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The strangest, darkest and most surprising true stories from history, told with real archival footage. New stories every week.

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@PopBase Wild part: the voice calling Elsa into the unknown is AURORA, and the song lost the Oscar for Best Original Song to Elton John.

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Would you trust a poll of 2.4 million people or one of 50,000? 90 years ago today, the Literary Digest's 2.4 million mail-in ballots picked Landon over FDR. FDR won 46 of 48 states. Gallup called it right with 50,000 interviews, and the Digest folded within 18 months.

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@IGN Wild part: Paul Bettany was just the voice of JARVIS for seven years before Marvel finally gave him a body as Vision.

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Full episode on Spotify: https://t.co/cPr8LwEnFu

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Would you have hung off that cliff for five dollars a day? 👇

Ropes, jackhammers, dynamite, 119-degree heat, and it was the top-paying job at Hoover Dam. Their homemade fix is on every construction site today.

#history

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@PopCrave Wild part: Bratz sparked a decade-long legal war with Mattel because the guy who sketched them was working at Mattel when he drew them.

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Would you trust a computer with 512 words of memory to fly you to Mercury? On Nov 3 1973, NASA launched Mariner 10, the first probe to slingshot off one planet (Venus) to reach another. Low on steering gas, crews tilted its solar panels to sail on sunlight.

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Would you lock up a healthy person for life to protect everyone else? 👇 Typhoid Mary never felt sick, yet New York kept her on an island for 26 years. Another carrier sickened 122 and got two weeks. 1907, real archival footage. #history #TyphoidMary

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Would you rather win the election, or be the editor who printed that the other guy won? 78 years ago today, the Chicago Tribune went to press early with "DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN." About 150,000 copies ran before anyone fixed it.

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@Dexerto Wild part: Pluto still hasn't finished a single lap around the Sun since we discovered it in 1930. One Pluto year is 248 Earth years.

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@PopBase Wild part: this was Ariana's first-ever No. 1 on the Hot 100, five years after "The Way."

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@ESPNNBA Warriors fans when Draymond starts walking toward the ref:

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Was sending a dog into orbit worth it? 69 years ago tonight, Sputnik 2 carried Laika, a stray off the Moscow streets, with no way to bring her home. Moscow let the world think she lived for days. In 2002 a mission scientist revealed she overheated within hours.

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@UnderdogNBA Beef Stew to Zion at the rim:

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@NFL @NFLPlus Simmons, Simmons everywhere

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🎧 Full episode on Spotify: https://t.co/ekBxH1eTaa

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Would you have signed up your own kid for the 1954 polio vaccine trial? 👇
The 1954 Salk polio vaccine trial and the Cutter incident, real footage.

1.8 million kids, a coded shot nobody could identify, and then a lab shipped vaccine with live virus inside. Parents lined up anyway.

#history #polio

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@billboard Wild part: YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim said the reason he wanted a video site was that he couldn't find a clip of their 2004 Super Bowl halftime show anywhere online.

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Radio, TV or the internet: which changed election night the most? On Nov. 2, 1920, KDKA in Pittsburgh read the Harding-Cox returns from a shack on a factory roof, with a 100-watt transmitter and this "tomato can" microphone. Many historians call it the birth of commercial radio.