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14 amazing facts to feed your brain

interesting stuff from around the world

By Nathan Johnson

Published 7 years ago in Wow

interesting stuff from around the world

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A British bomb detection dog named Theo died from stress a few hours after seeing his handler get shot. The pair had set a record for bomb detection, and the dog was posthumously awarded an honour equivalent to the Victoria Cross.

2
The purpose of the fairy tale “Beauty and the Beast” was to help young girls accept arranged marriages.

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2 guys, who, without proper permits, equipment and no food and money, climbed Mt. Everest, and then paraglided and kayaked into the Indian Ocean in one trip

4
The term “mark” originated from the carnival. When dishonest game operators found someone they could entice to keep playing their rigged game, they would “mark” the player by patting their back with a hand that had chalk on it. Other carnies would then keep an eye out for rubes with chalk marks.

5
There is a mutation that causes bones to become 8 times denser than normal that allow people to walk away from car accidents without a single fracture but with a trade off of being unable to swim.

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In 2004, Sylvia Browne, a psychic, told the mother of a Cleveland kidnapping victim (Amanda Berry) on the Montel Williams Show her daughter was dead. In 2006, the mother passed away without ever knowing her daughter was still alive and being held captive

7
The rivalry between Bill Gates and Steve Jobs extends to their daughters Jennifer Gates and Eve Jobs, who are also equestrian rivals, having competed against each other show jumping

8
The guy who had that $240,000 gold shirt made for him was invited to a party, but when he arrived was beaten to death in front of his son by 12 assailants

9
Roselle, a seeing-eye dog that led her blind owner, Michael Hingson, down 1,463 steps from the 78th floor of the North Tower of the World Trade Center on September 11th, 2001. Dog and owner exited just before the South Tower collapsed, and both survived.

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In 2009, four prison inmates saved a prison guard from another inmate. The heroes were in prison for crimes like assault and armed robbery and saved the guard because he treated them with a lot of respect.

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The only known case of “Chromosome 6 Deletion” where a person does not feel pain, hunger, or the need to sleep (and subsequently no sense of fear) is a 7-year-old girl named Olivia Farnsworth. In 2016 she was hit by a car and dragged 30 meters, yet felt nothing and emerged with minor injuries.

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Female brown trout will fake ‘orgasms’ when courting with inferior males. She’ll give all the right visual cues as if about to release eggs for fertilisation, but doesn’t; the male will frantically ejaculate, not notice he’s been duped, and swim away.

13
When world champion boxer Joe Louis voluntarily joined the U.S. Army in 1942 he was asked about his decision to enter the (then) racially segregated organisation, he replied: “Lots of things wrong with America, but Hitler ain’t going to fix them.”

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In 1997, a poacher wounded a tiger and stole part of its kill. The tiger found the poacher’s cabin, destroyed his belongings, waited at least half a day for him to return, then killed and ate him.

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