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A civil engineer spotted a promotion on a pudding cup. He did the math in his head. Then he spent $3,140 buying 12,150 cups of chocolate pudding and walked away with 1.25 MILLION airline miles. – David Phillips was a civil engineer at UC Davis in 1999 when he...

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A broke Australian bartender walked to an ATM drunk at 2am with $3 in his account and accidentally became a millionaire > Dan Saunders was 29 years old earning $700 a week pulling beers at a pub in Wangaratta, three hours north of Melbourne > One night in 2011 he stopped at an ATM to get cash for another round and tried to transfer $200 from his maxed out credit card > The machine said the transaction was cancelled and spat his card out. Then gave him the $200 anyway > He tried $500. Then $600. The money came out every single time but his balance never changed > He went home and figured out exactly what was happening > Between 1am and 3am every night Australian ATMs go offline for maintenance. > Any transfer made during that window would not process until the next day. > If he made another transfer the following night to cover it the system never caught up > He could create money from nothing. Every night. Indefinitely. > For the next four and a half months he did exactly that > Private jets across Australia. Five star hotels. He paid off friends debts and bought someone a horse for $50,000 > The bank called regularly to verify the transactions. He said yes that is me. They apologised for disturbing him and hung up > He had panic attacks in hotel lobbies and nightmares about SWAT teams storming his room every night > After $1.6 MILLION he stopped himself. Contacted the bank. They said it was a police matter. Then nothing happened for two years > He went to a newspaper and told them everything just to force the police to act. > He appeared on national television and walked through exactly what he did > Police charged him in 2014 with over 100 counts of fraud and theft > Neither the judge nor the prosecutor understood how the glitch worked. > The bank provided minimal evidence and refused to explain publicly how their own system had failed > He spent 12 months in prison and paid a $250,000 fine and went back to bartending at $22 an hour > National Australia Bank quietly fixed the glitch and never explained what went wrong or how long it had existed Bro found an infinite money glitch in one of Australia's biggest banks, spent $1.6 MILLION in four months, and went back to being broke

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He sold his wife’s underwear to keep the game going. Imagine being married to a literal genius and watching him slowly strip every single thing you own. It started with the jewelry. Then he took her wedding ring. Then, according to his wife’s own journals, he actually took her underwear to a pawn shop just to get a few more coins for the roulette table. Fyodor Dostoevsky was a straight-up addict who was drowning in a foreign country. He reportedly left his wife starving in a hotel room while he chased a "system" that never worked. He was a man who could explain the deepest parts of the human soul on paper but couldn't control his own hands at a casino. They say he would crawl back to her crying, begging for forgiveness, only to go back and bet the last of their grocery money the very next day. He didn't just write masterpieces. He paid for them with his wife’s dignity and every cent they had to their name. People call him a hero of literature, but for a long time, he was just a man who would sell the clothes off his wife's back for one more spin.

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34,008 views • 3 months ago

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A New Jersey construction worker secretly claimed a $24 MILLION lottery jackpot without telling his coworkers. He had been buying tickets together with them for years as a group. He told them he was taking time off work for foot surgery. He had actually quit to collect his winnings. A year later they found out. – Americo Lopes was a Portuguese immigrant living in Elizabeth New Jersey. – He worked as a construction worker and had been buying Mega Millions lottery tickets every week as part of a five-man work syndicate with his colleagues for years. – In November 2009 he claimed a $38.5 MILLION Mega Millions jackpot and chose the lump sum payout of $24 MILLION after taxes. – He told his coworkers he needed foot surgery and would be taking time off work. He never went back. – For nearly a year none of his coworkers knew what had happened to him. – Then one of them discovered the truth – Lopes had claimed the jackpot that their group had won together and kept every dollar. – Five coworkers sued him in 2010. They provided evidence in court of their longstanding arrangement to pool money and split any winnings equally. The group had been playing together for years. – Lopes argued the winning ticket was purchased with his own personal money and had nothing to do with the syndicate. He said the group arrangement had ended before the winning draw. – The jury did not believe him. They ruled in favour of his five coworkers and ordered Lopes to hand over $20 MILLION, leaving him with just $4 MILLION of his original $24 MILLION payout. – He had also already spent a significant portion. – He had bought a million-dollar home and moved out of his working class Elizabeth neighbourhood within weeks of the win. – His coworkers each received approximately $4 MILLION after the court order. A construction worker secretly claimed a $24 MILLION jackpot his work group had won together, told his colleagues he needed foot surgery, and quietly moved into a million dollar house. A jury gave $20 MILLION of it back to the people he stole it from.

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2,538,456 views • 17 days ago

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A retired couple found a mathematical loophole in the lottery in 3 minutes and won $26,000,000 over 9 years Jerry Selbee ran a convenience store in Evart, Michigan, population 1,900, for 17 years When he retired, he walked back into his old store one afternoon and picked up a brochure for a new lottery game called Winfall He read it standing in the aisle In under 3 minutes he spotted something nobody else had noticed When the jackpot hit $5 million without a winner, the entire pot “rolled down” to smaller prizes Jerry calculated that if he spent $1,100 he’d mathematically guarantee a $1,900 return He bought $3,600 in tickets on the first rolldown Won $6,300 Then bet $8,000 and nearly doubled it again He told his wife Marge They set up a corporation called GS Investment Strategies Invited their kids, grandkids, and neighbours to buy $500 shares Drove 900 miles to Massachusetts every 6 weeks to buy hundreds of thousands of tickets when the rolldown was announced Sorted them for hours in a motel room They kept 60 plastic tubs of losing tickets in their barn, $18 million worth, in case of an audit The floor nearly gave out, they did this for 9 years The state of Massachusetts made $120 million off the same loophole Jerry and Marge made $26 million in gross profit The state eventually shut the game down Jerry and Marge spent their winnings paying for 6 kids, 14 grandkids, and 10 great-grandchildren’s education A retired couple from a town of 1,900 people found a loophole in the state lottery in 3 minutes that the state’s own mathematicians missed for 9 years

Uzi

85,914 views • 2 months ago

This man stole a country from his own father and spent the next 18 years buying the West with gas money. - He deposed his own dad in a palace coup and left him in exile for nearly a decade - He founded the news network that aired Osama bin Laden's tapes - He built America's largest military base in the Middle East and charges no rent for it - He bought Harrods, the Shard, Canary Wharf, Paris Saint-Germain and 17% of Volkswagen - He won the 2022 World Cup for a country with no football history Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani died this morning at 74. Here's how bought the world: In June 1995, he waited for his father to leave the country, then took the throne. The coup was bloodless. His father spent nearly a decade in exile. Qatar is about one third the size of Belgium, and its population was barely two million, most of them foreign workers. But it was sitting on one of the LARGEST natural gas reserves on Earth. He bet everything on liquefied natural gas. Qatar became the world's biggest LNG exporter and one of the richest countries alive per person. Then he hit the problem every commodity business hits: Gas is gas, anyone with a tanker can sell it, and a tiny country with no army and that much money is a snack for its neighbours. So he bought two things nobody else in the Gulf thought to buy... The first was the world's attention. In 1996 he issued a decree and Al Jazeera was born. Within a few years it was the most influential news network in the Arab world. He owned the loudest microphone in the region and never had to speak into it himself. The second was the American military. In 1996, Qatar spent over a billion dollars building an air base at Al Udeid, outside Doha. It got the longest runway in the Gulf and shelters for nearly a hundred aircraft. Qatar's air force only had about a dozen fighter jets. In 1999 he reportedly told US officials he wanted 10,000 American servicemen stationed there permanently. Then 9/11 happened, and they came. The genius part: Al Udeid is now the forward headquarters of US Central Command and the largest American base in the Middle East, with roughly 10,000 troops. Qatar charges no rent. He built the asset before the customer existed, handed it over free, and bought the one thing cash cannot: The US military parked permanently between his gas and everyone who wanted it. The network broadcasting bin Laden and the runway flying America's war sat in the same tiny country, paid for by the same man. Then he went shopping... He set up the Qatar Investment Authority in 2005: - Harrods - The Shard - Canary Wharf, London's largest property owner, bought with Brookfield for 2.6 billion pounds - 17% of Volkswagen - Paris Saint-Germain All his. In 2017 the Telegraph ran the headline "Qataris own more of London than the Queen." Then 2008 arrived. Barclays needed billions or the British government was going to own it. Qatar wrote the cheque and its stake climbed to 12.7%. Barclays was later charged over how it disclosed that Qatari money. In 2010, FIFA handed the 2022 World Cup to a desert country with NO football history. Corruption allegations shadowed the bid for over a decade, and the treatment of the migrant workers who built it drew brutal criticism. Yet he walked into the opening match in 2022 and the stadium gave him a standing ovation. Every other Gulf state was selling the same molecule at the same price. Hamad spent his money on a newsroom, a runway, a football club and half of London. A country of two million now brokers hostage deals and hosts American presidents. He built all of it in 18 years, and he took the throne from his own father to start. Truly an unmatched legacy.
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This man stole a country from his own father and spent the next 18 years buying the West with gas money. - He deposed his own dad in a palace coup and left him in exile for nearly a decade - He founded the news network that aired Osama bin Laden's tapes - He built America's largest military base in the Middle East and charges no rent for it - He bought Harrods, the Shard, Canary Wharf, Paris Saint-Germain and 17% of Volkswagen - He won the 2022 World Cup for a country with no football history Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani died this morning at 74. Here's how bought the world: In June 1995, he waited for his father to leave the country, then took the throne. The coup was bloodless. His father spent nearly a decade in exile. Qatar is about one third the size of Belgium, and its population was barely two million, most of them foreign workers. But it was sitting on one of the LARGEST natural gas reserves on Earth. He bet everything on liquefied natural gas. Qatar became the world's biggest LNG exporter and one of the richest countries alive per person. Then he hit the problem every commodity business hits: Gas is gas, anyone with a tanker can sell it, and a tiny country with no army and that much money is a snack for its neighbours. So he bought two things nobody else in the Gulf thought to buy... The first was the world's attention. In 1996 he issued a decree and Al Jazeera was born. Within a few years it was the most influential news network in the Arab world. He owned the loudest microphone in the region and never had to speak into it himself. The second was the American military. In 1996, Qatar spent over a billion dollars building an air base at Al Udeid, outside Doha. It got the longest runway in the Gulf and shelters for nearly a hundred aircraft. Qatar's air force only had about a dozen fighter jets. In 1999 he reportedly told US officials he wanted 10,000 American servicemen stationed there permanently. Then 9/11 happened, and they came. The genius part: Al Udeid is now the forward headquarters of US Central Command and the largest American base in the Middle East, with roughly 10,000 troops. Qatar charges no rent. He built the asset before the customer existed, handed it over free, and bought the one thing cash cannot: The US military parked permanently between his gas and everyone who wanted it. The network broadcasting bin Laden and the runway flying America's war sat in the same tiny country, paid for by the same man. Then he went shopping... He set up the Qatar Investment Authority in 2005: - Harrods - The Shard - Canary Wharf, London's largest property owner, bought with Brookfield for 2.6 billion pounds - 17% of Volkswagen - Paris Saint-Germain All his. In 2017 the Telegraph ran the headline "Qataris own more of London than the Queen." Then 2008 arrived. Barclays needed billions or the British government was going to own it. Qatar wrote the cheque and its stake climbed to 12.7%. Barclays was later charged over how it disclosed that Qatari money. In 2010, FIFA handed the 2022 World Cup to a desert country with NO football history. Corruption allegations shadowed the bid for over a decade, and the treatment of the migrant workers who built it drew brutal criticism. Yet he walked into the opening match in 2022 and the stadium gave him a standing ovation. Every other Gulf state was selling the same molecule at the same price. Hamad spent his money on a newsroom, a runway, a football club and half of London. A country of two million now brokers hostage deals and hosts American presidents. He built all of it in 18 years, and he took the throne from his own father to start. Truly an unmatched legacy.

Ricardo

2,147,445 views • 24 days ago

This painting shows the most heartbreaking reunion in all of literature. To understand it, you have to know who the dog is... His name is Argos, and he belongs to Ulysses, the Greek hero also known as Odysseus. Before Ulysses sailed away to fight in the Trojan War, he had raised Argos from a puppy, a fast and beautiful hunting dog. Then the war called, and Ulysses left. He would not come home for twenty years. When Ulysses finally set foot on his own island again, he came in disguise, dressed as a beggar, so that no one would know him. His house was full of men trying to steal his wife and his kingdom. To survive, he had to remain a stranger in his own home. No one recognized him. Not his loyal servants. Not the people who had known him all his life. But lying in the dirt by the gate, old and forgotten, covered in ticks, too weak to stand, was a dog. Argos had waited twenty years. And the moment he saw him, he knew. He was the only one. Nearly blind, half dead, he lifted his head and pricked up his ears, and he wagged his tail for the master he had never stopped waiting for. Ulysses saw him. And because he was in disguise, surrounded by enemies, he could not run to him, could not kneel down, could not say his name. He could only look at his old friend and, turning his face away so no one would see, let a single tear fall. And then, in Homer's own words, "the dark shadow of death closed down on Argos' eyes, the instant he had seen Odysseus, twenty years away." He had held on to life for one reason only: he was waiting to see him come home. And the moment he did, he could finally let go... It is such a beautiful painting, and the look on that dog's face is so universal, so instantly understood by anyone who has ever loved and waited, that it is enough to bring a grown man to tears.
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This painting shows the most heartbreaking reunion in all of literature. To understand it, you have to know who the dog is... His name is Argos, and he belongs to Ulysses, the Greek hero also known as Odysseus. Before Ulysses sailed away to fight in the Trojan War, he had raised Argos from a puppy, a fast and beautiful hunting dog. Then the war called, and Ulysses left. He would not come home for twenty years. When Ulysses finally set foot on his own island again, he came in disguise, dressed as a beggar, so that no one would know him. His house was full of men trying to steal his wife and his kingdom. To survive, he had to remain a stranger in his own home. No one recognized him. Not his loyal servants. Not the people who had known him all his life. But lying in the dirt by the gate, old and forgotten, covered in ticks, too weak to stand, was a dog. Argos had waited twenty years. And the moment he saw him, he knew. He was the only one. Nearly blind, half dead, he lifted his head and pricked up his ears, and he wagged his tail for the master he had never stopped waiting for. Ulysses saw him. And because he was in disguise, surrounded by enemies, he could not run to him, could not kneel down, could not say his name. He could only look at his old friend and, turning his face away so no one would see, let a single tear fall. And then, in Homer's own words, "the dark shadow of death closed down on Argos' eyes, the instant he had seen Odysseus, twenty years away." He had held on to life for one reason only: he was waiting to see him come home. And the moment he did, he could finally let go... It is such a beautiful painting, and the look on that dog's face is so universal, so instantly understood by anyone who has ever loved and waited, that it is enough to bring a grown man to tears.

James Lucas

106,412 views • 29 days ago

Andrew Wiles worked on Fermat's Last Theorem alone in his attic for 7 years and told nobody except his wife. The problem was 358 years old. Fermat scribbled in a margin in 1637 that he had a proof and no room to write it, and every mathematician since had failed. Wiles saw the statement in a library book at 10 years old. He never let it go. He was a Princeton professor when he started in 1986. He stopped publishing new work and released old results in pieces to hide the silence. He announced it in Cambridge in June 1993, over 3 lectures, revealing the target only at the end. Newspapers ran it worldwide. Then a referee found a gap. One step in the proof did not hold, and the error was fundamental. He spent 14 months trying to close it in public view, with the whole field watching. He was ready to quit. The fix arrived in September 1994. He has said he stared at it in disbelief for 20 minutes. The BBC filmed him describing that moment. He gets a few words out, then turns away from the camera in tears. He kept the greatest result of the century secret so nobody could take it.
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Andrew Wiles worked on Fermat's Last Theorem alone in his attic for 7 years and told nobody except his wife. The problem was 358 years old. Fermat scribbled in a margin in 1637 that he had a proof and no room to write it, and every mathematician since had failed. Wiles saw the statement in a library book at 10 years old. He never let it go. He was a Princeton professor when he started in 1986. He stopped publishing new work and released old results in pieces to hide the silence. He announced it in Cambridge in June 1993, over 3 lectures, revealing the target only at the end. Newspapers ran it worldwide. Then a referee found a gap. One step in the proof did not hold, and the error was fundamental. He spent 14 months trying to close it in public view, with the whole field watching. He was ready to quit. The fix arrived in September 1994. He has said he stared at it in disbelief for 20 minutes. The BBC filmed him describing that moment. He gets a few words out, then turns away from the camera in tears. He kept the greatest result of the century secret so nobody could take it.

Gaspar

1,424,364 views • 9 days ago

Imagine a man who believed in you so much that as they put nails through his hands and feet, he begged the creator to forgive them, "for they know not what they do" That man suffered immensely for you. The night before, he sweat blood. The following day, they beat him with spiked whips and chains until he had hundreds of wounds.... then they layed him on a cross and nailed him to it while they mocked him.... And the entire time, he was praying for their salvation. He was dying for yours and mine. He replaced a debt we could never pay with his own blood. Imagine if that was just a man. You'd call him a hero..... You'd hang ribbons on his gravestone and build statues in his honor.... But he wasn't just a man. 3 days later he rose from the dead and scattered his followers to all corners of the world to spread the good news. Christ is King..... and he is waiting for you with open arms to join his kingdom.
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Imagine a man who believed in you so much that as they put nails through his hands and feet, he begged the creator to forgive them, "for they know not what they do" That man suffered immensely for you. The night before, he sweat blood. The following day, they beat him with spiked whips and chains until he had hundreds of wounds.... then they layed him on a cross and nailed him to it while they mocked him.... And the entire time, he was praying for their salvation. He was dying for yours and mine. He replaced a debt we could never pay with his own blood. Imagine if that was just a man. You'd call him a hero..... You'd hang ribbons on his gravestone and build statues in his honor.... But he wasn't just a man. 3 days later he rose from the dead and scattered his followers to all corners of the world to spread the good news. Christ is King..... and he is waiting for you with open arms to join his kingdom.

🍊🍊Capt'n Cornjuice🥃🥃

89,987 views • 1 month ago

A retired convenience store owner read a lottery brochure for 3 minutes and found a loophole worth $26 MILLION that the state's own mathematicians had missed for years. > Jerry Selbee was 65 and retired in Evart, Michigan. A town of 1,800 people. Nothing particular to do. > In 2003 he walked into his old store and picked up a brochure for a new state lottery game called Winfall off the counter. > He read it standing up in the aisle. He never sat down and never took it home. > In less than 3 minutes he found it. > When the jackpot hit $5 MILLION and nobody won, the prize rolled down to lower tier winners multiplying their payouts several times over. > He did the math in his head. Spend $1,100 on tickets during a rolldown week and the numbers guaranteed an $800 profit. Every single time. > He bought $3,600 on his first attempt and made $2,700. Told nobody. > One evening beside a campfire he finally told his wife Marge. She sat quietly for a moment. Then said she could see the numbers too. > They formed a corporation and sold $500 shares to neighbours, friends and family. > Among the shareholders, three state troopers, a factory plant manager and a bank vice president. > Every six weeks they drove 900 miles to Massachusetts, checked into a motel and spent up to $720,000 on tickets in a single session. They sorted 360,000 tickets by hand in that room. > The Boston Globe investigated in 2011 and found no wrongdoing. > A state official called them "math nerd geniuses who found a way to legally win a state lottery." > The state made $120 MILLION from the Selbees buying tickets. They were the lottery's best customer for nearly a decade. > They kept 65 plastic tubs of losing tickets in their barn in case the federal government ever came asking. They never bought a sports car. Never bought a hot tub. > Their corporation grossed $26 MILLION over 9 years. Bryan Cranston played Jerry in the 2022 Hollywood film Jerry and Marge Go Large. The most profitable skill in the world is not coding, not investing, and not sales. It is the ability to read something everyone else ignored and see what they missed.
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A retired convenience store owner read a lottery brochure for 3 minutes and found a loophole worth $26 MILLION that the state's own mathematicians had missed for years. > Jerry Selbee was 65 and retired in Evart, Michigan. A town of 1,800 people. Nothing particular to do. > In 2003 he walked into his old store and picked up a brochure for a new state lottery game called Winfall off the counter. > He read it standing up in the aisle. He never sat down and never took it home. > In less than 3 minutes he found it. > When the jackpot hit $5 MILLION and nobody won, the prize rolled down to lower tier winners multiplying their payouts several times over. > He did the math in his head. Spend $1,100 on tickets during a rolldown week and the numbers guaranteed an $800 profit. Every single time. > He bought $3,600 on his first attempt and made $2,700. Told nobody. > One evening beside a campfire he finally told his wife Marge. She sat quietly for a moment. Then said she could see the numbers too. > They formed a corporation and sold $500 shares to neighbours, friends and family. > Among the shareholders, three state troopers, a factory plant manager and a bank vice president. > Every six weeks they drove 900 miles to Massachusetts, checked into a motel and spent up to $720,000 on tickets in a single session. They sorted 360,000 tickets by hand in that room. > The Boston Globe investigated in 2011 and found no wrongdoing. > A state official called them "math nerd geniuses who found a way to legally win a state lottery." > The state made $120 MILLION from the Selbees buying tickets. They were the lottery's best customer for nearly a decade. > They kept 65 plastic tubs of losing tickets in their barn in case the federal government ever came asking. They never bought a sports car. Never bought a hot tub. > Their corporation grossed $26 MILLION over 9 years. Bryan Cranston played Jerry in the 2022 Hollywood film Jerry and Marge Go Large. The most profitable skill in the world is not coding, not investing, and not sales. It is the ability to read something everyone else ignored and see what they missed.

Comet

552,690 views • 1 month ago

Brad Pitt’s favorite Adam Sandler story: Sandler’s acting professor didn’t think he was good enough for acting, so he took him out for a beer to tell him gently. “You just don’t have it.” Then one day, Sandler was with his friends in a bar at the height of his career. He was getting big paychecks and all that. He looked over at a table and realized it was his professor. He had the perfect chance to rub it in his face. But he didn’t. He just introduced his friends to him and simply said: “That’s the only teacher who ever bought me a beer.”
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Brad Pitt’s favorite Adam Sandler story: Sandler’s acting professor didn’t think he was good enough for acting, so he took him out for a beer to tell him gently. “You just don’t have it.” Then one day, Sandler was with his friends in a bar at the height of his career. He was getting big paychecks and all that. He looked over at a table and realized it was his professor. He had the perfect chance to rub it in his face. But he didn’t. He just introduced his friends to him and simply said: “That’s the only teacher who ever bought me a beer.”

Emir Han

1,781,035 views • 3 months ago

In 2007, a Spanish comedian named Juan Joya Borja sat down for a television interview in Seville, Spain and tried to tell a story about the time he worked as a kitchen porter at a beach restaurant. He could barely get through it. The story was simple. One night he tied twenty large cooking pans to sticks in the sand by the shore and left them in the shallow water overnight to soak and clean. When he came back the next morning, the tide had taken nineteen of them out to sea. Only one was left. His wages were docked to pay for the replacements. The story is not especially funny written down. But the way he told it, interrupting himself every few seconds with a high-pitched wheezing laugh he could not control, toothless and bent double in his chair, was something else entirely. His nickname was El Risitas. It means Giggles. The clip sat quietly on YouTube for eight years. Then in 2015 someone added fake subtitles making it look like he was a designer mocking the new MacBook. Five million views in a month. The format spread everywhere. Politicians, tech companies, sports scandals. His face became one of the most used meme templates on the internet. His laughing close-up became a Twitch emote called KEKW used over 400 million times. When he became seriously ill in 2020 and needed his leg amputated, fans who had never met him raised over fourteen thousand euros for his medical care and a wheelchair. He sent a video thanking them. He passed away on April 28, 2021. He was 65.
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In 2007, a Spanish comedian named Juan Joya Borja sat down for a television interview in Seville, Spain and tried to tell a story about the time he worked as a kitchen porter at a beach restaurant. He could barely get through it. The story was simple. One night he tied twenty large cooking pans to sticks in the sand by the shore and left them in the shallow water overnight to soak and clean. When he came back the next morning, the tide had taken nineteen of them out to sea. Only one was left. His wages were docked to pay for the replacements. The story is not especially funny written down. But the way he told it, interrupting himself every few seconds with a high-pitched wheezing laugh he could not control, toothless and bent double in his chair, was something else entirely. His nickname was El Risitas. It means Giggles. The clip sat quietly on YouTube for eight years. Then in 2015 someone added fake subtitles making it look like he was a designer mocking the new MacBook. Five million views in a month. The format spread everywhere. Politicians, tech companies, sports scandals. His face became one of the most used meme templates on the internet. His laughing close-up became a Twitch emote called KEKW used over 400 million times. When he became seriously ill in 2020 and needed his leg amputated, fans who had never met him raised over fourteen thousand euros for his medical care and a wheelchair. He sent a video thanking them. He passed away on April 28, 2021. He was 65.

Lemma the Optimist

1,170,372 views • 4 months ago

Nacho dies free because he chooses the terms of his death He'd gotten out. He beat the Twins, he was clear. Then he stops and calls his father. And his father tells him what he's told him a hundred times. Go to the police. What else is there to say? And hangs up Nacho stands there crying. Then he calls Mike and arranges his own execution, on one condition. His father stays safe He walks back into the fire on purpose In the desert he gives them the script. Peruvians. Money. Everything Gus needs him to say. Then he goes off it. He calls Gus the Chicken Man to his face, too weak to do this himself. He tells the Cousins he'd have done all of it for free, because he hated them. He looks at Hector and tells him whose hand swapped the pills. Think of me while you're sucking down Jello in the nursing home, you twisted fuck Then he cuts his ties with a shard of glass he'd palmed days earlier, takes Bolsa's gun, and holds it on him just long enough to see every face in that circle He turns it on himself instead Mando saw it clearly. Every man standing in that desert is already dead. They just don't know it yet. Dead men watching the first man die They all came to decide how Nacho went. Not one of them got to
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Nacho dies free because he chooses the terms of his death He'd gotten out. He beat the Twins, he was clear. Then he stops and calls his father. And his father tells him what he's told him a hundred times. Go to the police. What else is there to say? And hangs up Nacho stands there crying. Then he calls Mike and arranges his own execution, on one condition. His father stays safe He walks back into the fire on purpose In the desert he gives them the script. Peruvians. Money. Everything Gus needs him to say. Then he goes off it. He calls Gus the Chicken Man to his face, too weak to do this himself. He tells the Cousins he'd have done all of it for free, because he hated them. He looks at Hector and tells him whose hand swapped the pills. Think of me while you're sucking down Jello in the nursing home, you twisted fuck Then he cuts his ties with a shard of glass he'd palmed days earlier, takes Bolsa's gun, and holds it on him just long enough to see every face in that circle He turns it on himself instead Mando saw it clearly. Every man standing in that desert is already dead. They just don't know it yet. Dead men watching the first man die They all came to decide how Nacho went. Not one of them got to

best of better call saul

729,064 views • 13 days ago

The man who invented modern fantasy didn't publish his first novel until he was forty-five. By that age, J.R.R. Tolkien had already built a respectable life. He was an Oxford professor, an expert in ancient languages, with a wife and four children and a settled academic career. He was exactly the kind of man who might reasonably have decided that the shape of his life was already fixed. The work he would be remembered for, he had not yet even begun... The story, which Tolkien told himself, is that one summer he was grading examination papers, when he turned a page and found that a student had left it blank. Without quite knowing why, he wrote a single sentence on it: "In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit." He did not know what a hobbit was. He had spent years inventing languages and mythologies as a private passion, and telling stories to his own children, never imagining any of it would reach the world. But that one line began to grow. It became a story, and then a book, and in 1937, at the age of forty-five, Tolkien published The Hobbit. It was a success, and his publisher asked for a sequel. Tolkien warned them it might take some time. It took 17 years... He wrote it in the margins of a demanding full-time job, revising endlessly, doubting it often. When The Lord of the Rings was finally published, in 1954 and 1955, he was in his early sixties. That book, begun as a middle-aged professor's private side project, went on to sell well over a hundred million copies, to invent modern fantasy as we know it, and to reshape the imagination of the entire world. Tolkien already had a full and respectable life behind him. And still, the thing he is remembered for, the thing that outlived him and reached hundreds of millions of people, was something he began at forty-five, at an age when it would have been the easiest thing in the world to tell himself he had already missed his chance. He didn't. It's never as late as it feels.
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The man who invented modern fantasy didn't publish his first novel until he was forty-five. By that age, J.R.R. Tolkien had already built a respectable life. He was an Oxford professor, an expert in ancient languages, with a wife and four children and a settled academic career. He was exactly the kind of man who might reasonably have decided that the shape of his life was already fixed. The work he would be remembered for, he had not yet even begun... The story, which Tolkien told himself, is that one summer he was grading examination papers, when he turned a page and found that a student had left it blank. Without quite knowing why, he wrote a single sentence on it: "In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit." He did not know what a hobbit was. He had spent years inventing languages and mythologies as a private passion, and telling stories to his own children, never imagining any of it would reach the world. But that one line began to grow. It became a story, and then a book, and in 1937, at the age of forty-five, Tolkien published The Hobbit. It was a success, and his publisher asked for a sequel. Tolkien warned them it might take some time. It took 17 years... He wrote it in the margins of a demanding full-time job, revising endlessly, doubting it often. When The Lord of the Rings was finally published, in 1954 and 1955, he was in his early sixties. That book, begun as a middle-aged professor's private side project, went on to sell well over a hundred million copies, to invent modern fantasy as we know it, and to reshape the imagination of the entire world. Tolkien already had a full and respectable life behind him. And still, the thing he is remembered for, the thing that outlived him and reached hundreds of millions of people, was something he began at forty-five, at an age when it would have been the easiest thing in the world to tell himself he had already missed his chance. He didn't. It's never as late as it feels.

James Lucas

93,424 views • 1 month ago