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This was Seat 11A on Air India Flight 171. One man survived.
Vishwash Kumar Ramesh, who is the lone survivor of the Air India plane crash, spoke about his escape. "The plane broke, and my seat came off...That's how I was saved," he stated.
A medic said Ramesh told him that immediately after the plane took off, it began descending and suddenly split into two, throwing him out before a loud explosion
The fossa is Madagascar's top predator. It is the only animal that hunts the island's lemurs, able to move swiftly through the trees. Unlike most animals, it isn't active at a set time, making it cathemeral - it wakes and sleeps whenever it feels like it.
Stephen Hawking cheated and left his wife of 30 years who supported him through his illness, to marry his nurse, who was married to the guy who built his speech device. The second marriage ended in drama. His 2nd wife was apparently abusive and maybe broke his wrist.
Staff noticed that Stephen hawking had bruises, cuts and a broken wrist, without any explanations. The police got involved into their chaotic marriage to investigate.
Staff described their relationship as controlling and intense. There were claims that she left him in the garden under the sun for hours. She kept him away from his family, until they were completely cut off (Which involved his children too)
Steven Phillips spent 24 years in a Texas prison for crimes he didn’t commit and was exonerated by DNA evidence in 2008. He received $6 million in compensation. His ex-wife sued for a share, but in 2014, the court ruled the money was for personal injury and solely his.
Ex-Wife of Exonerated Man Loses Payout Claim
DALLAS (CN) – A man exonerated of a rape for which he served 25 years in prison does not have to split compensation from Texas with his ex-wife, an appeals court ruled. Steven Phillips had been married to Traci Tucker for just under two years when he was arrested and charged in 1982. She...
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This fish has four pupils, allowing it to see above and below water at the same time!
Eye development in the four-eyed fish Anableps anableps: cranial and retinal adaptations to simultaneous aerial and aquatic vision - PMC
The unique eyes of the four-eyed fish Anableps anableps have long intrigued biologists. Key features associated with the bulging eye of Anableps include the expanded frontal bone and the duplicated pupils and cornea. Furthermore, the Anableps retina ...
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In 2013, a Russian family was tragically wiped out by toxic fumes from rotting potatoes in their cellar. One by one, they entered-and never came out. Only 8-year-old Maria survived by staying outside
They had a very large amount of very rotten potatoes, in a contained place, below ground. Yeasts and such consume the potatoes -- and the oxygen -- and pump out tons of CO2 (which is heaver than air), leading to an anoxic atmosphere in the basement.
Russian family killed by toxic gas from rotting potatoes in basement - UPI.com
Four members of a Russian family died after being overcome by gas from rotting potatoes stored in their basement, investigators said Friday.
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Meet Asfaw Yemiru, the man who walked over 1,000 km to Addis Ababa and built a school that educated 120,000 children
Asfaw Yemiru, former street urchin who founded a school for disadvantaged children in Addis Ababa – obituary
He started teaching street children under an oak tree aged 14 and persuaded Emperor Haile Selassie to grant him land to build a school
One of the earliest known cave depictions of dogs is in northwestern Saudi Arabia. It shows humans hunting with leashed canine helpers more than 9,000 years ago.
DNA Shows Ancient Siberians Domesticated Dogs, Who Then Helped Settle America
Exciting new research suggests an iced-in band of ancient northeastern Siberians kicked off mankind’s domestic relationship with dogs at least 23,000 years ago, then exported “man's best friend" to America and around the world.
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After a Chinese man's nose was irreparably damaged from infection, his doctors decided to "grow" a second nose on the man's forehead to replace the original nose
