Hilarious People Making the Best of Their Bad Situations

The More You Know

• In 1923, jockey Frank Hayes won a race at Belmont Park in New York despite being dead — he suffered a heart attack mid-race but his body stayed in the saddle until his horse crossed the line for a 20–1 outsider victory.
• If you ate nothing but rabbit meat, you would die from protein poisoning.
• A German and British aeroplane shot each other down in Norway during WWII. The crew met and helped each other survive. Two of them later visited each other many years after the war was over as friends.
• Benjamin Franklin was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame.