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Every now and then you may get a sneezing fit. But what does that amount to? Maybe 10 sneezes in quick succession. It is hardly debilitating. However, the common sneeze is a very different story for 12-year-old Katelyn Thornley from Angleton, Texas. The seventh grader suffers from an unknown condition that causes her to sneeze […]

Collecting objects can be a fun past time. Sometimes however, it can turn into an obsession. Case in point would be Lillian Glanmire, an Irishwoman whose interest in Coca Cola may have gone too far. Lilian has spent thousands of dollars converting her home into a shrine to the famous soft drink. Every single room in […]

There are heroes and then there is Didar Hossain. On the 24th of April 2013, Hossain was busy working the line at a factory in Dhaka, Bangledesh where he makes just $70 a month. Above the din of the machinery he heard a massive sound. He and others ran to the window of the garment […]

A cannonball splash is probably the most fun way to dive – and the best way to annoy all others in the pool with the resulting splash. However, did you know it’s a legitimate sport as well? It’s officially called ‘splashdiving’, but fans of the sport call it ‘arse bombing’. While normal dive competitors try […]

On March 13, 2003, Jeremy Perkins, a 28 year old untreated schizophrenic, stabbed his mother Elli 77 times. She bled to death in her own home. Jeremy was under the care of the Church of Scientology at the time. He had been diagnosed with schizophrenia a number of years before the incident, however Elli Perkins (a senior […]

Tom R. Bennett was the copilot on Trans Australian Airways flight 408 on the 19th July 1960, when the world’s first midair sky-jacking took place. The aircraft, a Lockheed Electra Mk 2 (VH-TLB) was operating the last Sydney to Brisbane flight for the day. Forty three passengers and six crew were on board. The terrorist was […]

Since the founding of the Church of Scientology in 1952 the organization has strongly opposed established mental health care practices and the fields of psychiatry and psychology. To this day, Scientologists abhor mainstream psychiatry and view it as a barbaric and corrupt profession. Scientology members are denied access to psychiatric care and medication, and instead are […]

At the turn of the twentieth century, Sir Lewis Stratford Tollemache Halliday showed heroism in the field of battle in a quintessentially English manner. The man was a recipient of the Victoria Cross for his actions during the Boxer Revolution in China. Halliday was 30 years old at the time. Stationed in Peking, China, Halliday was a captain […]