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[Jake @JakeCan72]

A cartel kidnapped her husband and demanded a ransom.

Most people would panic. Call the police. Try to find the money.

She had another idea.

And I promise you, it’s not the one you’re thinking.

Watch.

[Jake @JakeCan72]

In 2016, a dog slipped into a steep concrete channel in Kazakhstan and couldn’t get back out.

A young man climbed down to save it and got stuck too.

Strangers along the bank linked arms, made a human chain down the wall, and pulled them both out.

Ten years later, Kazakhstan put the whole thing in bronze.

But look at the last hand.

It reaches past the railing so anyone walking by can grab it and become the next person in the chain.

What a great idea for a monument.

[Jake @JakeCan72]

@NotOpCue @smcah713 @wikileaks The 17th’s are usually stacked with wins. Happen to have a list of them?

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Paul Atreides would be proud.

Someone actually built a jacket that pulls drinking water out of the air.

We’re one sandworm away from Dune.

[Jake @JakeCan72]

Paul Atreides would be proud.

Someone actually built a jacket that pulls drinking water out of the air.

We’re one sandworm away from Dune.

[Jake @JakeCan72]

@Randz3217 Seems like it would be more a curse than a gift. I’m grateful I don’t remember 1/2 the things my wife does. Life is so much easier.

[Jake @JakeCan72]

This woman says she never forgets anything she reads.

That sounds impossible until they start testing her on the Harry Potter books.

They can open one almost anywhere, give her a line, and watch what happens.

He keeps trying to find something she won’t remember.

That turns out to be harder than it sounds.

[Jake @JakeCan72]

This woman says she never forgets anything she reads.

That sounds impossible until they start testing her on the Harry Potter books.

They can open one almost anywhere, give her a line, and watch what happens.

He keeps trying to find something she won’t remember.

That turns out to be harder than it sounds.

[Jake @JakeCan72]

This might be the most American vehicle ever built.

It’s 100 feet long, holds a Guinness World Record, and somehow its size isn’t even the ridiculous part.

Perfect for road trips, provided the road never turns.

Wait until you see what they put on the back.

[Jake @JakeCan72]

Most people see a nursing home on fire and call 911.

Alex and Narek Bazinyan saw the smoke, heard a nurse screaming for help, and ran inside.

What happened over the next few minutes is why people are calling them heroes.

[Jake @JakeCan72]

@Maga_Billi Exactly, it’s not going up in value.

[Jake @JakeCan72]

This might be the most American vehicle ever built.

It’s 100 feet long, holds a Guinness World Record, and somehow its size isn’t even the ridiculous part.

Perfect for road trips, provided the road never turns.

Wait until you see what they put on the back.

[Jake @JakeCan72]

Most people see a nursing home on fire and call 911.

Alex and Narek Bazinyan saw the smoke, heard a nurse screaming for help, and ran inside.

What happened over the next few minutes is why people are calling them heroes.

[Jake @JakeCan72]

There’s a town in Italy where the houses were allegedly built to be torn down for one very specific reason: taxes.

Alberobello is filled with around 1,500 trulli, strange cone-roofed stone houses built without mortar.

That wasn’t just an architectural choice. According to the story passed down for centuries, the way these homes were built gave the local rulers a very useful loophole whenever the king’s inspectors showed up.

What they did with it is wild.

[Jake @JakeCan72]

At 17, he jumped off the Golden Gate Bridge for fun.

He somehow survived, but the reception he got when he surfaced was probably the last thing he expected.

[Jake @JakeCan72]

You’ve probably heard “Zombie” by The Cranberries a hundred times.

I never knew what pushed Dolores O’Riordan to write it, or why she sounds like she’s trying to tear something out of herself.

Then you learn who died.

“Zombie” is what happens when an old hatred gets passed down for generations, and innocent people are still paying for it.

More than 30 years later, we’re still doing it.

[Jake @JakeCan72]

There’s a town in Italy where the houses were allegedly built to be torn down for one very specific reason: taxes.

Alberobello is filled with around 1,500 trulli, strange cone-roofed stone houses built without mortar.

That wasn’t just an architectural choice. According to the story passed down for centuries, the way these homes were built gave the local rulers a very useful loophole whenever the king’s inspectors showed up.

What they did with it is wild.

[Jake @JakeCan72]

In South Africa, there's a church where the congregation worships inside a bar, and the baptism can come from the same bottle they were already drinking.

Gabola Church exists because Tsietsi Makiti kept meeting the same wall at other congregations: come back once you've stopped drinking. He never stopped. So in 2017 he built a church for the people standing at that same wall, and instead of asking them to leave the tavern to find God, he brought God into the tavern. He declared himself pope, put on the robes and a mitre decorated with miniature liquor bottles, and started preaching between the bar tables.

Beer and whiskey get blessed mid-service. A new member is baptized in whatever they already drink. Makiti has poured whiskey into his own cupped hand, marked a man's forehead, and handed him the glass to finish. The congregation sings and dances through the sermon with bottles still in hand.

Looked at from outside, it plays like a joke wearing the shape of a religion. Makiti's answer isn't a defense. It's a claim: the people in that tavern never stopped wanting God — they just stopped believing a church would let them in while holding a drink.

Other South African church leaders call it blasphemy, a stunt using scripture to sell alcohol. Makiti keeps preaching anyway, in the one place his congregation never had to pretend they weren't already drinkers.

[Jake @JakeCan72]

France didn’t want potatoes.

So one man came up with a ridiculously simple psychological trick that made people start stealing them.

The best part is that he knew exactly what he was doing.

More than 200 years later, the psychology behind it still works.

[Jake @JakeCan72]

At 17, he jumped off the Golden Gate Bridge for fun.

He somehow survived, but the reception he got when he surfaced was probably the last thing he expected.