Unbelievable facts

Sometimes, reality is crazy—crazier than anything a novelist or avant-garde filmmaker or even just a really imaginative kid would be able to invent. Often, trivia gets to the point where it boggles the mind and you find it downright unbelievable. There's no way a spy agency used cats as spies, you might think. Nope! Boston wasn't nearly wiped off the map by molasses. That's all fiction!

Well, think again. If you peek into the annals of human existence—whether it's corroborated historical record or undisputed modern-day fact—you'll find all manner of seeming fiction that is utterly, totally, 100-percent true. Don't believe us? That's fine. You don't have to. You should, however, at the very least, read on and test the bounds of your information—because we've pinpointed the most bonkers stories of humankind.