This document discusses several obscure facts: that gray langur monkeys in India are killed for food and crops despite being sacred; that a South African football coach was fired for lying about his playing career; that small bronze vessels called jue were used in ancestor ceremonies in ancient China; that a man had an entire Scottish village demolished and rebuilt to improve his garden; that a man served as Virginia's chief executioner for 17 years before opposing the death penalty; that non-alcoholic fatty liver disease affects about 25% of the global population; that an entomologist wrote extensively on mosquitoes; and that a gang dispute over fireworks led to a massacre in San Francisco.
This document discusses several obscure facts: that gray langur monkeys in India are killed for food and crops despite being sacred; that a South African football coach was fired for lying about his playing career; that small bronze vessels called jue were used in ancestor ceremonies in ancient China; that a man had an entire Scottish village demolished and rebuilt to improve his garden; that a man served as Virginia's chief executioner for 17 years before opposing the death penalty; that non-alcoholic fatty liver disease affects about 25% of the global population; that an entomologist wrote extensively on mosquitoes; and that a gang dispute over fireworks led to a massacre in San Francisco.
This document discusses several obscure facts: that gray langur monkeys in India are killed for food and crops despite being sacred; that a South African football coach was fired for lying about his playing career; that small bronze vessels called jue were used in ancestor ceremonies in ancient China; that a man had an entire Scottish village demolished and rebuilt to improve his garden; that a man served as Virginia's chief executioner for 17 years before opposing the death penalty; that non-alcoholic fatty liver disease affects about 25% of the global population; that an entomologist wrote extensively on mosquitoes; and that a gang dispute over fireworks led to a massacre in San Francisco.
• that the northern plains gray langur monkey (example pictured) is killed in India for food
and to prevent crop raiding, despite being considered sacred by Hindus?
• ... that Jeff Butler was sacked as head coach of the South Africa national football team after it was discovered that he had passed off the playing career of another Geoff Butler as his own? • ... that jue were small bronze vessels used for serving wine in ancestor-worship ceremonies in Bronze Age China? • ... that Lewis Grant-Ogilvy had the entire village of Cullen demolished and rebuilt so that he could improve his garden at Cullen House? • ... that Jerry Givens served as Virginia's chief executioner for 17 years before becoming a campaigner against the death penalty? • ... that non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, the most common liver disorder worldwide, is present in approximately 25 percent of the world's population? • ... that entomologist Frederick Vincent Theobald wrote a five-volume monograph and sixty scientific papers on mosquitoes? • ... that the 1977 Golden Dragon massacre in San Francisco was the result of a gang feud originating in a dispute over fireworks sales?