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[Morbid Knowledge @MorbidKnowledge]

In the late 1990s, when he was still a struggling actor, Zach Galifianakis started taking his laundry to a Santa Monica laundromat where an older woman, Marie "Mimi" Haist, worked in exchange for a place to sleep, she'd been homeless since her marriage ended decades earlier.

The two became genuine friends long before Galifianakis was famous, and as his career took off with films like The Hangover, he quietly found her an apartment nearby (which Renée Zellweger, another friend Mimi made, helped furnish) and brought her along to red carpet premieres, where she happily played the role of his date.

Their friendship became the subject of the 2015 documentary Queen Mimi.

Haist passed in 2021 at 96, having spent her final decades not on the street, but surrounded by famous friends who adored her.

[Morbid Knowledge @MorbidKnowledge]

A Chinese cat litter scientist told his daughter he was close friends with NBA legend Charles Barkley, but she assumed he was joking, until Barkley attended his 2018 funeral. He delivered a eulogy, and revealed the two had spent years sharing dinners, traveling together, and hanging out behind the scenes at TNT with Shaquille O'Neal.

Lin Wang met Charles Barkley by chance at a Sacramento hotel bar, and what started as small talk turned into a two-hour dinner and years of quiet friendship, texts, visits, invitations to sit in on TNT broadcasts.

Wang's own family didn't fully believe the friendship was real until 2015, when Barkley's mother passed and Wang flew to Alabama for the funeral, confusing Barkley's other friends.

When Wang himself passed awat from cancer in June 2018, the day after the NBA Finals, Barkley showed up in Iowa City and delivered the eulogy himself, telling Wang's daughter it was one of the honors of his life.

[Dad Jokes @Dadsaysjokes]

If you watch Jaws backwards, it is a heartwarming story about a shark who gives arms and legs to people who need them.

[R͓̽Y͓̽a͓̽n͓̽C͓̽e͓̽y͓̽ @RyanceyReturns]

There are few sights that make a crowd stop what they’re doing like a C-17 at full-power departure.
At max takeoff weight this giant tips the scales at over 585,000 pounds. Yet once those four Pratt & Whitney engines spool up, it charges down the runway and climbs at an angle that feels like it shouldn’t be possible.
Watching something this massive point almost straight into the sky never gets old. I. could feel the anticipation build before the throttles even come forward. Then the roar hits… my head tilts back… phone goes up… and then ok hear the cheers erupt. No matter how many times we see it, everyone always want one more pass.

These events are a reminder of the engineering, skill, and quiet dedication behind the aircraft that move troops, equipment, and humanitarian aid around the world whenever they’re needed.

If you could only witness one in person, would you choose the C-17’s jaw-dropping max-performance climb or the raw power of an F-22 vertical climb?

[Airforce Geek @PrecisionLabs0]

🚨 This POV is absolutely unreal. You're looking straight down from beneath a Blue Angels F/A-18 Super Hornet as it blasts off the runway... and what happens next is pure precision.

Filmed from beneath a Blue Angels F/A-18 Super Hornet, the camera captures the exact moment the jet lifts off... revealing another Super Hornet charging down the runway directly below. For a split second it appears to drift sideways before settling perfectly onto the centerline, a stunning display of precision flying.

The Blue Angels train relentlessly to maintain near-perfect spacing while showcasing the incredible agility and power of the Boeing F/A-18 Super Hornet.

Precision. Trust. Split-second timing.

🎥 : SGTWipper1Each

[Rick Golfs @Top100Rick]

Watched this 3 times and smiled ear to ear each time.

It’s his face at the end. Just pure joy.

$50,000 for a hole in one. Giant crowd for the member tournament. Then this happens.

Truly the dream for all us hacks.

[Voices of WW2 @VoicesofWW2]

This is his Father, then a Colonel, praying over the body of his son, during the battle of Okinawa. Very poignant picture.

[Ray 'Mad Dog' Burton 🇺🇸⚓✈⚽🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇱 @RayBurtonSAS]

USS Texas (BB-35) sits under floodlights in a Galveston dry dock, midway through the most extensive rebuild of her 110-plus year life.

She is the last dreadnought battleship left on Earth, and the only ship in the world to have fought in both World Wars. From the North Sea in 1918 to the invasion beaches of Normandy and Southern France in 1944, then on to Iwo Jima and Okinawa in 1945, Texas carried her crew through nearly every major amphibious campaign of the Atlantic and Pacific without ever hauling down her flag. She lost just one sailor to enemy fire across all of it.

Few remember that Texas was also a technological pioneer. She was the first U.S. battleship built with 14-inch guns, the first to mount anti-aircraft weapons, the first to launch an aircraft, and among the earliest warships in the Navy to carry radar. By the time she was decommissioned on April 21, 1948, she had already rewritten the rules of naval gunnery twice over.

That same day, Texas became something else entirely: the first battleship in the world preserved as a permanent museum ship. Every battlewagon that followed her into retirement — Alabama, North Carolina, Massachusetts, the Iowa-class ships — did so because Texas proved it could be done first.
This photo, taken in October 2022 at Gulf Copper's Galveston yard, captures her a few weeks into a rebuild that would eventually replace over 700 tons of steel and consume more than 400,000 labor hours.

Decades of corrosion at her old berth near San Jacinto had left her listing hard to starboard; without this dry dock, she likely wouldn't have survived another decade afloat. She's since been refloated, and the Battleship Texas Foundation has secured her a permanent new home at Pier 15 in the Port of Galveston, with a public reopening targeted for late 2026. After more than a century, America's first battleship museum is finally getting the one thing she never had — a home built to last.

[Elon Altman @ElonAltman]

LeBron’s the first person to move from Bel Air to West Philadelphia.

[Laura Loomer @LauraLoomer]

Embarrassing moment of truth for Russia today during @SecRubio’s meeting with Sergey Lavrov, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation when a reporter asked Rubio if he would press Russia today about working with Iran to target and kill US soldiers.

Rubio was silent. Russia mocked the death of US soldiers by saying, “Speak Louder”.

We need to get serious as a country about having zero tolerance for the Islamic-communist alliance.

[Maxi @MaaxiAngelo]

Erling Haaland is a very tough person to dislike. One of the highest paid and most famous footballer in the world today – yet as down to earth, open and kind as your average 26-year-old, if not more.

[Dr Charlie Ward @DrcharlieWardQ]

BREAKING🚨: VP Vance joined fellow Marines on the rifle range and took 2 shots from hundreds of yards away

1 was a head shot and the other was center mass

They say every Marine is a rifleman and JD just proved it

[The Ohio State University Marching Band @TBDBITL]

I wanna go back to Ohio State, to old Columbus town🎶

Fun Fact: We sing "I Wanna Go Back to Ohio State" before every ramp entrance!

[John Massingale @JohnMassingale4]

This account is an incredible follow

[Dudes Posting Their W’s @DudespostingWs]

A Belgian shopkeeper convinced this World War II veteran to return to Belgium, where locals honor the 101st Airborne Division every year by wearing American uniforms and reenacting its history. He finally returned and became overwhelmed with emotion.