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The Bizarre Real Life Ornamental Garden Gnomes

In today's bizarre history compilation video, we are looking at such things as the bizarre time when paying someone to live as a homeless squatter in your garden was the height of display of wealth, the bizarre case of mummy unwrapping parties and much, much more... In modern times if you want to show off extreme wealth, you may purchase expensive sports cars, buy a private jet, wear flashy jewelry, or, as boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. has been known to do, travel around carrying suitcases filled with sometimes millions of dollars in cash. Such extravagant displays of wealth are a trademark of the boxer with Mayweather reportedly having a standing arrangement with his bank to have huge sums of money in cash periodically delivered to his palatial home with the primary purpose being to facilitate flaunting his fabulous wealth, instead of using a card like mere plebeians. Going back a few centuries in Britain, a popular way to achieve a similar effect was to simply hire a random person to live on your property, with their job generally being to cease bathing or grooming in any way and otherwise spend their days sitting around doing a whole lot of nothing but looking like a stereotypical hermit, all for the enjoyment of guests.... 0:00 The Curious Case of Real Life Ornamental Garden Hermits 13:15 The Bizarre Phenomenon of Mummy Unwrapping Parties 25:55 The Insanely Gruesome Origins of the Chainsaw 38:01 That Time a City Randomly Blew Up 51:53 Injecting People With Cancer Without Their Consent 1:18:11 The Last Sword Duel... in 1967 1:29:50 That Time a Science Fiction Writer Accidentally Almost Revealed the Manhattan Project