before a single one of you comments with 'copypasta' I didn't copy and paste this, I have a pile of books about stupid things people do and that's where I got this.

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in gratitude for his fiancee's healthy recovery from a life threatening illness, a Brizillian man walked halfway across the country carrying a cross on his back. while he was gone on this journey, she married another man.

a florida woman who was concerned about contracting stomache cancer drank four gallons of water daily. she died at the age of twenty nine of kidney failure. she had an iq of 189

in the sixteenth century the austrain Hans Steininger held the record for the world's longest beard. one day he tripped on it while climbing the stairs and fell to his death.

in the eighteenth century the London Bedlam hospital raised money by charging people to see cages containing mental patients

in 1962 a man in massachussets refused to pay the increased tax on his house and so he burned it down instead. the government charged him the increase anyway.

Thomas De Quincey often set fire to his own hair while reading stories to his children. he somehow lived to be seventy four.

Turkish scientists conducted a study in 1981 to determine if disco music made mice homosexual. they concluded that it does.

a defendant in a murder trial in 1986 attacked his attourney then punched the judge. after he was convicted, he filed an appeal on the grounds that his attack prejiduced the judge against him.

After defeat in his congressional race, Arkansas secretary of state Bill McCue challanged the results of the election with a lawsuit, claiming iregularites in the voting process. since vote administration in Arkanses is under the cotnrol of the secretary of states offic, McCuen was forced to file the lawsuit against himself.

Samuel Feldman was convicted of fondling $1,000 worth of baked goods in philidelphia stores.

A twenty one year old welsh tourist was sent to the hispital after he fell off the back of a tour bus while mooning passing motorists.

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If anyone wants more of this leave a comment, ill post another series of them