Genie Wiley: America's Ferie Child

Kept in Darkness

Genie’s room was kept dark, and her mother and brother were not permitted to interact with her or each other. Both the windows were blacked out. During this time, Wiley would sit in the living room, crazed, with a shotgun in his lap…

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The More You Know

  • Contrary to popular belief, Marilyn Munroe was nowhere near a 'plus' size 12 - 16, she was closer to a US size 0.
  • Fear of the number 13 is called triskaidekaphobia.
  • In 1945, Dwight D. Eisenhower predicted that people would try to dispel the holocaust as a falsehood, and ordered all possible photographs taken of the Nazi crimes to hinder any such attempts.
  • A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time.
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