Convicted murderer James W. Rodgers was put in front of a firing squad in Utah in 1960. When asked if he had a last request, he replied, “Bring me a bullet-proof vest.”
The Student Who Fought a Sleepwalking Duel: The 1816 Case of Mr. D
In 1816, a London medical journal reported the bizarre case of a student who fought sleepwalking duel while, collapsed from a nonexistent gunshot wound, and received fake surgery from a very committed doctor.
“Louie Louie”: Why the FBI Investigated Rock-and-Roll’s Most Mumbled Song”
In 1964, the FBI investigated “Louie Louie” for obscenity, only to conclude that The Kingsmen’s garbled lyrics were officially unintelligible.
The Free and Independent State of Scott: When One Tennessee County Seceded from Secession
During the Civil War, Scott County, Tennessee rejected secession so strongly that it declared itself the Free and Independent State of Scott. Here’s the strange story of the county that seceded from secession.
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