25 facts that can amuse or amaze you to the core (26 photos)

Did you know that a breast implant once saved a woman from being shot? Now you know. This and other strange and amazing facts are on our list for lovers of everything unusual.





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In 2008, a monk parakeet named Willie told his owner Megan Howard that the baby she was babysitting had started choking on his breakfast. When two-year-old Hannah began to turn blue, the bird squawked loudly to get Megan's attention. Willie then began repeating the words “mama” and “baby.” Megan rushed to Hannah's side and performed the Heimlich maneuver (first aid for asphyxia), which ultimately saved her life. Megan later said that if Willie had not warned her, she might not have made it out of the bathroom in time. For saving the child's life, Willie was awarded by the local Red Cross.

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In 2012, 24-year-old Kenyan Anthony Omari, who worked at an orphanage, woke up to find three thugs with machetes breaking into the building. He confronted all three men at once and drove them outside, where the fight continued. But, unfortunately, the guy got hit in the face with a machete. Despite this, he successfully fought off his attackers, keeping the children safe until he fell. Fortunately, Anthony survived, but had to receive stitches to an 11cm wound on his face. After this story hit Reddit, concerned people sent Anthony tens of thousands of dollars to build a stronger and higher security fence for the orphanage.

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In 2006, a man offered a killer $50,000 to kill his wife Susan Kuhnhausen. He was supposed to kill her with a hammer, staging it as a botched robbery. However, when the hitman came and attacked Susan, she fought back and eventually strangled and killed the hitman.

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For the past 20 years, a man named Chen Xi has devoted his weekends to patrolling the Nanjing Bridge, which spans China's Yangtze River. His task is to prevent people from committing suicide by jumping into the water. He is called the "Angel of Nanjing" because he has saved more than 400 people to date.

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Grover Krantz was an anthropologist who donated his body to the Smithsonian Museum to show how skeletons could serve educational purposes. His only condition was that even after death his beloved dog would be next to him.

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Born on September 23, 1988, Matthew Robinson faced serious problems from birth: he was blind and paralyzed from the neck down due to oxygen deprivation. Despite doctors' dire predictions that he had only a few hours to live, Matthew defied expectations and lived for 10 and a half years. When Matthew passed away in 1999, his father decided that his tombstone should depict Matthew as he truly was and signify hope rather than sorrow.

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In 2018, Brad Lewis saved his youngest son from a fatal fall from a balcony by instantly jumping after him, holding him to his chest and taking the brunt of the blow. As a result, he suffered a fractured skull and other injuries. The incident occurred when his son fired a toy Nerf gun and chased the bullet onto the balcony, but slipped and lost his footing. Both Brad and his son made full recoveries.

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In 2017, 70-year-old Lawrence Ripple robbed a bank in Kansas City, and then sat in the lobby there and said that he would rather go to prison than live with his wife. He was sentenced to house arrest.

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In 2020, Dagmar Turner played her violin while surgeons removed a tumor from the right frontal lobe of her brain. This unique solution was intended to help surgeons avoid damaging the area of the brain responsible for coordination and fine hand movements., which is very important for musical abilities. Fortunately, the operation was successful.

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In 1935, in Gulf, North Carolina, pregnant Alton Jourdan fell into a well and gave birth to a healthy boy, who was named Frank. The baby remained underwater for 45 minutes, not breathing, until both were rescued. The child survived.

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In 2017, 37-year-old Yang Ming accidentally tripped on a live wire at a construction site and was thrown back onto a protruding metal rod. His colleagues decided to leave the rod in place and quickly took the victim to the hospital. Surgeons were able to remove the rod during a 7-hour operation that ended successfully. The rod did not hit any vital organs, and the man survived.

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The Siberian Ice Maiden, also known as the Princess of Ukok, is a mummy of a tattooed woman from the 5th century BC, Altai Republic. The woman, who died at the age of 28-30, had several tattoos on her body, including a deer with a griffin's beak and the horns of Capricorn. The tattoos are perfectly preserved.

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On September 19, 1991, a natural mummy of a man who lived between 3350 and 3105 was found in the Ötztal Alps. BC. According to researchers, Ötzi, also called the Iceman, died from multiple wounds. One of them was an arrow wound in the left shoulder - the arrowhead was still sticking out there.

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The skeleton of Harry Eastluck, a man who suffered from fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva, a genetic disease in which any injury "heals" by turning into bone.

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In 2018, in Canada, silicone breasts saved its owner from a bullet fired at close range. Doctors noted that the implant deflected the bullet’s flight path and thereby saved the woman’s life. The only injury was a broken rib. Vital organs were not damaged.

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“These men did not take their Atabrine.” An advertisement for an antimalarial drug in Papua New Guinea, 1942.

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In the 1930s, two scientists, Winthrop Kellogg and his wife Luella, conducted a cross-fostering study in which a 7-month-old female chimpanzee named Gua was raised with a 10-month-old boy named Donald. For nine months, Gua and Donald were raised as "brother and sister" and their development was monitored by their "parents." By about 6 months, Gua was learning many human behaviors faster than Donald, but unlike Donald, Gua was unable to speak or form words. After 9 months, the experiment was abruptly stopped as Donald began to imitate the sounds Gua made and began to sound more like a chimpanzee.

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In 2009, a man sued Pepsi, claiming he found a mouse in a can of Mountain Dew. However, Pepsi's lawyers argued that Mountain Dew dissolves mice in 30 days and showed that the can was purchased 74 days after manufacture.

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In 2004, two brothers from Austria, Andreas and Christopher, fell through the ice of a frozen lake near Vienna. They were underwater for at least 30 minutes before they were pulled out. Both had stopped breathing, their hearts had stopped, and they were clinically dead. Despite the lack of hope for rescue, rescuers tried to revive them and after 30 minutes of resuscitation they heard Andreas' faint heartbeat. Half an hour later, Christopher also began to show signs of life. After nearly a full month in a coma, Andreas made a full recovery, and Christopher was on his way to full recovery. Dr. Arnold Pollack, head of the pediatric clinic at the Vienna General Hospital, said at the time: “Andreas’ recovery happened so quickly that it borders on a miracle.”

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In 1926, famous jazz pianist Fats Waller was returning home from a performance in Chicago when he was unexpectedly ambushed by a group of bandits. They took him at gunpoint and ordered him to get into their car. Fearing for his life, Fats agreed. After some time, they arrived at an exclusive club that belonged to the famous gangster Al Capone. Fats was forced to go inside and play the piano for everyone present. It turned out that it was Al Capone's 28th birthday, and since he was a big fan of Fats, he wanted him to perform for him. According to Fats Waller's son, the famous jazz musician remained unharmed and performed for Capone for three days and nights, taking breaks only to sleep on the piano bench. For each song he was paid $100, which is equivalent to more than $1,600 today.

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These are the hands of a man who suffered from severe gout. Dr. Thomas Dent Mütter kept them for study after the patient's death. He himself suffered from this disease. Gout is a form of arthritis in which the joints become inflamed and swollen.

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Kurt Gödel, an Austrian logician and mathematician, suffered from poisoning paranoia and would only eat food after his wife had tasted it. He died of starvation while his wife was in the hospital. He refused to eat food prepared by anyone else for fear of being poisoned.

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In July 2022, a 24-year-old woman was admitted to the Van Teaching and Research Hospital, Turkey, with severe abdominal pain. After taking x-rays, doctors were shocked by what they found. They saw a huge amount of inedible objects in the stomach and urgently operated on the woman. During the operation, surgeons discovered a large metal needle, as well as 158 other metal objects. Among the items recovered were a penknife, tweezers, screws, nails, a fruit knife and an assortment of needles. The young woman had psychological problems that led her to compulsively swallow foreign objects. This phenomenon is known as Pick's disease or pica. Fortunately, the woman did not suffer life-threatening injuries and survived.

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In 2014, 24-year-old Daniela Liverani from Edinburgh suffered frequent nosebleeds for several weeks. She thought the bleeding was caused by a ruptured blood vessel from a motorcycle accident she had been in. But a few days later, while taking a shower, she felt something moving in her nose. And when she got out of the shower to look in the mirror, she saw that something was sticking out of her nostril... At the hospital, doctors told the girl that a three-centimeter leech had settled in her nostril. It was promptly removed, but the shock did not go away for a long time.

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Morten Viskum is a Danish-Norwegian fringe artist who used the severed hands of the dead as brushes to create a series of works called The Hand That Never Stopped Painting. In some of his works, Viskum also replaced the paint with animal blood.