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After being largely cut out of his father's will John Lennon's son from his first marriage, Julian Lennon, was forced to bid on sentimental postcards addressed to him by his late father. Yoko Ono auctioned them off for tens of thousands of dollars instead of giving them to Julian.
A Soviet all-female aviation regiment nicknamed the "night witches" would fly thousands of feet up, cut their engines and drop almost to the ground to bomb German forces undetected.
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After the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, thousands of hair stylists and alpaca farmers donated over 19 warehouses worth of cut hair to absorb the spilled oil.
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There is a man who digs up antique denim left in old abandoned silver mines. When a miner got a new pair of work pants, he’d cut up the old ones and use them for lagging around pipes. Collectors pay thousands of dollars for jeans, jackets and even scraps of denim
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Novaculite has been used for making cutting weapons and tools for thousands of years. Today they are still used as a tool to sharpen metal cutting tools and weapons.
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The US Government dumped hundreds of thousands of pounds of traditional, chemical, and WMD weapons in the ocean in a program called CHASE (Cut Holes and Sink 'Em) off the coast of Florida and San Francisco
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During the 2008 Canadian listeriosis outbreak linked to cold cuts that resulted in 22 deaths, the Canadian Agricultural Minister was quoted saying "This is like a death by a thousand cuts. Or should I say cold cuts."
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Lingchi" also known as "death by a thousand cuts", was a form of torture and execution used in China for over a thousand years until banned in 1905.
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The Dorobo tribe of Kenya steal fresh meat from the mouths of lions. The method is thousands of years old; they find a pride that has had a fresh kill during daytime, then walk up to them while they’re feeding and cut off some meat. The lions are too startled to react and usually run away.
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One of the last executions by Lingchi (Chinese lingering death / death by a thousand cuts) was made into postcards years later and actually mailed out
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Pakistan has a military doctrine called "Bleed India With a Thousand Cuts" against India by using covert tactics and guerilla warfare to destabilize and destroy the country
