Truly Bizarre History #2

This US president was so fat, that he got stuck in his bathtub and needed six men to get him unstuck.

Mexican president Pedro Lascuráin held the shortest term in the country’s history, lasting only this long in office.

This philosopher from Sinope and founder of cynicism lived in a large barrel, and would hurl obscenities at passers-by and publicly defecate.

Michel Lotito was known for eating many strange things, the most outrageous of which being one of these.

In 1866 this small nation sent an army of 80 soldiers out to fight. They returned with 81.

A chicken named Mike in Fruita, Colorado, gained fame for surviving 18 months without a ____.

In 1848, railway worker Phineas Gage had one of these objects shot through his brain following an explosion. He somehow lived for another 12 years afterwards.

Tycho Brahe, an astronomer and alchemist who, at the time, was the richest man in Denmark, wore a brass prosthetic ____ after his was cut off in a duel.

This dictator was known for his obsession with dairy, owning a record-producing dairy cow as a pet and opening the world’s largest ice cream parlor in his country’s capital.

Superstitions ran high in the Congo when, during a soccer game in 1998, all members of one team died and all members of another team survived after the field was _____________.

US president John Quincy Adams kept one of these as a pet in the White House for several months.

Under communist Chinese rule, Tibetan buddhists cannot legally do this without the government’s permission.

In China, references to this children’s show character are frequently censored, as many have noted his resemblance to president Xi Jinping.

Draco, the first legislator of Ancient Greece, was crushed to death when visiting the island of Aegina, when fans threw a massive amount of this at him.

While in France, this famous British actor witnessed the last execution via guillotine in 1977.