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After being dumped for being poor by his ex-girlfriend seven years prior, a Chinese man spent $40,000 booking four entire IMAX cinemas for first-day showings of Transformers 4 - just to prove her wrong.
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In 2005, a fortune cookie company correctly foretold lottery numbers, resulting in 110 winners and an investigation.
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The Great Escape
In 1986 federal prisoner Ronald J. McIntosh escaped during a prisoner transfer. A month later he returned in a stolen helicopter and broke out his girlfriend.
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Scientists have been able to recreate conversations that were held behind a soundproof glass wall by recording the vibrations seen on a potato chip bag.
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The oldest living person smoked cigarettes from the age of 21 to 117.
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Amazing Plane Theft
In 1956, for a bet whilst drunk, Thomas Fitzpatrick stole a small plane from New Jersey and then landed it perfectly on a narrow Manhattan street in front of the bar he had been drinking at. Then, two years later, he did it again after a man didn’t believe he had done it the first time.
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In 2006, a woman was found in her London flat, skeletonized, after 3 years of being dead – with the TV still running.
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Accidental Cocaine Tweet
American Psycho writer Bret Easton Ellis tried to order cocaine from his dealer but, instead of texting him, he accidentally tweeted it to his 350k followers.
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