“Intelligence” levels are being renamed back to instant and thinking. Phew!

“Intelligence” levels are being renamed back to instant and thinking. Phew!

u/186times14 — 2 days ago

Jay Cochrane, famous tightrope walker, walks across the two buildings of the Flamingo Hilton hotel in Las Vegas while blindfolded (1998)

u/186times14 — 3 days ago

(2003) In the Bronx NY, Edwin Gallart dropped his phone into a trains toilet. He stuck his hand in the toilet thinking he could get it out, but his arm got stuck. The train halted to a stop and it took hours for rescue workers to get his poop-stained arm out. He still lost his phone.

u/186times14 — 3 days ago

In 1998, Rose Martin of Massachusetts said in Her will that she would be buried in her 1962 Chevy Corvair. When she died, community members embalmed the body, placed it inside the Corvair, and buried it.

u/186times14 — 6 days ago

For some reason, a man in Paris, France decided to sit on the Arc De Triomphe’s “Eternal Flame” which honors WW1 veterans. Instead, he was treated for severe burns on his butt. (2001)

u/186times14 — 7 days ago

McRazor: In 1978, McDonald’s gave out a disposable razor to participating stores in Hawaii. At the time, disposable razors were only 4 years old at the time, so they were not widely used. Gillette invented the Good News razor in 1976, the one used by McDonalds which was a flop.

u/186times14 — 16 days ago

(1971) Fiona Gordon realized that the ancient Roman coin at her local South Shields Museum in England was actually a replica made by the soda company Robinson. Apparently if you sent in enough caps you’d get a replica Roman coin.

u/186times14 — 17 days ago

Bernice Wyszynski from Conneticut saw an ad in which car was being sold for $1,395. The ad seller used "bananas' as a slang for dollars, which Bernice was not aware of. She told the press about her cause, and soon the United Fruit Company was able to give her 1,395 bananas to buy her Pontiac (1965)

u/186times14 — 17 days ago

A woman in New Mexico was the victim of a prank where she accidentally chose a deposit slip with a holdup note written on it by a clever prankster. Due to this, the bank called police, and police forced her to step out of the vehicle before realizing it was a prank (1997)

u/186times14 — 18 days ago