In 1989, Disney forced three daycare centers to remove a mural of Mickey, Donald, and Goofy, under threat of legal action.
In 2008, a man named Ian Usher from Perth, Australia, sold his entire life on eBay for $399,000 following the breakdown of his marriage. The sale price included his home, his car, his motorcycle, a two-week trial in his job, and an introduction to his friends.
There’s a religion called Dudeism, based on the movie The Big Lebowski, which advocates the practice of going with the flow, being cool-headed, and taking it easy.
A sixty-eight-year-old grandmother from West Wales had her car followed and swarmed for two days by 20,000 bees. They were actually trying to rescue their queen bee which, unbeknownst to her, had hitched a ride in her Mitsubishi Outlander. Beekeepers were brought in to safely remove them.
In 2013, Mark Zuckerberg spent thirty million dollars buying four houses that surround his home, just to make sure he has privacy.