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A photo Aron Ralston took after finding a pool of water. Almost an hour prior to this photo being taken, he had just amputated his own arm after being trapped by a boulder for 5 and a half days.

On April 26, 2003, Aron Ralston was canyoneering alone through Bluejohn Canyon, in eastern Wayne County, Utah, just south of the Horseshoe Canyon unit of Canyonlands National Park. While he was descending the lower stretches of the slot canyon, a suspended boulder became dislodged while he was climbing down from it. The boulder first smashed his left hand, and then crushed his right hand against the canyon wall. Ralston had not informed anyone of his hiking plans, nor did he have any way to call for help.

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In 1978, an Indian man travelled from India to Sweden on a bicycle to reunite with a woman he met while she was on vacation in India. Travelling through 8 different countries, the journey took him a total of 4 months. 43 years on the couple are still happily married in Sweden

The man remembers very clearly the day when prophecy became a real story. The beautiful journey began on December 17, 1975. Back then, Kumar was a street artist. A beautiful blonde woman with blue eyes, named Charlotte Von Schedvin, asked him to draw a portrait of her. “When she appeared before my easel, I felt as though I didn’t have any weight. Words are not accurate enough to express such a feeling,” he said. “Her eyes were so blue and big and round, I felt as if she was not looking at me, she was looking inside me, like an X-ray machine!” The nervous young man couldn’t properly draw a woman of his dreams the first time, so he asked Charlotte to come back another day. “She ended up coming back three times, and I did three portraits, ” he said. “After the second time, I felt, she’s the one!” It turns out the mysterious foreign woman was born under the sign of Taurus, owns a forest and plays the flute, just as the prophecy said. “You will be my wife. We were destined to meet.” Kumar told his one real love.

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man buys first class ticket to get free meals at lounge

A man in China purchased a first-class plane ticket — and used it to eat a year’s worth of free meals at the VIP lounge at Xi’an International Airport.

The frequent diner purchased a first-class, fully refundable ticket aboard Eastern China Airline. He used the ticket to gain access to the airport’s VIP lounge, where high-rolling travelers dine for free, according to a report last week in the Chinese-language newspaper Kwong Wah Yit Poh in Malaysia. The man re-booked his first-class ticket over and over again and kept the gravy train rolling. Eastern China Airlines officials only recently figured out the man’s scheme after noticing his single ticket being re-booked 300 times over one year, according to the newspaper report. Airline officials admitted there was nothing they could do to stop the frequent diner.

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Shakuntala-Devi

Shakuntala Devi, also known as the human computer, gave the 23rd root of a 201 digit number in 50 seconds. The answer was verified at the US Bureau of Standards by the UNIVAC 1101 computer, for which a special program had to be written to perform such a large calculation.

Devi traveled to several countries around the world demonstrating her arithmetic talents. She was on a tour of Europe throughout 1950 and was in New York City in 1976.

In 1988, she traveled to the US to have her abilities studied by Arthur Jensen, a professor of educational psychology at the University of California, Berkeley. Jensen tested her performance at several tasks, including the calculation of large numbers. Examples of the problems presented to Devi included calculating the cube root of 61,629,875 and the seventh root of 170,859,375. Jensen reported that Devi provided the solution to the above mentioned problems (395 and 15, respectively) before Jensen could copy them down in his notebook.

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New York Govenor Andrew Cuomo making unwanted advances at wedding

Anna Ruch, said New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo placed his hands on her cheeks at a wedding party and asked if he could kiss her.

Ruch, a former member of the Obama administration and the 2020 Biden campaign, said she met Cuomo at the crowded wedding reception in September 2019.

Within moments of being introduced, Ruch claims, the gov put his hand on the small of her lower back, which was exposed in an open-back dress.

“I promptly removed his hand with my hand, which I would have thought was a clear enough indicator that I was not wanting him to touch me,” she told the Times.

But the governor apparently didn’t get the hint.

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The hands of Jeff Dabe, Arm Wrestling champion

Dabe’s forearms measure 20 inches in circumference. The base of his fourth digit is five inches, meaning his wedding ring is the size of your watch.

From Stacy, Minnesota, Dabe says he was picked on for his unique features when he was younger. However, once the bullies realized how strong he was, they suddenly had better things to do. He sees his bigger hands and arms as a gift, and says the only issue he has is trying to find clothes that fit.

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Jason Vukovich, known as the “Alaskan Avenger,” who was convicted of using the state’s sex offender registry to track down offenders, break into their homes, and beat them with a hammer

As a child, Jason Vukovich was sexually and physically abused by his stepfather. As an adult, he decided to get revenge — by tracking down sex offenders and attacking them with a hammer. Because of this, Vukovich himself was charged with assault in 2016, but many hailed him as a hero. Though he remains in prison today, some are still campaigning for his release. ⁠

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unabomber mugshot

The Unabomber was a “criminal mastermind” who went to extraordinary lengths to erase any trace of physical evidence within his explosives. He ripped the skins off batteries to make them untraceable. He also avoided commercial glue and instead made his own epoxy by melting down deer hooves

After the Unabomber demanded in 1995 that his manifesto, Industrial Society and Its Future, be published in a major newspaper as a condition for ceasing his mail-bomb campaign, The New York Times and The Washington Post published the manifesto, hoping somebody would recognize the writing style of the author.

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A 23-year-old mother was lauded as a ‘hero’ and ‘wonder woman’ for using her body to shield her infant daughter from a hail storm

It all happened when Fiona Simpson was driving back from a coffeeshop with her daughter and grandmother. “I wasn’t driving very fast because I couldn’t see very well… I couldn’t see in front of me, I couldn’t even see the line on the road,” Simpson told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). Seeing the storm aggravating, she pulled over her vehicle to wait until it becomes a little favourable to drive again. However, it only escalated and it started to hail — blowing out a back-seat window of her car and putting her infant in danger, she informed The Project.

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RIP Jerry

“It was late at night. I had just gotten off of work making airplane parts near LAX. I went to a nearby bus stop and I don’t remember what happened after that. I woke up in a hospital bed with half my face gone. I didn’t know what to think because I had no idea what had happened.

I didn’t become an angry person after I found out that I’d been shot. There wasn’t anything that I could do. I had accepted what happened and I’ve been on these streets ever since. It can be tough out here, but I’m still getting around. I try not to hang out here on Skid Row much because of all the crime and drugs. People try to steal from me, so I come to do my business and leave.

I don’t have anger in me. What good would that do me? What’s done is done. I can’t control any of that, so I try to focus on the things that I can control. I’m just grateful to be alive. I’m gonna keep going.”

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