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Could You Wrestle a Shark & Win? - #FactWar In this epic episode of #FactWar John and Dave up the levels with great facts, including the man who built his own island, a naked fight club and the woman who catfished 3 million men.
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Bridge printing robots
MX3D is a startup company, which plans to use robots to 3D print a pedestrian bridge across an Amsterdam’s canal.
Chinese village frozen in time
An abandoned Chinese village is being reclaimed by nature. The village is located on one of the Shengsi Islands, in Southern China It used to be a popular fishing village but when the industry started to slow, the villagers left to pursue more profitable industries in the country.
The man with the golden arm
78 year old James Harrison, has saved the lives of 2 million babies by donating his blood over the last 60 years. Dubbed the 'man with the golden arm', he estimates he's donated blood more than 1,000 times.
Pretty Boy Floyd
Charles Floyd was an American bank robber whose exploits gained widespread press coverage in the late 1930s.
Suffering in the American depression, Floyd partnered with established members of the criminal underworld, committing a series of bank robberies. To the government though he was Public Enemy No.1 and his crime spree came to an end when he was shot by the FBI.
Banishment Rooms
Some companies in Japan have adopted banishment rooms, in a ploy to get their employees to quit their jobs. Because of Japan’s strong labor laws it is difficult for companies to fire their employees outright. Companies in Japan are thought to have adopted this policy, including Toshiba, Panasonic and Sony.
Shark Attack
Gulf of Mexico 8 year old Jessie Arbogast was playing in shallow water on the beach when he was attacked by a 7 foot shark. His uncle, Vance Flosenzier jumped into the water and grabbed the shark’s tail. He wrestled with the shark and dragged it onto land. Flosenzier slit open the shark and retrieved his nephews arm, which was re-attached in surgery.
Fake Dating Sites
Nine men in Japan were arrested, for running fake dating sites. Despite having 2.7 million men signed up on their sites, they only had 1 genuine woman.
All of the other female profiles on the sites used stolen photos and were operated by men who were paid to pretend to be women.
Mike the Durable
Michael Malloy was a homeless alcoholic living in New York. In 1933 five of his acquaintances took out a life insurance policy out on his life and plotted to kill him so they could split the money.
Clog fighting
In the Victorian era, wooden shoes called clogs, were worn in the North of England Clog fighting was adopted in mining towns as a way of settling disputes.
The men would get naked, wear metal sole clogs and then kick each others bare shins.
Republic of Rose Island
Italian engineer, Giorgio Rosa, built a platform in the Adriatic Sea off the coast of Italy and declared himself the president of this micro­nation. Rosa’s came under suspicion of the Italian government, who saw the nation as a ploy to avoid taxation.
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