15 Two Chicago men once tried to rob a restaurant with a squirt gun. The owner told them to return in an hour since he was busy. They returned and got arrested by the police.

In Chicago, two men tried to rob a local restaurant with only a squirt gun. The owner of the restaurant told them to return in an hour since he was busy. The two amateur robbers did, in fact, return only to be caught by the police. The two men, Mario Garcia, 39, and Domingo Garcia-Hernandez, 28, had to pay $25,000 each for a bail bond and were also each charged with one count of attempted aggravated robbery. Garcia-Hernandez, however, was additionally charged with possession of a replica firearm.(source)

14 A pine tree that was planted in 2004 in memory of former Beatle, George Harrison, died after being infested by beetles.

In Griffith Park, Los Angeles, a pine tree sapling was planted in 2004 in memory of former Beatle, George Harrison, who had died in 2001 and who spent his last days in L.A. The pine tree grew to be ten feet tall, but then, per council officer Tom LaBonge, was attacked by beetles and died.(source)

13 There is a man with the name “Phuc Dat Bich” who posted an image of his passport bearing his name on Facebook to prove that his name was not made up.

A 23-year-old Vietnamese-Australian named Phuc Dat Bich gained tremendous media attention after his Facebook post went viral in which he showed his passport bearing his name. He claimed that his Facebook account kept getting banned because his name was not considered appropriate. His picture of proof of his name and its accompanying message has been shared more than 123,000 times.(source)

12 A woman at the age of ninety made a deal with her forty-seven-year-old lawyer that he would pay her 2500 francs per month until she dies to place a hold on her apartment. The man paid more than double the apartment’s value and died two years before her.

A lawyer named Andre-Francois Raffray, then forty-seven years of age, made a deal with a woman named Jeanne Calment, then ninety years old, for the eventual possession of her 1965 household property after she died. The lawyer was supposed to pay 2,500 francs, about $500, a month to the lady until she died. The lady survived, but the lawyer died at seventy-seven years of age having paid more than $184,000 for an apartment he never got to live in. The lady died at 122 years of age.(source)

11 At a restaurant in China, people were confused at how a couple could work their busy restaurant for twenty-one hours per day. It turns out it was actually being run by two sets of identical twins.

A Chinese couple living in Yiwu city in eastern China was dubbed the “Robot Couple” due to the incredible number of hours they worked in their restaurant. They would open the restaurant at 6 a.m. and close down at 3 a.m. It was eventually discovered that the restaurant was run by two couples in which both the man and the woman were identical twins, and the twin brothers had married the twin sisters.(source)