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July 30, 2020 Leave a Comment

A divorcing couple divides their Beanie Baby investment under the supervision of a judge

Nov 5, 1999, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA: Attorney Frank Totti looks over papers while his client Frances Mountain sorts out Beanie Babies with her ex-husband Harold Mountain in Judge Gerald Hardcastle’s Family Courtroom in Las Vegas November 5. The couple, who were divorced four months ago, were ordered to divide up the collection valued at $2,500 to $5000 but were unable to do so by themselves. The collection was ordered spread on the court floor and divided up one by one under the supervision of Family Court Judge Hardcastl

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July 24, 2020 Leave a Comment

A man trapped in a coma for 12 years was aware of everything. His hatred of Barney reruns constantly playing helped him to regain control of his mind

“I cannot even express to you how much I hated Barney,” Martin says.

Since all the world thought Martin was a vegetable, at the special care center where he spent his days he was often in front of the TV watching reruns of the children’s cartoon hour after hour, day after day.

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July 20, 2020 Leave a Comment

30mm round from a General Electric GAU-8/A Avenger, which is a hydraulically driven seven-barrel Gatling-type auto cannon that arms an A-10 Warthog. The Avenger fires these anti-tank rounds at a rate of 3,600 rounds per minute

The GAU-8 Avenger fires up to sixty one-pound bullets a second. It produces almost five tons of recoil force, which is crazy considering that it’s mounted in a type of plane (the A-10 “Warthog”) whose two engines produce only four tons of thrust each. If you put two of them in one aircraft, and fired both guns forward while opening up the throttle, the guns would win and you’d accelerate backward. To put it another way: If I mounted a GAU-8 on my car, put the car in neutral, and started firing backward from a standstill, I would be breaking the interstate speed limit in less than three seconds. (source)

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July 16, 2020 Leave a Comment

Supervised injection site are provided in legally sanctioned facilities that allow people to consume pre-obtained drugs under the supervision of trained staff and are designed to reduce the health and public order issues often associated with public drug consumption

Facility staff members do not directly assist in consumption or handle any drugs brought in by clients, but are present to provide sterile injection supplies, answer questions on safe injection practices, administer first aid if needed, and monitor for overdose.

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July 10, 2020 Leave a Comment

beauty and the beast arranged marraige

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

The story of Beauty and the Beast was meant for girls who would likely have their marriages arranged. Beauty is traded by her impoverished father for safety and material wealth, and sent to live with a terrifying stranger. De Beaumont’s story emphasizes the nobility in Beauty’s act of self-sacrifice, while bracing readers…“for an alliance that required effacing their own desires and submitting to the will of a monster.”

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July 2, 2020 Leave a Comment

Shell shocked soldier hiding at a fireworks show

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June 25, 2020 Leave a Comment

pokemon go grandpa

Pokémon Go Grandpa has evolved, now uses 64 smartphones

Back in 2018, Pokémon Go Grandpa was discovered and shared by a user on Reddit that instantly blew up in popularity. The 72 year old person was discovered playing the game with 6 smartphones attached to his bike. The man named Chen San-yuan is a retired Feng Shui master and an avid Pokémon Go fan, with his nickname being derived from his love for the game.

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June 19, 2020 Leave a Comment

How snipers use their scopes

A lot of people don’t realize that you have to account for gravity and wind and other factors at distance. They think you just put the target on the middle of the cross-hairs.

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June 15, 2020 Leave a Comment

canadian police meditating

Canadian police officers meditating before they start their day.

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June 12, 2020 Leave a Comment

longyearbyen buried

(photo: Zairon, Wikipedia)

It’s forbidden to be buried in Longyearbyen, Norway. The town’s only cemetery closed over 70 years ago because it’s so cold that bodies previously buried there have never decomposed, and some still carry traces of an influenza virus that caused an epidemic in 1917.

Dying has been banned on the island since 1950, when it was discovered that bodies in the local cemetery were not decomposing because of the chilly temperatures.

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