In Miami, a thief broke into a sneaker store and took 20 shoes," Tonight Show host Jimmy Fallon reported in 2022. "But when he got out, he realized he only stole the left sneakers."

On the set of The Hunger Games in Hawaii, a boulder came loose, rolled down a mountain, and wrecked the sound booth. "The Hawaiians were like, 'Oh my god, it's the curse!'" recalled Jennifer Lawrence, who'd been rubbing on the rock to relieve an itchy bum. "I'm around the corner going, 'I'm your curse - I wedged it loose with my ass!'"

In the first James Bond books, 007 uses a Beretta pistol. For Dr. No, Ian Fleming changed Bond's gun to a Walther PPK - after friends told him Berettas were for ladies.

Napoleon's penis was stolen by the doctor who did his autopsy, acquired by an Italian priest, and likened by a journalist to a "shriveled eel."

After trashing the ref over a disputed goal in a 1930 World Cup game, a U.S. trainer treating an injured player delighted the crowd when he threw down his bag, broke a bottle of chloroform, fainted from the fumes,
and was carted off by his team.

In 1968, the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents held an exhibition in the town of Harrogate. The entire display fell down.

West Wing star Bradley Whitford once hugged his mom so hard that he broke one of her ribs.

In 1974, the Mombasa Rugby Football Club flew 500 miles to Uganda for a match against Nairobi's Harlequins while the Harlequins were driving to Mombasa.

The U.S. Postal Service once printed 100,000,000 stamps captioned "Grand Canyon, Colorado."

When audience members refused to stand, Twisted Sister's Dee Snider yelled, put spotlights on them, and got the crowd chanting "F--- you, F--- you!" before storming off the stage. When he complained that "they wouldn't get up," his manager said, "They couldn't: it was the handicapped section!"