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Cock-a-doodle-doo!
Up, up, and away Here’s one from the history books:
A Brazilian Catholic priest One cold winter’s day in 1626,
attached 1,000 helium-filled forward-thinking English scientist
balloons to a chair and launched Sir Francis Bacon decided to see
himself skyward. His goal was to if he could preserve a chicken by
raise money for his parish work, stuffing it with snow. He caught
but the weather was not on his a cold and died of pneumonia
side—strong winds blew him off a week later.
course and he drifted out to sea.
He was never seen again.

Shocking story
Wrong number Annoyed by the molehills spoiling
This one is dedicated to his lawn, a man drove metal
the man who was woken by stakes into the ground and
a ringing telephone next to his connected them to a high-voltage
bed. He reached out his hand power cable. The next day, he
to answer it, but grabbed his walked onto the lawn to see
gun instead by accident. As if he had succeeded in frying
he put the gun to his ear the moles and ended up
to speak, he shot himself electrocuting himself.
through the head.

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