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Boxer Jack Johnson was once pulled over for a $50 speeding ticket and gave the officer a $100 bill. When the officer said he couldn’t provide change, Johnson told him to keep it as he would make his return trip at the same speed.
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In 1977 Bob Marley was diagnosed with a type of malignant melanoma under a toenail. He rejected his doctors’ advice to have his toe amputated, citing his religious beliefs. He died four years later, at the age of 36, due to the spread of melanoma to his lungs and brain. His final words to his son Ziggy were: “Money can’t buy life.” [1, 2, 3]
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A Chicago man bought a car in his ex-girlfriend’s name and – after the breakup – abandoned it, illegally parked, in O’hare airport. The car then accumulated over $100,000 on 678 parking tickets, which the city asked the ex-girlfriend to pay.
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A doctor in California removed 23 contact lenses from a patient’s eye and posted a video of the procedure on Instagram. In the caption of her post, the doctor wrote, “A rare occasion when someone ‘forgot’ to remove contact lenses at night and kept on putting a new one in every morning. 23 days in a row.”
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A 70-year-old Indian woman was collecting water from a tubewell in her village when a wild elephant appeared out of nowhere and attacked her. She was rushed to the hospital but ultimately succumbed to her injuries. In the evening, when the family members were performing her last rites, the elephant arrived there suddenly and took the body from the pyre. The elephant again trampled her dead body, threw it, and fled.
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In 1943, a Luftwaffe pilot came across a crippled B-17 trying to make it home after a bomb run. Instead of shooting it down, the German pilot escorted it home. The pilots met up 50 years later and became friends, and both died within a few months of each other.
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Since its premiere in 1987, the show Unsolved Mysteries has helped locate half of the wanted fugitives it has featured, reunited over 100 lost loves, and freed seven wrongfully convicted prisoners. An additional 260+ cases involving murder, missing persons, and fraud have also been solved.
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In 2012, a woman from Cleveland was arrested because she broke into random houses, cleaned them, and left a bill and her phone number for her services. She broke in, washed some coffee cups, took out the rubbish, vacuumed, and dusted inside the house.
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A Taiwanese math tutor uses p0*nhub to give math lessons and earns over $250,000 annually. His channel, with the slogan “Play Hard, Study Hard!” contains hundreds of videos of him explaining calculus.
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Sugar does not cause hyperactivity in children. This myth is based on a single 1978 study; no subsequent study has shown a relationship.
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The band Redbone, who played the 70’s hit “Come and Get Your Love” (repopularized by “Guardians of the Galaxy”), was the first successful rock group formed by Native Americans.
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A man named Jeff Reitz went to Disneyland every day for over eight years, 2,995 consecutive days, and only stopped because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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The first Polish language dictionary (published in 1746) included definitions such as: “Horse: Everyone knows what a horse is.”
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In 2020, the Vatican censored a video of Pope Francis saying Scotch Whisky is “the real holy water.”
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In February 1961, East Orange, NJ police arrested 14 people from their beds at home after midnight. Their crime was failing to return library books that were more than four months overdue.
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In Japan, there is a hotel where you can stay for just $1 a night. The catch is you must agree to live stream your entire stay on YouTube.
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Scientists say milk from a specific type of cockroach is three times more nutritious than cow’s milk.
Although most cockroaches don’t actually produce milk, Diploptera punctate, which is the only known cockroach to give birth to live young, has been shown to pump out a type of ‘milk’ containing protein crystals to feed its babies.[ad_2]
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The word ‘Tory,’ commonly used to refer to a member of the Conservative Party of UK and Canada, comes from the Irish Gaelic word ‘tóraidhe,’ meaning outlaw or robber.
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