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Bashar al-Assad ruled Syria from 2000 until his overthrow in December 2024. With an estimated net worth of $1.5 billion, here’s what rebels discovered inside his palace after he fled 🧵
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- In 2013, a 5-year-old girl was kidnapped from her front yard in Pennsylvania. Two teenagers saw the man take the girl and took it upon themselves to grab their bikes and cycle after the car. The boys cycled after the car for 15 minutes until the predator realized he had been
- Medics pull 4ft snake from woman’s mouth after it slithered down there while she slept.
00:00 - This runaway truck ramp in Brazil stops trucks that can't slow down.
00:00 - Vladimir Putin gets tossed in Judo by a young girl during a 2000 trip to Japan.
00:00 - In 2005, a South African man, Marius Els, adopted a baby hippo after rescuing it from a river. In this clip they can be seen playing together. But 6 years later, the hippo dragged him into that same river and ate him.
00:00Readers added context they thought people might want to knowReaders added contextMarius was not eaten by the hippo. Report suggests he was dragged under the water. theguardian.com/world/2011/nov… - Fishing for Piranhas using just a piece of meat.
00:00 - In 2007, US Marine, Brian Dennis befriended a stray desert dog called Nubs in Iraq. After the dog was stabbed with a screwdriver, the marine nursed him back to health. The two developed such a bond that when the unit left, Nubs picked up the scent and walked 70 miles through
- Security Guard risking his life to save bizarrely unalarmed zoo visitors from a hippo.
00:00 - An Mi-8 Helicopter crashing over the core of the Chernobyl reactor on October, 1986.
00:00 - An obese 100-year-old crocodile died from overeating after Bengali worshippers repeatedly threw it sacrificial chickens and goats for good luck, as villagers became desperate in an uncertain economic climate. This was due to the local belief that anybody who feeds the hunger of
- Man carries an entire bee colony on his arm by holding the queen in his fist.
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