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In the 1980 movie "Airplane", Barbara Billingsley was handed a script that told her to speak jive. Not knowing how to speak jive, she went to lunch with the two actors in the scene, Al White and Norman Alexander Gibbs to learn. The three of them improvised the whole scene.
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Photos of Hitler that he hated & wanted destroyed that we still have - a thread
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Alternative angles of iconic landmarks you haven’t seen before - a thread🧵👇
1. Great Pyramid of Giza from above
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1890s colorized footage of daily life around the world - a thread
1. France 🇫🇷
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Colorful towns & cities with the best views from above - a thread
1. Venice, Italy 🇮🇹
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British poet Edward James, a leader of the surrealist art movement, was so smitten with his wife, Austrian dancer Tilly Losch, that when he saw a trail of her wet footprints up the stairs after her bath at Monkton House, he had them woven into the carpet.
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9 biggest historical conspiracy theories:
1. Lee Harvey Oswald did not assassinate JFK: Conspiracy theorists claim that the 1963 assassination of the former president was orchestrated by the CIA or that multiple shooters were involved. Former LA District Attorney Vincent
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Remembering the moment that changed perceptions of people with HIV and AIDS, Princess Diana shook hands with AIDS patients during a visit to the Middlesex Hospital. This simple gesture turned out to be a turning point in breaking down the stigma.
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8 of history's evilest execution methods:
1. Crucifixion: The victim was tied or nailed to a wooden beam—or cross. Nails were pierced through the bones below the wrists to bear the weight of the person. It was a “brilliant” placement because no major blood vessels were hit—only
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"The Alaskan Avenger" Jason Vukovich smiling at his brother after receiving a 23 year sentence. Jason used the state's sex offender registry to track down offenders, break into their homes, and beat them with a hammer. Both Jason and his brother were sexually abused as children.
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9 biggest scandals in history:
1. Watergate: Tapes revealed that President Nixon and his top advisors were involved in covering up a break-in at a Democratic National Committee office in the Watergate complex in Washington, D.C. Nixon resigned before he could be impeached,
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8 of history's biggest unsung heroes:
1. Stetson Kennedy: Kennedy was a pioneering civil rights activist and writer known for his work against the Ku Klux Klan in the 1940s. Disguising himself as a member, Kennedy infiltrated the Klan & documented their rituals, code words, and
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This Leucistic/White Cougar appeared once on a trail cam in Brazil and was never seen again since. It was the first and only one of its kind ever known.
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In the 1990’s, NBA champion Horace Grant wore goggles because he was legally blind. However, after getting corrective eye surgery, he continued to wear them for another, heroic reason. Horace said:
“After a few years I got Lasik surgery, but I kept wearing them without the
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8 of history's worst experiments:
1. Unit 731: During World War II, the Imperial Japanese Army conducted extensive chemical & biological warfare research on human test subjects. An estimated 200,000 people died from these cruel experiments.
Victims were intentionally exposed
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People who found their doppelgänger at the museum - a thread 🧵
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10 of history's biggest unsolved crimes:
1. The murders of Nicole Brown Simpson & Ronald Goldman: On June 13, 1994, the bodies of Nicole Brown Simpson—the ex-wife of football superstar O.J. Simpson—and Ronald L. Goldman were found outside Nicole’s townhouse, stabbed to death. At
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"Lost German Girl", a beaten woman filmed on a country road near the Czech border during the surrender of Wehrmacht troops in early May 1945.
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Adolf Hitler was “a good patient,” according to his doctors. He was meticulously adherent to the regimen for his chronic sinusitis: cocaine in aerosol form.
Hitler’s drug use was of epic proportions. In addition to cocaine, the German Fuhrer also took amphetamines, sedatives,
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Glorious architectural wonders you've never heard of (thread) 🧵
1. Meenakshi Temple, India 🇮🇳
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Stunning aerial photography of cities 🧵
1. Barcelona, Spain🇪🇸
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An Australian man called Don Ritchie, lived the across street from the most famous suicide hotspot in Australia known as "the gap".
He lived there for almost 50 years and during that time he saved at least 160 from committing suicide by striking up a conversation with them and
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8 of history's biggest man-made disasters:
1. Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill: In 2010, a surge of methane gas traveled through the Deepwater Horizon’s drill pipe. A blowout preventer was in place meant to stop this type of accident should it occur but the preventer failed, allowing
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10 of history's evilest leaders:
1. Pol Pot: Leader of the Cambodian revolutionary group Khmer Rogue, Pol Pot was a communist totalitarian dictator who ordered mass genocide on his own people. His regime imprisoned, tortured and destroyed those who opposed it.
Prisoners were
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The diver found out that the fish, named Yoriko, had a mouth that had been badly injured but still she came to meet him.
Realizing that she might be unable to catch her own food, the diver, Arakawa, spent the next 10 days hand-feeding Yoriko, meat from crabs that he hammered
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Gold medalists Gianmarco Tamberi of Italy and Mutaz Essa Barshim of Qatar shared the podium after the men's high jump at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games at Olympic Stadium.
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Fans at a hockey game cheered every time this 4 year old kid came on the screen and booed when it went onto someone else
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“I think the saddest people always try their hardest to make people happy because they know what it’s like to feel absolutely worthless and they don’t want anyone else to feel like that.” Robin Williams
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Diagnosed with polio at age 3, Dianne Odell had spent nearly 60 years encased in a 750-pound iron lung, only to die when a power outage shut down the machine that was keeping her alive.
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Note reads:
“James Ritchie, John Grieve, laid this floor but they did not drink the whiskey. October 6th, 1887. Whoever finds this bottle may think our dust is blowing along the road. JR JG”
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Inside the Great Pyramid of Giza: A virtual tour🧵
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On September 25, 2000, 19-year-old Kevin Hines attempted to end his own life by jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge. Plunging over 220 feet at a speed of 75 miles per hour, he hit the water below, shattering three of his vertebrae and narrowly missing severing his spine by two
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After the interaction, Drake and his new friends even posed for a selfie ... captioning it, "My new parents."
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Tugboats do this, called a Water Salute. It’s a ceremonial custom, celebrating the arrival or leaving of a particular vessel. The water is sprayed from the firefighting hoses on the tugs, and is sometimes coloured.
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8 of history's biggest unsolved mysteries:
1. D. B. Cooper: On the afternoon of November 24, 1971, a nondescript man calling himself Dan Cooper approached the counter of Northwest Orient Airlines in Portland, Oregon. He used cash to buy a one-way ticket on Flight
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The girls parents are divorced and although she lived with him when she was a child she moved in with her mother as a young teen.
She hasn't had much to do with her dad since then, but claims he was "openly racist" around her when she was little
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Jim Carrey and Eddie Murphy pose for a photo after running into each other working on the same studio set (2000)
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The note is believed to have been a death threat, but has not been confirmed. After midnight, Chalino drove away from the club with two of his brothers, a cousin, and several young women.
They were pulled over by a group of armed men in black Chevrolet Suburbans. They showed
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Deaf man's cat realising that meowing is useless so started communicating using signs.
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According to the Washington Post, Mr. Robinson spent $25,000 a year of his own money to purchase the memorabilia, but for the children he visited, his presence alone was just as special, just as exciting, as the gifts he brought.
Children battling cancer can spend weeks, or
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What’s Eating Gilbert Grape follows a 25-year-old grocery store clerk, caring for his morbidly obese mother and his intellectually disabled younger brother Arnie, in Iowa's fictional town. Peter Hedges wrote the screenplay, based on his 1991 novel of the same name. Filming took
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One of three fake heads used as decoys during a 1962 escape of 3 prisoners from Alcatraz. They were made with soap, toilet paper, toothpaste, and concrete dust.
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Ancient swords & where they were found - (brief🧵)
1. This 900-year-old Crusader sword was discovered by a scuba diver off the Haifa coast
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In 1999 this man was asked to reenact his recent lottery win for TV and ended up winning again on camera
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10. Great Sphinx of Giza from behind shows its tail
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A fully intact vintage Burger King was found behind a wall at the Concord Mall in Wilmington, DE. This photo was snapped by Jonathon Pruitt April of 2022.
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Jaequan said, “One of the things that happened is I was on the Steve Harvey Show," he said.
"They didn't shut him down," Steve Harvey said of Jaequan. "They showed him how to be bigger."
On the show, Shark Tank's Daymond John gave him a new stand, which he's using this year.
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In 1998, Bill Morgan, an Australian truck driver, was involved in a severe road accident that left him clinically dead for 14 minutes. Miraculously, he survived but was in a coma for 12 days. When he recovered, he decided to buy a scratch-off lottery ticket and won a car worth
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Steve Carell did not know that the cast would sing '9,986,000 Minutes', as it was kept a secret from him. His reaction to the song is real and not scripted.
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The northern white rhino is extinct in the wild due to poaching, and only two females remain at a sanctuary in East Africa.
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A New Jersey man bought a $5 bottle of orange juice from Shoprite; his wife said it was too expensive and sent him back to return it because it was on sale for $2.50 elsewhere.
He then decided to buy two lottery tickets with the cash refunded from the OJ; he won $315.3 million.
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In the 1970s, North Korea ordered 1,000 Volvo cars from Sweden, as a response to its emerging economy. The cars were shipped and delivered but North Korea just didn't bother paying and ignored the invoice. To this day, the bill remains unpaid, making it the largest car theft in
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The original post went live on July 16 at 11:38 p.m.
At 11:47 p.m., another 4chan user noted that the photo's Exif data pointed to Mayfield Heights, Ohio.
At 11:50 p.m., just 12 minutes later, someone posted the address of the Burger King branch in which the lettuce-stepping
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This is Namibia, where the desert meets the ocean
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7. View from the top of the Leaning Tower of Pisa
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Robert Downey Jr. sends a message to Bridger Walker, the young boy who saved his sister from an attacking dog.
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In 2020, Shane Goldsby (right) got his sister's rapist (left) as a cellmate. Despite repeatedly requesting a transfer, nothing happened. After the man taunted him for days with specific details about his sister's rape, Goldsby snapped and stomped him to death.
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10 of history's most notorious criminals:
1 & 2. Bonnie & Clyde: During the Great Depression, Bonnie & Clyde terrorized the American midwest by robbing banks & murdering anyone who tried to stop them.
She was just shy of five feet tall, all of 100 pounds, a part-time waitress
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What some of the more obscure causes mean
Ague = feverish illness, often malaria
Apoplex = stroke (the rupture or clogging of a blood vessel in the brain), paralysis resulting from a stroke - sometimes also refers to other spontaneous causes of internal bleeding like burst
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Alice Augusta Ball developed the first effective treatment for Hansen's disease, commonly known as leprosy.
She achieved her Master's in chemistry from the University of Hawaii in 1915, making her the first African American and the first woman to do so from that institution.
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