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In 1980, Terry Fox lost his right leg to cancer at 18. He then ran 3,339 miles across Canada on a prosthetic leg in 143 days to raise $24 million for cancer research. He died at 22. His annual run has since raised over $800 million worldwide.
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In 1980, Terry Fox lost his right leg to cancer at 18. He then ran 3,339 miles across Canada on a prosthetic leg in 143 days to raise $24 million for cancer research. He died at 22. His annual run has since raised over $800 million worldwide.

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On June 27, 1995, 27-year-old anchor Jodi Huisentruit told her producer she’d overslept and was on her way. Minutes later, she vanished from her own parking lot, leaving only a bent car key and her high heels behind. 30 years later, every suspect has been cleared and she has never been found.

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On May 11, 2026, a 70-year-old San Diego man tripped over the rusted, exposed base of a parking meter the city had removed over a year earlier. He broke his neck and back and was knocked unconscious. His attorney has now filed a $35 million claim against the city.

u/Important-Self-1179 — 7 days ago
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In December 2015, José Salvador Alvarenga, who survived 438 days adrift at sea, was sued for $1 million by the family of his dead crewmate, Ezequiel Córdoba, 22, who accused him of eating his corpse.

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Between June 13-19, 2026, a masked vigilante nicknamed the ‘Batman of Lagos de Moreno’ tied at least five suspected motorcycle thieves to lampposts in Jalisco, Mexico, marking their foreheads with the word ‘rata.’ Authorities are treating the bound men as assault victims, not confirmed thieves.

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On December 31, 2014, 18-year-old Marina Boelter left her shift at an Indiana grocery store, got into a car with a man she recognized from work, and was never seen again. Ten years later, police have reclassified her case as a death investigation.

Marina had just earned her GED and was working to win back custody of her infant son. Witnesses described the driver as a heavyset man in his 40s or 50s in a silver Mercury Milan. The parking lot had no cameras, and he was never publicly named. source

u/Important-Self-1179 — 10 days ago
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For 7 years, waitress Melina Salazar was the only person willing to serve cantankerous WWII veteran Walter “Buck” Swords at a Texas Luby’s. His will, read in 2007, left her $50,000 and his car.

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In 2008, two Calabasas dropouts, Rachel Lee and Nick Prugo, found Paris Hilton’s spare key under her doormat and broke into her $5.9 million mansion five times before she noticed. Their crew stole $3 million in clothes, jewelry, and watches from Lindsay Lohan, Orlando Bloom, and Megan Fox.

u/Dont_lookbehind — 10 days ago
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UK lawyer Paul Powlesland faces 2 years in prison after he and volunteers spent £1,000 clearing 200 bags of rubbish and weapons from a polluted East London river without a permit, in March 2026.

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On April 12, 2016, 16-year-old Mekayla Bali spent her last morning in Yorkton, Saskatchewan pawning a ring, withdrawing $55, and texting a friend “I need help.” Hours later she walked out of a diner and has not been seen since.

u/Important-Self-1179 — 14 days ago
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On January 5, 2019, a man approached 26-year-old UFC fighter Polyana Viana outside her apartment in Rio de Janeiro and claimed to have a gun, demanding her phone. She dropped him with two punches and a kick, then choked him unconscious. The gun was a piece of cardboard.

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In 2007, Oneal Ron Morris began posing as a doctor in Miami, injecting women’s buttocks with cement, super glue and tire sealant for $2,000 a session, and injecting herself with the same mixture. Victim Shatarka Nuby, 31, later died of massive systemic silicone migration. Morris got 10 years.

u/Important-Self-1179 — 15 days ago
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In 1991, music producer Isaac Wright Jr. was sentenced to life in prison as a New Jersey drug kingpin. He taught himself law in his cell, overturned his own conviction, and was later licensed to practice law by the same court that sentenced him.

Wright, a 28-year-old record producer, was charged under New Jersey’s kingpin law in 1989. He represented himself, lost, taught himself law in prison, and overturned 20 inmates’ convictions.

Cross-examining a detective exposed a prosecutor who’d rigged testimony. That prosecutor died by suicide. source

u/Important-Self-1179 — 16 days ago
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On October 21, 2017, Seth Aaron Fleury, 23, bit off 85% of his ex-girlfriend Kayla Hayes lower lip after she refused to get back together. He told her he wanted to mark her so no future boyfriend would want her. Surgeons could not reattach it.

u/Important-Self-1179 — 16 days ago
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Police in Chihuahua, Mexico detained 25-year-old Sara Michelle after she allegedly beat her boyfriend Martín Octavio, 26, with a belt for refusing to have sex with her.

u/Important-Self-1179 — 17 days ago
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In 2023, Suellen Carey, a 36-year-old Brazilian model living in London, married herself in a sologamy ceremony to celebrate self-love. She even attended 10 sessions of couples therapy alone trying to save the marriage. In 2024, she filed for divorce from herself, citing exhaustion and loneliness.

u/Important-Self-1179 — 17 days ago
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On December 5, 2016, Christopher Castillo, 33, robbed a Massachusetts bank with an antique p*stol while the woman he had just met on a dating app unknowingly drove the getaway car.

u/Important-Self-1179 — 18 days ago
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In 2015, Tommy Thompson was jailed for refusing to reveal where he hid 500 gold coins from an 1857 shipwreck. The coins were worth $2.5M. He accrued $3.3M in daily fines rather than give up their location. He was released in 2026. He still hasn’t said a word.

u/Important-Self-1179 — 19 days ago
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Japan drew 2-2 with Netherlands at Dallas Stadium. After the game, their fans cleaned up all the trash from their section before leaving

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