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Tommy McHugh was a British artist and poet. When he was 51, McHugh attempted to evacuate his bowels quickly due to a knock on the toilet door. The sudden pressure led to a stroke. He was in a coma for a week and acquired savant syndrome.

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Watch 1505 is the oldest watch in the world that still works. In 1987, the watch reappeared at an antiques and flea market in London. The initial price estimation for this watch is between 50 and 80 million dollars

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The Death Star strategy was the name Enron gave to their practice of shuffling energy around the California power grid to receive payments from the state for "relieving congestion".

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Environmentalism in The Lord of the Rings. The Hobbits' visions of Saruman's industrial hell of Isengard and Sauron's desolate polluted land of Mordor have been interpreted as comments on modern society

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