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For her role as Amy in Gone Girl, Rosamund Pike gained and lost 13 pounds three times to portray the character at different life stages. She ate hamburgers and malts to gain weight and trained with a professional boxer for up to four hours a day, running 5 miles in 42 minutes to shed the weight.

In 1702, a British admiral attacked a French naval squadron, but some of his captains refused to assist, allowing the French to escape. The French admiral later suggested executing the cowardly captains, advice the British admiral followed by ordering the execution of two captains.

A study conducted in 2023 analyzed the cognitive abilities of nearly 400,000 Americans from 2006 to 2018. Over this 13-year span, researchers observed a decline in IQ scores across three of the four cognitive domains examined.

During its first season, Saturday Night Live was called Saturday Night because another program had already claimed the Saturday Night Live name. This is why each episode still begins with the famous line, "Live from New York, it's Saturday Night!"

When the small town of Delton, Michigan, hosted an Austrian exchange student, the host family underestimated his size. Bernhard Raimann, standing at 6'6", aspired to play American football, eventually excelling, earning a college scholarship, and reaching the NFL.

In recent years, some obese patients have been sent to zoos for MRI and CT scans because standard hospital equipment couldn't support their weight. Zoos, equipped with larger scanners for big animals, offered a practical solution.

In 1977, Melvin Chelcie Carr, a triple murderer, accidentally suffocated himself while attempting to gas his three victims. His wife discovered all of them dead in the garage upon returning home.

Pandas experience fertility only once a year, with a window of just 36 hours in which they can conceive.

When Genghis Khan sent a trade caravan to the Khwarazmian Empire, a city governor seized it and killed the traders. In retaliation, Genghis Khan invaded with 200,000 men, executed the governor by pouring molten silver into his eyes and mouth, and diverted a river through the birthplace of the Khwarezmid emperor, erasing it from the map.

Sources: 461, 462, 463, 464, 465, 466, 467, 468, 469, 470

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