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The guitarist (iOTA) who played Doof Warrior in "Mad Max: Fury Road," was able to shoot out flames from his guitar (which weighed around 132 pounds) with the use of his whammy bar.
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Dolly Parton publicity photo when she signed with Monument Records in 1965.
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Oh, What a Way to Go... At an Italian stag party, stripper Gina Lalapola suffocated after waiting an hour inside a sealed cake. Friends were curious when she failed to jump out. Assuming she was no longer in there, they received a nasty surprise when they found her dead inside.
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Oh, What a Way To Go... A 480-pound Florida woman spent the last 6 years of her life stuck in a couch and died attached to the couch as well. By the time of her death, her skin had literally become one with the fabric of the sofa.
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Oh, What a Way To Go… George Spencer Millet, who died running away from 6 girls who were trying to give him kisses on his 15th birthday. He tripped and fell on a sharp ink eraser in his front pocket that stabbed his heart.
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1846: English explorer John Ainsworth Horrocks became the first person to be shot & killed by a camel He was reloading when his camel kneeled + caught the cock of the gun, causing it to discharge in his face On his deathbed, he gave instructions that the camel be shot, as well
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In 2010, at a ketchup factory in India, a worker was scooping fermented liquids from a 20-foot tank when her ladder slipped, and she fell in. Her co-workers rushed to help her. In a lethal parade, six more people fell into the tank + drowned to death in the liquefied vegetables.
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Oh, What A Way To Go… An 80-year-old woman was killed in a Brazilian clinic when a student nurse accidentally administered coffee and milk through her IV line. fxn.ws/3FB4Q1p
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1971: Long time organic farming and health food advocate, Jerome Irving Rodale, suddenly died during an interview on The Dick Cavett Show. In the interview, he bragged, "I’m going to live to be 100, unless I’m run down by some sugar-crazed taxi driver." The show never aired.
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Tereszka, a child in a residence for disturbed children. She drew a picture of “home” on the blackboard. Poland, 1948. In 1978, at the Tworki Mental Asylum, Tereszka met with a tragic death: she accidentally choked on a piece of sausage that she had stolen from another patient.
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In 1784, French philosopher Denis Diderot choked to death on an apricot. Before he took that fatal bite, his wife, concerned for his health, scolded him for eating too much, and he replied: “But what the devil do you think that will do to me?”
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Alferd Packer ate five prospectors whom he was guiding over a high Colorado plateau in 1874. The judge who sentenced Packer to hang indignantly pointed out that “there was only six Democrats in all of Hinsdale County and you ate five of them.” thedenverchannel.com/news/lo…
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It's not in tequila, and it's not a worm. It's in mezcal, and it's a butterfly caterpillar that is found in the heart of the agave plant. It was known to improve the flavor, and in the 1950s, a distributor in Mexico City included one in every bottle as a marketing ploy.
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The Mickey Slim was a drink that had short-lived popularity in the US in the 1940s + 1950s. It was made by combining gin w/a pinch of DDT, an insecticide that would later be banned in most countries; consumers of this concoction claimed that its effects were similar to absinthe.
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James Bond's vodka of choice for his famous martinis was Smirnoff for more than 50 years! In 2015, in the movie SPECTRE, he made the switch to Belvedere. jamesbondlifestyle.com/produ…
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Goldschläger is a Swiss cinnamon schnapps whose claim to fame is the inclusion of ‘real gold flakes.’ The actual amount of gold has been measured at approximately 13 mg in a one-litre bottle. This amounts to €0.64/US$0.78 on the international gold market.
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Jägermeister was originally intended to be cough medicine. The mixture of 56 ingredients are a company secret and have never changed in the whole 86 years. In Germany, it’s still popular for an after-dinner sip, that’s why it’s lovingly known as “leberkleister” (“liver glue”)
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An Irish car bomb is made by dropping a shot of Irish cream and whiskey into a glass of stout. It was created by Charles Burke Cronin Oat at Wilson’s Saloon in Connecticut in 1979. The name was inspired by the small explosion caused by dropping the shot glass into the pint.
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1972: Robert “Rosebud” Butt claims to have invented the Long Island Iced Tea as part of a contest to create the best new mixed drink using triple sec. The name was of course inspired by Long Island, New York, where Butt tended bar at a now-defunct nightclub called Oak Beach Inn.
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Bartender Neal Murray says he created the cosmopolitan in 1975 at the Cork & Cleaver steak house in Minneapolis. According to Murray, he added a splash of cranberry juice to a Kamikaze + the first taster declared, "How cosmopolitan." Thus, the name of the new drink was invented.
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