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"The universe is vast and awesome.. For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love." - Carl Sagan
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The inbred Habsburg royals are a historical curiosity that continues to baffle and amaze many. Centuries of intermarriage within their own family—cousins, uncles, aunts—resulted in severe physical and mental defects among the Habsburgs. Ferdinand I of Austria is a notable example. Despite his many health issues, he lived to the age of 82, which was remarkable given the circumstances.
Ferdinand was mentally challenged and unstable, rendering him largely incapable of fulfilling his royal duties. He was known for making unreasonable demands, such as insisting on out-of-season food simply because, in his words, “I’m the Emperor!” Suffering up to twenty seizures a day, Ferdinand was considered unlikely to produce an heir. During his first attempt to consummate his marriage, he experienced five seizures, and despite his efforts, he never succeeded in fathering a child.
In 1848, his nephew Franz-Joseph took over the throne, allowing Ferdinand to retire peacefully—a retirement he seemed to enjoy until his death in 1875.
Charles II of Spain, another Habsburg, suffered even more severe consequences of inbreeding. Known as ‘the bewitched,’ his jaw was so malformed from generations of incest that he could barely breathe or speak. He remained childish longer than most men and became senile early. By thirty, he was completely bald, though portraits depict him wearing wigs.
A French ambassador, expressing pity for Charles’s future wife, described him as “an imbecile so ugly as to cause fear and obviously unwell.” Despite two marriages, Charles II never produced an heir. His first wife endured painful fertility treatments, wrongly blamed for their childlessness when it was likely Charles who was infertile.
The autopsy of Charles II revealed shocking details: a heart the size of a peppercorn, corroded lungs, rotten intestines, a single black testicle, and a head full of water. It’s astonishing that the Habsburgs, despite centuries of suffering, never seemed to realize that their practice of incest was the root cause of their numerous health problems.
The Habsburg Jaw: Inbreeding and European Royalty historydefined.net/hapsburg-…
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In 1998, Texas inmate Steven Russell escaped from prison by convincing officials he was dying of AIDS.
He used laxatives to fake the symptoms of the disease and make himself look seriously ill.
Believing he didn't have long to live, the state released him to a hospice near San Antonio.
From there, he called the hospice staff, posing as a doctor looking for patients willing to try an experimental treatment for AIDS.
Russell volunteered for the program he had invented himself, and officials let him leave the hospice for treatment.
A few weeks later, the Texas prison system received a death certificate. Steven Russell had supposedly died of AIDS.
He hadn't. Police caught him in Florida soon after.
It was his fourth escape, and he did it to be with Phillip Morris, a fellow inmate he had fallen in love with.
Their story was later turned into a Hollywood movie starring Jim Carrey.
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Lisa Kudrow reveals the miserable truth behind the iconic ‘Friends’ fountain intro and how Matthew Perry saved it.
The opening credits of Friends look like a group of twenty-somethings having the time of their lives. In reality, it was a freezing cold night, the cast had done 500 takes of unmotivated dancing, and everyone was miserable.
But according to Lisa Kudrow, Matthew Perry managed to break the tension, and his joke is forever immortalized in the final cut.
“It was so cold and we had to keep doing it. And they said we’re gonna do one more take, and Matthew said, ‘One more? Okay. Can’t remember a time I wasn’t in a fountain… what are we, wet? What are we dancing in a fountain?’ And I don’t know when I’ve laughed so hard… you see us laughing, and it’s because he had just said that… laughing hysterically, doubled over, and that’s in the titles.
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My mother died and my brother and I are preparing to sell her house. I'm the executor and need his help so I'm being very amicable and friendly. He doesn't know that when the estate is settled, I will rarely if ever speak to him again because he's an annoying bellend.
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Absolutely beautiful birds! 🐦❤️ Nature’s beauty captured perfectly. Their colors are simply amazing! 🌿✨
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It’s crazy to me how emotional people get in the comments.😔
If you say to them do you think AI is good enough to create entire events they would say yes but with glitches.🤨
But if you show them all the AI glitches they insist they are too clever to be fooled by AI.🤡
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Make a note to accept the pre-IPO offer for ARM shares in 1998, accept the stock splits in '99 and '00, keep them through the dot com bubble, accept the SoftBank buyout, reinvest the money back into the US NASDAQ listing and sell at the top of the market in 2025, for a 531x gain.
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Danelo Cavalcante is 5 feet tall and weighs about 120 pounds. He climbed out of a Pennsylvania prison by walking up two walls like a spider.
In the video below, you can see the exact moment. It took about seven seconds. He braced his hands against the wall, walked his feet up sideways, crossed the razor wire and jumped off the roof.
He was waiting to be moved to a state prison. A jury had just given him life for stabbing his ex-girlfriend Deborah Brandão in front of her children. Prosecutors said he killed her so she couldn't tell police he was wanted for a 2017 killing in Brazil.
Guards noticed he was missing about 50 minutes after he climbed.
For 14 days he ran. He shaved, changed clothes and stole a van. He left a peach, an apple and some snap peas in a stranger's kitchen. A homeowner shot at him while he tried to steal a rifle. Helicopters played a recording of his mother begging him in Portuguese to surrender.
On September 13 police found him by heat signal. He was crawling through thick brush with a stolen rifle. A Border Patrol dog took him down. Not a single shot was fired.
In 2024 he pleaded guilty to the escape and got 15 to 30 more years on top of life.
Was it a perfect escape, or a prison that was never watching?
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John Cleese paid his third wife $20 million when they divorced. They had no children together.
The payout left her richer than him. At 70, he had to go back on the road on what he called “The Alimony Tour.”
They married in 1992. There was no prenup. Every hit that made him famous was written decades before they ever met.
During their 16-year marriage, Cleese even paid to put her two sons from an earlier marriage through private school and college.
In 2008, Alyce Faye Eichelberger filed for divorce in California. She asked for half of everything he had earned since 1992, plus $125,000 a month.
The judge gave her $13 million in cash and real estate, including a New York apartment, a London flat, and half of his Santa Barbara beach house. Then he added $1 million a year for seven years.
Cleese had to sell his own homes just to wire her the cash.
About the payout, he said: “Think what I’d have had to pay Alyce if she had contributed anything to the relationship, such as children, or a conversation.”
In the video below, Cleese walks out on stage and tells the crowd why he’s still working at 71: “I call it The Alimony Tour Year 3, or Feeding the Beast.”
The case for Alyce: 16 years is a long marriage, and California splits marital wealth 50/50 when there’s no prenup.
The case for John: handing $20 million from a childless marriage to a spouse who didn’t help build the fortune is legalized robbery.
Do the math. Sixteen years of marriage. No kids. $1.25 million for every year.
Should a childless divorce ever cost $20 million, or is that the price of skipping a prenup?