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A trio of drunken boys decided to sail out to sea looking for a girl they saw at a sports competition event. They ended up sailing for more than seven weeks and drifted 1300 km off course before being rescued by a tuna boat. They all survived by drinking beer, eating coconuts and a bird.
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During the 1990’s, Volkswagen sold three special editions of the Golf as part of sponsoring three rock bands’ European tours: The Golf Pink Floyd Edition, the Golf Rolling Stones Edition, and the Golf Bon Jovi Edition.
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Julius Chambers of the New-York Tribune had himself committed to an asylum in 1872, and his account led to the release of 12 patients who were not mentally ill, a reorganization of the staff, and a change in the lunacy laws.
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With more people than ever looking at ways to supplement their income or find more creative ways of bringing in revenue, the prospect of becoming a landlord is of interest to many eagle-eyed investors. The market for tenancies in the UK is booming: supply is low and demand is high, creating the ideal environment to start a property business. However, setting up as a landlord is not a walk in the park. It’ll take patience and dedication to be successful. Many people think you just buy the property, find someone to live there and then the money rolls in. This
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In June 2021, a Diver off the coast of Massachusetts was swallowed by a whale. He was trapped in its mouth for nearly a minute before being belched out, surviving with minor injuries.
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Before he was the best-selling author of The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown tried his luck as a musician. In 1994 he released an album called Angels & Demons—a title he reused for a 2000 novel.
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Fancy a flutter at the casino? Whether you visit a real-world one in Las Vegas or Monte Carlo, or you simply log onto one in cyberspace via your phone, the first thing you are going to see is slot machines. Lots of them. In an online casino, there might be hundreds to choose from. They have come a long way since the first one was invented in the 1890s. Let’s briefly chart their evolution, then see what different sorts of slot games are out there today. Automatic poker machines and the Liberty Bell In the late 1800s, Brooklyn-based engineering company
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Due to environmental concerns, it’s illegal to do dishes in Finland’s lakes.
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Leo Marks, a WWII cryptographer, suspected that Germans had infiltrated the Dutch network in 1943 because all messages were being sent without any errors. To test his theory, Marks sent a message with “HH” and received “HH” in response. “HH” was a common German sign-off for “Heil Hitler.”
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In 1996, A group of UFO conspiracy theorists from Long Island, New York led by a retired court bailiff had stolen radioactive materials and planned to assassinate Suffolk County politicians with deadly toothpaste, to expose the existence of aliens.
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