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A Viking killed by a dead man’s tooth. Rome’s richest man forced to drink molten gold. A murderer who escaped the electric chair and electrocuted himself on a toilet. These are history’s best karmic endings...
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A Viking killed by a dead man’s tooth. Rome’s richest man forced to drink molten gold. A murderer who escaped the electric chair and electrocuted himself on a toilet. These are history’s best karmic endings...

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u/dannydutch1 — 22 hours ago
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Bloodied Civil Rights Activists John Lewis and James Zwerg in Montgomery, Alabama, after having been attacked for their participation in a Freedom Ride on May 20, 1961. Zwerg, at right, removes teeth knocked out by his attackers.

The attack on Zwerg was so violent that he had a severe concussion, a broken nose, a broken thumb, half his teeth were broken, three cracked vertebrae, numerous cuts and bruises — he spent five days in a hospital.

u/dannydutch1 — 1 day ago
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Raymond Mays losing a rear wheel from his Bugatti Type 13 "Brescia" during the 1924 Caerphilly Mountain Hill Climb in Wales.

u/dannydutch1 — 23 hours ago
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Richard Loeb (left) with Nathan Leopold photographed shortly after their arrest for the murder of 14yr old Bobby Franks. Loeb was 18 at the time and Leopold was 19. Their goal was to commit 'the perfect crime'.

u/dannydutch1 — 1 day ago
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In 1966, 17-year-old Franca Viola was kidnapped and held captive for 8 days and repeatedly raped, in an attempt to force her into a “rehabilitating marriage” (“matrimonio riparatore”) - as was custom at the time. Viola refused to marry her rapist and was the first woman in Italy to do so.

u/dannydutch1 — 2 days ago
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Remembering the Canadian flying ace George "Skrewball" Beurling. Shot down 31 enemy planes, refused to fly in formation, shot holes in his wing commander's plane with a shotgun, was fired by the RCAF, rejected by the USAAF, and died on this day in 1948 during a smuggling run.

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u/dannydutch1 — 2 days ago
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Remembering the Canadian flying ace, George "Skrewball" Beurling. He shot down 31 enemy planes over Malta, refused to fly in formation, shot holes in his wing commander's plane with a shotgun, was fired by the RCAF, rejected by the USAAF, and died on this day in 1948 during a smuggling run.

u/dannydutch1 — 2 days ago
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Clark Gable photographed by Edward Weston in 1940, driving his 1939 Lincoln Zephyr Coupe. If there's a picture that perfectly embodies the word "dapper", you're looking at it.

u/dannydutch1 — 3 days ago
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Diane Downs under arrest after shooting her 3 children on this day in 1983. She had staged a carjacking and shot eight-year-old Christie, seven-year-old Cheryl, and three-year-old Danny. Cheryl died, Christie and Danny survived with life-altering injuries.

u/dannydutch1 — 3 days ago
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91 years ago today, T.E. Lawrence died on a Dorset road after being thrown from his motorcycle. He never regained consciousness. He was buried as T.E. Shaw. The Ottoman train he helped ambush about 100 years ago on the Hejaz railway still lays in the middle of the desert today.

u/dannydutch1 — 3 days ago
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“Criminals are made, not born.” Andrew Kehoe left that message before blowing up a school in Bath, Michigan on this day in 1927. The attack killed 38 children and 6 adults and injured at least 58 other people.

u/dannydutch1 — 4 days ago
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John Rogan was 8 feet 9 inches tall, the son of formerly enslaved sharecroppers, and he got around on a cart pulled by goats. He turned down every sideshow offer. When he died in 1905, his family buried him under concrete so nobody could dig him up.

u/dannydutch1 — 4 days ago
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A Sunday School teacher photographed London's poorest children around 1900. He named them the Spitalfields Nippers. His images sat in a family album for 100 years. When they finally came to light, researchers traced the kids. One in three hadn't survived childhood.

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u/dannydutch1 — 5 days ago
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This is Adelaide Springett photographed by Horace Warner in 1901 as part of his 'Spitalfield Nippers' photographs. His large series of images sat in a family album for 100 years. When they finally came to light, researchers traced the kids. One in three hadn't survived childhood. More in comments.

u/dannydutch1 — 5 days ago
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This photo was taken by the Stockholm Police, on the fourth day of a highly televised bank robbery turned hostage crisis, August 26, 1973. A safe-cracker walked into a Stockholm bank in 1973, fired at the ceiling, and took four employees hostage for six days.

u/dannydutch1 — 5 days ago