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Former world's fattest man, Khalid bin Mohsen Shaari lost 542kg after a life-saving order from the Saudi King. He now weighs 63kg.
 

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In 1982, Kazuko Fukuda strangled her coworker and vanished. At the time, Japan had a 15-year statute of limitations for murder. Fukuda spent the next 14 years, 11 months, and 10 days living under fake names, altering her appearance with plastic surgery, and narrowly evading capture. She was arrested just 20 days before the statute expired—earning her the nickname “The Woman of Seven Faces.
 

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Free coca (raw material for cocaine) leaves in an airport in Peru to help with altitude sickness

The alkaloids allow you to absorb more oxygen in your blood. That is why it helps with altitude sickness.
 

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The Dragon Head mountain in South Sinai, Egypt. The red glow in the ‘eye’ is a camp fire in the cave
 

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Nap time makes these penguins look headless. They tilt their heads all the way back. [Credit: Brian Matthews, bwmphoto wildlife]
 

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A 1960s photo of Black-Americans training to not react during a sit-in

Back during the time of the Civil Rights Movement, right around the time of the 50s and 60s, people of color would walk in groups into white only places like diners, soda bars, stores etc and ask for service. When they were denied, they would sit and stay in silent protest while around them white people would become more and more hostile.

They were screamed at, crowded, struck, had food, drinks, ashtrays dumped on them, and worse. And these brave people would sit motionless in protest, not reacting as a form of protest to highlight that they were literally not doing anything wrong.
 

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This is George Blake, a British MI6 officer who secretly spied for the Soviet Union and betrayed 40 agents before fleeing prison.

Joins the Royal Navy, gets recruited by MI6. After the war, gets sent to work at the British legation in Seoul. He's there when Seoul is captured by the North Koreans, and so he gets taken north where he gets seduced by communist propaganda and offers to become a spy for the Russians.

He's released in 1953 and returns to Britain with a hero's welcome. He's then sent to Berlin where he's given the mission of recruiting Soviet double agents, all the while passing all kinds of intel to the USSR and betraying Western spies. He's not sussed out until 1961, gets sentenced to 42 years in prison. 5 years into his prison sentence he escapes with the help of some friends. Gets smuggled out of Britain in the back of a caravan. Makes their way to West Germany and crosses into East Germany and safety.

 

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This was Lonesome George, last of Pinta Island tortoise. After he died, scientists took final measurements. Full species went extinct with him.

The reason they went extinct is because sailors like to take them on board to eat.

They could essentially hibernate on board ship for months with very little food or water.

Then be eaten whenever the crew got hungry.
 

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This man left his 40-year long career in another airline to join AirAsia and fly as a junior just so he could fly with his two pilot daughters. He wants to spend his remaining years as a pilot by his daughters' sides.
 

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Pavel Durov plans to leave $17 billion fortune to his 106 children

Durov claims to have fathered more than 100 children via sperm donation in 12 countries since 2010. He announced that he wanted to leave his fortune, estimated at 17 billion dollars in 2025, to his 106 children after his death. However, with draconian conditions: none of them will be able to receive his inheritance before reaching the age of 30, starting from June 19, 2055
 

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Goliath, Galapagos tortoise, became a father for the first time, he celebrates his 135th birthday and his first Father's Day at Zoo Miami.

He was introduced to the Bronx Zoo in 1929, and moved to the Miami Zoo in 1981, where he unsuccessfully mated with several females. And now he has finally become a father.

The mother, Sweet Pea, is known to be between 85 and 100 years old, so this pair could be the oldest “tortoise parents” in the history of the Galapagos tortoise. It should be added that in zoo conditions these tortoises live up to 177 years.
 

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Keshav Kumar at 18 months old and Anjali Kumar at 7 years old. They suffer from a condition called Progeria, which makes them age at a faster rate.
 

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Karl Bushby set off from Punta Arenas, Chile in 1998. Since then he has walked across American and Asian continents, swam 186 miles (300km) across the Caspian Sea and fought off ice lumps through the Bering Strait, all without using any form of transport.

The former paratrooper has less than 2,000 miles (3219km) left to walk before he arrives at his home city of Hull, England.

He hopes to continue his trek, via Turkey, in August before entering Europe. Mr. Bushby expects it will take another year before he is on home soil and is aiming to arrive in Hull by September 2026.

 

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A Las Vegas, Nevada, man has introduced his two-year-old son to the firefighter who pulled him, the dad, from a burning home 23 years ago — inspiring him to become a firefighter himself.

"When I was 2 years old my house caught on fire & I was trapped inside, I ended up almost dying that day & this firefighter, Jeff Ohs, saved me from that building & brought me back to life," Xavier Lewis.

"Now 23 years later, he is holding my 2-year-old son," he added. "I literally wouldn’t be here without him."