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