In South Africa, there is a muppet on Sesame Street that is HIV positive!

If you think about it, it’s probably not a bad idea. Africa has an overwhelming amount of HIV victims. Sesame Street is an educational program for kids, so it makes sense that they would try to inform them of HIV at a young age.

Former President Bill Clinton was taped with Kami the muppet talking about HIV. Kami reveals to Clinton that she has HIV and they discuss how it’s important to talk with your parents about…

One of the fathers of modern computers committed suicide by eating a poisoned apple!

Alan Turing, was a successful British mathematician, credited with creating the building blocks for computer algorithms and cracking the enigma code. He was also gay.Turing was able to keep this a secret for most of his life until his boyfriend got in trouble with the law.

His boyfriend, Arnold Murray, attempted to break into Turing’s house and when the police found out the men were in a relationship,…

Montana had FEWER traffic accidents when they had NO speed limits!

It’s called the Montana Speed Limit Paradox. Data collected by the state of Montana showed that when driving on highways with no posted speed limits, drivers actually drove safer and slower!

The number of deadly car accidents doubled (increased by 111%) when Montana enforced strict speed laws! How is this possible? Further research showed that when given no regulation on speed, drivers buckled up more often and were more…

When the US space station Skylab crashed in Australia, the municipality fined the US for littering!

In 1979, pieces of the US space station Skylab fell from the sky and littered the Australian municipality of Esperance. The craft had broken apart over the Indian Ocean.

Esperance fined the United States $400 for littering! It wasn’t until 2009 that they were paid, though. A radio show host, Scott Barley, raised the money from his listeners and paid the fine on behalf of NASA.

The San…

A family in Colorado lost their cat in 2007 and it was found 5 years later in New York!

That’s over 1800 miles away. The cat had a microchip implanted when it was a kitten, so when an animal shelter in New York had it checked, they were able to contact the family, who couldn’t believe they had found their cat after such a long time!

The cat was in such good health that the animal shelter thinks that it hadn’t been living out on the streets for too long. The cat even made New York’s mayor…