Mansa Musa, ruler of the Mali Empire in the 14th century, is the richest person who ever lived (inflation adjusted). Born in 1280, Emperor Mansa Musa I was the ruler of the Mali Empire, which made up Timbuktu, Ghana and Mali in West Africa. In the 14th century Musa was worth the equivalent of $400 billion today. Musa’s wealth came mainly from his country being the supplier of half of the world’s salt, and gold. He also invested in architecture and education, leaving behind an intellectual and economic awareness that established Mali as a global superpower and continue well into the Middle Ages.

A Russian dog whose owners were killed in a car accident. Despite attempts to adopt or re-home him, the dog refused to leave the site of the accident and waited for them until it died 7 years later. The city informally adopted the dog and dedicated a statue honour its loyalty.

Douglas Williams, an administrator of Lie Detector Tests for the OK City PD, has spent the last 35 years trying to expose the fact that they don’t work and are easily defeated.

Prosecutors tried to put wrongfully convicted Juan Rivera back in prison for murder by introducing new evidence of blood on shoes; defense proved the shoes were not available for sale until after the alleged murder, resulting in an evidence tampering investigation. At the time of the crime, Rivera was wearing an electronic monitor from a previous conviction. Electronic monitoring system records showed that Rivera did not leave his home on August 17, 1992. Phone records also showed a call from Rivera’s home to a relative in Puerto Rico that evening.

Hershey Bars contain only 11% cacao, only 1% more than the FDA legal minimum to be called chocolate.

There are only three northern white rhinos left on earth, the only male has 24×7 armed guards, and there is a gofundme to raise half a million bucks to develop rhino IVF to keep the species alive. None is capable of breeding. The northern white, which once roamed Africa in its thousands, is in effect extinct. The three – named Sudan, Najin and Fatu – are the last of their kind. In a few months, however, a group of scientists from the US, Germany, Italy and Japan will attempt the seemingly impossible: to rescue the northern white rhino – smaller and hairier than its southern cousin – from the jaws of extinction. In October, they plan to remove the last eggs from the two female northern whites and by using advanced reproductive techniques, including stem cell technology and IVF, create embryos that could be carried to term by surrogate rhino mothers. The northern white could then be restored to its former glory. The procedure would be a world first.

Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling is the first billionaire to fall off the Forbes billionaire list because of charitable giving: “You have a moral responsibility when you’ve been given far more than you need, to do wise things with it and give intelligently.”In 2012, Rowling became the first person to fall off the Forbes list of billionaires because of charitable giving. She had given away an estimated $160 million to charity, what amounts to 16% of her net worth. Even before […], Rowling wrote books for the specific purpose of making money for charity. A series of three books taken from the Harry Potter universe — Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Quidditch Through the Ages and The Tales of Beedle the Bard — has raised about $30 million for various charities.

The real owners of Buffalo Bill’s house from “The Silence of the Lambs” tried to sell the house for almost a year but couldn’t. The house still looks like it did in the film and comes with a signed copy of the book and a thank you note from the film crew.

"The Villages”, An over-55 community, has the highest consumption of draft beer and STD rate in the state of Florida.

The most effective treatment for CDI (a bowel disease causing chronic diarrhea) is a fecal transplant, where poo from a healthy person is put in the infected person’s bum, thereby transplanting healthy bacteria into the digestive tract. It is 94% effective as opposed to 30% for antibiotics.

British banking giant HSBC admitted to laundering billions of dollars for Colombian and Mexican drug cartels and violating a host of important banking laws (from the Bank Secrecy Act to the Trading With the Enemy Act), but there were no criminal charges and no one went to prison.