Brazil
In October 1959, a five-year-old black rhinoceros named Cacareco received 100,000 votes in a São Paulo city council election — ten times more than the nearest human candidate. The election board nullified her ballots. The Portuguese language kept her name forever.
Marseille
France beheaded its last prisoner on September 10, 1977, in a Marseille prison courtyard. The executioner was a printer. Most voters wanted to keep it.
Rome
In January 897, Pope Stephen VI ordered the corpse of Pope Formosus pulled from its grave, dressed in papal vestments, and seated on a throne to stand trial. He had been dead for seven months.
Rome
Julius Caesar was killed in the Curia of Pompey, not the Senate House. The site is now Largo di Torre Argentina — buried for centuries, excavated in 1929, and open to visitors since 2023.
Paris
The bullet holes in the south-east wall of Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris are from 28 May 1871 — the last day of the Paris Commune. One hundred and forty-seven Communards were lined up against this wall and shot by Versailles government troops. The wall is now a memorial
Paris
The Paris Catacombs are two kilometres of a 280-kilometre quarry network. In 2004 police found a cinema in the tunnels. No one has ever identified who built it.