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1. Lobotomy Back in the day if someone was deemed insane or mentally unstable doctors performed a Transorbital Lobotomy on them. The technique involved using an instrument called an orbitoclast, a modified ice pick, which the physician would insert through the patient’s eye socket using a hammer. They would then move the instrument side-to-side to separate the frontal lobes from the thalamus, the part of the brain that receives and relays sensory input. The afflicted person would be left in a vegetative state most of the time afterwards. John F. Kennedy’s sister, Rosemary Kennedy, was given one of the first lobotomies because of her mood swings. Doctors asked her to sing God Bless America while they cut into her brain, and stopped when she “became incoherent.” António Moniz, the surgeon who developed the frontal lobotomy procedure to make people calm and docile, was shot by one of his lobotomized patients. 2. Female Hysteria Female hysteria was a once-common medical...

1. In World War II, American soldier John R. Fox died when he deliberately called an artillery strike on himself. Realizing that German troops were overrunning his party’s position, the strike delayed the enemy long enough for other American units to organize a counter attack. 2. On 5 March 1945, a Gurkha soldier in the British army calmly stood up in open sight and killed a sniper pinning down his company before going on to clear 5 enemy bunkers, single-handedly, all whilst under heavy fire. 3. Teddy Roosevelt’s son, Ted, was awarded the Medal of Honor for leading the first wave of US Soldiers attacking Utah Beach on D-Day. He volunteered for the assignment and had to walk with a cane due to WWI injuries and a heart condition. He was the oldest man in the first wave at age 56. 4. After French soldier Jean Bernadotte showed kindness to a few Swedish soldiers, he became so popular in Sweden that the Swedes decided to make him their king when a vacancy came up, despite him ...

1. Walt Disney gave his housekeeper Disney stocks each year for the holidays. She died a multi-millionaire. 2. All of the 90’s Disney movies are from a period called the Disney Renaissance, which was considered to have started with The Little Mermaid (1989), and ended with Tarzan (1999), wherein Disney made $3.9 billion dollars worldwide. 3. A movie called “Escape from Tomorrow” (2013) was filmed in its entirety in Disney World, without Disney knowing about it. The actors read their scripts off of cell phones to keep themselves hidden. 4. When Disney first previewed the Abe Lincoln animatronic to the public, a valve ruptured during the show. This caused Lincoln to collapse and leak red hydraulic fluid, but it prompted the audience to believe Disney was re-creating his assassination. 5. The Disney Channel doesn't accept any outside ads. The only commercials it airs are for its own shows and Disney products. 6. There is an abandoned island at Disney World Florida ...

10. John Jacob Astor John Jacob Astor was an American, originally born in Germany. He lived the life of a businessman, merchant and investor. What is most notable about Astor is that he was the first multi-millionaire ever to have lived in the United States. Astor lived his early years traveling, moving from Germany to Britain and finally to the United States, where he built both a fur trading and a real estate empire. His adjusted net worth amounted to $121 billion in today’s dollars. 9. Cornelius Vanderbilt Otherwise referred to as the Commodore, Cornelius Vanderbilt was one of the most famous (and wealthiest) industrialists in American history. He was the patriarch of the Vanderbilt family, who themselves, were among the wealthiest American families in history (largely due to the Commodore). All in all, Vanderbilt’s wealth peaked at $185 billion when you adjust it to today’s dollars. He made his money from a variety of different sources, but most of it came from th...

Hiroshima and Nagasaki became the first cities in the world to witness the power of nuclear weapons. Even today, the shadows of the victims lay imprinted on the walls of these cities. Here are Interesting Facts About Hiroshima and Nagasaki related to that incident. 1. The US Airforce before dropping the A-bomb, dropped pamphlets in Hiroshima warning people of the bombing. 2. For decades, the mayor of Hiroshima, Tadatoshi Akiba wrote letters of protest each time a nuclear test was conducted, as a plea to end the use of nuclear weapons. 3. The Flame of Peace in Hiroshima, Japan has burned since 1964 in honor of the victims and will be extinguished only when all nuclear weapons are removed from the world and the Earth is free from nuclear threat. 4. After the first Hiroshima atomic bombing in Japan, one Hiroshima policeman went to Nagasaki to teach police about ducking after the atomic flash. As a result of this timely warning, not a single Nagasaki policeman died in Naga...

1. No company insures Jackie Chan or his team, so he pays it for himself and his stunt team. 2. Jackie Chan’s son will get none of his $130 Million fortune. According to him, “If he is capable, he can make his own money. If he is not, then he will just be wasting my money.” 3. Jackie Chan got the name Jackie while he was working as a construction worker in Canberra, Australia. 4. Jackie Chan is a classically trained vocalist and has released more than 20 albums in over five languages, in addition to providing the theme tunes for several of his earlier films and singing in several Chinese dubs of Disney classics. 5. Jackie Chan broke twelve concrete blocks with his hand, while keeping the egg he was holding intact. Here is the youtube  link . 6. Jackie Chan used to carry multiple guns and even a grenade to protect himself and his other artists from The Triad in the 1980s and 1990s. 7. In one scene IT took Jackie Chan 2900 separate takes in the movie Dragon Lord...

1. Jehovah’s Witnesses don’t celebrate birthdays because the only two accounts of birthday parties in the Bible resulted in murder. 2. In the second Matrix movie, Agent Smith’s license plate is “IS 5416″, which refers to Isaiah 54:16 from the Bible: “Behold, I have created the smith that bloweth the coals in the fire, and that bringeth forth an instrument for his work; and I have created the waster to destroy.” 3. Laws mentioned in the Bible required farmers to leave parts of their fields un-harvested for strangers, a practice that still exists in parts of the world. 4. Methuselah, from the Bible, is accredited as being the oldest person to have ever lived, dying at the age of 969 years, but it is thought that this is a mistranslation and that he was 969 lunar months old when he died (78.5 years old) since early Judaic tribes used lunar months to gauge time. 5. According the stories in the Bible, God killed minimum 2,400,000 people, while Satan killed only about 10. ...