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- Polish Countess Krystyna Skarbek spied for the British in World War II behind enemy lines under the code name "Christine Granville". She was the inspiration behind Vesper Lynd, the original James Bond girl in Casino Royale, Ian Fleming's first novel that introduced 007 to the world.
- Strange, but true story of John Hedley, the WWI tail gunner who fell out of his plane in the middle of a dogfight a mile above France, plummeted 300 feet down before landing right back onto the tail of his own plane.
- Writer Morgan Robertson wrote the strangest account ever of the sinking of the Titanic. It wasn't that he wrote down anything much different from other historians who documented the tragedy - what makes Robertson's account the strangest is that it was written 14 years before the Titanic sank.
- Strange as it seems, a real life headless horseman once roamed the badlands of South Texas in the 1800's, when the Texas Rangers were the only frontier justice for thieves, bandits and murderers.
- There are many ways to measure success. Many historians consider Black Bart to be the most successful pirate from the Golden Age of Piracy because of the number of ships he captured before he was killed. Hsi Kai, a Chinese pirate in the early 19th century, commanded the largest pirate fleet in history and challenged the combined navies of Britain, Portugal and China for control of the South China Sea - before negotiating amnesty and the right to keep all of - her - stolen treasure.
- The Past Is Present in Syria, where Bashar al-Assad follows in the footsteps of his father Hafez al-Assad, killing his own people to keep his grip on power.
- The story of how 18th century French scientist René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur took a walk in the woods one day and discovered how paper could be made from trees.
- Strange as it seems, grinding Egyptian mummies into powder was once as common a remedy for headaches as aspirin is today.