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On August 7, 1994, residents of Oakville, Washington, woke up to find that instead of normal rain, an area of about 20 square miles was covered in strange, rice-sized gelatinous blobs. The substance fell from the sky six distinct times over a three-week period.

SOURCE : What were the ‘Oakville blobs’? - BBC Science Focus Magazine

In the summer of 1926, the world's greatest escape artist pulled off his most dangerous survival stunt ever—staying sealed inside an airtight coffin underwater for over an hour just to prove a point. A few months later on Halloween night, he was dead.

On June 28, 1914, a literal wrong turn by a chauffeur in Sarajevo placed Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria directly in front of his assassin, Gavrilo Princip. This single mistake set off a domino effect of secret alliances that dragged the globe into World War I, fundamentally rewriting human history and reshaping modern warfare.