Tesla’s father was a priest in the Serbian Orthodox Church, notes Encyclopedia Britannica.
His mother, while uneducated, was “highly intelligent.”
The younger Tesla took a keen interest in science at a young age. Around the age of six, he started to conduct experiments, according to the website for the Tesla Science Center at Wardenclyffe in New York.
Serbian-American inventor Nikola Tesla was born on this day in history, July 10, 1856. (Getty Images)
As a young adult, Tesla worked at the Budapest Telephone Exchange and at a job installing lights in Paris.
At both of these jobs, Tesla was able to invent improvements to existing technology.
In Budapest, Tesla “improved the equipment and developed an amplifier” — while in Paris, “Tesla made improvements to Edison’s dynamos and created an automatic regulator,” said the Tesla Science Center.
That same year, Tesla met Thomas Edison.
Edison “essentially hired Tesla on the spot” and put him to work on the electrical system of the ocean liner “Oregon,” the first ship with electric lighting.
“The set of dynamos that powered the ship were badly damaged and Edison was amazed to learn that Tesla had repaired him,” said Tesla Universe.
Among Tesla’s notable achievements are patents for the alternating-current dynamo, transformer, and motor, said Encyclopedia Britannica.
In 1891 — the same year he became a U.S. citizen — Tesla invented the “Tesla coil,” “an air-core transformer with primary and secondary coils tuned to resonate,” according to California State University, Long Beach.
“Tesla conceived it to be a means to transmit electrical power without wires,” said the same source.
A demonstration of a Tesla coil. Nikola Tesla, born on July 10, 1856, invented the Tesla coil, “an air-core transformer with primary and secondary coils tuned to resonate,” according to Cal State Long Beach. “Tesla conceived it to be a means to transmit electrical power without wires.” (Getty Images)
Eventually, Tesla would acquire nearly 300 patents throughout his life, said the Tesla Science Center.
In the modern era, the name Tesla is most commonly associated with a brand of electric cars.
Tesla, Inc. was founded as Tesla Motors in 2003 by entrepreneurs Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning, notes Encyclopedia Britannica.
In 2010, the company went public.
Production of the Roadster ceased in 2012, said Encyclopedia Britannica, and the company changed its name to Tesla, Inc. in 2017.
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It also helps Americans answer the question: Is the United States a Christian nation?
Jefferson, the third U.S. president, completed “The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth” in 1820 after 15 years of effort.
It’s more commonly known as “The Jefferson Bible.”
A Bible assembled by Thomas Jefferson from four different translations is on display at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History. The nearly 200-year-old book recently underwent a conservation and rebound within its original cover. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)
“We must reduce our volume to the simple evangelists, select, even from them, the very words only of Jesus,” Jefferson wrote in 1813 while explaining the project to John Adams.
“There will be remaining the most sublime and benevolent code of morals which has ever been offered to man.”
The book’s existence has largely been ignored by history, even though it offers fascinating insight into a brilliant mind that helped ignite the greatest intellectual revolution in human history.
“‘The Jefferson Bible’ is arguably the most controversial religious text in American history,” Thomas S. Kidd, a professor at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Kansas City, Missouri, wrote last year for the Text & Canon Institute.
“Thomas Jefferson never published his Bible in his lifetime. Indeed, ‘The Jefferson Bible’ never got published at all during the 1800s, despite publishers’ offers to do so. Congress finally produced an edition of it in 1904.”
This undated engraving shows the scene on July 4, 1776, when the Declaration of Independence, which Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Philip Livingston and Roger Sherman drafted, was approved by the Continental Congress in Philadelphia. (AP Photo)
Kidd also wrote the 2022 book, “Thomas Jefferson: A Biography of Spirit and Flesh.”
“All of these are key doctrines of Christianity. So in that sense, he was not a Christian. Yet he also believed Jesus was a moral human teacher — not only a teacher, but the greatest teacher ever.”
“The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth” marked the culmination of decades of research into the Bible, the New Testament specifically, by a giant of human history.
“The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth” is displayed at the bookstore of Thomas Jefferson Memorial on Oct. 14, 2004, in Washington, D.C. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)
Jefferson and many of the other Founding Fathers not only knew the Bible intimately, they studied it in multiple languages — in what appears to have been an inconceivable sort of intellectual one-ups-manship.
“Other prominent founders, including James Madison and John Adams, could also read Hebrew, but Jefferson never learned that biblical language. Indeed, Jefferson got irritated at Adams for suggesting that a truly educated man needed to be able to read both the Old and New Testaments in the original languages.”
“It was crafted in the fall and winter months of 1819 and 1820 when the 77-year-old Jefferson used a razor to cut passages from six copies of the New Testament — two in Greek and Latin, two in French and two in English,” Smithsonian Magazine noted in 2020.
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He then “rearranged and pasted together the selected verses, shorn of any sign of the miraculous or supernatural in order to leave just the life and teachings of Jesus behind.”
There is no discussion of the Immaculate Conception of Mary, nor any reference to the resurrection of Jesus and the continuing mission of the Apostles, each miracle essential to the traditional Christian narrative.
There is no in-between in contemporary thought.
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion,” reads the very first line of the First Amendment. Commitment to religious discourse is literally the first guarantee of liberty in the Bill of Rights. (iStock)
The Founding Fathers, however, inhabited a nation of more intellectual nuance and sophistication.
Jefferson “has this historical third way. You don’t run into people like him today,” said Kidd.
He also committed to the painstaking physical effort to personally cut and paste the document. Clearly, the Bible was foundational to his beliefs, even if doctrine was not.
“When Jefferson wrote that ‘all men are created equal’ it was a profoundly theological statement. He does believe in a creator. He does believe in a God.”
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion,” reads the very first line of the First Amendment. Commitment to religious discourse is literally the first guarantee of liberty in the Bill of Rights.
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“Not all the Founding Fathers were Christians in the sense we may consider today. But if you frame it as, ‘Does Christianity influence the founding of the nation?’ Oh my goodness, it’s everywhere,” Kidd said.
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Laura Johnson, 42, said she tried every “fad diet going” during her decade-long battle to shed excess baby weight, as SWNS, the British news service, reported.
During that time she said she tried Slimming World, SlimFast, Weight Watchers, juicing and calorie counting — with no success.
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She had the procedure in the summer of 2022.
In over a year she lost 70 pounds, not just from the surgery but with the help of a weighted hula hoop, which she said she uses for 15 minutes every day.
“It got to the point where I didn’t want to leave the house. I felt so big and I knew that wasn’t me.”
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She added, “It got to the point where I didn’t want to leave the house. I felt so big and I knew that wasn’t me,” as SWNS reported.
She said the surgery she went through was “tough” but overall said it’s “been amazing” for her.
She said the same thing occurred when she had her second child in 2003 and her third in 2009.
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Then, she said, “I had my fourth baby at age 32 in 2013 — and something was different. I couldn’t shift the extra weight no matter what I did.”
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Despite making sure her children were eating healthy, home-cooked meals, she said she herself often relied on processed snacks and ready-made meals.
What turned her around, she told SWNS, was an invitation to a girls’ weekend away with her friends — which she declined, saying all she wanted to do was “stay at home and hide.”
She said taking up exercising — which includes her daily round of hula hoop work plus long walks and running — has made all the difference.
“I feel lighter in my head and feel free,” she said.
“I no longer overeat and I trust myself to make healthy choices … I still treat myself every so often, but I just don’t binge.”
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All 164 Apple retail stores in the U.S. stayed open until midnight that evening so that eager customers could purchase up to two iPhones on a “first-come, first-served basis,” according to a press release by Apple on that date.
First announced on Jan. 9, 2007, by Apple CEO Steve Jobs, the iPhone was considered one of Apple’s worst-kept secrets — but even so, it was arguably the most anticipated gadget of all time.
“We are all born with the ultimate pointing device — our fingers — and iPhone uses them to create the most revolutionary user interface since the mouse,” Jobs also said during his keynote speech.
The first iPhone combined three products in its one small handheld device, serving as “a revolutionary mobile phone, a widescreen iPod and the Internet in your pocket, with best-ever applications on a mobile phone for email web browsing and maps,” Apple said.
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“Just two months after the iPhone’s initial release, Apple trimmed the handset’s price down to $400,” that publication noted.
“That helped a little, but it wasn’t until 2008 — when Apple unveiled the iPhone 3G with a new $200 price tag and access to the faster 3G network — that the smartphone exploded in popularity. Apple sold over 10 million iPhone 3G units worldwide in just five months,” it also said.
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In addition to hardware changes, the new iPhone boasted a 3-megapixel digital camera that could also record digital videos – and it had an internal digital compass, capable of working with various mapping software.
In June 2010, the iPhone 4 was introduced; it was thinner with improved battery life, and offered a 5-megapixel camera and a front-facing camera for video chat and selfies, Britannica also noted.
The iPhone 5 entered the scene in September 2012, and the 5C and the more expensive 5S were released in September 2013.
Next, in 2016, the iPhone 7 and 7 Plus premiered in two new colors: Black (a matte-finish charcoal color) and the super shiny Jet Black.
An Apple associate holds one of the new iPhone Pros during a launch event for new products at Apple Park in Cupertino, California, on Sept. 7, 2022. (BRITTANY HOSEA-SMALL/AFP via Getty Images)
Apple introduced the iPhone 8 and 8 Plus in 2017, with a new glass and aluminum enclosure and an improved 12-megapixel camera that had a larger and faster sensor, a new color filter, deeper pixels and more capabilities, according to ComputerWorld.
There was no iPhone 9 model released.
In the late 2010s and early 2020s, new iPhone models concentrated on incremental improvements to the cameras, screen resolution and processing power. “The iPhone 11 Pro and Pro Max (introduced in September 2019) were the first models to have three cameras on the back, the third camera being able to take ultrawide-angle pictures,” Britannica said.
In October 2020, the iPhone 12 Pro got an even larger big brother with the 6.7-in. iPhone 12 Pro Max, according to ComputerWorld. Next, in 2021, iPhone 13 and 13 mini offered users a new processor and better battery life.
A man holds an iPhone with apps displayed on its front. (Silas Stein/picture alliance via Getty Images)
The next year, 2022, Apple released the iPhone 14 Pro and Pro Max, and both models featured improved cameras and Emergency SOS via Satellite, according to CNET.
With over 2.3 billion units sold since 2007, Apple has taken the top spot in the global smartphone market.
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The goal of the Aug. 5 event, the writer and publisher said, is to encourage faith-focused and family-first Americans around the country to come out to their local libraries — and hold book readings or story time events for friends, families and neighbors.
Now, though, Cameron and Brave Books are reporting some strong headwinds.
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Part of the presentation involved telling attendees “how to prevent Brave Books story hours from happening at libraries across the country.”
Kirk Cameron, based in Los Angeles, is the author of two children’s books, “As You Grow” and “Pride Comes Before the Fall.” He and his publisher are organizing a “See You at the Library Event” for Aug. 5, 2023 — but said they’re hearing from people that they cannot book library space for it. (Brad Schwartzrock/iStock)
Cameron and Brave Books referred to a recent speech they watched on video — reportedly delivered on June 8 — by American Library Association leadership at a “worldwide virtual conference” for libraries.
Part of the presentation involved telling attendees “how to prevent Brave Books story hours from happening at libraries across the country,” they said. The video they reference is still available on YouTube.
Fox News Digital reached out to the American Library Association for comment about the event and its messaging, but as of publication time did not receive a response on those issues.
It has nearly 50,000 members, according to its website.
The proportions of library funding depend “on where the library is located.”
Individual public libraries in the U.S. are funded mostly via local governments, which financially support an overwhelming majority of them, as Fox News Digital reported earlier.
Only a small fraction of public library funding comes from donations, grants and federal funding.
A child stands in front of a plethora of books at a local library. (In Pictures Ltd./Corbis via Getty Images)
The proportions of library funding depend “on where the library is located,” according to LanguageHumanities.org.
Brave Books told Fox News Digital that over the past year of public library book events, “thousands of families … were grateful for the much-needed biblical and patriotic message that Kirk and Brave Books delivered.”
It said its “phase two” efforts to share God-filled messages with families across America will take place on its “first annual ‘See You at the Library Day’” on August 5.
Said the publisher, “People across the country will be hosting their own story hour at libraries in their communities to help celebrate a return to American, constitutional and biblical values in public libraries for the blessing of our children. They can read a Brave Book, a book of the Bible — or any book of virtue they would like!”
The individual also said, “You need to develop policies that leave you in control of the library.”
She went on, “Here are some of the options that allow you to keep control of your library and its meeting rooms for the use of your community … You can limit access to meeting rooms to persons eligible to hold a library card in your community. You can make a priority for library-sponsored programs.”
A Seattle protester is shown holding a sign as actor-writer Kirk Cameron conducted a story hour for children at the public library there recently. (Brave Books/Kirk Cameron)
Or, “what if your library decided to offer a whole host of programs in its meeting room on August 5th, making it unavailable for the public?” the ALA executive went on. “That’s another option for you.”
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He added, “I am thankful Brave Books gets to be on the front lines in the battle for the hearts and minds of our kids.”
Brave Books shared several email requests from individuals trying to reserve rooms at local libraries for August 5th — only to be told, “August 5th is not available. Our summer reading finale is being held on that day.”
Brave Books encouraged anyone running into trouble booking a library room for that day to contact the publisher for more information.
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Now, her no-nonsense approach is reportedly getting respect as she helps people get and stay healthier.
Natalie Vaughan, 40, has been a personal trainer for five years.
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Natalie Vaughan, 40, pictured here, has been a personal trainer for five years. She said she’s helped about 4,000 people get in shape and lose weight. (SWNS)
She also said, “I would rather not waste the client’s money and time.”
She had worked at a gym previously.
But at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020, she said decided to go at it alone and take her business online.
Vaughan said her “no-nonsense approach” gets results — and that she is not afraid to ditch clients who are not sticking to her plans for them.
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She added, “Health is wealth. You can’t go off routine — you need to be held accountable. Your health is on the line.”
She took her business — called Natty V. PT — online and to social media in 2021. She said her work is her passion.
“I am honest with how strict I am. If you miss check-ins, I will terminate your plan.”
She said word-of-mouth keeps her business afloat.
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“When I first started out, I [worked for] two years in a gym, but then COVID hit and people didn’t know what to do.”
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Instead, she said, “I am honest with how strict I am. If you miss check-ins, I will terminate your plan.”
“There is a lack of knowledge and accountability when it comes to obesity.”
“People need to be held accountable,” said Natalie Vaughan. “They need to know it is not OK to get off-plan.” (SWNS)
She also said, “If people come to me with excuses, I will challenge them and I will stick to that. People need to be held accountable. They need to know it is not OK to get off-plan.”
Vaughan also said, “There is a lack of knowledge and accountability when it comes to obesity. People use excuses that they are traveling, at family occasions or on [vacation] — that is not an excuse.”
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She has clients all over the world, including in the U.S. and in Saudi Arabia, she told Fox News Digital.
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The report was the second part of the government’s official disclosure about what was found in rural New Mexico in the 1940s. Back in 1994, the government published, “The Roswell Report: Fact vs. Fiction in the New Mexico Desert.”
“The ‘Roswell Incident’ has assumed a central place in American folklore since the events of the 1940s in a remote area of New Mexico,” noted the foreword of the 1997 report, written by Secretary of the Air Force Sheila A. Widnall.
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The details are as follows: On June 14, 1947, a rancher named W.W. (“Mac”) Brazel made an unusual discovery on his ranch, about 80 miles northwest of Roswell.
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Brazel described the scene as “a large area of bright wreckage made up of rubber strips, tinfoil, and rather tough paper, and sticks.“
Sheriff George Wilcox had no idea what Brazel had come across, so he in turn reached out to Colonel “Butch” Blanchard, the commander of the Roswell Army Airfield’s (RAAF) 509th Composite Group, which was located near the city.
Many people were skeptical about the Roswell incident, thinking that the government engaged in some sort of cover-up regarding extraterrestrial life. (Getty Images)
Blanchard, too, had no idea what the strange discovery might be, so he contacted General Roger W. Ramey, his superior.
Ramey was a commander of the 8th Air Force in Fort Worth, Texas, nearly 500 miles away from Roswell, said the Smithsonian.
“The intelligence office of the 509th Bombardment Group at Roswell Army Air Field announced at noon today that the field has come into the possession of a Flying Saucer,” the story claimed.
Roswell is home to both the International UFO Museum and Research Center and the UFO Festival. (Getty Images)
The revelation that the RAAF had an extraterrestrial object in its possession set off a bit of a frenzy.
“Apparently, it was better from the Air Force’s perspective that there was a crashed ‘alien’ spacecraft out there than to tell the truth,” Roger Lanius, former curator of Space History at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum, told Smithsonian Magazine.
The following day, the military made a valiant albeit fruitless effort to walk back the flying saucer story, and the Roswell Daily Record published a story headlined, “Army Debunks Roswell Flying Disc as World Simmers with Excitement.”
The Army claimed the debris found on Brazel’s ranch was a high-altitude weather balloon, said the Smithsonian.
Jesse Marcel, the head intelligence officer who initially investigated and recovered some of the debris from the Roswell UFO site, poses with some of the wreckage found near Roswell. (Getty Images)
Eventually, it was revealed that the strange wreckage was actually part of Project Mogul, noted the Smithsonian.
Roswell, meanwhile, has fully embraced the UFO craze.
The city of 48,000 features an alien on its official seal, while a “Welcome to Roswell” sign erected in 2017 features a cow being abducted by a flying saucer, notes the website Roadside America.
The tourism website “See Roswell,” operated by the city, sells “official merchandise” featuring flying saucers and other extraterrestrial motifs.
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For the last few months, I’ve enjoyed checking in with some of your favorite Fox personalities to learn more about who they are behind the scenes.
What’s the one thing Jesse Watters couldn’t live without? What’s Bill Hemmer’s favorite Halloween costume? And what’s sitting on Greg Gutfeld’s nightstand?
But that’s not all! The fun is just getting started.
But if you handed me a trumpet, I can play it to this day, with or without the beer.
Q: What is your favorite Halloween costume you ever had?
JF: I was Superman in third grade and absolutely loved it.
That being said, I was a chubby little kid, so the spandex costume wasn’t the best look. Instead of “Up, up, and away,” I’m pretty sure people were saying, “Up, up, and how much do you weigh?”
Q: Who are your biggest role models?
JF: My biggest role models are my older siblings. I have two brothers who are cops and a sister in banking.
Growing up, they all got good grades, had killer work ethics and went super hard at everything they did, especially making fun of me.
We talked a stunning amount of smack at our kitchen table, but looking back now, I realize that I’m basically what would happen if you took their work ethic and combined it with a lot more talent. You heard me, Joe, Sue and Mike.
The fact that Fox has enabled me to preach this silly gospel to such a broad audience is really cool to a small town gal like me.
Q: What song instantly puts you in a good mood?
JF: This changes constantly because when I get into a song, I play it until I hate it. I’m talking 200-300 times a week, and then I don’t listen to it again for three years.
Right now I’m abusing “I Can’t Stand Myself (When You Touch Me)” by James Brown.
Our family lives to drive around aimlessly and blast music. Once in a while we stop for food or gas, but it’s mostly just three people getting bad tan lines from their seatbelts.
Q: Which fictional character would be the most exciting to meet in real life?
JF: Back when I was a cab driver, I had a dream that Cinderella was in the back of my taxi with six minutes to get home, and I’d love to see if I could pull it off in real life.
“Cinderella wouldn’t make the list of the top 25 oddest things I’ve seen in a taxi.”
Q: Did you ever get detention in school?
JF: I once got detention in 9th grade for talking too much in class and wound up getting “in-school suspension” for talking too much during that detention. I could go on for days about this …
Q: What would be your last meal?
JF: The key to a good last meal is wanting to die after you eat it.
For that reason I would go with the most gluttonous thing we serve in my house, which is called a “steak and spaghetti.” My son Lincoln and I love to fry porterhouse steaks in butter — and top them off with spaghetti and tater tot medallions.
It works a lot better than it sounds, and it always leaves you in a bloated state of self-disgust that would make you happy to see a firing squad.
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The organization also bestowed a 2022 Charlie Daniels Patriot Award on actor Gary Sinise as well as other outstanding individuals, the organization recently shared with Fox News Digital.
The group assists other not-for-profits in securing funds to help causes that benefit veterans of the United States Armed Forces.
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“I am honored to receive this award from Charlie Daniels, in his name. To receive an award in his name is a blessing, a privilege, an honor.” — Gary Sinise to Fox News Digital
David Corlew, left, Charlie Daniels’ longtime manager and co-founder of The Journey Home Project, along with Patriot Award winner Gary Sinise, center, and Joel Pruitt. Pruitt is a Green Beret combat vet and a previous recipient of the Charlie Daniels Patriot Award. (Courtesy David Corlew)
“Less than 1% of America’s population guarantees the other 99%. That when we lay down at night, we are assured that no one is going to bring harm or injury to those we love and care for,” said Corlew.
“They took the oath. It’s their commitment to duty.”
On why it’s ‘so meaningful’ to do so
“It’s meaningful because our veterans of the past 50 years are ‘back-page news.’ We as a nation are fixated on mindless issues of self — out-of-sight, out-of-mind denial.”
The Charlie Daniels Journey Home Project recently awarded actor Gary Sinise and two others with its Patriot Award. (Robyn McIsaac/The Charlie Daniels Journey Home Project)
Corlew added, “He is the ideal recipient for The Charlie Daniels Patriot Award. Charlie would be very proud that we made this happen.”
Late country music legend Charlie Daniels and his manager, David Corlew, co-founded the nonprofit organization in 2014.
Board members include Corlew, Major General Terry “Max” Haston (retired) and most recently, in 2020, Hazel Daniels.
It also honored U.S. Army combat veteran and TCDJHP Ambassador Joel Pruitt, as well as Nashville businessman Lee Beaman, at its recent awards ceremony.
Anyone seeking more information can visit the group’s website at thecharliedanielsjourneyhomeproject.org.
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A social media creator has garnered over 714,000 followers on TikTok and 51,000 followers on Instagram for sharing some arguably outrageous homes available for sale on Zillow — an American tech real-estate marketplace headquartered in Seattle, Washington.
In 2020, Jessica More, a 35-year-old communications manager from Pennsylvania, was looking for ways to spruce up her home during the pandemic. She began checking out available listings on Zillow, she told Fox News Digital.
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“If you found something crazy, it was like hitting the jackpot … and you wanted to share it with other people,” she added.
As someone who works with social media professionally, More saw TikTok as the next big thing and used her newfound hobby to explore the once-new platform, she said.
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Within a year, More had reached roughly 100,000 followers. She’s had a few posts go viral, which have helped her grow her page.
On March 10, for example, More’s post about an Oklahoma listing was viewed 1.7 million times on TikTok after she featured a home that included a “doll jail,” as she captioned it, which showed a backyard-accessible underground room that was housing a bunch of dolls.
She will also use the different filters, targeting price point and square footage, she explained.
More once spent hours on the real estate website but has since developed a following of people who send her their favorite “zillowtastrophes.” (iStock)
More said she now receives a large influx of submissions from people advising her to look at specific rooms in the home that make it unique.
She has also noticed a shift in culture between Millennials and Gen Z, regarding the different responses shared to Instagram or TikTok, she added.
When More first started her account, she was expecting people to share their own critiques.
“I think about how someone did something so weird and put all this time and effort and money into it out of love for the space.”
— Jessica More
“I was shocked because people were like, ‘Don’t be mean. Somebody put a lot of work into that,'” she said.
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“I think it’s really brave and cool that these people a make these homes their own,” she added.
Fox News Digital reached out to Zillow for an after-hours comment on this story.
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