Famous children’s author Roald Dahl was surrounded by his family when he died. His last words were almost, “You know, I’m not frightened. It’s just that I will miss you all so much” -but he fell unconscious for a time. Then a nurse came in to ease his passing by injecting him with morphine, and when the needle pricked his skin, he muttered “Ow, fuck!” just before dying.

Eating carrots doesn’t make your vision better.

Though your body does convert beta-carotene into vitamin A, it’s not enough to enhance the average person’s eyesight.

The myth comes from WWII propaganda, when England tried to hide their new radar technology by tricking the Germans into thinking British pilots had developed a special ‘night sight’ from eating a lot of carrots.

Nikola Tesla once paid an overdue hotel bill with a ‘working model’ of his ‘death beam’. He warned the staff never to open it, describing it as a war-ending particle weapon that could stop invading armies and make warfare pointless.

After his death in 1943, someone finally pried the box open and found nothing but a bunch of harmless old electrical components.

Researchers say the ‘Elf on the Shelf’ sends a negative message to kids, because an elf that’s always watching but never interacting with them teaches them to accept a surveillance state.

It can also be really confusing because it’s the only toy they have that can’t be touched or played with.

“L'appel du vide” is when you have self-destructive thoughts for a split second - like swerving your car into oncoming traffic or imagining yourself jumping when you’re standing at the edge of a cliff even though you’d never really do it. The phrase literally translates as ‘the call of the void’.

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