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Jake Perry has owned both of the oldest cats to ever live. He fed them dry food, broccoli, eggs, turkey bacon, coffee with cream and an eyedropper of red wine, played them nature documentaries, built steps on his walls, and an enclosure in his backyard.
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The 26th President of the United States, Teddy Roosevelt, regularly staged boxing matches in the White House and took on anyone he could- including professional boxers.
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In 1966, the Beatles were making so much money that they had to pay a 95% “supertax” on their earnings in the UK. After finding out how much money they were losing, Beatles guitarist George Harrison wrote the song “Taxman” out of anger.
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Benjamin Franklin became a vegetarian, in part because he could save half of what his brother paid him, to buy more books, he also considered the consumption of meat to be “unprovoked murder”.
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When quirky theatrical producer David Merrick got bad reviews for his 1961 musical, he found 7 random denizens of New York with names identical to those of 7 top theatre critics. He asked the civilians to talk ecstatically of the musical, then published an ad with their praises and names.
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The Vatican is accused by Serbs, Jews and Roma of laundering millions of dollars of stolen gold and jewelry, plundered from concentration camp prisoners in Croatia, immediately after WW2. It is also alleged that they helped several notorious Nazi leaders hide and escape.
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A Danish company modified a version of thale cress (plant), that changes from green to red when being near landmines, because of the nitrogen dioxide gas released from landmines. This way you can detect landmines and save lives.
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For 20 years Sila Sutharat, a roadside vendor in Phetchaburi, Thailand, has used a grill made of 1,000 mirrors to focus sunlight to cook chicken and pork. A chicken cooks in about 12 minutes.
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The ambulance service in most towns used to be ran by the funeral home. So if you needed to be taken to the hospital, you called the funeral home, and they’d use their hearse to transport you to the hospital (until purpose built ambulances became available in the late ‘60s & ‘70s).
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From the 1950s until the 1970s, vending machines were used at American airports to sell life insurance policies covering death, in the event that the buyer’s flight crashed.
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