Doctors Could Have Never Predicted What Happened to This Surrogate's Baby

Taking the Cash and Running

This surrogate mother demanded that she get paid before she gave birth, just in case her clients ran away with the money. However, the agency she was working with had prepared themselves for this possibility, and they called the police on her for conspiring to steal a baby. The woman was arrested, and she gave birth in an ambulance on the way to jail...

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The More You Know

  • Scorpions are incredibly resilient: scientists have frozen scorpions overnight, left them in the sun the following day, and when thawed, the arthropod walked away unscathed.
  • Commercial flights were allowed to fly any course to their destination and would often detour over points of interest. This ended in 1956 when two planes crashed mid-flight over the Grand Canyon.
  • Stephen Hawking is 73 years old and has outlived his shortened life expectancy due to ALS by over 50 years.
  • War pigs were used in ancient warfare to counter against war elephants, which feared the pigs (and their squeals) and would bolt. War pigs were sometimes lit on fire to enhance this effect.
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