Seeing that he only had more than 5,000 in his hand, the college student thought that his company was going to close down, so he went to the casino to turn his bicycle into a motorcycle. After arriving at the casino, he placed a bet of 5000 yuan. As a result, he didn't expect that he won. The whole bet of more than 30 thousand brought his company back to life. That college student was Fred, the first boss of FedEx? Smith (last name)
The turning point of victory in World War II was a beggar.
As we all know, the first world war was triggered because? Sarajevo? Events, but I don't know that in the history of World War II, there are many allusions that changed the overall situation because of a nobody. The most typical one was put forward by the British in order to capture Germany? Chopped meat plan?
At that time, the strength of Germany was still very strong. Even though Britain joined several allied forces, it still didn't invade Germany. Because their combat intention was guessed by the Germans, they gathered heavy troops in the place where the Allies were about to land in advance, so the Allies could hardly get close to the port. In order to confuse the Germans, the allies first found a tramp who died of eating rat poison by mistake. Due to the lack of professional forensic doctors at that time, it was difficult for Germans to find out the cause of his death.
The British first forged the identity of the army tramp and the public death obituary, and then took the tramp's body to the coast of Germany, locked a confidential file box on his wrist, and the contents of the box were the plan of the Allied landing in Greece. After they sank the body to the bottom of the sea, they began to send telegrams frantically on various channels. There is only one message in the telegram? Did you find the box on the body?
The information itself was false, but it was intercepted by the Germans. After intercepting the telegram, they quickly sent people to salvage it offshore. Sure enough, they found the body of the tramp and intercepted the secret box. Finally, the deceived Germans mobilized heavy troops to defend Greece, but they were landed in Sicily by the Allies.
After the war, the tramp's body was buried in Spain. In memory of him, people pay homage to him every year.
3. A woman who was stopped from jumping by air.
In the 1970s, the financial crisis broke out in the United States for a long time. Because people could not meet the demand for food and clothing, many people went to a dead end. 1979, an American lady swooped down from the Empire State Building, a landmark building in new york, USA, out of despair and protest. Unexpectedly, due to the bad weather and strong wind in new york that day, the lady jumped from the 29th floor and was blown to the ground by the wind.
A football match ended the war.
In 2002, such a wonderful scene appeared in C? te d 'Ivoire. At that time, C? te d 'Ivoire was in a civil war, and the two sides fought back and forth in some areas under their control. However, just a few days later, the two sides, who were originally facing each other on the fire line, suddenly stopped fighting, and a few days later, the two sides began to shake hands and signed a peace talks agreement, because in the war, the team where the star Drogba was located played a game with Alaska. The venue of the competition is the fighting place of both sides. Due to the will of the Ivorian people, the warring parties abandoned the battle site during the competition, and both sides sent soldiers to maintain order and keep the competition going smoothly.
5. the project to raise Chicago by 4 meters
In the 1980s, a heavy rainfall in Chicago, USA, paralyzed the city's drainage system. The reason is that the drainage system is built in a narrow area, which leads to the blockage of water pipes. As a result, local institutions called in engineers for maintenance. Because the drainage pipe area was too small for maintenance workers to enter, the engineering team at that time came up with a bold solution. They gathered thousands of workers and lifted the building a few meters with jacks so that workers could enter for maintenance. In this way, the whole city appeared.