Starving
Genie’s father refused to feed her normal meals. To keep her alive, he spoon-fed her baby food, cereal, Pablum, or soft-boiled eggs as quickly as possible, and if she didn’t eat fast enough, he would rub her face in it…
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Genie Wiley: America's Ferie Child
The More You Know
- Sesame Street is now a real place.
- The longest tennis rally lasted over 12 hours.
- If you ate nothing but rabbit meat, you would die from protein poisoning.
- A U.S. park ranger named Roy C. Sullivan held the record for being struck by lightning the most times, having been struck — and surviving — seven times between 1942 and 1977.