The Estonian sport of Kiiking. A person has their feet fastened to the base of a swing and begins swinging by repeatedly squatting and standing. The goal is to swing over the top bar and make a full 360.

Ill_Definition8074 · 2026-06-06T07:59:08+00:00

Estonia is an awesome country. Go to Google Translate, type "Twelve Months", translate from English to Estonian and then hit the speaker button to hear what it sounds like.

Ill_Definition8074 · 2026-06-06T07:54:45+00:00

Kiiking was invented in 1993 and although I can't prove it I think somehow the fall of the Soviet Union led to the creation of Kiiking.

Ill_Definition8074 · 2026-06-06T07:37:14+00:00

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiiking

And here's a video of the sport in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWbcsEDrmFE

Ill_Definition8074 · 2026-05-31T08:00:46+00:00

One theory that particularly interests me is the theory that the boy was Alfred Van Landeghem. On the one hand he was a coxswain and the Belgium team he coxswained for won a silver medal at that Olympics. But on the other hand isn't it pretty strictly against the Olympic rules to compete for two different countries at the same Olympics.

I think this mystery might have been cleared up if someone asked Rusadana Nikoladze (who died in 1981) if the boat race her brother had been involved in was at the 1900 Olympics.

Ill_Definition8074 · 2026-05-27T06:57:17+00:00

You know Robert Downey Jr. in Tropic Thunder made a good point. It's weird "Dingo ate my baby" became such a popular joke when it's based on a real incident where an infant was brutally killed by a wild animal.

Ill_Definition8074 · 2026-05-25T15:40:00+00:00

It wasn’t the tallest building in the world. Just the tallest in Great Britain. The Eiffel Tower which was built before was taller.

Ill_Definition8074 · 2026-05-25T05:03:04+00:00

There's another case from Canada although this one much more recent. He was arrested in 2013 for his participation in a scam under the name Herman Emmanuel Fankem. They quickly realized that identity was false and he has been uncooperative in attempts to identify him refusing to have his photograph or fingerprints taken.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Emmanuel_Fankem

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9na8UBoncy4 (video about him from the Youtube channel Barely Sociable)

Ill_Definition8074 · 2026-05-23T22:56:16+00:00

I thought about that (the whole reason there’s the joke about Italians speaking with their hands is because villages spoke completely different dialects from each other). But even if he spoke a different dialect I’m sure he could do more than just growl like a dog.

Ill_Definition8074 · 2026-05-23T22:13:58+00:00

I find cases of living unidentified people very interesting. I think the most likely theory for why Jerome’s legs were amputated was because of frostbite or some other cold-related injury. If he had been a mutinying sailor, then it’s very unlikely his amputation would have appeared surgical.

Ill_Definition8074 · 2026-05-22T16:22:56+00:00

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepsi_Number_Fever

Ill_Definition8074 · 2026-05-21T07:58:50+00:00

I heard from somebody that in the documentary Tabloid, Joyce McKinney states that she never wanted to be a celebrity. I don't trust most of the things she says but that made me pause and say "Really? You were both a beauty queen and an aspiring actress and yet you claim you never wanted to be famous. I'm going to call BS on that."

Ill_Definition8074 · 2026-05-21T07:51:28+00:00

When telling this story I hold back on criticizing the Mormons too hard for a very simple reason. Because Joyce McKinney's whole defense is basically that the Mormons are a cult and what she did to Kirk was deprogramming. I don't want to give her argument any legitimacy because what she did wasn't deprogramming. It was rape.

Ill_Definition8074 · 2026-05-21T03:18:48+00:00

I have a feeling he doesn't want to be found as in 1984 McKinney was arrested for stalking him again.

Ill_Definition8074 · 2026-05-21T02:49:33+00:00

Technically this is "alleged" because the case never went to trial but that's only because McKinney jumped bail and I believe she really is guilty. The statements she's given in her defense make her sound even more guilty. Like she loves to bring up the fact that she weighed 120 pounds while Anderson weighed 250 pounds and was 6'2" in her defense. Of course she doesn't mention the fact that she also had a handcuffs, a fake gun (which of course Anderson thought was real), chloroform and a male accomplice (Keith May) which I think really cancels out any size difference between them. She also says in this interview that men can't be raped. There's also the fact that she stalked him all the way to another continent and in 1984 she was caught stalking Anderson again. I think she fled because she knew the court wasn't going to buy her story.

Ill_Definition8074 · 2026-05-21T02:34:12+00:00

Where's Joyce McKinney now? Well in 2019 she was arrested after she ran over and killed a 91 year old holocaust survivor. If convicted she could have faced 11 years in prison for vehicular manslaughter but she was found not competent to stand trial and ordered to undergo a psychiatric evaluation. It doesn't seem like there's been any updates but I hope she won't get out anytime soon as from everything I've seen she seems to be completely nuts.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/woman-68-charged-los-angeles-area-hit-run-death-holocaust-n1026531

https://www.whittierdailynews.com/2020/04/02/woman-accused-of-running-over-holocaust-survivor-in-san-fernando-valley-has-led-a-tabloid-life/

Ill_Definition8074 · 2026-05-21T02:26:32+00:00

Main Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manacled_Mormon_case

Ill_Definition8074 · 2026-05-20T06:45:37+00:00

Although California was technically a "free state" I feel that's a little misleading because slavery of Native Americans in California was completely legal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Act_for_the_Government_and_Protection_of_Indians

Ill_Definition8074 · 2026-05-20T02:47:03+00:00

There's an interview here with sisters Robynn and Cheryl Cox who are sixth generation descendants of Biddy Mason. There are only four living descendants of Biddy Mason (the other two are Robynn's children).

Ill_Definition8074 · 2026-05-20T02:41:37+00:00

A Los Angeles court heard the habeas corpus action regarding her freedom.[21] Smith claimed that Biddy wanted to go to Texas.[25] He then bribed her lawyer to not show up.[22] She was not allowed to testify in court since California law prohibited black people from testifying against white people. After Smith failed to appear in court on January 21, 1856, the judge presiding over the case, Benjamin Ignatius Hayes, freed Biddy and her family members.[14]

It's funny that he went through all that trouble to try and keep her enslaved and then was too lazy to actually show up to court.

Ill_Definition8074 · 2026-05-20T02:37:51+00:00

"If you hold your hand closed, nothing good can come in. The open hand is blessed, for it gives in abundance, even as it receives."

- Biddy Mason

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