During a Communist Party conference in 1937, following a speech by Stalin, the audience began to clap and carried on for 11 minutes, with no-one daring to be the first to stop. The first person to stop was a paper factory director who was arrested that night and sent to prison for 10 years. http://www.disappearingman.com/communism/men-wouldnt-stop-clapping/

A man with three legs, four feet, sixteen toes, and 2 functioning male genitals. Francesco Lentini, called "The man with 3 legs" when he joined the 'Ringling brothers' in 1898.