Man Speaks Chinese After Coma, Villagers Kidnap Gang Boss’s Mother & More [Live – 6:00 p.m. ET]

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5. He didn’t know it at the time, but when a Calgary man jumped into a dumpster to save a crying abandoned baby, he was looking at his own son.

4. The movie The Iron Giant has a heartbreaking backstory about why the director, Brad Bird, made it.

3. The Tonca is an event in Italy where, every year on June 19th, a ceremonial jury sentences the local politician who committed the year’s worst blunder to be locked in a cage and dunked in the river.

2. In the beautiful, totally-not-dangerous state of Guerrero, Mexico (a place known for its vibrant opium trade, vanishing people, and general “government who?” vibes), a group of fed-up villagers decided to form their own vigilante squad after a local engineer was kidnapped by a gang.

1. One Aussie man got into a bad accident and fell into a coma. When he woke up, he was frustrated to find that no one could understand him when he spoke — that is, until he realized he was speaking fluent Chinese.

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