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Robert Chesebrough, the inventor of Vaseline, practiced the unusual habit of consuming a spoonful of it each day. He attributed his long life of 96 years to this practice, although there is no scientific evidence to support it.
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Robert Chesebrough, the inventor of Vaseline, practiced the unusual habit of consuming a spoonful of it each day. He attributed his long life of 96 years to this practice, although there is no scientific evidence to support it.

u/Iambhalo — 4 hours ago
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In May 2019, Riley Crossman vanished from her home. Late that night, she sent a series of alarming messages to her boyfriend about her stepfather, saying, ‘Andy’s in my room… don’t say anything,’ followed shortly by, ‘I’m scared.’ After that, all communication stopped.

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u/Iambhalo — 23 hours ago
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Cats may stop eating even when they're still hungry, and new research shows their sense of smell could be the reason.

u/Iambhalo — 24 hours ago
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City birds appear to be more afraid of women than men, and scientists have no idea why. Men could get about a meter closer to birds than women could before the animals flew away, regardless of what the men and women were wearing, what their height was or how they tried to approach the creatures.

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u/Iambhalo — 1 day ago
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In 2020, a couple in California spent five months intentionally luring bike thieves into their front yard with an unlocked bicycle, attacking them with aluminum baseball bats, and posting the videos online.

u/Iambhalo — 2 days ago
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In 1991, Helen Sharman became the first Briton in space. The 27-year-old visited the Soviet Mir space station aboard Soyuz TM-12. She was chosen from among 13,000 applicants after answering a radio advertisement.

u/Iambhalo — 3 days ago
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Six-year-old boy died after his father forced him to exercise excessively as punishment. The case later escalated when the father took the lives of his four remaining children in an attempt to prevent his ex-wife from gaining custody, making it one of the most disturbing criminal cases in the U.S.

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u/Iambhalo — 4 days ago
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One of the last Photos Of Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom. Before they were carjacked and brutally tortured, raped and murdered.

u/Iambhalo — 5 days ago
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After donating money from her piggy bank to help Haiti earthquake victims as a child, Canadian teenager Juliette Lamour later won a $48 million lottery jackpot with the very first ticket she ever bought.

u/Iambhalo — 5 days ago
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In 1965, Beatles members John Lennon and George Harrison were secretly given LSD by their dentist, Dr. John Riley, during a dinner party in London. It was their first psychedelic experience and later influenced the band’s shift toward psychedelic music in the mid-1960s.

u/Iambhalo — 6 days ago
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In 1977, Marlene was raped by John Ackroyd, a state highway worker. She survived and reported him, but police let him go. Over the next 15 years, girls kept vanishing along Highway 20, and somehow Ackroyd was always nearby when a body turned up or someone went missing.

u/Iambhalo — 7 days ago
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In 1989, while still married to Princess Diana, Prince Charles had a private and intimate phone call with Camilla Parker Bowles. During the conversation, he said he wanted to be her tampon so he could always stay close to her.

u/Iambhalo — 7 days ago
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Photo of Kelly Dae Wilson (Age 17), an American teenager who was last seen at about 8:30 p.m. on January 5, 1992, while leaving her workplace to go to a nearby bank to deposit her paycheck, but never returned.

u/Iambhalo — 9 days ago
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Phoenix Netts was murdered in a refuge by her housemate after she rejected her sexual advances. The attacker later placed her dismembered body into two suitcases and used her phone to impersonate her by sending messages and fake audio to family and friends

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u/Iambhalo — 9 days ago
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A reconstruction of a man aged roughly 25–30 years who lived around 4,000 years ago. His remains were discovered in 1921 during road construction work in Brighton.

u/Iambhalo — 9 days ago
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Dallas Pokornik, a 33-year-old former flight attendant, posed as a pilot to obtain hundreds of free flights over four years using fake ID badges

u/Iambhalo — 10 days ago
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Lyndon B. Johnson, the 36th President of the United States from 1963 to 1969, nicknamed his penis "Jumbo" and often showed it to others while making vulgar remarks. He also had a telephone installed on the White House bathroom, allowing him to give orders while defecating.

u/Iambhalo — 12 days ago
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Arnold Schwarzenegger with his older brother Meinhard, 1967. Meinhard, died in a car crash on May 20, 1971. He was driving drunk and died instantly. Arnold did not attend his funeral.

u/Iambhalo — 13 days ago
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There are five temples in Kyoto, Japan, that have blood-stained ceilings. The ceilings are made from the floorboards of Fushimi Castle, where Torii Mototada and his remaining 380 samurai warriors killed themselves in 1600 after a long stand-off against an army of 40,000 for 11 days.

u/Iambhalo — 14 days ago