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President Barack Obama's armored limousine gets stuck on a ramp as it tries to leave the US embassy in Dublin, 2011.

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Fidel Castro & Che Guevara while they were imprisoned in Mexico City, July, 1956.

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@Cmdr_Hadfield Good stuff Chris!

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In 1964, The Rolling Stones did the jingle for a Rice Krispies TV ad. The song was written by Brian Jones in collaboration with J. Walter Thompson & was never aired in the U.S

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Backstreet Boys performing "All I Have To Give" live in 1999.

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On September 22, 2006, NASA astronaut Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper collapsed twice at a welcome-home ceremony in Houston. Officials attributed her wobbles to her body readjusting to Earth's gravity after 12 days in space.

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Vladimir Putin and President George W. Bush arriving together at the Bush family estate, Walker's Point, in Kennebunkport, Maine, 2007.

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Swedish pop group Ace of Base performing live in Chile, 1994.

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Keanu Reeves takes a ten second pause to absorb a question, 2003.

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A Dallas woman, Elizabeth Escalona, beat her two-year-old daughter & glued the toddler's hands to a wall; she was sentenced to 99 years in prison, 2012.

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Playing Nintendo with your brother in 1989

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Sharpies were a distinct working-class youth subculture and gang phenomenon in Melbourne, Australia in the 1960s & 1970s with their own haircut & dance style.

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A couple on a Jet Blue flight (Steve Carell & Amy Poehler) have very different reactions to some news about their plane, season 31 of SNL, 2005.

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An ungleeful looking Cassius Clay -- "call me Muhammad Ali" said he was elated over his 7th round knock-out of Zora Folley at Madison Square Garden, 1967.

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The 477th Bombardment Group was the Army Air Forces' first Black bomber unit, training on B-25s. Their commander set up two officers' clubs at Freeman Field — carefully labeled not "white" and "colored" but "instructors" and "trainees." All the instructors were white. All the trainees were Black.

Over several days in April 1945, Black officers walked into the instructors' club and asked to be served. Sixty-one were arrested. Then the commander issued a base regulation acknowledging the separate clubs and ordered every Black officer to sign it.

One hundred and one refused. They were arrested for insubordination under an article of war that carried the death penalty in wartime.

General George Marshall ordered them released, but letters of reprimand went into their files, and one lieutenant, Bill Terry, was convicted of "jostling" an officer, fined, and dishonorably discharged.

It took until 1995 for the Air Force to clear their records and set aside Terry's conviction.

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In 2007, 19-year-old convicted killer Dexter Johnson flew into a rage in a Houston courtroom after he was sentenced to death. He began knocking down chairs before he was tackled by about a dozen courtroom officers.

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Vincent Price Performs The Thriller Rap Live in 1987

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Early police baton training emphasized military style discipline and control, with limited techniques and little focus on safety.

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In 2015, North Korea's defense minister Hyon Yong-chol reportedly nodded off during one of Kim Jong Un's speeches.

This moment of "disrespect" ended with him being removed from his post & it’s rumored he was executed by anti-aircraft gun.