Bobby Leach the 2nd Guy to Survive Going Over Niagara Falls in a Barrel, Later Died Slipping on an Orange Peel
A Polish Doctor Created a Fake Epidemic to Save 8,000 people from Certain Death in Nazi Concentration Camps
The largest race riot in US history completely wiped out one of the wealthiest African-American communities in the country. The incident started and snowballed after a black man accidentally stepped on the foot of a white woman.
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Fox News was first conceived in the Richard Nixon White House specifically to push a GOP message
The most successful female sniper in history, Lyudmila Pavlichenko, couldn't pull the trigger on her first kill, until she saw a German shoot a young Russian soldier. "He was such a nice, happy boy..." "After that, nothing could stop me." She went on to record 309 confirmed kills in WWII.
There is an insect that creates sounds as loud as a lawnmower by rubbing its penis against it's abdomen.
In 1916 an Elephant was hanged in Tennessee for the murder of her trainer.
Genghis Khan Laid So Many Women there's a .5% chance you're related to him
Edgar Allen Poe's only full length novel featured a scene in which a cabin boy named Richard Parker is cannibalized by his shipwrecked crew mates. 46 years later, a real ship wrecked crew actually did cannibalize their cabin boy...who was also named Richard Parker.
Hall of Fame boxer Sugar Ray Robinson backed out of a fight because he had a dream that he was going to kill his opponent in the ring. After a priest and minister convinced Robinson to fight, Robinson went into the ring and killed his opponent, Jimmy Doyle.