10 funny situations to expand your horizons

An unexpected joke of the Pope, a funny case with Einstein, a story about a woman who left a seven thousand dollars tip, and other funny situations - in this collection!

• 1. The jester of King Francis I was very resourceful

  Nicholas Ferrial, the jester of King Francis I, once forgot himself so much that as a joke he slapped the king on the buttock. Francis became furious and ordered the execution of the jester, but later, having calmed down, promised to forgive him if Nicholas could come up with an even more offensive joke. He replied: “Forgive me, king! I mistook you for a queen."

• 2. A funny case of Einstein and the tram conductor

  Once, already an elderly man, Einstein was taking a tram in Berlin. Noticing that the conductor counted the change incorrectly, the scientist told him about it. The conductor counted the change again, made sure that he had gave the change correctly, and, returning the money to Einstein, remarked with a touch of superiority in his voice: “Your whole trouble, sir, is that, having lived your life, you never learned to count!”

• 3. A woman who left 7709 Francs tip in a café

  In 2018, a woman paid a Swiss cafe 7,709 Swiss francs in tips because she accidentally entered her pin number instead of a dollar amount. When she discovered the mistake and called the cafe to get her money back, no one answered her - the owner of the cafe closed it and declared bankruptcy.

• 4. Incredible bill from the phone company

  In 2012, a French woman received a bill from a telephone company for the sum of 11,721,000,000,000,000 euros. Despite the fact that this amount was almost 6,000 times the GDP of France, the company said that there was nothing they could do, and then offered the woman to pay the bill in installments. It took several days to convince the company representatives that the demands were absurd, and to get them to issue an invoice for the correct amount - 117.21 euros.

• 5. Unexpected joke from the Pope

  In 2019, Pope Francis, while visiting Scottish priests, received a bottle of Oban whiskey as a gift from them. “Questa e la vera acqua santa!” (“This is real holy water!”) said the pope and burst out laughing, because it was a joke. BBC journalists captured this episode in their documentary, but the Vatican demanded for it to be cut, which was done.

• 6. What did the President of France apologize to Albania and Armenia for?

  In 2019, due to a mistake by the organizers of the football match between France and Albania, the national anthem of Andorra was played before the start of the game. And then the stadium announcer apologized to the “Armenian fans”. In the end, French President Emmanuel Macron had to apologize to both Albania and Armenia.

• 7. Generous tips from Elvis Presley

  Elvis Presley once came to Miami Beach with his performance. From the airport he was delivered by a helicopter, and at the helipad he was met by a limousine, which took the singer to the convention center, where he performed. After the performance, Elvis got into a waiting limousine and drove back to the helicopter. He asked the driver: “Is this your own limousine or do you work for a company?”, “I work for a company,” the driver replied. “Now this is your limousine,” said Elvis. So the limousine driver got a limousine for tip.

• 8. Why you shouldn't drink champagne during a robbery

  In 2014, in Provins, a suburb of Paris, there was a robbery - the criminal entered the house in the absence of the owners and stole money, passports and - for some reason - sunglasses. But then a bottle of champagne caught his eye and, like a true Frenchman, he could not resist. The returning owners noticed that the blinds on the windows of their house were lowered, while they remembered that they had left them up when they left. They called the police, who, upon entering the house, found the robber watching TV - "very relaxed, completely drunk, good-natured, but hardly understanding where he is."

• 9. The 13th flight of a 13-year-old plane ended successfully on Friday the 13th.

  In 2017, a 13-year-old Finnair Airbus Jet, flight 666, landed safely at Helsinki Airport on Friday the 13th at exactly 13:00. Representatives of the airline said that the coincidence of all these numbers was completely random.

• 10. Instant benefit of a metal detector

  In 2012, Briton Wesley Carrington bought a metal detector and, having decided to try it out, 20 minutes later found Roman era gold worth 100,000 pounds.