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T he story of the Women's Air Service Pilots (WASP) in the United States is relatively well known. Much less well known however is the story of the Night Witches, an incredible group of Soviet women who flew bombing missions during World War II.

O nly Japanese are capable of such a crazy thing - continue fighting for thirty years after the end of the war because his superior did not come to relieve him from the mission. Hiroo Onoda, a Japanese soldier who fought in World War II and did not give up until the mid-1970s. He is well-known among the Japanese as a war hero and a symbol of "never give up."

T his is the story of one of the most unusual wars, a real historical fact, and testifying the strength of the human. This is perhaps the first officially declared interspecies war opposed the Australian army to a colony of emu, estimated 20,000 birds. It makes us ashamed: not only because we started this ridiculous war, but also because we lose!

L argest ransom ever paid was in 1532 when the Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro captured the Inca Emperor Atahualpa. Atahualpa was held for eight months during which Pizarro extracted the largest ransom in return for a promise to free the Inca emperor. A promise he did not keep as he executed the emperor after being paid the ransom, in a ridiculous trial. The ransom was enough gold & silver to fill a room 22 feet long by 17 feet wide to a height of over 8 feet. It is difficult to specify how much they paid. However, it is recognized as the highest ransom paid in the history of mankind.