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From a dog landing on someone's head to celebrating a goal, here are 15 tales of death striking from the oddest angles. Death is a fascinating topic for many; there is a deep, intrinsic fear of our mortality and of how fragile it can be. Alas, we are not all destined to die of old... Continue Reading →
When a poodle fell off a high rise balcony in Buenos Aires, it's hard to imagine how it could result in the deaths of three pedestrians below. Cachi’s beady eyes were locked on to the tennis ball the Montoya family’s youngest boy bounced, so engrossed his head nodded up and down to its rebound. The... Continue Reading →
Patrick Lawler seemed fine after a small accident at work. What seemed at first to be a lousy toothache turned into needing emergency surgery after a stunning X-ray find. The 23-year-old construction worker, with black eyebrows and goatee, sat on the edge of his chair and gnawed on his fingernails with the sort of trepidation... Continue Reading →
To survive was one-in-a-million, but to almost completely recover is incomprehensible. The side-effects, however, made him shunned by decent society On September 13, 1848, an unbelievable medical marvel occurred. A foreman named Phineas Gage was toiling at the head of a work-gang. They were blasting rock to prepare the roadbed to lay railroad track on... Continue Reading →
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