I hoped that John would have included what, in my opinion, is one of the sweetest gestures found in a will. Robert Louis Stevenson left his birthday to a friend of his because she was born on Christmas day, which meant she never got to celebrate a birthday that wasn't overshadowed by Christmas.
Important point on Houdini: he made that agreement with his wife because he was a skeptic. He spent a good deal of his career, as a number of magicians end up doing, proving that people who claim to have supernatural powers are in fact just using the illusions with which magicians are quite familiar. He didn't believe in the afterlife in the slightest. So he set up this secret code by which he would communicate with his wife after his death, and had her hold séances trying to initiate that communication, so that even after his death, he could continue proving that séances DON'T DO ANYTHING.
I was going to write this, but you beat me. The whole point was to debunk afterlife shysters and psychics. That's also why the message was so convoluted as well. "Hey, its me Harry!" simply wouldn't have been an effective debunking tool.
Alanna R. The classic story is that Houdini did a trick for Doyle, and explained how it worked, so that Doyle would see that even the most amazing tricks had clear, natural explanations. Doyle's response was to say Houdini was lying, and actually had supernatural powers that he wouldn't admit to. Some people...
There was also the big 'event' if you will, about Margery, the socialite psychic who was challenged not only by Houdini, but believe or not Scientific American journal who actually sent a number of scientists and researchers undercover to try and disprove her 'gifts'. They found that they were unable to do so and ended up offering money to anyone who could prove conclusively if Margery was a real psychic or a fake. Houdini did prove her claims of psychic abilities to be false, but I don't know if he collected any of the money Scientific American offered as a prize. Houdini was not only debunking phony psychics and seances, he was livid at the fact these people were nothing more than leeches giving false hope to those who were in mourning and taking them for untold sums of money. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was hoodwinked as many people were, by the "Fairy Photos" taken by a two girls which appeared to actually have images of themselves playing and interacting with 'fairies'. Eventually, one of the girls when she was elderly, admitted the whole thing was a hoax to get attention and fame. Just Google 'Fairy Photos' and you should find the entire story
Almost everything on this list is a bit recent, so here are a few from my day. Virgil, the another of the Aeneid wasn't so confident in his work, and in his first draft of his his will he ordered all his works to be burned with his corpse. His friends convinced him otherwise. Attalus III of Pergamum started a tradition amongst the Anatolian kings. He himself hated women and being king, preferring botany and boys to both. He knew he was going to die without an heir, so he changed his will and handed over the entire kingdom and its people to The Roman Republic.
I used to work at a Spencers. I was alone one morning when a woman came in who had obviously been crying. She asked if we carried remote control fart machines (we did... #1 seller). I brought her over to them and she began to cry. She then said to me, "I'm so sorry, my father just died and it was his last wish that we put this in his coffin".
My favourite testament is of German poet Heinrich Heine: He left all his money to his wife on the condition that she'd get married again. "So there's at least one man who'll be sad about my death"
Another interesting will, pianist Andre Tchaikowsky wanted his skull to be left to the Royal Shakespeare Company in England, and used in Hamlet as Yorick. He died in 1982, and every actor who played Hamlet was too nervous to use the skull, until 2009 when David Tennant (best known as the tenth doctor or Barty Crouch Jr.) played the iconic role, and used the actual skull of Tchaikowsky. Mental Floss ***** John Green
A person's ashes were used with ink in actual comic books?! Yikes! And I'd like to know whether that drum was ever made or played. It sounds horrifying.
Nahhhh, bring back the mind-blowing question. I'm sure you get lots of questions that have an answer that's too short to justify its own video. There's room for both.
Jack Benny having a rose sent to his widow every day for the rest of her life sounds more like torment to me, unless she really hated him. Think about it, if you lost someone you loved would like to be reminded of your loss EVERY SINGLE DAY? Let the woman move on for Christ's sake. And what if she remarried? How would you like to get a rose from your wife's dead ex-husband every day? Creepy.
This cheered me up! My own will is a bit of a downer because I had to define all of our relatives who are absolutely unfit to take custody of our son if both my husband and myself die. Since one of my choices for his primary guardian is a friend and not a relative, it was really important to draw up the will. If you have kids, it's important to have a will.
I want my ashes after I am cremated to be scatted atop of Mount Rainier (Washington State, USA) so that when it explodes, it can be said I traveled the world.
Actually saving dead loved ones' hair was a common practice. It's called Victorian mourning jewelry, I believe. Hair was kept because it didn't decompose.
Scientists have used samples of that hair to determine whether or not Napoleon was poisoned by arsenic. Though he did have high levels of arsenic in his hair, it didn't change significantly throughout his life. Also, his wife, Josephine and his son both had similar levels of arsenic in their hair.
At the risk of sounding ignorant and maybe not fully understanding of your statement, didn't Napoleon live in the Regency era, before Victorian times, and maybe before this was common practice?? Please correct me if I'm wrong :D have a nice day everybody!!!!
Celi Méndez Oh, it was a practice long before the Victorians. Cutting off locks of hair as a keepsake goes back to ancient times. The Victorians took it, like other sentiments in questionable taste and ran with it by making ornate jewelry where the decoration was made out of hair of loved ones. In Jane Austin's "Sense and Sensibility," which takes place during the Napoleonic Era, Edward Ferrars is wearing a ring made out of hair, which is presumed to be from a young lady still living at the time of the story.
Celi Méndez You are correct, Napoleon died before the Victorian era. Hair jewelry was common during his time too, but its popularity peaked in the Victorian era.
I love it when I see that the toys on my desk have duplicates on your wall. For example, I have the very same dinosaur, and I'm pretty certain I see my dragon on the mantel at the end there.
Great video as always! I know this doesn't have anything to do with the subject, but does anyone else hear the name of the show as "menopause"?? It always confuses me until I realize he's saying "mental_floss".
I've heard of the fourth one before, of the man who arranged for a rose to be delivered to his wife every day after his death, but it's just so sweet I never get tired of hearing about it, and he's not the only one to have done that or something similar in his will, which is even more heartwarming :)
Not sure if this has been mentioned yet, but the most interesting and morbid part about the Jeremy Bentham story is that he now has a false head because some uni students stole the mummified original to....wait for it....play a game of soccer. See, philosophy majors ARE good for something! :)
There's a video Studio C made with a quotes so like that I had to share it... Studio C- Practical Philosopher Go check it out. It's one of their best and drop-dead funny. I believe the quote from the video is, "And people say philosophy is a useless major."
The skull used in the 'Alas poor Yorik' scene in performances of Hamlet by the Royal Shakespeare Company is a real skull was left to the RSC by a massive Shakespeare fan.
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Just looked up Celestis. Cool company, and I thought it was interesting that they have 10% discount for veterans. I didn't think they would want to be lumped into the same category as convenience stores and pharmacies. But hey, $12.5k to have a gram of your ashes launched into lunar orbit or deep space seems like a bargain! The reason, I would guess, that they are the same would be that the only difference between the two on launch day is aim.
When I die, I want Mister Roger's Neighborhood to be shown in every kindergarten because he's such a good guy and we all need to hear how much we are liked just the way we are from a very young age. Mandatory. Every day.
You should have included the deed of Col. William Henry Jackson in Athens, GA who willed a tree and the 8 foot radius surrounding it to itself. By law no one can cut this tree down because it has legal ownership of itself. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_That_Owns_Itself
While what I'd say varies with my mood and how seriously I take myself at the time of my demise, some things I've said include: being turned into a ring to be passed down through the family for the rest of time, my dirty laundry being aired out at the funeral just to mess with people's opinion of me, being used to write a novel, comic, or other written artwork (possibly even a biographic of myself), and paying off or requesting that any living relatives debts at the time of my death be excused by the government. I've been debating last words and have decided that if I'm able, I'd like to crack a joke as I go, or if not, that I go yelling the names of my loved ones. It's all rather morbid, but when you have 2 New Years and 3 birthdays ruined by someone you know dying, it gets old.
Bronson likely didn't contest the will. It's a binding legal document, there's formalities to make sure that the people who should actually get the money do.
Number 19 reminds me of this short film "I Owe My Life To Corbin Bleu" where two guys agree to leave all their money to Corbin Bleu but then Corbin Bleu wants the money and kills them.
No mention of the Cleveland man who requested four members of the Cleveland Browns be pall bearers at his funeral. He asked " so that his favorite team could let him down one last time."
I think it'd be fun if you did an episode on logos. Like BMW and Mitsubishi's logos are both representative of airplane propellers because they were both originally airplane manufacturers. I know a bunch of these, but you'd do it so much better.
I read somewhere (I need to re-look-it-up where) that Houdinis code did come up in a seance, but a third party observer claimed the medium outwitted mrs Houdini
He didn't have the shortest will in history: "All To Son." Of course, when I get my Will notarized it will say, "Burn it" which will make THAT the shortest Will in history!
FUNFACT: The German town of Schweinfurt (German for "Pigford") was bombed during WWII, It was a major Ball-bearing production town, and now holds a headquarters building for Fischers Aktien-Gesellschaft ... I'm going to leave to your imagination (or Google) what the abbreviation for them is... and their logo. It is also home to a (Now in the process of closing) US Army facility, the US Army Garrison Schweinfurt ... incidentally, a number of American soldiers who are (or have been) stationed there refer to it more simply as "Pig town"
Legend has it (dunno if this is true) that some time ago students of Kings College London (a rival London college also focused on the study of medicine) stole Jeremy Bentham's embalmed head from UCL and played football with it on the quad in front of UCL. Jeremy Bentham's head is now a waxwork.
I hoped that John would have included what, in my opinion, is one of the sweetest gestures found in a will. Robert Louis Stevenson left his birthday to a friend of his because she was born on Christmas day, which meant she never got to celebrate a birthday that wasn't overshadowed by Christmas.
I had a friend also whose birthday was a few days before Christmas and she complained about the sense of getting shortchanged because of it..
I hereby bequeath my entire dust bunny collection to Mental Floss. They can have any change they find in the couch cushions as well.
When I die I will leave 1% of my life savings to the Mental Floss' Porkchop Party Fund.
Important point on Houdini: he made that agreement with his wife because he was a skeptic. He spent a good deal of his career, as a number of magicians end up doing, proving that people who claim to have supernatural powers are in fact just using the illusions with which magicians are quite familiar. He didn't believe in the afterlife in the slightest. So he set up this secret code by which he would communicate with his wife after his death, and had her hold séances trying to initiate that communication, so that even after his death, he could continue proving that séances DON'T DO ANYTHING.
I was going to write this, but you beat me. The whole point was to debunk afterlife shysters and psychics. That's also why the message was so convoluted as well. "Hey, its me Harry!" simply wouldn't have been an effective debunking tool.
This was mainly fueled by Arthur Conan Doyle's strong belief in the things you listed.
Alanna R. The classic story is that Houdini did a trick for Doyle, and explained how it worked, so that Doyle would see that even the most amazing tricks had clear, natural explanations. Doyle's response was to say Houdini was lying, and actually had supernatural powers that he wouldn't admit to. Some people...
*sigh* You know Conan Doyle wrote a whole book on elves and fairies...
There was also the big 'event' if you will, about Margery, the socialite psychic who was challenged not only by Houdini, but believe or not Scientific American journal who actually sent a number of scientists and researchers undercover to try and disprove her 'gifts'. They found that they were unable to do so and ended up offering money to anyone who could prove conclusively if Margery was a real psychic or a fake.
Houdini did prove her claims of psychic abilities to be false, but I don't know if he collected any of the money Scientific American offered as a prize. Houdini was not only debunking phony psychics and seances, he was livid at the fact these people were nothing more than leeches giving false hope to those who were in mourning and taking them for untold sums of money.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was hoodwinked as many people were, by the
"Fairy Photos" taken by a two girls which appeared to actually have images
of themselves playing and interacting with 'fairies'. Eventually, one of the girls when she was elderly, admitted the whole thing was a hoax to get attention and fame.
Just Google 'Fairy Photos' and you should find the entire story
Almost everything on this list is a bit recent, so here are a few from my day. Virgil, the another of the Aeneid wasn't so confident in his work, and in his first draft of his his will he ordered all his works to be burned with his corpse. His friends convinced him otherwise. Attalus III of Pergamum started a tradition amongst the Anatolian kings. He himself hated women and being king, preferring botany and boys to both. He knew he was going to die without an heir, so he changed his will and handed over the entire kingdom and its people to The Roman Republic.
Who did you leave the wall to?
I DO remember that facto about Virgil from somewhere or other since you said it..Thanks, Hadrian! ! How's that wall doin?
I used to work at a Spencers. I was alone one morning when a woman came in who had obviously been crying. She asked if we carried remote control fart machines (we did... #1 seller). I brought her over to them and she began to cry. She then said to me, "I'm so sorry, my father just died and it was his last wish that we put this in his coffin".
My favourite testament is of German poet Heinrich Heine: He left all his money to his wife on the condition that she'd get married again. "So there's at least one man who'll be sad about my death"
He knows he loved her....it was just that he took advantage of being in the supreme position of getting in the last word..
Another interesting will, pianist Andre Tchaikowsky wanted his skull to be left to the Royal Shakespeare Company in England, and used in Hamlet as Yorick. He died in 1982, and every actor who played Hamlet was too nervous to use the skull, until 2009 when David Tennant (best known as the tenth doctor or Barty Crouch Jr.) played the iconic role, and used the actual skull of Tchaikowsky. Mental Floss ***** John Green
i thought this video was gonna be about people named Will....
Oh! Cool coincidence - I am currently eating pringles whilst watching this. Sour cream and onion ones too (the green pack!)
Dude, that would have made my day. Awesome to hear such a peculiarity has happened to someone :D
Well those were certainly unusu-will!
Konstantin Nikolaidis I'm not sure you understand the concept of lending
I'm greek. Of course I don't
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In my will I'll ask to assemble all my friends and family and let them watch as all my stuff goes in a bonfire.
OMG I JUST RELOZED YOU WROTE THE FAULT IN OUR STARS
A person's ashes were used with ink in actual comic books?! Yikes! And I'd like to know whether that drum was ever made or played. It sounds horrifying.
I was expecting an Aristocats joke... you let me down John.
Oh god no
I thought this was a video about strange people named Will O_O
What that?
1. Richard William "Wil" Wheaton III played a little knowitall on a popular sci-fi show. He now plays board games on RUclips.
I thought it was about the kind of wills that you dig in the ground reaching for underground water :P
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umm. those are wells not wills. they do sound very similar though.
CaiusTheShadow opps! my bad :P
I thought this was going to be about unusual people named Will, but this makes much more sense!
Nahhhh, bring back the mind-blowing question. I'm sure you get lots of questions that have an answer that's too short to justify its own video. There's room for both.
You should do a Fictional Wills list show, and include the will of Grace Cahill from the 39 Clues series.
Was thinking about this again, and then realized I had asked this already.
Jack Benny having a rose sent to his widow every day for the rest of her life sounds more like torment to me, unless she really hated him. Think about it, if you lost someone you loved would like to be reminded of your loss EVERY SINGLE DAY? Let the woman move on for Christ's sake. And what if she remarried? How would you like to get a rose from your wife's dead ex-husband every day? Creepy.
I find myself clicking on mental floss and praying: "Please be John,...Please be John" Am I the only one doing this?
#17, did the make him into drums? Do they beat the drums every year on that date? Why not answer those questions in the first place?
This cheered me up! My own will is a bit of a downer because I had to define all of our relatives who are absolutely unfit to take custody of our son if both my husband and myself die. Since one of my choices for his primary guardian is a friend and not a relative, it was really important to draw up the will.
If you have kids, it's important to have a will.
These are fun. Learning about random stuff, you wouldn't ever think to care about.
That rose one is so sweet.
John, I just got paper towns yesterday because I saw it at my school's book fair, its AMAZING so far!
I want my ashes after I am cremated to be scatted atop of Mount Rainier (Washington State, USA) so that when it explodes, it can be said I traveled the world.
A huge infinite love from my spirit to your dark soul John, really you inspire me to live the life I want, hugs from Costa Rica
I love Mental Floss!!
Actually saving dead loved ones' hair was a common practice. It's called Victorian mourning jewelry, I believe. Hair was kept because it didn't decompose.
Scientists have used samples of that hair to determine whether or not Napoleon was poisoned by arsenic. Though he did have high levels of arsenic in his hair, it didn't change significantly throughout his life. Also, his wife, Josephine and his son both had similar levels of arsenic in their hair.
At the risk of sounding ignorant and maybe not fully understanding of your statement, didn't Napoleon live in the Regency era, before Victorian times, and maybe before this was common practice?? Please correct me if I'm wrong :D have a nice day everybody!!!!
Celi Méndez
Oh, it was a practice long before the Victorians. Cutting off locks of hair as a keepsake goes back to ancient times. The Victorians took it, like other sentiments in questionable taste and ran with it by making ornate jewelry where the decoration was made out of hair of loved ones. In Jane Austin's "Sense and Sensibility," which takes place during the Napoleonic Era, Edward Ferrars is wearing a ring made out of hair, which is presumed to be from a young lady still living at the time of the story.
Celi Méndez
You are correct, Napoleon died before the Victorian era. Hair jewelry was common during his time too, but its popularity peaked in the Victorian era.
Do you know how excellent this video is! They pointed out that there is a San Anselmo and people like it!!!!! Yay
Do insects and other invertebrates feel pain?
27. Some guy set aside money for a fancy "cat house"
I'm really inspired by this will.
Alfred Nobel!! He doesnt even deserve a mention?? The reason he made the will the way he did and created the Nobel prize is epic!!
I love it when I see that the toys on my desk have duplicates on your wall. For example, I have the very same dinosaur, and I'm pretty certain I see my dragon on the mantel at the end there.
For some reason I read the title "30 Unusual Willies"
That last one... Oh my word.
Could it be Shakespeare's "best" bed was now his grave?
Second best bed was the one without fleas.
8:47 anyone else hear at the end: "Thanks for watching menopause on youtube..."?
I wouldn't wish THAT on anybody..no joke...
The Tree that Owns Itself in Athens, GA is another example of a person with an unusual will.
YUP. Bentham is in a box in our main hallway. But he's all dressed up so it's not weird....
Also, I thought Harry Houdini didn't believe in ghosts?! John, I learned this from you!!!
Lol i thought this was going to be about people named Will...
Great video as always!
I know this doesn't have anything to do with the subject, but does anyone else hear the name of the show as "menopause"?? It always confuses me until I realize he's saying "mental_floss".
I've heard of the fourth one before, of the man who arranged for a rose to be delivered to his wife every day after his death, but it's just so sweet I never get tired of hearing about it, and he's not the only one to have done that or something similar in his will, which is even more heartwarming :)
I like how John didn't list himself as a member of the Board...
this is completely seperate from stuff brought up in the vid. But the frames in the back are crocked
Hello Kitty in a jar gets to go to your board meetings but not Yoshi in a jar? :( Why not Yoshi?!
Can you do a video on explaining all of the things on the wall in the background?
YES number 2 video that mentioned Canada!! (You other one was about the Cities that changed their names-Kitchener being Berlin, Ontario-orignally)
Not sure if this has been mentioned yet, but the most interesting and morbid part about the Jeremy Bentham story is that he now has a false head because some uni students stole the mummified original to....wait for it....play a game of soccer. See, philosophy majors ARE good for something! :)
There's a video Studio C made with a quotes so like that I had to share it...
Studio C- Practical Philosopher
Go check it out. It's one of their best and drop-dead funny.
I believe the quote from the video is, "And people say philosophy is a useless major."
The skull used in the 'Alas poor Yorik' scene in performances of Hamlet by the Royal Shakespeare Company is a real skull was left to the RSC by a massive Shakespeare fan.
(4:52) If Bronson settled out of court with Audrey Knauar's family, then it was her family that contested the will, not Bronson.
Wow, Shakespeare married Ann Hathaway. He's got game.
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Anne Hathaway and her husband. Looks kind of like Shakepeare, huh?
Alanna R. kind of does
"A mans got to have his principles."
Just looked up Celestis. Cool company, and I thought it was interesting that they have 10% discount for veterans. I didn't think they would want to be lumped into the same category as convenience stores and pharmacies. But hey, $12.5k to have a gram of your ashes launched into lunar orbit or deep space seems like a bargain! The reason, I would guess, that they are the same would be that the only difference between the two on launch day is aim.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON HAD HIS ASHES SHOT OUT OF A CANNON BY JOHNNY DEPP, HOW IS THAT NOT ON HERE?!?!?!?!
In regards to General Samuel Houston I would think it better to remember him for the highest office he held, President of the Republic of Texas.
To be honest, I read the title as the weirdest Willis & was like mo thank you I don't need to watch a video on wet Willis lol
When I die, I want Mister Roger's Neighborhood to be shown in every kindergarten because he's such a good guy and we all need to hear how much we are liked just the way we are from a very young age. Mandatory. Every day.
Awesome episode
I have the Squadron Supreme book. Now I shall tresure it more knowing it was the last work of a great man....
#18 That was actually quite common.
New show? What new show? I must subscribe to this new show immediately.
I thought for a moment this was going to be an episode about 30 people named Will who were somewhat odd.
You should have included the deed of Col. William Henry Jackson in Athens, GA who willed a tree and the 8 foot radius surrounding it to itself. By law no one can cut this tree down because it has legal ownership of itself.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_That_Owns_Itself
Mind blowing question: can John Green name everything on the shelves behind him?
While what I'd say varies with my mood and how seriously I take myself at the time of my demise, some things I've said include: being turned into a ring to be passed down through the family for the rest of time, my dirty laundry being aired out at the funeral just to mess with people's opinion of me, being used to write a novel, comic, or other written artwork (possibly even a biographic of myself), and paying off or requesting that any living relatives debts at the time of my death be excused by the government.
I've been debating last words and have decided that if I'm able, I'd like to crack a joke as I go, or if not, that I go yelling the names of my loved ones.
It's all rather morbid, but when you have 2 New Years and 3 birthdays ruined by someone you know dying, it gets old.
I feel strange watching this. ><
Other than that, this was a great video as always. I love watching John Green on Mentalfloss.
George Bernard Shaw's will set aside money to create a phonetic alphabet
Bronson likely didn't contest the will. It's a binding legal document, there's formalities to make sure that the people who should actually get the money do.
I was hoping William Haynes would be on this list.
Why do we have toes? They don't seem that useful, and are prone to injury.
It's an issue of balance and grip, I think.
Man I miss you doing this...😢
Number 19 reminds me of this short film "I Owe My Life To Corbin Bleu" where two guys agree to leave all their money to Corbin Bleu but then Corbin Bleu wants the money and kills them.
That whole rose thing... Way to make it impossible for her to move on after your death, bro.
No mention of the Cleveland man who requested four members of the Cleveland Browns be pall bearers at his funeral. He asked " so that his favorite team could let him down one last time."
I think it'd be fun if you did an episode on logos.
Like BMW and Mitsubishi's logos are both representative of airplane propellers because they were both originally airplane manufacturers.
I know a bunch of these, but you'd do it so much better.
XD Why do I feel like my grandpa's will we be like some of these
does having a mustache now mean you are a hipster? can you do anything without being called a hipster?!
That is just the kind of thing a hipster would ask!
StudioUAC correct.
No.
Do a tour of the background wall with all the stuff on it
OMG! so glad you're back, john green >^0^
Do a tour of the whole room
Another one pls!!
You seem sad John, hope everything is Ok!
You should answer mundane and trivial questions at the end now.
Dickens didn't want false mourning over his death.
The reason why Shakespeare gave his wife the second best is because back then the best bed was used for guests.
I read somewhere (I need to re-look-it-up where) that Houdinis code did come up in a seance, but a third party observer claimed the medium outwitted mrs Houdini
He didn't have the shortest will in history: "All To Son." Of course, when I get my Will notarized it will say, "Burn it" which will make THAT the shortest Will in history!
FUNFACT: The German town of Schweinfurt (German for "Pigford") was bombed during WWII, It was a major Ball-bearing production town, and now holds a headquarters building for Fischers Aktien-Gesellschaft ... I'm going to leave to your imagination (or Google) what the abbreviation for them is... and their logo. It is also home to a (Now in the process of closing) US Army facility, the US Army Garrison Schweinfurt ... incidentally, a number of American soldiers who are (or have been) stationed there refer to it more simply as "Pig town"
Legend has it (dunno if this is true) that some time ago students of Kings College London (a rival London college also focused on the study of medicine) stole Jeremy Bentham's embalmed head from UCL and played football with it on the quad in front of UCL. Jeremy Bentham's head is now a waxwork.
there s a actually a Canadian movie about the great stork derby. it is called "the stork derby."
I misread this completely. I thought this was going to be a video about strange people name Willis. o.O
You missed one of the most important will of all time, Alfred Nobel's.
Some uniquenesses are bigger than other uniquenesses.
TFIOS reference. I got it.
Stork derby.... ouch. I wonder how many women got sick or died trying...
In my will it states my ex-wife must pre-decease me.
I AM going to get the last word in...
The Houdini stuff works, I don't know about you guys..
Not a Will. But it’s sort of relevant. There is an epitaph on a headstone in Key West: I told you I was sick.