Andre the Giant had surgery, but the doctors couldn't figure out how much anaesthesia to use due to his size. Instead, they used Andre's claim that "it usually takes two liters of vodka just to make me feel warm inside" as their guide.
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The Jewel Wasp injects a drug into a cockroach’s brain, turns it into a zombie, rides it like a horse back to its burrow, and then lets its hatched larvae feed on the cockroaches body from the inside.
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Sean Connery turned down the role of Gandalf in Lord of the Rings because he didn't understand the script.
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When Charles Darwin first discovered the Galapagos Tortoises, he tried to ride them!
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Neil DeGrasse Tyson considered becoming a male stripper to make money during graduate school. When he visited the club, the dancers came out with lighter fluid soaked jockstraps and set them ablaze while dancing to “Great Balls of Fire.” He chose math tutoring instead.
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Charlie Chaplin once entered a Charlie Chaplin look alike contest and lost.
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You can't tickle yourself.
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