President John Quincy Adams had a pet alligator.  He kept it in the bathtub in the East Room of the White House.

As a twelve-year-old, actor Shia LaBeouff found an agent in the Yellow Pages and was taken on after pretending to be his own manager.

Sir Isaac Newton predicted that the world would end in 2060.

In the late 1990’s, the Coca-Cola Company began testing a vending machine that could automatically raise prices for its drinks in hot weather.

Mahatma Gandhi never won the Nobel Peace Prize, despite being nominated five times between 1937 and 1946, being one of the strongest symbols of nonviolence in the world, and being one of the most respected.