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In 2003, Abdul Wali, an Afghan farmer, was falsely accused of being a terrorist. Hoping to clear his name, he turned turned himself in to the Americans. A CIA contractor would brutally torture Wali to death over the course of 3 days, beating him until he begged for death. 🔔@Everything_Science

In 2016, A Nokia 301 saved a man’s life in Afghanistan when he was shot and the bullet lodged in the device. Do you believe this 🤯? 🔔@Everything_Science

Cats recognize their own name but choose not to respond. 🔔@Everything_Science

In 2013, a Florida man, Jeff Bush, was sleeping in his bedroom when a large sinkhole opened up directly underneath his bed, swallowing him and his entire bedroom. His brother heard him scream, but was unable to see or reach him in time. Bush’s body was never recovered. 🔔@Everything_Science

Egyptian Pharaohs were once required to masturbate into the River Nile to keep its flow cycle stable. The event was known as the Fertility Festival. 🔔@Everything_Science

In 2011, a man crashed Paris Hilton’s 30th birthday party, stole her $3,200 birthday cake, and served it to the homeless. 🔔@Everything_Science

Real corpses were used in the 1982 film Poltergeist. The reason that real skeletons were used in the movie is because it was actually cheaper and more cost-effective than creating and using plastic fake ones. JoBeth Williams, the actress who falls in the pool with the skeletons, was not made aware that they were real skeletons until after she finished shooting the scene. 🔔@Everything_Science

The USA was supposed to adopt the metric system but the ship carrying the standardized meter and kilogram was hijacked by pirates in 1793 and the measurements never made it to the United States 🔔@Everything_Science

A Vietnamese teenager buttons up her Mothers blouse after she was sexually assaulted by American Gl's. They were gunned down moments after this photo was taken. My Lai Massacre, Vietnam. 16 March 1968. 🔔@Everything_Science

The human nose can recognise over 1,000,000,000,000 different smells. Did you know this 🤯? 🔔@Everything_Science

In Japan, while attending school, children perform daily cleaning tasks as part of their education system as cleaning is associated with morality in Japanese culture. 🔔@Everything_Science

There's a cafe located in France which charges €7 a coffee to rude customers and €1.40 to people who talk politely to staff. 🔔@Everything_Science