IMPRESSIVE STORIES ABOUT TATTOOS THAT WILL LEAVE A MARK ON YOU

IN SOVIET RUSSIA, PRISONERS WOULD GET

TATTOOS OF LENIN AND STALIN BECAUSE

GUARDS WEREN'T ALLOWED TO SHOOT AT

IMAGES OF THE LEADERS

ÖTZI THE ICEMAN, THE OLDEST MUMMY EVERY

FOUND IN EUROPE, HAD SEVERAL CARBON TATTOOS

IN WORLD WAR II, GERMAN MEMBERS OF THE

WAFFEN-SS HAD THEIR BLOOD TYPE TATTOOED

ON THEIR BODIES IN CASE THEY LOST

CONSCIOUSNESS. THIS ENDED UP HELPING

INVESTIGATORS IDENTIFY AND CONVICT MANY

FORMER NAZIS OF WAR CRIMES

SEAN PENN IS A TATTOO ARTIST

VIN DIESEL HAS BEEN PLAYING THE GAME

DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS FOR NEARLY 20 YEARS

AND HE HAS A TATTOO OF HIS CHARACTER,

MELKOR, ON HIS STOMACH

THE MACY'S LOGO IS A RED STAR BECAUSE ITS

FOUNDER, R.H. MACY GOT A TATTOO OF A RED STAR

WHILE WORKING ON A WHALING SHIP AS A TEENAGER

8 OF THE 9 ACTORS THAT MADE UP THE

FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING IN THE LORD OF

THE RINGS MOVIES GOT TATTOOS OF THE

ELVISH NUMBER 9. JOHN RHYS-DAVIES (THE DWARF)

ARRANGED FOR HIS STUNT DOUBLE TO GET

THE TATTOO INSTEAD OF HIM

IN JAPAN, SOME BEACHES AND SPAS WON'T LET YOU

IN IF YOU HAVE A TATTOO. THIS IS BECAUSE OF FEARS

ASSOCIATED WITH THE YAKUZA (JAPANESE MAFIA)

BLACK TATTOO INK IS OFTEN MADE WITH

BURNED ANIMAL BONES