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[color=#333333]The World's Largest Bible! It weighs half a ton and contains 8048 pages.[/color]

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[color=#333333]In September 1955, James Dean was killed in a horrific car accident whilst he was driving his Porsche sports car. After the crash the car was seen as very unlucky.[/color]

[color=#333333]1) When the car was towed away from accident scene and taken to a garage, the engine slipped out and fell onto a mechanic, shattering both of his legs.[/color]

[color=#333333]2) Eventually the engine was bought by a doctor, who put it into his racing car an[/color][color=#333333]d was killed shortly afterwards, during a race. Another racing driver, in the same race, was killed in his car, which had James Dean's driveshaft fitted to it.

3) When James Dean's Porsche was later repaired, the garage it was in was destroyed by fire.

4) Later the car was displayed in Sacramento, but it fell off it's mount and broke a teenager's hip.

5) In Oregon, the trailer that the car was mounted on slipped from it's towbar and smashed through the front of a shop.

6) Finally, in 1959, the car mysteriously broke into 11 pieces while it was sitting on steel supports. [/color]

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[color=#333333]King Umberto I' double[/color]

[color=#333333]In Monza, Italy, King Umberto I, went to a small restaurant for dinner, accompanied by his aide-de-camp, General Emilio Ponzia- Vaglia. When the owner took King Umberto's order, the King noticed that he and the restaurant owner were virtual doubles, in face and in build. Both men began discussing the striking resemblances between each other and found many more similarities.[/color]

[color=#333333]1) Both men were born on the same day, of the same year, (March 14th, 1844).

2) Both men had been born in the same town.

3) Both men married a woman with same name, Margherita.

4) The restauranteur opened his restaurant on the same day that King Umberto was crowned King of Italy.

5) On the 29th July 1900, King Umberto was informed that the restauranteur had died that day in a mysterious shooting accident, and as he expressed his regret, he was then assassinated by an anarchist in the crowd[/color]

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[color=#333333]The Family That Couldn’t Sleep[/color]

[color=#333333]FFI is the acronym of a fatal genetic sleep disorder called Fatal Familial Insomnia. Jay Schadler and Laura Viddy best describe the rare disease: “Those affected by FFI are forever trying and failing to fall asleep. The disease steals one’s sleep, mind and ultimately one’s life, and, before dying, one hovers for months in a twilight world.”[/color]

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[color=#333333]Jan Grzebski - The man who slept for 19 years[/color]

[color=#333333]During the 1980’s, Poland was still run by a Communist regime. It was a terrible period of despair, great poverty and confusion.[/color]

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[color=#333333]Wingwalker Todd Green falls from John Mohr's Steerman aircraft to his death, after losing his grip while trying to perform a transfer to the helicopter during Selfridge Air Show, less than 30 miles from Detroit, August 21, 2011.[/color]

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[color=#333333]The picture immediately grabs your attention due to how gruesome it is. A person is seen hanging while someone with a folding chair is preparing to strike them in the head. However, what makes this picture even more gruesome is the reaction of the children standing among the mob watching. The menacing smile of the child really exemplifies the chaos, and animal lik[/color][color=#333333]e behavior that had been exhibited during the time. The horizontal line of the chair, and the horizontal line of the group of people brings the viewers eyes to the hanging individual. The hanging individuals vertical lines show strength despite the person’s death. This photo had won the Pulitzer Prize Award.[/color]

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[color=#333333]The Oregon Vortex - A Place Where Gravity Has a Mind of Its Own[/color]

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[img]https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/383770_194381823978839_1134068481_n.jpg[/img][color=#333333]In 2007, high levels of bromate—a carcinogen formed when bromide and chlorine react with sunlight—were found in Los Angeles’s Ivanhoe Reservoir. Today three million black plastic balls help deflect UV rays.[/color]

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[img]https://fbcdn-sphotos-c-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-frc1/336551_195364790547209_1607512194_o.jpg[/img][color=#333333]Hindenburg disaster [/color]

[color=#333333]The Hindenburg disaster took place on Thursday, May 6, 1937, as the German passenger airship LZ 129 Hindenburg caught fire and was destroyed during its attempt to dock with its mooring mast at the Lakehurst Naval Air Station, which is located adjacent to the borough of Lakehurst, New Jersey. Of the 97 people on board (36 passengers, 61 crew), there were 35 fatalities as well [/color][color=#333333]as one death among the ground crew.

The disaster was the subject of spectacular newsreel coverage, photographs, and Herbert Morrison's recorded radio eyewitness report from the landing field, which was broadcast the next day. The actual cause of the fire remains unknown, although a variety of hypotheses have been put forward for both the cause of ignition and the initial fuel for the ensuing fire. The incident shattered public confidence in the giant, passenger-carrying rigid airship and marked the end of the airship era.[/color]

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[img]https://fbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/332441_197055737044781_1047653128_o.jpg[/img][color=#333333]The Andes Accident - The most shocking survival story[/color]

[color=#333333]On Friday 13th October of 1972, an Uruguayan plane, which was carrying 45 passengers to Chile, most of whom were students and rugby players, crashed in the Andes Mountains.[/color]

[color=#333333]Twelve of the people died in the crash. The survivors not only had to withstand the hunger and the fearful Mountains, but also 30 degree-below-zero temperatures during the[/color][color=#333333] night.

They tried to survive with the scarce food reserves they had until being rescued, but they lost their hope when heard that the search had ceased on the radio.
Desperate owing to the lack of food and physically exhausted, they were forced to feed themselves on their death partners to keep on living. Finally fed up with the extremely low temperatures and the avalanche threats, as well as anguished by the continuos deaths of their partners and the bad rescue prospects, two of them decided to cross the huge mountains to reach Chile.

On 22nd of December of 1972, after being isolated for 72 days, the World found out and knew there were 16 survivors that beat Death in the Andes mountains.[/color]

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[img]https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/383003_204033733013648_681345501_n.jpg[/img][color=#333333]Fire on Marlborough Street [1975][/color]

[color=#333333]On July 22, 1975, photograph Stanley J. Forman working for the Boston Herald American newspaper when a police scanner picked up an emergency: “Fire on Marlborough Street!”[/color]
[color=#333333]Climbed on a the fire truck, Forman shot the picture of a young woman, Diana Bryant, and a very young girl, Tiare Jones when they fell helplessly. Diana Bryant was pronounced dead at the scene.[/color][color=#333333] The young girl lived. Despite a heroic effort, the fireman who tried to grab them had been just seconds away from saving the lives of both.

Photo coverage from the tragic event garnered Stanley Forman a Pulitzer Prize. But more important, his work paved the way for Boston and other states to mandate tougher fire safety codes.[/color]

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[color=#333333]The "Ghosts" of Flight 401 - The Haunted Aircraft [/color]

[color=#333333]On the night of Friday, December 29th, 1972 Eastern Airlines Flight 401 was carrying 176 people as it neared it's destination of the Miami Airport. Flying the L - 1011 jumbo jet were Captain Bob Loft and Second Officer Don Repo, who were engaged in routine landing procedures when a warning light flashed on the control panel indicating a problem [/color][color=#333333]with the landing gear. It is possibly that this is the reason neither of them noticed that the plane was actually descending around 200 feet per minute faster than what they thought. Seconds later the airliner slammed into the Florida Everglades, killing 101 people immedietly. Both Captain Loft and Officer Repo survived the initial impact, but both were mortally wounded. Captain Loft died before he could be pulled from the burning, twisted wreck and Officer Repo died a day later. The story of these men should have ended right there, but this was not to be the case. Eastern Airlines salvaged much of the stricken airplane and redistributed them among similar aircraft in their fleet.[/color]

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[color=#333333]The Man Who Survived Being Buried 40 Days[/color]

[color=#333333]According to a fascinating report printed in the London Telegraph in 1880, a man was buried ‘in a condition of apparent death’ for 40 days and survived. No tricks or tomfoolery were involved, so how did he do it?[/color]

[color=#333333]It’s often the case that when someone professes to be able do something remarkable, that great gift of human nature kicks in – skepticism. So w[/color][color=#333333]hen Maharajah Ranjeet Singh heard from an Indian fakir who claimed he could come back to life after being buried for several months in an apparent state of death, the Maharajah could only reply with one statement – proof or it didn’t happen.[/color]