the world we live in has a habit of throwing up some curveballs facts that are almost too shocking to be true there's only one way to react by opening your mouth and saying what as loudly as possible well at least that's how we do it here on this family YouTube channel from Wild facts about ransoms to the destruction of ancient tombs we have a fun and fascinating ride lined up I'm Michael L 25 and here are 25 shocking facts that will make you say what 25 Ransom reveal uh real quick before I start the only
reason I'm wearing this normally I know I wear my clothes to kind of match the theme a little bit even if it's ever so slightly connected um I haven't read this one so I have no idea what's coming I usually don't read I just base it on the title uh it's the first night of Hanukkah as I am filming this so you guys get my uh my Disney Hanukkah shirt so there you go anyway there's an upside to a ransom payout folks who need to drain their Bank accounts to get their possessions or family members
back can add this detail to their tax return Yes a ransom is classed as tax deductible in some cases and that's just not me talking it's the IRS check out the Internal Revenue code section 162 if you don't believe me there's a sentence I never thought I'd say 24 PayPal epic fail who's the richest man in the world Elon Musk Bill Gates forget about it I'm referring to Mr Chris Reynolds of pen Penn Sylvania who briefly had approximately 92 quadrillion bucks in his Paypal account in 2013 how did he earn this world beating sum of
money well by doing precisely nothing it was an error on behalf of PayPal 23 Walmart wise guy you couldn't disguise yourself as an armored truck driver stroll into Walmart and ask them for tens of thousands of dollars could you well one guy got the deal of a century from an Oklahoma store in 2015 by doing what was basically a security type cosplay he got them to hand over around $75,000 22 the story of Dr James Barry Army surgeon Dr James Barry was a highly respected team member in 19th century England they also hid an enormous
secret from their colleagues you see Dr Barry said they were a he but actually they were a she managing to pull off that deception back in those days was quite defeat 21 One Juicy tomato uh Pro tip don't eat the tomatoes on cery island it's a volcanic location for one thing but that's not the reason you should avoid the food source in 1969 a local Icelandic philosopher and teacher named August bondon was exploring ceri when he discovered a tomato plant like no other a plant that had grown out of a human scientist toilet business 20
flight into Fortune imagine surviving a plane crash and then winning the lottery within the same week this is exactly what happened to Muhammad Bashir Abdul Kadar who who was aboard the stricken Emirates flight in 2016 he cheated death when the aircraft crashed and caught fire just when he thought his luck couldn't get any crazier he bagged a cool $1 million in the lottery he's been described as the world's luckiest man which I'd say is pretty accurate 19 robbery with cyanide a bank robbery is shocking enough but the way this person did it will really amaze
you the year was 1948 and the location was the Imperial bank at tashima in Tokyo the criminal didn't show up with a gun he had a whole story prepared plus a mysterious liquid the robber claimed to be a health official and actually convinced people in the bank to drink the liquid he said it would protect them against a dissenter outbreak instead it poisoned them with all but four passing away in a bizarre twist an artist named sarii hirosawa was convicted of the crime though many believed authorities had arrested the wrong man 18 male repelling stockings
part joke shop item part experiment the Chinese product of hairy stockings caused an online sensation when they released in 2013 hey ladies why not avoid male attention by pretending your legs are extremely hairy it sounds like a prank but this appears to have been a genuine attempt to address the issue of harassment 17 unnecessary chemotherapy cancer is tough and chemotherapy is a grueling process so why did Dr fed fata deliberately make his patients go through chemo when he knew they didn't have cancer the troubling answer is financial gain he deceived those placing their trust in
him through various unnecessary treatments this horrific fraud from 2015 is believed to be one of the biggest in US history fata was given a jail sentence of 45 years 16 ghost marriage the afterlife is a mysterious place but one thing's for sure you don't want to be on your own up there which is why grieving Chinese people contact a specialist in ghost marriage on behalf of their dearly departed relatives sounds romantic if a little weird sadly this [ __ ] business can take a turn for the worse in 2013 a group of men went to
prison for involving real corpses in their bizarre matchmaking activities 15 The Spook Who Wasn't what's the next best thing to being in the CIA well not being in the CIA and pretending to be an agent anyway John C Beal managed to get time off work from his real job at the Environmental Protection agency by telling them he was on secret missions for the government not only did they believe him but he pocketed his salary and claimed expenses while doing stuff like visiting family members this went on for over a decade Beal went to prison in
2013 after his colossal house of cards came tumbling down 14 character ass assination or rather jack ass who took the TV show to court in 2002 Mr ass wanted $10 million for reputation damage and distress it's tempting to think that this was just an elaborate Stunt by The Producers but no jack ass was a real person named Bob Craft from Montana the reason he changed his name is actually quite moving Craft's brother lost his life in a car accident and he wanted to highlight the dangers of driving Under the Influence by renaming himself Jackass the
judge ultimately dismissed the case 13 holy a man from Delaware lived through a human centipede Style nightmare when doctors working on his colon got their wires crossed and by wires I mean the stuff in his guts controlling the direction of his pee and poo the poor patient had to endure urine coming out of his back passage while the other thing yeah you can probably imagine the rest everyone needed to lawyer up over this major error back in 2007 12 gone versus urination needing to empty your bladder is a natural part of life you could even
say it's part of God's plan although based on this evidence uh it seems to have backfired on the almighty because so many guys are taking a leak against the base of old Minister Tower a church in the German City the same name it's doing damage to the actual structure remember people pray Don't Spray 11 hyena hiccup a Japanese Zoo got a raw a deal when two hyenas arrived in 2010 they thought the animals were a boy and a girl and encouraged them to mate this went on for several years without success so did these heus
just not like each other nope they were both guys all along not so much zookeepers as in boooo Keepers that's a horrible joke what I don't claim that one not so much Zoe Keepers is Boo Boo keeper oh that's not my joke I don't claim that one have you got a story that would shock us to the core well our comment section is always open you know what to do oh no the are so bad 10 high drama how far would you go for 20 bucks of marijuana well one person decided to steal a diamond
only instead of exchanging the diamond for lots of weed they opted to stick with a 20 bucks worth I mean a Deal's a deal right I mean the diamond only costs like what $160,000 surely the most expensive couple of drags in history nine bizarre lesbian Bounty nothing says I love and resp respect you more than paying someone to try and change your sexuality what was businessman Cecil Chow thinking when he tried to buy a husband for his lesbian daughter Gigi it was a big payday for anyone crazy enough to try and change the mind of
Gigi who's also a human rights activist chiao laid out an incredible $65 million for this bizarre scheme in 2012 eight change from a million bucks it probably isn't an everyday thing when someone spends about a thousand plus at Walmart and I'd say it's a total one-off when someone tries to pay for that with a million doll bill this happened in 2004 though it was actually a case of fraud surprise surprise apparently the million-- dollar bill was a fake who to th seven marketing genius this must rank as one of the most genius marketing moves ever
student Carlos P Lacy needed a college fund so instead of targeting wealthy benefactors he focused on people who would spare a penny the trick was that lazy contacted millions of potential donors eventually raising 2.8 million albe it in pennies six that's not fruit juice as someone discovered with tragic consequences when they accidentally drank liquid methamphetamine in 2013 the middle-aged man's daughter provided the drink which she' mistakenly received in delivery he'd consume approximately half a glass before becoming ill the unfortunate man then passed away in the hospital five take me to the American Embassy this wouldn't
have been the smartest thing to request if you were in Acra the capital of Ghana before 2016 you see the embassy there wasn't what it seemed fraudsters ran a dummy operation pretending to be diplomats you could get things like visas but it was all 100% fake the group reportedly conned hundreds with their scheme the deception lasted for a decade four happy event while you wouldn't think there' be a market for used pregnancy tests well actually you you'd be wrong this was demonstrated by a college hopeful in Florida she reportedly sold not only positive tests but
also urine and an attempt to raise much needed funds for Education what would people do with these things well not much unless you want to pass a drug test or fool someone into thinking you're pregnant then there must have items don't don't fake a drug test kids don't do drugs in the immortal words of Mr Mackey drugs are bad guy three political twist a high-profile far-right politician changed SIDS in dramatic circumstances back in 2012 Chad seed from Hungary had built his platform on anti-semitic ideas but there was the mother of all twists coming to be
more precise a Twist involving his grandparents on his mother's side surprise surprise they were Jewish in 2016 it was announced he was moving to Israel two Neolithic picnic table is there such thing as a Neolithic picnic table probably not unfortunately for a team of workers they got the two things mixed up what appeared to be a broken down old picnic table in the bolic islands was actually an ancient tomb dating back 6,000 years disastrously the workers smashed up what they believed was a regular item of furniture no bonuses for them that year one deadly indigestion
this next story is a medical miracle from 2017 Maat from Vietnam was having pains in his stomach he went to the doctor where he probably figured they'd give him some pills instead they found surgical scissors which incredibly had been down there for 18 years the guy was truly lucky now that we're done it's time for some trivia what rare psychological phenomenon causes people to believe that their loved ones have been replaced by identical looking Impostors is it a cotard's delusion B capg grust syndrome C Allison Wonderland syndrome or D froli delusion put your answers in
the comments below and we'll see how many of you guys get it right and if you got chills from this list then how about some facts that'll haunt your brain the link for our next video is right here and as always don't forget to like share comment subscribe check out click the notification Bell yeah check out that notification Bell just stare at it for a bit that'll help and uh I'll catch you guys next time nailed it
