7. Rome had a horse in its senate
Yes, the great state of Rome had a senator who was a horse. The crazy Roman Emperor Caligula for some reason or other decided to make his horse, Incitatus, a senator of Rome. A crazy fact that is stranger than fiction, right?
8. A woman can smell Parkinson disease
Just, yikes. Even though there is no specific diagnostic for the disease, a British woman named Joy Milne can detect the brain disease with her nose before the symptoms even appear.
