Results: Strange But True Part 10

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07/05/2024

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Trivia
1.
1.
In 2007, Adnan and Sana Klaric, a married couple from Zenica, Bosnia, after some marriage difficulties, each started a online romance in chat rooms. Under the guise of nicknames "Prince of Joy" and "Sweetie," the couple met in an internet chatroom and began discreetly talking, not knowing they were actually chatting with their partner seated at the other end of the dinner table. After confiding in each other about their marriage troubles they soon fell in love and decided to meet — and realized they had been communicating with each other the whole time. Sadly, not even this "non affair" could survive their marriage, and the couple divorced soon after the discovery. Have you ever heard the 1979 song, Escape (The Pina Colada Song) by Rupert Holmes which is a similar scenario (but that ended better than this one)?
Yes
38%
758 votes
No
32%
630 votes
N/A
31%
612 votes
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2.
Lina Medina was only five years old when a doctor in Peru discovered she was seven months pregnant. Her parents noticed her belly had become larger and took her to have it checked out. And on May 14, 1939, she gave birth to a boy named Gerardo. She is on record as the youngest person to give birth. It's believed that Medina had a rare genetic condition called precocious puberty, which causes a child's body to change into that of an adult too soon (before age eight for girls and before age nine for boys). Boys with this condition will often experience a deepening voice, enlarged genitals, and facial hair. Girls with this condition will typically have their first period and develop breasts early on. It affects about one in every 10,000 children. Roughly 10 times more girls than boys develop this way. Of course, speculation on who the father was ran wild, and Medina's father was even briefly arrested on rape charges, but let go. Have you ever heard about this disturbing story?
Yes
13%
263 votes
No
64%
1281 votes
N/A
23%
456 votes
3.
3.
In 2013, after a Detroit couple divorced, and the ex-wife remarried the man she had an affair with, the ex-husband, Alan Markovitz, a well-known strip club owner, decided to buy the house right next to the couple, and put up a giant middle finger statue aimed in their direction. Spotlights on the 12-foot-high bronze statue make sure it can be viewed at all hours. "I'm so over her," Markovitz said. "This is about him. This is about him not being a man." The statue cost roughly $7,000 and is installed in the back garden. Do you know anyone who went to these lengths to get even with an ex?
No
70%
1406 votes
Yes
7%
136 votes
I did
3%
55 votes
Not sure
20%
403 votes
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4.
Petroleum Jelly was invented by Robert Augustus Chesebrough when he observed that the workers in a petroleum drilling station applying a jelly-like by-product generated in the process, on their skin against wounds. He further developed the process and finally reached a uniform product, branded later as "Vaseline". Cheseborough was such a believer in Vaseline that he claimed to have eaten a spoonful of it every day. During a serious bout of pleurisy in his mid-50s, had his nurse rub him from head to foot with Vaseline. He died at the age of 96. Do you use Vaseline and do you have any unusual uses for the product?
I use it, and just the normal uses
55%
1107 votes
I use it, and do use it in some unusual way
8%
164 votes
Only used it on my babies back in the day
8%
166 votes
Never used it
15%
300 votes
Never heard of it
13%
263 votes

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