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In Syria, 17 hours after the earthquake devastated the region yesterday, this 7-year-old girl was found under the rubble with her hand over her little brother's head to protect him. Both made it out safely.
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In Denmark, if you reach the age of 25 and aren't yet married, you get tied to a chair and pelted with cinnamon.
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In 2016, a wanted man in Ohio sent the police a selfie after he saw his mugshot on the news and didn’t like the photo.
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In 1915, a woman arrived late at her sister's funeral. When she arrived, she demanded that her sister's coffin be raised so she could see her one last time. Upon opening the coffin, her sister, Essie Dunbar, sat up and smiled at her. She went on to live another 47 years.
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In 2002, a 19-year-old British garbage man won 10 million pounds (approx $15 million) on the lottery. He spent it all on drugs, gambling and prostitutes and 8 years later was back working as a garbage man again.
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In 2010, a black Nigerian couple living in London gave birth to a white, blond haired, blue eyed baby who became known as “The Miracle Baby”
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These men are not special forces, they are members of the criminal group CJNG, one of the most powerful and feared cartels in Mexico.
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In 1995, a man named Sonny Graham received the transplanted heart of a suicide victim. He then married the donor's wife and later killed himself, in the exact same manner as the donor did.
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in 1994, Pulp Fiction, Forrest Gump, The Shawshank Redemption and Jurassic Park were all showing at movie theaters.
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The most attended funeral ever in history was that for C.N Annadurai, a politician from India. Over 15 million people gathered in Chennai to see him off in 1969.
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The NATO Response Force has been activated for the first time in history.
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In 2014, a Russian man attempted to rob a hair salon. However, the plot took an unexpected turn when Olga Zajac, the owner of the salon, overpowered him and tied him up. She then force-fed him Viagra and used him as a sex slave for 3 days.
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Smoking dead scorpions to get high is a practice in Pakistan. Users crush the scorpions into powder and mix with tobacco or hash. The high lasts for around 10 hours.
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Once every 6 months this man in South Dakota climbs this 1,500 foot high communication tower to change the light bulb. He’s paid $20,000 per climb.
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in 2008, Eminem officially gave up all alcohol and drugs. He stuck to his word and today celebrates 15 years of being sober.
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In 2018, Michael Nice, 2Pac's former bodyguard, faked his own death then reappeared on YouTube a year later. He claimed he faked his own death to show the world how easily it can be done, and back up his claim that 2Pac was still alive and living in Cuba.
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This is a painting by Chinese artist Leng Jun. His art is considered the most realistic in the world.
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In 2010, officials in Tokyo went to congratulate the oldest man in the city on his 111th birthday, but instead found his skeletal remains on his bed. He’d been dead for 30 YEARS but his family had kept it secret to continue collecting his pension money.
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In 2015, a man from New Zealand named Nigel Richards spent nine weeks memorizing words from a French dictionary before entering the French Scrabble Championship. He won and became national champion despite not speaking any French.
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Senegalese and Bayern Munich star Sadio Mane pays an allowance of €70 a month to every resident of the village in which he grew up, stating: “I don’t need to display luxury cars, homes, trips or even planes. I prefer that my people receive a little of what life has given me”
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According to NASA, an underwater volcano nicknamed "Sharkano" has erupted and released a number of mutated volcano sharks, setting them free into the ocean. The sharks had been living and surviving within the volcano in burning hot acidic water.
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In Uganda, the government has a passed a bill making identifying as LGBT a crime punishable by death.
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In 1989, a Costa Rican man discovered a croc that had been shot in the head. After nursing it back to health, he released it into the wild. However, the next day, the man discovered it had followed him & was asleep on his porch.For 20 yrs, “Pocho” became part of the man’s family.
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In 1979, a woman named Elvita Adams attempted to commit suicide by jumping off the Empire State Building. She jumped from the 86th floor, but was blown back onto the 85th by a strong gust of wind. She survived.
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In 2016, former NASA astronaut Scott Kelly smuggled a full gorilla suit onboard the International Space Station but didn't tell anyone about it. Until one day, he decided to creep up on his fellow crew member
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Senegal-born Khaby Lame has now officially dethroned Charli D'Amelio as the most followed TikTok star with 142.5 million followers.
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While attending the University of Pennsylvania, Elon Musk rented out a 10 bedroom house and converted it into a nightclub. Any students who turned up were charged a $5 entry fee.
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Sad news coming from the Congo, Ndakasi the mountain gorilla, famous for the viral photobomb below, has died in the arms of her caretaker, Andre Buama. Andre rescued her as an infant back in 2007.
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Twitter has suspended its Twitter Blue service after an account was officially verified and confirmed as Jesus Christ.
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Albert Camus once said: "I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live as if there isn't and die to find out that there is"
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Tom Hardy once said: "Being alone for a while is dangerous. It's addicting. Once you see how peaceful it is, you don't even want to deal with people anymore"
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Dolly Parton once anonymously entered a Dolly Parton lookalike contest in LA. She lost, to a drag queen.
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The Crown Jewels, to be worn by King Charles at today’s
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In 1996, a mother cat rescued all 5 of her kittens from a building burning in NYC. She walked through flames 5 times to rescue each one by one before collapsing unconscious. She later regained consciousness and was reunited with her kittens.
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In 1996, Thomas Hamilton shot dead a teacher, 16 pupils, and injured 15 others before killing himself. The British were so upset that gun laws were changed making gun ownership extremely difficult. 27 years on, there hasn't been a school shooting since in the UK.
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Wrapping aluminium foil around your Wi-Fi router has been proven to instantly improve the speed of your internet, and can also extend the range.
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In the UK, a rapist who changed gender and transitioned from male to female before appearing in court has been found guilty of raping two women. Isla Bryson, formerly Adam Graham, will now serve time in an all female prison.
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Richard Phillips survived the longest wrongful prison sentence in American history. He was locked up in 1972 at the age of 26 and wasn't released until 2018, aged 72. He spent 45 years in jail for a crime he didn't commit.
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In Russia, a brown bear that was abandoned as a cub and raised by humans has recently started a modelling career.
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During WWII, four brothers from the same Jewish family signed up to fight against the Nazis. Only one of the four brothers survived. His grandson is the current President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky.
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In 2015, nature photographer Atif Saeed captured this intense photograph of a male lion moments before it launched an attack on him. He narrowly escaped with this incredible shot of a face-to-face with a lion about to kill.
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Nikola Tesla's last words to his mother were "All these years I have spent in the service of mankind brought me nothing but insults and humiliation."
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Born Will Thomas, the swimmer from Texas was ranked 462 in the world as a male swimmer. Now, since changing his name to Lia and identifying as a woman, she is ranked number 1.
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"The Invisibility Of Poverty" is street art by Kevin Lee. The child is depicted sitting on steps, being stepped on and stepped over to illustrate how invisible the poor living among us can be.
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This is the medieval Eltz Castle located in Wierschem, Germany. It has been owned and occupied by the same family for 33 generations over 800 years.
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In 1985, a drug smuggler threw $15M of cocaine from his airplane into a national forest in Georgia. The cocaine was found by a black bear who ate all of it, went on a rampage, and then died of a massive overdose. RIP "Pablo Eskobear"
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Tom Hardy once said: “Some people don't understand that sitting in your own house alone in peace, eating snacks and minding your business is fucking priceless”
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Marijuana is illegal but has never caused any deaths from usage. Cigarettes are legal but kill over 8 million people a year.
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Male Koalas don't pursue females. Instead, usually between 12am-3am, they lay back, make themselves comfortable, and "bellow" loudly at any females in the area to come and join them.
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In 1981, a doctor worked through the night and succeeded in saving the life of a premature baby boy. 30 years on, the doctor was involved in a road accident and became trapped in his vehicle, but his life was saved by a responding paramedic, Chris Trokey, the premature baby boy.
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Not having sex for long periods can increase your risk of anxiety, stress, paranoia, insomnia and depression.
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In 2012, John Unger was captured floating his dog to sleep in Lake Superior. His dog had developed arthritis & had weeks to live. John responded by taking 'Schoep' to the water every night to ease the pain in his final days. The photo captured the unique bond between man & dog.
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South Korea is home to some of the best plastic surgeons in the world. In fact, many Chinese nationals who travel to the country for surgery have trouble re-entering China due to their face not matching their passport photo.
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In 2014, a three-year-old girl survived for 11 days in a Siberian forest with bears and wolves. With only her dog by her side, she drank river water and ate wild berries to survive. She was rescued when her dog found its way back to her village and guided rescuers to her.
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Seen as one of the best preserved mummies to ever be found, this Inca girl was sacrificed to the gods by her tribe in the 1400s. Left to freeze to death in the Andes mountains, she was found over 500 years later in 1999 with hair, blood in her body and internal organs intact.
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The baby pictured is Emma Gibson. Emma was frozen as an embryo back in 1992, but wasn't born until 2017 to a mother who was born in 1991.
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Over the last 10 years, 330 people have died attempting to take risky & daring photographs for social media.
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In 2015, a Colombian farmer discovered $600 million in cash in a container while digging up some of his land. He handed it all in to the police.
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While on safari in Africa, Ernest Hemingway survived two plane crashes in two days. He was believed dead for 24 hours, until he was spotted emerging from the jungle carrying a bunch of bananas and a bottle of gin.
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According to Netflix, only 1 in 100 people were able to complete the full movie 'Veronica'. Released in 2017, the horror is based on a true story and some say is the scariest movie ever made.
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In 2016, a woman in China asked all 20 of her boyfriends to each buy her an iPhone as a gift. She then sold all the phones and used the money to buy a house.
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Julius Yego, the first ever Kenyan gold medalist in a field event, taught himself to throw javelin by watching videos on YouTube.
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At the height of his power, Pablo Escobar made an estimated $420 million a week in revenue, supplied 80% of the world's cocaine and smuggled around 15 tons of cocaine into the US every day.
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Joe Metheny, the infamous serial killer from Baltimore, not only cooked his victims to eat himself, he also made burgers with their remains and sold them to unsuspecting customers from a roadside food stand.
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If you film hanging bats upside down it looks like a goth nightclub.
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The record for most sexual partners in a day is held by American actress Lisa Sparks. In 2004, she had sex with 919 men in 12 hours.
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If Elon Musk lost 99.9% of all his wealth, he would still have over $250 million in the bank.
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Only two hip-hop artists have ever achieved multiple diamond albums: Eminem & Tupac Shakur.
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John Carpenter, the first winner of "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire", used no lifelines until his last question when he called his Dad. When he spoke with his Dad he told him he didn't actually need help, he just wanted to let him know he was about to become a millionaire.
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In 1992, a teenager named John Thompson was home alone when both his arms were ripped off by a tractor in a freak farming accident. Despite his injuries, he still managed to get up, go inside and dial for help with a pencil in his mouth. He survived and both arms were reattached.
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George Carlin once said: “Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups”
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Up until 1956, French children attending school were served wine on their lunch breaks. Each pupil was entitled to 4 glasses (125ml) a day.
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This drawing was done by a mental patient in a psychotic state just hours before taking his own life.
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Last year, a 5-year-old boy named Noah awoke to flames in his bedroom in Georgia, but rather than panic, he grabbed his 2-year-old sister & jumped from a window, then went back inside & did the same with the dog, alerting all other family members on the way. All escaped safely.
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In 2018, during the Parkland School Shooting, a 15-year-old boy succeeded in halting the gunman from entering his class by using his body to hold shut the door. Anthony Borges was shot five times, but saved the lives of his 20 classmates. He's since made a full recovery.
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In 2007, Lori and Chris Coble suffered the tragic loss of all three of their young children in a road accident, two girls and one boy. Then, six months after the accident, Lori fell pregnant again. She gave birth to triplets, two girls and one boy.
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Joseph Stalin's first son shot himself because of his father's harshness towards him but survived. When Stalin heard the news he laughed and joked "He can't even shoot straight"
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In 2013, a homeless man, Billy Ray Harris, returned a $4000 ring to a woman who unknowingly dropped it in the street. To show her gratitude, Sarah Darling set up a fundraising page. The page raised over $180,000 which enabled Billy to get a house, car and soon after a new job.
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Developed by Rockstar, the video game GTA V made more money than any other game, movie, song or book released in history.
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In Japan, there is a restaurant called “The restaurant of mistaken orders” which only employs waiters with dementia so you never know what food you’re going to get.
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Nikola Tesla's last words to his mother were "All these years I have spent in the service of mankind brought me nothing but insults and humiliation"
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Benjamin Franklin once said: “Most people die at 25, but aren’t buried until they’re 75”
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In China, a set of twin brothers married a set of twin sisters who both gave birth to twins.
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When Cristiano Ronaldo was asked to donate his boots for a charity auction benefitting a 10 month old child suffering from a brain disorder, he instead paid the whole $83K for his surgery and gave the kid his boots so the kid wouldn't have to sell them.
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Meet Kefir, the cat so big that people think it’s a dog. At less than 2 years old, the Maine Coon cat that lives in Russia weighs around 27lbs and is on track to be the world’s biggest domestic cat.
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50 Cent once challenged Floyd Mayweather to read one full page of a Harry Potter book out loud without messing up. If successfully completed, 50 Cent agreed to donate $750k to a charity of Floyd's choice. Mayweather declined.
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In 2010, Gareth Williams, a British MI6 spy, was found dead at his London flat with his decomposing body in the bathtub, padlocked inside a bag. Police ruled his death as "accidental" concluding he died by getting into the bag on his own and accidentally locking himself inside.
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Tokyo from the sky, the largest and most-populated city in the world, home to 37 million inhabitants.
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According to reports, Shakira is newly single after being cheated on by Barcelona footballer Gerard Pique.
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During the cold winters, the Alaskan Wood Frog completely freezes and becomes a frog-shaped block of ice. It stops breathing, then its heart stops beating. Several months later, when spring arrives, the frog thaws and jumps back to life and carries on as if nothing ever happened.
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In 2012, a stray cat randomly entered a home in Wales where a blind dog was living and, after sensing the dog’s disability, became its personal guide. The cat learnt to direct and nudge the dog away from obstacles, and would protect it while out on walks.
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In 2020, a man in the Philippines strolled into his garage and was greeted by this “human” sized bat waiting for him. Flying Foxes have a wing span almost 6ft long and are the largest bats in the world.
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George Carlin once said: “Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups”
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