A deaf woman influenced an Ukrainian election by refusing to sign a false news report!

On November 2004, the official script that state-run channel UT-1 was running would declare Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych as the winner of the presidential election. However, the sign language interpreter Nataliya Dmytruk decided to follow her conscience, and deviated from the script by signing this on air:

"I am addressing everybody who is deaf in Ukraine. Our president is Victor Yushchenko. Do not trust the results of the central election committee. They are all lies.... And I am very ashamed to translate such lies to you. Maybe you will see me again."

This brave act inspired her colleagues and the media in the Ukraine to stop reporting fake news reports and have a more balanced approach. The eventual winner of the election was in fact, the man that she had declared on air as the winner, and not the Prime Minister.

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A Japanese soldier from the World War 2 hid in a cave for 28 years!

Soichi Yokoi was sent to the island of Guam as part of a Japanese regiment in 1943. In 1944, American forces captured Guam, and Yokoi went into hiding with 10 other soldiers!

When the war ended, leaflest were thrown around announcing the achieved peace. However, Yokoi thought this was just allied propaganda, so he stayed in hiding until 1972. He had survived hunting at night and using native plants for clothes, bed and storage.

When he finally returned to Japan, he became a minor celebrity and advocate of austere living. He received back pay of $300! He also received a small pension. Despite his tardiness, he was the third to last Japanese soldier to surrender. 

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The New York Yankees have won as many World Series as the next four closest teams combined!

It doesn’t look like any team’s going to be dethroning the Bronx Bombers anytime soon. Even if the Cardinals (10), Red Sox (7), Giants (5), and Athletics (5) decided to pool all their championships and form some sort of superfranchise, they’d still only tie New York at 27 World Series titles! The Yanks account for a QUARTER of all the World Series championships and nearly half of the total American League titles. Not only that, but get this - they have won multiple titles in every decade but one since the ‘20s (they did not win a single World Series during the ‘80s...thank goodness!). It’s no wonder there’s a Broadway musical entitled “Damn Yankees”...
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The Earth gets 100kg heaver every day due to cosmic dust!

Although most people don't think about it, there is constantly dust accumulating on Earth. All clouds are composed of tiny particles, and inside each is a speck of dust. As rain falls, dust that was suspended in the clouds falls to Earth. Along with dust that is whipped up into the sky from cars, winds, and even us, there is matter from the vacuum of space! 

It was commonly thought that exterior dust could not penetrate our atmosphere, but over the course of the last century, scientists have discovered that instead of rapidly accelerating and dematerializing like most objects from space such as meteorites, dust actually slows down in our atmosphere and over the course of a month slowly settles over Earth, increasing its weight!

In certain areas, Chickens are smarter than dogs and cats!

Chickens, usually considered a relatively foolish animal, are actually smarter than most others! It turns out that chickens can be more intelligent than dogs and cats, and second only to humans and other primates. What distinguishes chickens from other animals?

It's their ability to anticipate future events based on past occurrences and the ability demonstrate self-control. Chickens are also able to feel stress, another feeling they were not previously thought capable of having, which raises a red flag for animal rights advocates because of the implications associated with being killed for food. 

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