Shot in the forehead at Chickamauga in 1863 and left for dead, Union soldier Jacob Miller crawled past Confederate lines and walked 60 miles to a hospital. He survived another 54 years with a hole between his eyes — with bullet fragments lodged in his head until they fell out decades later.

Shot in the forehead at Chickamauga in 1863 and left for dead, Union soldier Jacob Miller crawled past Confederate lines and walked 60 miles to a hospital. He survived another 54 years with a hole between his eyes — with bullet fragments lodged in his head until they fell out decades later.

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Marlon Brando's response during an interview with Connie Chung in September 1989 when she asks him if he's the greatest actor ever.

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Residents of Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Kansas recount what life was like during the Dust Bowl in the 1930s.

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Jim Morrison predicts what the future of music will be during an interview in 1969.

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A family in Harmans, Maryland pays respect as Robert F. Kennedy's funeral train passes through their town on June 8, 1968.

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The world's first known customer complaint, which was written on a clay tablet nearly 3,700 years ago. A man named Nanni angrily admonished a copper trader, Ea-nāṣir, for selling him low-quality goods.

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Bernie Sanders picks up trash in a public park after being elected mayor of Burlington, Vermont in 1981.

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A 2,300-year-old theatre in Greece that's so well preserved it's still hosting performances.The theatre shown is the Ancient Theatre of Epidaurus.

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Every July 4th, John Gotti would threw a raucous block party in the Howard Beach neighborhood of Queens. During this news segment, a reporter asks a resident about the festivities and the infamous mobster.

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Measuring 45 feet tall and 30 feet wide, the Myogilsang Buddhist statue is a massive bodhisattva that's carved into the side of a cliff in North Korea's Manphok Valley. It's estimated to be at least 700 years old.

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American soldiers during the Vietnam War use a shotgun barrel to smoke marijuana while stationed at a base camp 50 miles from Saigon in November 1970.

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A defiant Michelle Phillips eats a banana while 'performing' California Dreamin' on the Ed Sullivan Show after the producers forced The Mamas & the Papas to lip-sync.

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In the 13th century, Pope Gregory IX declared that cats were Satan's minions and soon across Europe, cats would be burned alive en masse in front of delighted crowds. Oftentimes, women accused of witchcraft would be sentenced to death and encaged with several black cats before being set on fire.

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