In the 18th century Dr Monsey of Chelsea, England tied a piece of catgut around a patient’s tooth, threaded the other through a hole drilled in a bullet, loaded the bullet into his revolver and pulled the trigger.
The word “electric” was first used in 1600 by William Gilbert, a doctor to Queen Elizabeth I.
In 1973, Swedish confectionery salesman Roland Ohisson was buried in a coffin made entirely of chocolate.
Winston Churchill was a stutterer. As a child, one of his teachers warned, “Because of his stuttering he should be discouraged from following in his father’s political footsteps.”
