A delay saves 17 lives: miracle or coincidence?
In short On 1 March 1950 the West Side Baptist Church in Beatrice, Nebraska, was destroyed at 7:25 pm by
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Category: curiosities
Pediophobia – Fear of dolls
In short Pediophobia is the irrational fear of dolls, not only horror ones. It is part of automatonophobia, the fear
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Do you know the true origin of Women’s Day?
In short Women’s Day was not born from a factory fire in 1908, which never happened, but from the political
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Japanese woman lives in a closet for a year, the owner doesn’t notice
In short In May 2008 in Kasuya, Japan, a 57-year-old man noticed food disappearing from his fridge and installed a
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Enumclaw horse sex case, dead after sex with a horse
In short In July 2005 Kenneth Pinyan, a 45-year-old Boeing engineer, died from internal injuries sustained during sex with a
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The human zoos
In short Human zoos were exhibitions in which people from other cultures, mostly Africans, Asians and Native Americans, were shown
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Ehsan Abdulaziz – “tripped and accidentally penetrates ” a girl
In short In December 2015 millionaire Ehsan Abdulaziz, a 46-year-old Saudi property developer living in London, was acquitted of raping
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The equation that reveals serial killers
Can you use mathematics to find serial killers? It seems so, and there is an equation that can track down
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Harold Gillies, the first plastic surgeon
In short Who: Sir Harold Delf Gillies (Dunedin, 17 June 1882 – London, 10 September 1960). Why he is famous:
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The seven Sutherland sisters
The Sutherland family, from Lockport, New York, was made up of father Fletcher, mother Mary, a son and seven daughters:
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McKamey Manor – haunted house at the edge of legality
In short What it is: an “extreme” haunted attraction founded by Russ McKamey. Where: started in San Diego, later moved
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Coffin Birth
In short What it is: the expulsion of a dead fetus from the decomposing body of a pregnant woman. Scientific
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