There is a tribe in India that has learned to make living bridges out of ficus tree roots. The bridges take 15-30 years to complete. Mature bridges stretch 15 to 250 feet over deep rivers and gorges, and can bear impressive loads—upwards of 35 people at a time.

In 1915, a distraught woman who was late to her sister’s funeral demanded to see her one last time. So the coffin was raised out of the ground and when it was opened, the dead woman sat up and smiled. She went on to live for another 47 years.

In 1954, Ann Hodges was hit with a softball-sized meteorite while taking a nap in her Alabama home. She remains the only known human to ever be hit by a meteorite.

In 1932, Dr. Erich Salomon faked a broken arm so he could hide a camera in his cast to photograph the Supreme Court. It’s one of only 2 existing photos of the Supreme Court in session.

New Zealand broadcaster Oriini Kaipara is the first tv journalist in the world with a face tattoo. It’s a traditional face marking worn by female descendants of the Māori, the indigenous Polynesian people of what is now New Zealand.

We are the first human beings to see a Mars sunset. It’s quite a thought

In 2016, a baby girl named Lynlee was born twice. At 23 weeks, a Nigerian surgeon removed her from the womb to cut a tumor from her spine. He then put her back in the womb and 12 weeks later, Lynlee was born healthy.

Anonychia is the absence of one or more nails on the fingers or toes. In extremely rare cases, the patient may be missing all of their nails.

In the 1930s, a flute player had a pet lyrebird that mimicked his music. Eventually he released the bird into the wild, but fragments of his music were passed down by generations of lyrebirds. Some of it is even still present in their songs today.

A little girl from Seattle became friends with a group of crows that she feeds in exchange for gifts. The items they bring her are typically shiny and have included pieces of glass, buttons and even lost jewelry.

In 2012, French beekeepers couldn’t solve the mystery of the blue and green colored honey in their beehives. After a few months of investigating, it was discovered that the bees were visiting a local factory that produces m&ms.

In 2011, The red-crested tree-rat had been extinct for 113 years until it casually appeared on the handrail of an ecolodge in Columbia. It let researchers photograph it for 2 hours before dissappearing into the night, never to be seen again.

Some people are born with an extra hole in their ear called a pre-auricular pit. It’s connected to an unusual sinus tract under the skin, and many scientists believe this hole might be an evolutionary remnant of gills.

A boy born with just 2% of his brain completely defied doctors’ predictions after it grew back to 80% the average size. Doctors had told the parents to terminate the pregnancy not once, not twice, but 5 times. He celebrated his 11th birthday earlier this year.

In 1979 billionaire Richard Branson released a hot air balloon shaped like a UFO over the streets of London. The next morning, local police forces were mobilized and even the army was alerted. When it landed, Branson had also paid a little person to walk out dressed as ET.

After being diagnosed with polio at age 3, Diane O’Dell spent nearly 60 years encased in a 750lb iron lung. She only died when a power outage shut down the machine that had been keeping her alive for decades.

For centuries, the feet of Chinese women were tightly bound from a young age as part of a traditional custom, causing the breaking and bending of the bones of the toe. This resulted in extremely disfigured feet that resembled the hooves of animals.

This is how the population of American Buffalo dropped from 30 million to 300 in just 50 years. Most were killed by the US military to deprive Native Americans of their primary food source.

In 1980, when a group of loggers were cutting off the top of a chestnut oat tree, they noticed the mummified remains of a hunting dog. Experts believe that it chased its prey up the tree in the 1960s, only to get stuck and eventually die. He was posthumously named Stuckie.

This proud Aboriginal elder traveled 1864 miles to be at his granddaughter's graduation.