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In 2005, thieves in Brazil dug an underground tunnel into a bank vault and stole over 70 million dollars—without triggering a single alarm.

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Winston Churchill smoked up to ten cigars a day and had a special oxygen mask built so he could smoke during flights.

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Charles Darwin married his cousin Emma Wedgwood—after making a pros and cons list that included concerns about genetic issues.

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President Andrew Jackson survived an assassination attempt when the attacker's pistol misfired. He then beat the man with his cane.

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Freddie Mercury, the lead singer of Queen, had a degree in graphic design and created Queen's official logo himself.

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In 1990, two men carried out the largest art heist in U.S. history by subduing and restraining the museum guards. They were described as polite and even checked on the guards before leaving. The case is still unsolved.

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In 1942, the FBI stored over 70 million fingerprint records—by hand. This massive warehouse was once the heart of America’s criminal database.

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One of the earliest known mobility aids—a custom wheelchair built in 1740 for Holy Roman Empress Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel.

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In 1989, Pepsi received a fleet of Soviet warships, including submarines and a cruiser, as payment in a trade deal. The ships were scrapped shortly after, but for a brief moment, Pepsi technically owned one of the largest navies in the world.

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In 1973, an armed robber took four hostages during a six-day standoff at a bank in Stockholm. The hostages began showing sympathy toward their captor and even defended him afterward, leading to the term Stockholm Syndrome.

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A 2000-year-old Roman silver dagger discovered by an archeology intern in 2019 in Germany, before and after nine months of careful restoration work.

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The only preserved head and skin of the extinct Dodo bird, kept at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History.

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In 1663, a partial fossilized skeleton was found in Germany and assembled into the “Magdeburg Unicorn.” Made mostly from woolly rhinoceros bones, it is now considered one of the worst fossil reconstructions in history.

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In 1991, an El Al 747 set the world record for the most people ever flown on a single flight—carrying 1,088 passengers and landing with 1,090 after two babies were born midair.

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In 1997, scientists tested the DNA of a 9,000-year-old skeleton found in Cheddar, England. Known as “Cheddar Man,” he was genetically linked to a history teacher living just half a mile away.

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Mozart once composed a piece of music called "Leck mich im Arsch"—translation:
"Lick me in the a**"

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In the 1980s, CNN created a video to play in the event of the end of the world. It showed a military band performing "Nearer, My God, to Thee" and remained unreleased until a former intern leaked it in 2015.

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In 2014, 9-year-old Willie Myrick was kidnapped from his driveway. He sang the gospel song "Every Praise" nonstop for three hours until the kidnapper got so annoyed he let him go unharmed.

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Chef Boyardee was a real chef named Ettore Boiardi, who trained in Europe and opened a popular restaurant in Cleveland. His food was so loved that he began bottling his sauce in milk bottles, which grew into one of the most iconic canned pasta brands in the world.

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In 2005, actor Benedict Cumberbatch was kidnapped at gunpoint in South Africa after his car broke down. He was released after calmly talking to his captors and convincing them to let him go.