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20 декабря 2024 07:26

In the most extreme cases, grumpy bosses rip up resignation letters and harass employees to force them to stay.

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19 декабря 2024 22:56

Nadine Vaujour was determined to free her husband from a Parisian prison, so she took helicopter flight lessons specifically for the escape. Her husband, Michel Vaujour, was serving a lengthy sentence for attempted murder and armed robbery.

In May 1986, Michel managed to gain access to the prison roof by wielding nectarines painted to look like grenades. Nadine then picked him up in a helicopter, and they landed on a football field before driving away.

However, their luck soon ran out. Nadine was found and arrested in southwestern France. Michel later survived being shot in the head during a failed bank robbery.

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19 декабря 2024 16:51

When she couldn't find shelter, she slept on piles of leaves. On cold nights, she heated large flat stones to use as a warm bed. When she ran out of food, she ate berries and other edible forest plants she recognized.

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19 декабря 2024 10:31

One of the other pilots on the mission was reported to have radioed the first pilot during his descent by parachute that, “You’d better get back in it!”

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19 декабря 2024 03:18

For up to 2 hours, the Victoria's Secret fragrance Bombshell kept mosquitoes away.

To be clear, in the experiment, a whole lot of Bombshell perfume was doused onto the volunteer's hand - around 0.5 mL - and the researchers explain that in normal concentrations, the fragrance probably wouldn't have the same effect.

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18 декабря 2024 19:57

A man stranded in the northern Saskatchewan bush was rescued last week after he chopped down four power poles, resulting in a power outage for surrounding communities.

The incident left several hundred residents without electricity for more than 30 hours, but it ultimately led to the man's rescue by a SaskPower crew.

SaskPower spokesperson James Parker stated, "He was found under his boat in a very distressed state. Essentially, he had been stranded for a number of days and was desperate for people to know where he was."

The man reported that he had been boating on the lake when he encountered bad weather and became stranded in the bush with no means of communication.
But he had an axe and he knew SaskPower would have to check the downed line, so he went to work.

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17 декабря 2024 00:37

He would squeeze his thighs together to pass clean urine through a contraption—a bag connected to a plastic tube resembling a p*nis— during a period at the height of his career.

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16 декабря 2024 19:04

Hall and Carpenter started dating in 2007, tied the knot in 2008, and announced their divorce in December 2010. However, they kept working together for another three years, until "Dexter" aired its finale in 2013.

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15 декабря 2024 10:59

Authorities reported that at least one rat slipped through a hole in the back of an ATM in northeastern India and began to chew on the cash inside. By the time it was done, over $19,000 in bills had been shredded.

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15 декабря 2024 03:02

Wheeler tested this method by applying lemon juice to his face and taking a photograph with a Polaroid camera. Since he was absent from the resulting image, he trusted that the method was effective. Detectives believed his absence in the photograph could be attributed to a faulty film, a misadjusted camera, or Wheeler inadvertently pointing the camera away from his face.

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14 декабря 2024 20:16

From Krishna Bhanji to Sir Ben Kingsley, a name change that changed the game.

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14 декабря 2024 04:03

At 16, Santino became the dominant male in his group and began collecting and throwing rocks. He typically gathers rocks from the bottom of the moat surrounding his enclosure before the zoo opens and stores them in piles on the side of the island that faces the zoo’s visitors. Additionally, he chips pieces of concrete from the artificial rocks in the center of his enclosure and adds them to his piles.

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13 декабря 2024 03:24

In this tradition, Saint Nicholas rewards well-behaved children with small gifts, while Krampus punishes badly behaved ones with birch rods.

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11 декабря 2024 02:07

"All the ladies like whiskers and they would tease their husbands to vote for you and then you would be President."

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08 декабря 2024 07:32

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20 декабря 2024 03:52

While in Washington, D.C., Forrest makes fast friends with activist Abbie Hoffman, who invites him to take the stage and share his experiences in Vietnam with thousands of onlookers in the midst of an anti-war protest. But just as Forrest begins speaking, his microphone is unplugged, leaving viewers to wonder what it was that Forrest said.

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19 декабря 2024 20:29

The pair, who ate at the now infamous pub with six of their friends, claimed they waited more than an hour for their order. Pope mentioned that she had to go to the bar to refill her drink and pick up her own silverware.

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19 декабря 2024 16:51

Despite facing some challenges, the couple shared a long-lasting friendship and were married for over five decades. Joanne has continued to honor her husband’s work and legacy since Fred’s death in 2003.

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19 декабря 2024 05:29

He reported having a toothache but said he couldn’t get anyone to help him treat it. So he escaped and went to a dentist. After receiving treatment, he turned himself into the authorities. As a result, he received an additional day added to his month-long sentence as punishment.

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18 декабря 2024 22:56

In 1904, someone aboard the SS Penguin attempted to shoot Pelorus Jack with a rifle. Despite this attempt on his life, Pelorus Jack continued to help ships. According to folklore, he no longer helped the SS Penguin after that incident, which ultimately shipwrecked in Cook Strait in 1909.

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17 декабря 2024 06:31

In the past, doctors believed that the plague was transmitted through harmful air vapors, and they thought that a foul-smelling substance could help neutralize the contamination. As a result, some locals began storing their farts in jars, just in case they needed a quick whiff to combat the situation.

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16 декабря 2024 21:52

Known as a “megasavant,” he possessed an exceptional memory and was the inspiration for the character Raymond Babbitt in the 1988 movie “Rain Man.”

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15 декабря 2024 20:08

Hawking said he hoped that copies of the invite might survive for thousands of years, and that “one day someone living in the future will find the information and use a wormhole time machine to come back to my party, proving that time travel will one day be possible”

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15 декабря 2024 05:33

The radio channels, especially the talk radio, was definitely the best part of these games.

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14 декабря 2024 21:52

As a branch of folklore, childlore is concerned with the activities that children learn and pass on to other children. The stories and games taught by adults to children are not considered childlore except insofar as the children adapt and make them their own. In Western culture, most folklorists are concerned with children after they join their peers in elementary school or kindergarten. Childhood traditions generally stop after the child enters intermediate school, which coincides with puberty and adolescence.

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14 декабря 2024 16:03

She had been with an organization for five years. She was friendly with everyone in the office but was particularly close to a few colleagues. When she decided to marry, she carefully thought about her guest list. Concerned that inviting only a select few might upset others, she sent invitations to all seventy employees.

On the wedding day, the bride-to-be was shocked to find that, aside from her mentee, none of her colleagues showed up at the venue. Six tables with large portions of uneaten food went untouched. The woman was utterly embarrassed in front of her relatives.

Faced with the embarrassment of returning to the office, she decided to resign from her position at the organization.

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13 декабря 2024 21:15

“I literally, embarrassingly did about two weeks of research on wolves. I was rehearsing for three weeks and I was shooting, so I was kind of on my own.”

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11 декабря 2024 04:23

The British Museum has a collection of at least 8 million artefacts.

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09 декабря 2024 05:45

Rob Howes, a British-born lifeguard, was swimming with his daughter and two of her friends off Ocean Beach near Whangarei on New Zealand’s North Island when dolphins suddenly appeared. At first, he believed the dolphins were just being playful, but he soon recognized the danger the swimmers were in.

“They started to herd us up; they pushed all four of us together by doing tight circles around us,” Mr Howes told the New Zealand Press Association.

He tried to drift away from the group, but two larger dolphins herded him back—just as he spotted a three-meter (10-foot) great white shark approaching him. “I just recoiled,” he recounted. “It was only about two meters away from me, and the water was crystal clear. I could see it as clearly as the nose on my face. They had corralled us to protect us.”

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08 декабря 2024 04:39

The phenomenon of “puppy-dog eyes” is indeed real.