A wax museum attendant who at night takes nude pictures with celebrities… A Polish communist who spends nineteen years in a coma and wakes up in the middle of capitalism… A surgeon who operates on a brain tumor with a drill… A parrot witness to the infidelities of its owner invited to speak at the divorce trial… A gynecologist who enters his patients on the way and for the good cause… A suicide attempt by self-crucifixion… Human nature is much crazier than we pretend. Its excesses reveal boundless creativity or metaphysical stupidity. Sartre also said that one should not neglect news items to understand a society in depth. Who hasn't one day read with a smile, even giggles, the unusual miscellaneous facts section of the weekly Marianne? Simon Marty and Philippe Chatenay, the two heads of the section They did it, have sorted for you the 500 funniest or staggering stories that have appeared over the past ten years. Incredible, but authentic.