The KGB once tried to blackmail the then-president of Indonesia Achmed Soprano with tapes of him having sex with Russian women disguised as flight attendants. Except, the president was not upset by being blackmailed and, in fact, asked for more copies of the video to show back in his country.

In 2015, in the French city of Valenciennes, a couple actually named their baby “Nutella.” A judge ruled that it was contrary to the child’s best interest to bear that name, as it was the name of a popular spread made by the Italian company Ferrero. When the parents failed to appear in court, they renamed the child Ella.

Samsung, the manufacturer of TVs, home appliances, and cell phones, started off as a grocery store.

Railroad tycoon George Pullman’s family was so worried that former employees would desecrate his corpse after death that they buried him at night in a pit under layers of steel reinforced concrete in a lead-lined casket. 

Soviet diplomat Vyacheslav Molotov is thought to be the only man to ever shake hands with Stalin, Lenin, Hitler, Himmler, Goering, Roosevelt, and Churchill. He is also the inspiration behind the term Molotov cocktail.