Anne Oakley was such a good shooter that she could split a playing card help edge-on, hit dimes thrown into the air, shoot cigarette from her husband’s lips, and pierce a playing card thrown into the air before it hit the ground. […]
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After Kansas mill owners found women reused flour sack materials into apparel in the 1920s and 1930s, they started applying patterned designs to give families with more fashionable patterns and material. […]
A grandson invented an award winning Water Candy “Jelly Drops” to help Granda with Dementia. This Jelly Drop are 95% water, have extra electrolytes, sugar-free, and are popular among seniors, persons with Alzheimer’s, and other people who have struggle staying hydrated. […]
A female grey wolf and a male brown bear’s remarkable “friendship” was captured by Finnish photographer Lassi Rautiainen over the course of ten days in 2013. Together, they traveled everywhere while hunting and splitting their catch. […]
A mother won $2 million from a $10 scratch-off lottery ticket after she spent all of her entire life savings to pay her daughter’s cancer treatment. She bought the winning ticket after her daughter’s last cancer treatment. […]
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Morgan Freeman wears earrings so that if he dies in a strange place they can pay for his coffin. […]
A 28-year-old scientist could receive the Nobel Prize for developing a new class of antibiotics that fight drug-resistant bacteria, but she only has months to live after being diagnosed with incurable heart cancer, and she says “There aren’t words to express how sad I feel’ about not seeing award.” […]
A 24-year-old knife-wielding burglar attempted to get into the home of a 72-year-old senior in Oxford, England, in 2009, but was left battered, bruised, and pinned to the ground. Frank Corti, the elderly, turned out to be a former boxing champion. […]
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Slavery was abolished in Mexico in 1829. Slaves were escaping to Mexico, and slaveholders in the US were aware of this. The US attempted to get Mexico to sign a fugitive slave treaty, which would have required Mexico to send back escaped slaves to the US. But, Mexico refused, arguing that slaves were free as soon as they set foot on Mexican soil. […]
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Henry Ford was the first Industrial Giant to give his employees both Saturday and Sunday off in the hope of encouraging more leisurely use of automobiles and thus popularizing the concept of the “weekend.” […]
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