The Roman emperor Commodus was at one time going to change the name of Rome to Colonia Commodiana.

The largest cheesecake ever made weighed 57,508 lbs.

Richard Versalle, a tenor performing at New York's Metropolitan Opera House, suffered a heart attack and fell 10 feet from a ladder to the stage just after singing the line "You can only live so long."

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