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  2. Horace Fletcher - Wikipedia

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    Fletcher suffered from dyspepsia and obesity in his later years, so he devised a system of chewing food to maximize digestion. [1] His mastication system became known as "Fletcherism". He was a member of The Boston Club of New Orleans and founding member of The Bohemian Club of San Francisco. [2]

  3. Michel Lotito - Wikipedia

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    Michel Lotito began eating unusual material at 9 years of age, [3] and he performed publicly beginning in 1966, around the age of 16. He had an eating disorder known as pica , which is a psychological disorder characterised by an appetite for substances that are largely non-nutritive.

  4. Tarrare - Wikipedia

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    Despite his unusual diet, Tarrare was slim and of average height. [9] At the age of 17, he weighed only about 100 pounds (45 kg; 7 st 2 lb). [1] [5] He was described as having unusually soft fair hair and an abnormally wide mouth (roughly four inches between his jaws when his mouth was fully extended), [10] in which his teeth were heavily stained [9] and on which the lips were almost invisible.

  5. Don Gorske - Wikipedia

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    Don Gorske (born 1953 or 1954) [1] is an American world record holder known as the "ultimate Big Mac fan," having eaten over 34,128 [2] such hamburgers from the U.S. fast food chain McDonald's in his lifetime (as of March 2024), earning him a place in the Guinness Book of Records.

  6. James Vicary - Wikipedia

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    One of the most commonly known examples of subliminal messaging is Vicary's claimed movie theater experiment in 1957, purportedly in Fort Lee, New Jersey.In his press release, he claimed that 45,699 people were exposed to subliminal projections telling them to "Eat Popcorn" and "Drink Coca-Cola", causing a 57.5 percent sales increase for popcorn and an 18.1 percent increase in Coca-Cola sales.

  7. The Duggar Family Tree: 'Counting' all the marriages, kids ...

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    The world first met the Duggar family when they were just a clan of 16, featured in the 2004 documentary 14 Children and Pregnant Again.

  8. Stanford marshmallow experiment - Wikipedia

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    In follow-up studies, Mischel found unexpected correlations between the results of the marshmallow experiment and the success of the children many years later. [5] The first follow-up study, in 1988, showed that "preschool children who delayed gratification longer in the self-imposed delay paradigm, were described more than 10 years later by ...

  9. New Year's tradition to eat 12 grapes or black-eyed ... - AOL

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    As the tradition goes, one grape represents each month in a calendar year and the idea is at the strike of midnight, to eat each before the clock hits 12:01.