"Mark Twain was born on the day when Halley’s Comet flew by the earth. He said “I came in with Halley’s Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it.” Halley’s Comet next appeared on April 21, 1910, which is the day Mark Twain died."
#12 Actually there were many reports of dead pigeons in Central Park, and when autopsies they were found with burst stomachs full if rice. This was after an epic number of weddings one year, creating a law making rice illegal to throw at weddings there.