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In January 2007, a woman was refused entry to the UK because an immigration official couldn’t believe her reason for visiting - that she wanted to have a week’s holiday in Gateshead.

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In 1988, Ivan McGuire, an experienced skydiver with 800 recorded dives, jumped from the plane for his third dive that day. He had his camera rig with him but completely forgot to equip a parachute, so he jumped to his death from around 10,000 feet. The camera footage of the fatal fall survived. source1 source2 Video

#skydiving #facts #accident

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Dolphins have been known to protect humans when they’re in trouble. A California surfer was once being attacked by a shark when a group of dolphins surrounded him and escorted him safely to shore. Dolphins have similarly saved many people, and reports date back to Ancient Greece. [1,2]

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There’s a Japanese water beetle that, when eaten by a frog, will travel through its digestive system and escape out the back end alive and unharmed.

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A convenience store hanging on a cliff has been nicknamed “the most inconvenient convenience store” in China.

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International Shooting Union barred women from shooting with men in 1993 after Zhang Shan won the gold medal in Skeet Shooting in the 1992 Barcelona Olympics.

#sports #olympic games #facts #women

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A death row inmate in Tennessee discovered there were untested fingerprints that had been found at the original crime scene. In a last-ditch effort to prove his innocence, he successfully petitioned the courts to run the tests. They were found to be his own fingerprints.

#crime #facts #fingerprint

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In 1963, a 16-year-old sent a 4-question survey to 150 well-known authors (75 of which replied) in order to prove to his English tutor that writers don’t intentionally add symbolic content to their books.

#author #facts #writing

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In 1991, a teenage cheerleader’s mother tried to hire a hitman to kill the mother of her daughter’s cheerleading rival. She thought if the rival’s mother was killed, she would be too sad to cheerlead, thereby giving the spot to her daughter. The plan ultimately failed when the man she asked to arrange the hitman turned her in to the authorities. [1, 2]

#cheerleader #crime #facts

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When General Motors unveiled the Camaro name in 1966, the automotive press asked Chevrolet product managers, “What is a Camaro?” and were told it was “a small, vicious animal that eats Mustangs.” [1, 2]

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Union Army general John Sedgwick once said to his men under enemy fire: “Why are you dodging like this? They couldn’t hit an elephant at this distance.” He was shot moments later under the left eye and mortally wounded.

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A study found that America’s poor can’t afford money-saving habits like buying in bulk or timing their purchases to take advantage of sales.

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In 1958, two pilots flew an aircraft for more than two months without landing, refueling by matching speed with a truck driving down a road. Their record has not been broken. The Cessna 172 flown by Robert Timm and John Cook to set the record for the world’s longest airplane flight (64 days, 22 hours, 19 minutes and 5 seconds), now hanging in McCarran International Airport, Las Vegas, Nevada

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Those who pay off their credit card balance each month are known as “deadbeats” in the financial world.

#money #facts #credit cards

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Many haunted houses have been investigated and found to contain high levels of carbon monoxide or other poisons, which can cause hallucinations. The carbon monoxide theory explains why haunted houses are mostly older houses, which are more likely to contain aging and defective appliances.

#haunted #investigation #facts

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A man named John Cummings swallowed 35 knives over the course of 6 years. The first time was to prove to people that he could, and each time afterward was to prove it to people who didn’t believe him; he eventually died from the effects of this in 1809. [1, 2]

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During the 2000s, Google, Apple, Adobe, Intel, and several other mega-corporations had a mutual agreement not to hire each other’s employees in order to keep salaries low. [1, 2]

#employees #facts #money