Strange but true
1. In World War II, the Germans used "anti-officer crooked picture bombs": They left paintings on the wall, skewed to the side and rigged to explode when straightened. The idea was that only an officer would be so anal to straighten a crooked picture in a war zone, thus increasing the chance of taking out someone in command.
2. There is a superstition in knitting called the Jumper Curse, which implies that knitting one's significant other a winter jumper will result in a breakup. (Although as Wikipedia says, the alternate explanation is that knitting a jumper takes so long that the relationship will be over before you're done making it.)
3. When Pablo Escobar's daughter wanted a unicorn, he bought her a horse and stapled a cone to its head and wings to its back (the horse died from an infection). Read more here.
