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In 1983, Cliff Young, a 61-year-old potato farmer, showed up in work boots to compete in Australia’s toughest ultramarathon alongside elite athletes. Unaware that competitors were meant to sleep during the race, he kept running continuously. Against all expectations, he won by a margin of 10 hours.
u/malihafolter — 8 hours 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 — 1 day ago
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Daryl Davis, a Black musician, attended KKK meetings and spoke directly with members. Over time, he built relationships through dialogue. More than 200 white supremacists left the group, and he now owns one of the largest private collections of Klan robes.
u/detectiverobert — 1 day ago
Sarah Rector was an impoverished Black girl who became a millionaire oil baron when oil was discovered on the land allotted to her by the government. She became so wealthy that the Oklahoma legislature declared her to be white.
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u/Iambhalo — 2 days ago
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Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels was smiling for the camera until he found out the photographer, Alfred Eisenstaedt, was Jewish. The resulting photograph became known as “The Eyes of Hate.”
u/malihafolter — 3 days ago
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Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom were a couple from Knoxville, Tennessee, who were kidnapped during a carjacking in January 2007. They were taken to a rental house, where their lives were taken. The case gained major attention and led to several arrests and convictions.
u/malihafolter — 3 days ago
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As Marie Antoinette was led to the guillotine in 1793, she accidentally stepped on the executioner’s foot. She turned to him and said, “Pardon me, sir. I did not do it on purpose.” Those were her last words.
u/detectiverobert — 4 days ago
In 1995, 15-year-old Nicole van den Hurk was killed while biking to work in Eindhoven, Netherlands. Sixteen years later, her stepbrother falsely confessed to force an exhumation for DNA testing, a move that ultimately led to the arrest and prosecution of her attacker.
u/detectiverobert — 5 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 — 2 days ago
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 — 6 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 — 5 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 — 4 days ago
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 — 6 days ago
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In 1964, a white hotel manager named James Brock poured acid into a whites-only pool at the Monson Motor Lodge after Black activists jumped into the water during a “swim-in” protest.
u/malihafolter — 7 days ago
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 — 8 days ago
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Anne Bonny and Mary Read often dressed as men to blend in with their pirate crew, but during battles, some accounts claim they revealed their breasts to show their opponents they were being defeated by women.
u/malihafolter — 8 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 — 8 days ago
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After two decades awaiting his master’s return, Argos was the only one who recognized Odysseus when he finally came home.
u/malihafolter — 9 days ago