The disappearance of Madeleine McCann became “the most heavily reported missing-person case in modern history.” She went missing from an apartment in Praia da Luz, Portugal, while her parents were out to dinner. 15 years later and no one knows where she is. Though her parents and family never lost hope of seeing her again. …
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Pets are family to most people and most dog owners would do anything to take care of their doggo. But when aman rushed to save this pup, he paid the ultimate price. David Alan Kirwan and Ronald Ratliff, along with Ratliff’s dog Moosie, were traveling through Yellowstone Park in 1981. On July 20th, at about …
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Did you read, Man Shares Effects After 11 Days, or 266 Hours, Awake: Part One? Because this is part two. Wright may be an advocate of sleeplessness but the Guinness Book of World Records no longer keeps a record of the most hours unslept because of the health risks associated with sleep deprivation. In an …
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Tony Wright, from Cornwall in the UK, attempted to set a new world record in 2007. And he was awake for 266 hours straight. He thought he set the record, as his long period of sleeplessness, beating 264 hours awake. This record was held by teenager Randy Gardner in 1964. But his time was broken …
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If you didn’t already read, Things You Didn’t Know About Jehovah’s Witnesses: Part One, you can visit the link. This is part two. They are one of Canada’s wealthiest and least transparent charities. Because they’re a registered charity, they don’t pay sales tax. Of the 86,000 of the in Canada, they rank 18th, with more …
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The people who live below me are Jehovah’s Witnesses and to know that they don’t celebrate even birthdays was really eye-opening. Here are a bunch of others things you didn’t know about Jehovah’s Witnesses. They don’t believe in military service or saluting the flag. They don’t believe in the national anthem or voting. Because they …
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Did you read Nabisco and Keebler Fun Facts; Where it all Began: Part One? Because this is part two. Nabisco is number one with the Oreo cookie and number two with the Chips Ahoy cookie in sales. Many chocolate chip cookies from companies like Mrs. Fields, Famous Amos and Entenmanns started to come out and …
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When it comes to Nabisco and Keebler fun facts, the best is that cookies have a $30 billion worldwide revenue. That’s a LOT of cookies. Over the last 100 years, Oreos have made Nabisco a legendary success. Oreos are still the number one cookie in the world and the recipe has never failed the company. …
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When you think of werewolves, you’ll probably picture a monstrous creature that’s usually firmly in the camp of evil in stories. But that’s actually not an accurate depiction of them. That is, if we believe a man who was an actual werewolf. In 1691, a robbery trial in Swedish Livonia (modern-day Latvia) took a bizarre …
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Remember in “Tiger King” when everyone thought that Carol Baskin was her ex-husband’s killer? Who didn’t watch Tiger King at the height of COVID, or has at least heard of it? Turns out that Carol never killed her husband at all, and this is the story. Baskin’s dead husband isn’t dead at all, yet very …
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