26 June, 2012
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MOON CHECK
A $10.50 check signed by Neil Armstrong hours before he took off for the moon was sold for $27,350 at an auction in Amherst, new Hampshire, in July 2009 - forty years to the day after it was written. Armstrong had written the check- for money borrowed from a NASA manager- in case anything happened to him on the lunar mission.
A $10.50 check signed by Neil Armstrong hours before he took off for the moon was sold for $27,350 at an auction in Amherst, new Hampshire, in July 2009 - forty years to the day after it was written. Armstrong had written the check- for money borrowed from a NASA manager- in case anything happened to him on the lunar mission.
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DOUBLE MONEY
In August 2009, customers flocked to a faulty cash machine that was paying out double money at a super market in London, England. The store closed the machine as soon as it learned of the fault, but by then lucky customers had taken over $7,500 from it.
In August 2009, customers flocked to a faulty cash machine that was paying out double money at a super market in London, England. The store closed the machine as soon as it learned of the fault, but by then lucky customers had taken over $7,500 from it.
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GREENBRIER GHOST
A ghost once helped convict a murderer. Zona Shue's death in Greenbrier County, West Virginia, in 1897 was presumed natural until her spirit appeared her mother and described how she was killed by her husband Edward. her mother persuaded the local prosecuter to reopen the case and an autopsy on the exhumed body varified that Zona had been murdered. Edward was subsequently convicted of the crime.
A ghost once helped convict a murderer. Zona Shue's death in Greenbrier County, West Virginia, in 1897 was presumed natural until her spirit appeared her mother and described how she was killed by her husband Edward. her mother persuaded the local prosecuter to reopen the case and an autopsy on the exhumed body varified that Zona had been murdered. Edward was subsequently convicted of the crime.
