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After the breakup of the Soviet Union, Lithuania couldn’t afford to send its basketball team to the 1992 Olympics.

The iconic group Grateful Dead agreed to help sponsor Lithuania’s national basketball team alongside with the designer of the ‘Skullman’ t-shirt Greg Speirs, if they agreed to wear tie-dyed uniforms.

Getting the Dead was a major coup. The band wrote a check for $5,000 but more importantly granted Lithuania the rights to sell a Dead t-shirt, a stoned-out psychedelic masterpiece splashed with Lithuania’s national colors of green, red, and yellow and anchored by the Dead’s skeleton symbol.

Between the excitement of Lithuania taking home the bronze medal in 1992 and sales of the t-shirt, it financed most of Lithuania’s participation in the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta. The shirt kept Lithuania in the news while telling the story of the country’s heroic struggle for freedom and its battle to get the team to Barcelona.

At a height of 180 feet, she set up camp to stop the Pacific Lumber Company from cutting it down and to help make the world aware of the plight of ancient forests.

She sat in the tree, originally expecting to be up there for one to two weeks like many activists were in the 1990s, not aware of the impact her act was going to have.

After a long period of negotiations, Julia agreed to come down from Luna after agreeing that the tree would be permanently protected and a near three-acre buffer zone would be put in around the tree.

The stunt also raised awareness of the lack of trees left standing in America.

When Julia came down, she was a national hero and quickly became recognized for the memorable protest.

The Stonewall riots, also known as the Stonewall uprising, Stonewall rebellion, or simply Stonewall, were a series of spontaneous, violent demonstrations against a police raid that took place in the early morning hours of June 28, 1969, at the Stonewall Inn, in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City.

Although they were not the first instance in American history when people in the homosexual community fought back against a government-sponsored system that persecuted sexual minorities, they have become the defining event that marked the start of the gay rights movement in the United States and around the world.

In 1998, Bill Morgan, an Australian truck driver, was involved in a severe road accident that left him clinically dead for 14 minutes. Miraculously, he survived but was in a coma for 12 days. when he recovered, he decided to buy a scratch-off lottery ticket and won a car worth $27,000.

Bill Morgan was asked to reenact his recent lottery win for TV after local news outlets decided to feature his incredible story and suggested to him that he buy another scratch-off ticket.

Astoundingly, while the cameras were rolling, Bill scratched off the ticket and discovered he had won $250,000. An incredible chain of events played out in his fortune. Almost unbelievable if it weren’t documented.

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