90% of clothes donated to U.S. charities are sold to textile recyclers. 75% of THAT are recycled. 25% are sold on the street markets in Africa at about 500% mark-up. This partly crushes the African textile industries because they can’t make new clothes as cheap as cheap old American clothes.
3 years after illegally joining the Marines at the age of 14, Jacklyn Lucas snuck onto a ship bound for Iwo Jima, stormed the beach without a rifle, and threw himself on top of two grenades to protect his team. He survived, and earned the Medal of Honor at the age of 17.
After the entire national Soviet hockey team was killed in an airplane crash in 1950, Stalin’s son Vasily, the manager of the team, covered up the disaster and replaced everyone on the team to avoid his father’s wrath. Stalin never noticed.
A WW2 observation pilot got bored of not being in combat and decided to strap 6 bazooka’s to his plane destroying several tanks and armored vehicles.
Happy Saturday to everyone, and may you all have a great weekend! In a very famous movie, one of the principle actors in it talked about how life was all about certain points of view. Everyone can take a certain viewpoint of something, and painful as it may be, that point of view can help them cope with something heartbreaking, tragic, and sad. Do you know which famous film I’m referring to? If so, you should leave a comment below and let me know what movie you think it may be.
Either way, that actor was right when he said that points of view are how everyone takes the world and that also includes things like optical illusions. Today’s illusion is all about point of view, and this one is quite special because it looks as though the hand of God himself is taking the sky and turning clouds into long stripes, or perhaps it is the hand of mankind himself that has decided to get rid of the clouds? Whether this is the hand of God or man is really in the eye of the beholder, but it certain makes for quite a debate does it not?
Want to put your eyesight to the test? If the answer is yes, then check out this amazing under the sea illusion and see if you can find more than one dolphin.
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1906 - Chicago Cubs score 11 in 1st inning, beating NY Giants 19-0
1930 - 62nd Belmont: Earl Sande aboard Gallant Fox wins in 2:31.6
1948 - KVP wins Dutch Second-Parliamentary election
1965 - Sony Corp introduced its home video tape recorder, priced at $995
1968 - The body of assassinated U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy lies in state at St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York.
1997 - Stanley Cup: Detroit Red Wings sweep the Phila Flyers
1952 - Liam Neeson, N Ireland, actor (Schindler's List, Les Miserables)
1953 - Johnny Clegg, rocker
1958 - Francesca Thyssen, lugano Switz, baroness
1964 - Caroline Anne Hare, Lower hutt NZ, 5k/10k (Olympics-96)
1970 - Cafu, Brazilian football player
1971 - Terrell Buckley, NFL cornerback (Miami Dolphins)
1337 - Willem III the Good, earl of Holland/Zealand, dies at about 49
1778 - Johann Georg Zechner, composer, dies at 62
1810 - Luigi Schiavonetti, Italian engraver (b. 1765)
1876 - George Sand, writer, dies at 71
1916 - Émile Faguet, French writer and critic (b. 1847)
1983 - Daniele Amfiteatrov, composer, dies at 81
