The world is so big, there are no wonders, especially in this Internet era of information explosion, you will find strange, absurd, magical things and people are endless, as the saying goes: the forest is big, there are all kinds of birds...
For example, the following unbelievable real existences, there is always one that will refresh your cognition!
In 2016, an Australian man named Joshua won an entire resort in Kosrae, Micronesia, in a raffle... The resort is debt-free and still profitable, worth about millions of dollars!
The previous owner built the resort in 1994, and after more than 20 years of operation, he felt that he had made enough money and was ready to return home to retire, so he sold about $4 million in lottery tickets in the form of a raffle, so that even the non-rich could have the opportunity to make unimaginable wealth!
Dean Karnazes, an American ultramarathon runner who, unlike ordinary athletes, did not have a lactate threshold, ran 550 kilometers in 80 hours and 44 minutes without sleep in 2005... In 2006, 50 marathons were run in 50 states in the United States for 50 consecutive days...
Fun fact: he discovered his talent on his 30th birthday, when he ran away from the bar to avoid cheating on his wife... That's right, he got drunk, ran more than 50 kilometers in his underwear, and then woke up!
Indian gang boss Akku Yadav is a serial rapist and serial killer who raped more than 40 women and girls while murdering several others. Despite the ironclad evidence, he used money to escape the law.
In 2004, after the public lost patience and trust, hundreds of women armed with kitchen knives swarmed the courthouse, and Aku was lynched and killed after being stabbed more than 70 times... This incident was also adapted into the movie "200 Halla Ho".
In 2019, a man in Kentucky, USA, sued his former company, alleging that the company threw a surprise birthday party for him against his will, when he screamed in terror and fled the scene in a car, and the company fired him.
He had told his boss many times that he had panic attacks, and his family and friends knew about it, that he never celebrated birthdays, and that he felt very anxious about being watched, but the boss still insisted on going his own way and ended up paying $450,000 in compensation...
In 2012, Casey J. Fury, a dockyard worker at the Portsmouth Navy Shipyard in the United States, refused to be an "overtime dog" in order to get off work early and have fun with his girlfriend, and directly set fire to the US nuclear submarine...
The Miami submarine that had the accident was a Los Angeles-class nuclear submarine with a cost of $4.5 billion and $700 million for maintenance.
Parents stripped of custody under strange names: In 2008, a 9-year-old girl in New Zealand was involved in a custody lawsuit with the strange name "Thalula from Hawaii."
The judge found that the name had some form of abusive connotations that would affect the physical and mental health of the child, who never revealed his name in front of his friends and always referred to himself as K... Therefore, the court took back the custody of his parents and the court took custody of him.
Some parents give their children messy names purely for fun, while others will sell their children's "naming rights" for money...
In 2005, a pair of parents in the United States auctioned the naming rights of their children on eBay, and finally was auctioned by an online casino in the United States for $15,100, and the child was finally named GoldenPalace.com...
In 2020, 68-year-old Spanish actress Ana Obregón lost her only son (27 years old because of cancer).
In 2023, Obregon announced that he had a daughter, but in fact the baby was actually his granddaughter... After the death of her son, she fulfilled her wish to continue the offspring (through surrogacy) with her frozen sperm, and she is currently raising her granddaughter as a daughter...
In 1990, a group of Spanish children were playing football when they accidentally found a body crushed under a rock, and on closer inspection, the man was holding a chicken and his pants were taken off...
After the investigation, it was discovered that the man's name was Herminio Rivera Couceiro, and it was speculated that the chicken may have been stolen by him from a nearby farm, and when he was misbehaving with the chicken, he accidentally knocked down the rock next to him due to the excessive range of movements, which led to the tragic discovery... Tom can do the same???
In 1974, the mummified body of Egyptian Pharaoh Ramses II was sent to Paris for maintenance, as French law required that both the living and the dead must have a valid passport to enter the country.
In order to comply with French regulations, the pharaoh received a passport issued by the Egyptian government more than 3,000 years after his death. But the passport of Ramses II circulating on the Internet - that is, the photo with the position of "late king", is actually P ... However, the passport was issued, but the photograph did not leak out.
Mummies aren't the strangest entities that need passports, and in the UAE, falcons (especially falcons and peregrine falcons) are highly prized, with a top-tier falcon selling for up to $1 million, and high status (and monetary value) comes with the risk of smuggling.
Therefore, they must have a "falcon passport" when they "travel" by air. If you spot a blindfolded falcon lounging around first class on a flight to and from the UAE, don't panic. Not only can these birds of prey fly, but they also need to go through the same rigorous security checks, including passport control, just like humans.
"Shrek" is a male merino sheep in New Zealand who escaped over a fence in 1998 and disappeared for 6 years until it was found in a cave in 2004...
It hadn't been sheared for 6 years, and the shearing process was broadcast live across New Zealand, and a professional shaved it in 20 minutes, weighing 27 kilograms of wool enough to make 20 large men's suits.
In fact, this situation is not unique, in 2015, a Merino sheep in Canberra, Australia, who had been wandering for 5 years, sheared 41 kilograms of wool, breaking the record of "Shrek" above.
As a result of human breeding interventions, domestic sheep have evolved to be inseparable from humans, as their wool grows all the time and does not fall off, which can have serious effects on their mobility and health.
Earthquake diplomacy: Turkey and Greece are known to be a thousand-year-old feud that has been in shaky relations since the Istanbul massacre in the 50s of the last century.
But in 1999, after successive earthquakes in the two countries, relations between Turkey and Greece improved, and from then on, regardless of the relationship between the two countries, in the event of an earthquake, the two countries will help each other.
No, last year's major earthquake in Turkey temporarily disappeared the previous frictional disputes.
The great Greek poet Aeschylus, the one who wrote "The Bound Prometheus", is known as the "father of tragedy", but "tragedy" is not only his works...
In 456 BC, he was struck to his head by a turtle dropped from the sky by an eagle, possibly mistaken his bald head for a rock suitable for crushing the shell...
This master, said not rigorously
It was the first person in history to die from a "plane" shell