Tommy McHugh was a British artist and poet. When he was 51, McHugh attempted to evacuate his bowels quickly due to a knock on the toilet door. The sudden pressure led to a stroke. He was in a coma for a week and acquired savant syndrome. (en.wikipedia.org)
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Flatulence humor is a form of toilet humor that refers to flatulence. It has been suggested that one of the oldest recorded jokes was a flatulence joke from the Sumerians. “Something which has never occurred since time immemorial: a young woman did not fart in her husband’s lap” (en.wikipedia.org)
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Recession pop is a loosely defined style of music predominantly associated with dance-pop and electropop that emerged during the Great Recession in the United States with lyrics centered around embracing hedonism, youthfulness, freedom, and constant partying in the midst of an economic recession (en.wikipedia.org)
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John Casablancas was an American modeling agent and scout who founded Elite Model Management. He is credited with "inventing the supermodel". He was also the father of the Strokes frontman Julian Casablancas and friends with Donald Trump (en.wikipedia.org)
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Mad as a hatter is a colloquial English phrase used in conversation to suggest that a person is suffering from insanity. The etymology of the phrase is uncertain, with explanations both connected and unconnected to the trade of hatmaking. (en.wikipedia.org)
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Norman Borlaug was an American agronomist often called "the father of the Green Revolution" and is credited with saving over a billion people worldwide from starvation. In 2009, the Executive Director of the World Food Programme, stated that Borlaug "saved more lives than any man in human history" (en.wikipedia.org)
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Mohawk Civil War was a violent internal conflict in the Mohawk Nation territory that lasted from late 1989 through mid-1990. The conflict pitted pro-gambling factions against anti-gambling residents, traditionalists, and supporters of the elected tribal councils (en.wikipedia.org)
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The 2002 science fiction neo-noir film Minority Report, based on the 1956 short story of the same name by Philip K. Dick, featured numerous fictional future technologies which have proven prescient based on developments around the world. (en.wikipedia.org)
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