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When the diagnosis does finally come, and the shock eventually subsides, she says, “there are so many different emotions – shock, anger, depression, guilt for having blamed the person and for not having picked it up earlier”.
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Back in the 1st century in Roman Egypt, a clever inventor named Hero of Alexandria came up with one of the first vending machines. This device was ingeniously placed in temples to dispense holy water.
The mechanism was quite simple yet effective. You'd drop a coin into the machine, and it would land on a little platform connected to a lever. The weight of the coin would push the lever down, opening a valve to allow a precise amount of holy water to flow out.
Once the coin slid off the platform, the lever would return to its original position, thereby closing the valve. This setup not only automated the process but also ensured that each person received only their fair share, making it a remarkable example of early mechanical innovation.
Long before vending machines were associated with snacks, they were sanctifying spaces by dispensing blessings!
160 slaves were cruelly abandoned on a dangerous tiny island in 1761.
15 years later, only 7 women survived.
They kept the same fire burning every day of their ordeal.
Here's history's most insane survival story (the brutality will shock you to the core):