The Weirdest and Most Unfortunate Names of All Time

The More You Know

• On Mars, sunsets are blue.
• The longest place name on the planet is 85 letters long.
• War pigs were used in ancient warfare to counter against war elephants, which feared the pigs (and their squeals) and would bolt. War pigs were sometimes lit on fire to enhance this effect.
• Commercial flights were allowed to fly any course to their destination and would often detour over points of interest. This ended in 1956 when two planes crashed mid-flight over the Grand Canyon.