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Luck can give you $10,000 !
1- When the US space station Skylab crashed in Australia, the municipality fined the US for littering!!
2- In 1979, pieces of the US space station Skylab fell from the sky and littered the Australian municipality of Esperance. The craft had broken apart over the Indian Ocean.
3- Esperance fined the United States $400 for littering! It wasn’t until 2009 that they were paid, though. A radio show host, Scott Barley, raised the money from his listeners and paid the fine on behalf of NASA.
4- The San Francisco Examiner offered $10,000 to the first person to bring them pieces of the Skylab.
5- A 17 year old from Esperance scooped some scraps of the Skylab from his roof and took the first flight to San Francisco where he collected his prize!
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★ On the morning of 28 June 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, were shot dead in Sarajevo by 19-year-old assassin Gavrilo Princip.
★ Princip had planned to assassinate Franz Ferdinand that day in 1914, but the plan went bad.
★ Princip gave up and went to Morizt Schiller’s café to have a sandwich.
★ Then something totally unexpected happened. Archduke Franz Ferdinand’s driver, Leopold Loyka, made a wrong turn.
★ He turned onto Franz Josef Street.
★ He was not supposed to have turned there.
★ He drove right in front of a surprised Gavrilo Princip.
★ Princip seized the opportunity and fired into the open car at a range of five feet.
★ His bullet hit the Archduke in the neck.
★ The archduke’s wife, Sophie, instinctively covered Franz’s body with her own.
★ Princip’s next bullet killed both Franz and Sophie.
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