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48 hours before Deadpool was green lit by 20th Century Fox, the studio cut the film's budget by $7-8 million down to $58 million. Numerous changes were made as a result, such as having Deadpool forget his bag of guns before the final battle sequence to avoid a costly gun fight in the third act.

Khassan Baiev who was the single surgeon for over 80.000 during the Chechen wars and at one point during the conflict he performed 67 amputations and eight brain operations in a 48-hour period. He was also known for treating both Chechen and Russian soldiers.

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1. "Elephants are capable swimmers. They have been recorded swimming for up to six hours without touching the bottom, and have travelled as far as 48 km (30 mi) at a stretch and at speeds of up to 2.1 km/h (1 mph)."

2. Within 48 hours of quitting smoking, your senses of smell and taste begin to return to normal.

3. When C-SPAN asked for illegal copies of Stephen Colbert's controversial 2006 White House Correspondents' Dinner speech to be removed from Youtube, Google bought the rights to the video and therey saved the viral videos which were already watched 2.7M times in under 48 hours.

4. The only employee of Goldman Sachs to go to jail in the aftermath of the financial crisis was an employee that Goldman Sachs specifically told authorities to arrest for stealing computer code the employee helped write. He was arrested 48 hours after they informed authorities without a warrant.

5. During the Nigerian Civil War, the two sides agreed to a 48-hour cease fire because Pelé was in town to play an exhibition game, and everyone wanted to be free to watch it without having to worry about the war.

6. "in darkness most people eventually adjust to a 48-hour cycle: 36 hour of activity followed by 12 hours of sleep. The reasons are still unclear."

7. Stefania Follini, an Italian interior designer recruited by NASA in '89 for an experiment in Circadian Rhythms, where she spent 4 months in underground isolation proving our bodies naturally fall into 28 and 48 hour days

8. The two sides involved in the Nigerian civil war in 1967 agreed to a 48 hour ceasefire so that they could watch Pele play in Nigeria

9. Eddie Murphy did SNL, 48 Hours, Trading Places, and Beverly Hills Cop all by the age of 23

10. Brown bears can achieve running speeds of 48 kilometers per hour (30mph) or as fast as a race horse.

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Mister Rogers once had his car stolen and had it returned 48 hours later. After he filed a police report and TV picked up on it it was returned with an apology letter.

The aircraft carrier USS Yorktown was heavily damaged after destroying a Japanese aircraft carrier during the first carrier battle in history. After 48 hours of emergency repairs, it ended up helping destroy two more carriers before being sunk, and inadvertently saved the other US carriers. - source

It was Henry Ford, founder of Ford Motor Company, that established the 5-day, 40-hour work week. He switched his workers from the standard 6-day, 48-hour workweek, but still paid them the same wages. - source

When Mister Rogers filed a police report on his car being stolen, it was returned 48 hours later with a note that read, “If we’d known it was yours, we never would have taken it.”

In 1997, CircuitCity developed DIVX, an alternative to DVDs, that could only be viewed for 48 hours before paying addition cost to continue viewing using phone lines to detect whether disc were still valid, it was estimated to be a $337 million dollar loss - source

Live animals are sold in China encased within keyrings to entertain tourists. The animals include Lizards, small Turtles and Tortoises. The vendors claim they will live for months but the small amount of air in the plastic pouches means they will die within 48 hours.

In 1915 a man, after being buried alive by quicksand, was able to survive 48 hours 25ft underground with an improvised divers helmet made out of a barrel and a hose

Strom Thurmond, the staunchly segregationist Senator from South Carolina that served 48 years from 1956 to 2003 — and once filibustered the 1957 Civil Rights Act by himself for over 24 hours — had a daughter with a black girl at the age of 22. He supported her financially his entire life.

In 1981, following a strike by an Air Traffic union, Ronald Reagan said they had 48 hours to go back to work, or they'd be fired. More than 11,000 workers ignored it, and were fired.

First signs of dermatitis appear 1 to 3 days after contact with sap. Usually 48 hours later, large, dark blisters arise. They turn into brown scars after couple of days. Scars remain on the skin from couple of months to 6 years. Skin remains sensitive to the sun for years after contact with giant hogweed.

After 86 hours of combat, 18 wounds sustained, 145 enemy soldiers killed, and 48 years waiting U.S. Army Command Sergeant Major Bennie G. Adkins was awarded the Medal of Honor.

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