In 1961 Astronaut Gus Grissom came close to drowning twice after the successful splashdown of Liberty Bell 7 in the Atlantic. The hatch blew open allowing water to sink the capsule. Grissom escaped, only to be pulled back into the ocean as the capsule s...
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In 1955, someone dropped a 600-year-old plaster Buddha Statue only to discover the plaster was covering a solid gold statue beneath
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There is 'Inglewood Oil Field' in the middle of Los Angeles. It's 18th largest oil field in US and in production since 1924
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The spelling of 'quark,' an elementary particle of matter smaller than a proton or neutron, comes from Joyce's 'Finnegans Wake'. The quotation from the novel is "Three quarks for Muster Mark," and it turns out that protons and neutrons are comprised of ...
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The founder of skincare brand 'The Ordinary' Brandon Truaxe, originally a computer programmer, after founding the brand, started taking meth and mushrooms in front of employees before being outed as the CEO and later being found dead from falling out of...
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For decades, cartographers have made secret illustrations on Switzerland’s official topographical maps such as a spider, a naked woman, and a marmot, eluding the Swiss Federal Office of Topography for years before removal. The naked woman reclined for n...
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When George Carlin created his 'Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television' bit, the FCC didn't have the legal authority to ban dirty words from public airways. That bit, played uncensored by a NYC radio station, led to the getting that authority.
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After Japan's surrender in WWII, Americans sent many Japanese soldiers returning to their homeland through Hiroshima to impress upon them how defeated Japan was.
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The "cobra effect". The British government once concerned about the number of venomous cobras in Delhi, offered a bounty for every dead cobra. Large numbers of snakes were killed, but people began to breed cobras for the income, eventually increasing it...
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In 1985, drug smugglers dropped 40 containers of cocaine from a plane above Tennessee because the plane was too heavy. 3 months later, investigators found the containers and a dead black bear that had consumed 75 pounds of the drug. It’s stomach was “li...
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Nic Cage once crashed a Nic Cage film festival, watched 4 of his own films, did a 47-minute Q&A and read a 10-minute short story
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John Candys apperance in Home Alone was a favour and he only got paid $414 after working 23 hours straight, even the actor who played the pizza delivery boy got paid more
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Saving an animal from a miserable situation, you are one the best humans ever lived.
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Movie theaters in Iceland, Switzerland, Egypt, Turkey and India have an intermission in the middle of the movie. It lasts around 10 minutes, which allows customers to hit the concession stalls or use the restroom
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Cristiano Ronaldo sold 520,000 jerseys in the first 24 hours after signing for Juventus, bringing in $60 million in revenue
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Poland organized the emergency rescue of terminally ill children from Kharkiv in the dead of night on a makeshift med transport. Heart-wrenching, but the love and care here is extraordinary
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