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In the 1920s, US Radium told teenage girls the only side effect of licking radium paint off their brushes was rosy cheeks. Scientists at the same plant wore lead aprons and tongs. Grace Fryer sued them anyway. They still glow in their coffins today.

u/Particular_Chart1584 — 21 hours ago

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At 16, Jeremiah Coghlan dived into a raging storm to save 50 lives. The Navy noticed. He went on to board a French warship with 20 men against 87, took a pike through the thigh, and killed every officer on board. He later dined with both Nelson AND Napoleon

u/Particular_Chart1584 — 2 days ago

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Jeffery Hudson entered royal life at age 8 by emerging from a giant pie before the King of England. He became a royal knight and cavalry captain. His dueling opponent showed up with a water pistol. Hudson shot him dead.

u/Particular_Chart1584 — 3 days ago

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Ada 'Bricktop' Smith was born to parents who had been enslaved in the American South, became the queen of Parisian jazz society, mentored Josephine Baker and Duke Ellington and almost no one knows her name today. She taught the future King Edward VIII how to do the Charleston.

u/Particular_Chart1584 — 5 days ago

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Alexandra of Denmark was adored by millions as Britain's Princess of Wales. Her husband kept mistresses for decades. She bore it in silence. The future Queen of Britain had shared an attic bedroom with her sister and sewed her own clothes.

u/Particular_Chart1584 — 7 days ago

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Arthur Allen Miller, better known as Bill Miner, pulled Canada's first train robbery in 1904. The next morning, he sat down for breakfast with the detectives hunting him. He is also credited with coining the phrase 'Hands up.'

u/Particular_Chart1584 — 8 days ago

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An enslaved woman named Tituba was beaten into confessing witchcraft at the Salem Witch Trials. The two women who told the truth were hanged. Tituba survived then was sold for the price of her jail fees and vanished from history.

u/Particular_Chart1584 — 9 days ago

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Annie Oakley was enslaved as a child laborer at age 10. By 15, she'd paid off her family's mortgage. She offered to raise a female military regiment twice. The U.S. rejected her both times. Her husband stopped eating when she died. He followed her three weeks later.

u/Particular_Chart1584 — 10 days ago

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After the Portuguese killed her husband at sea, Keumalahayati was promoted to chief admiral of his fleet, recruited 2,000 war widows into her own army, and forced the Dutch Republic to send formal apology letters to her sultan

u/Particular_Chart1584 — 13 days ago

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Rosalie Duthé was the mistress of the man who would become Charles X of France, and companion to French kings and nobility. A satirical play mocking her kept all of Paris laughing for weeks. She offered to kiss anyone who defended her honor. Nobody came forward. Rosalie Duthé (1748–1830) was one

u/Particular_Chart1584 — 14 days ago

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Wealthy passengers refused to cross the Atlantic unless Captain Edward John Smith was at the helm. He sailed over 2 million miles without serious incident. His last words to his crew: 'Every man for himself.'

u/Particular_Chart1584 — 15 days ago

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Juana of Castile became the first Queen of Spain in 1516. Her father had already imprisoned her for years, claiming she was mad. Her son kept her locked up for 35 more. She died a prisoner of the empire she created.

u/Particular_Chart1584 — 16 days ago

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Barbara 'Babe' Paley was placed on the International Best Dressed List 14 times. Her best friend Truman Capote published her secrets in Esquire. She cut him off and died planning her own funeral party.

u/Particular_Chart1584 — 17 days ago

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The US govt gave Black freedwoman Sarah Rector 'rocky, infertile' land no one wanted. It sat on a massive Oklahoma oil field. At 11, she earned $18K/month. Oklahoma's response? Try to legally declare her white so she could ride first class.

u/Particular_Chart1584 — 19 days ago

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In 1848, Yoruba princess OmobaAina had her parents killed and was given to King Ghezo's court as a spoil of war. Two years later, a British naval officer accepted her as a 'gift' — 17 years after Britain banned slavery. Queen Victoria became the godmother of her daughter.

u/Particular_Chart1584 — 20 days ago

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Philip Arnold was an uneducated hatter's apprentice from small-town Kentucky. In 1872 he salted a patch of empty Wyoming scrubland with cheap London gems and sold America's richest bankers a diamond mine that did not exist. The jeweller who appraised the stones for them was Charles Lewis Tiffany.

u/Particular_Chart1584 — 21 days ago

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Gabrielle d'Estrées was days away from marrying the King of France and becoming Queen. She died in agony after a stillborn birth, and Henri IV kept a wax figure of her dressed in a new gown every day for years.

u/Particular_Chart1584 — 21 days ago

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Sarah Bowman served meals to US soldiers under live artillery fire during the Mexican-American War. The army dubbed her 'Heroine of Fort Brown.' A lieutenant later wrote a friend she was 'an admirable pimp.'

u/Particular_Chart1584 — 22 days ago

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Jennie Jerome was the daughter of a Wall Street speculator from Brooklyn. She married a duke's son after a 3 day courtship, gave birth 7 months later to Winston Churchill, buried that husband, then married two more men before dying at 67 from a fall in new heels.

u/Particular_Chart1584 — 23 days ago

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In 1868, Carolina Otero was born into poverty in Galicia and raped by a neighbor at age 10. She reinvented herself as La Belle Otero, seduced kings and kaisers across Europe, then gambled her entire fortune away and died with 609 francs to her name.

u/Particular_Chart1584 — 24 days ago