This hat was meant to complete the lead character's costume in the Greater Topeka Middle School for the Performing Arts' original production "Napoleon: The Musical." Sadly, during the rehearsal of the finale, "You Had Me At Waterloo," he broke both legs falling from the third story of an ill-constructed set of the HMS Bellerophon, and the show was cancelled.

During her honeymoon in Haiti, Irine Beckner was surprised to learn that women there would regularly carry on their heads up to 70% of their own body weight in things like, just to take a random example, hand-carved souvenir statues!

Sergeant Smasher was smashing R.A.T. battle androids a little more mercilessly than usual on this mission. His kids had decided to give his beloved KA-BAR a “glow up” for Fathers Day, and he was not in the mood for that smirk from the Weasel Warlord. That guy was getting punched extra hard today.

David always got to be the hero, got the best of everything. David the Congressman. David the frontiersman. David the big shot war hero. Well, Richard thought as he unlocked the back gate, General Santa Ana promised me everyone will remember the name Ricky Crockett after this!

Discovered by Mayanist Wilhelm Östentner in 1917, this mask granted its wearer the ability to comprehend the Dresden Codex of pre-Spanish Mayan glyphs. Wilhelm was the first and last to wear it in modern times, however, as it also transformed its wearer into a serpent by day and a jaguar by night, a servant to the gods Kukulan and Ek' Chuah.

Lawrence Leinengen of Glenboro, Manitoba trained his pet colony of Camponotus herculeanus to weave this rattan hat—a feat that occupied 37 generations of the preternaturally talented ants.

Did you know walrus whiskers make the finest shaving brushes? Neither did the three completely unrelated men who received these as gifts. The only other thing they had in common was an exceptionally rare and unfortunately fatal allergy to walrus whiskers.

Inspired by experiments in human-dolphin communication during the 1970s, and believing sharks to be just as intelligent, if not moreso, Maurice Easton of Yachats, Oregon embarked on an 11-minute-and-34-second-long investigation into shark-human communication that ended exactly as you might expect.

13 lanterns were made for the 13 signal towers along Jackie “Blackjack” Biggs’ moonshine smuggling trail in the valleys of Caldwell County, NC. The Prohis nabbed 12 of them, but Jackie got away with the last one. A century later, you can still get a little sip of his Brass Lantern Mash if you know who to ask.

Legend tells of the pleasure garden of Queen Nazanin-Zahra, which contained every flower in the known world. The punishment for anyone other than the queen looking on it was to have one’s eyes put out. One of the queen’s blinded, banished handmaidens was able to recreate from memory a small glimpse of it in this tapestry.