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Not a truck driver, but drive a large RV with a car in tow, about 65’ in length.

  Not a truck driver, but drive a large RV with a car in tow, about 65’ in length. I try to drive as the truckers do...stay in the right lane and leave lots of space between me and the guy ahead. My top two tips: 1. Don’t loiter alongside a truck. If you want to pass be decisive...wind up the rubber band and get around them quickly. You know those gators (truck treads) in the road? Those came off a truck, (likely very violently). They’re made of hundreds of pounds of hard rubber and a tangle of very sharp, very nasty steel cords.

This is a photo of the army before they opened fire (this photo was not released by mainland China, but provided by the late Taiwanese celebrity Li Ao).

  This is a photo of the army before they opened fire (this photo was not released by mainland China, but provided by the late Taiwanese celebrity Li Ao).  The soldiers received orders not to use force against the students. However, these students tied the soldiers to a vehicle and burned them alive; many soldiers reportedly suffered the same fate.  I believe those students at that time could no longer be considered students, but rather a group of rioters. It wasn't until later, when the Chinese government received information that they were preparing to announce the establishment of a government the following day, that they began their actions.  (The organizers of this student riot hid in a hotel, indulging in feasting and drinking throughout. Afterwards, they fled to Taiwan, leaving the students to die there; in today's terms, they were a group of "refined egoists.")

6.9 meters long MONSTER python found in Indonesia, these snakes have been

 6.9 meters long MONSTER python found in Indonesia, these snakes have been  reported to swallow unlucky children and in 2017 an Indonesian woman age 54 years old was found in the belly of giant python after the swollen snake was captured near where she vanished while tending her vegetable .

Valerie Thomas' trailblazing work led to the creation of the illusion transmitter for 3D movies! In 1977,

 Valerie Thomas' trailblazing work led to the creation of the illusion transmitter for 3D movies! In 1977,  she began to develop the illusion transmitter, the FIRST mechanism that allowed images to be viewed in 3D using concave mirrors & rays of light. NASA continues to use her device today!

The most dramatic loss for the ordinary person wasn't a specific machine or a secret formula, but rather the catastrophic collapse of standardization and mass production.

  The most dramatic loss for the ordinary person wasn't a specific machine or a secret formula, but rather the catastrophic collapse of  standardization and mass production. If you were a peasant living in Britain or Northern Gaul around 350 AD, your quality of life was supported by a massive, interconnected global economy. You likely ate off high-quality, mass-produced ceramic plates imported from North Africa. You lived under a roof made of standardized fired clay tiles. You used metal tools made of iron smelted in industrial quantities. By 500 AD, just a few generations later, those "everyday" technologies had vanished from the lives of ordinary people.

A white woman in her fifties sits in her seat on a crowded flight when she decided she didn't want t

  A white woman in her fifties sits in her seat on a crowded flight when she decided she didn't want to. The place was next door to a black man. Disgusted, the woman immediately called the flight attendant and asked to move. The woman said: " I can't sit here next to this black man." The flight attendant said: "Let's see if I can find another place." After checking, the flight attendant came back and said"

It all began in the dying Alabama town.

  It all began in the dying Alabama town. The Grand Bay Waffle House was filled with hungry customers. Most were working-class. Many were retired. The sound and smell of frying bacon drifted out of the busy kitchen. Edward Seward sat at a table. He was a truck driver and repeat customer. Today, he sat alone and his waitress was Tonda Dickerson. Tonda was in her late 20s. She was a divorced single mother who left her abusive husband a few years prior. She now lived hand to mouth, working shifts five days a week. Seward finished his meal and tipped Tonda with a lottery ticket he’d bought in Florida during one of his routes. And so began a snowball of events that would make for a great movie script.