Rat Island may not have rats, but it does have a one-of-a-kind story.Wikimedia CommonsRat Island Rat Island is not, as the name might imply, some sort of stronghold for New York City’s infamously large population of rodents. In fact, there’s never been evidence of a single rat on the island at all. Despite its unsavory name, Rat Island actually holds the distinction of being the only privately-owned island in New York City today.

Hans Schmidt illegally married, impregnated, and then brutally murdered and dismembered his mistress. For that crime, he was eventually executed via electrocution, and to this day is the only Catholic priest ever executed in the United States. Turns out, the murder he was caught for was only the tip of the iceberg.A portrait of Hans Schmidt, the only Catholic priest to ever be executed in the United States, circa 1910.

Kurt Gödel was one of the 20th century's most brilliant mathematicians. But he was so paranoid he ended up starving to death.Kurt Gödel. Kurt Gödel was a brilliant mathematician and philosopher, whose incompleteness theorems made him one of the most important mathematicians of his time. However, he also suffered from poor health, beginning with an episode of rheumatic fever at the age of six. He remained convinced he had never fully recovered and was known for being paranoid, anxious, and depressed.

Though they were only married for two years, Amy Winehouse and Blake Fielder-Civil had a turbulent six-year relationship that ultimately put the famed singer on the path to self-destruction.With an unassailable voice and the temperament of a firecracker, Amy Winehouse became a modern music icon. While she shook up the homogenized landscape of mainstream pop, her success was tragically short-lived. And when she died of alcohol poisoning in 2011, everybody wanted to hear from her ex-husband, Blake Fielder-Civil.

After years of struggling with drug addiction and overeating, John Candy died of a heart attack on March 4, 1994.John Candy’s death stunned the world, but the comedian himself had anticipated his demise for decades. Ever since the death of his own father by heart attack 38 years earlier, the beloved comedian believed that he would meet a similar fate — and he did. Alan Singer/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal/Getty ImagesJohn Candy’s cause of death would probably have come as no surprise to the comedian himself, who predicted he’d die much like his father.