General Sergeant Stubby the combat dog

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Sergeant Stubby is the only dog to be officially promoted to the rank of sergeant through combat. He participated in 17 battles and was known for his ability to detect mustard gas attacks, comfort wounded soldiers, he even captured a German spy by holding onto him until American troops arrived.

Sergeant Stubby - Wikipedia

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In 2002, 19-year-old Michael Carroll won a $12 million lottery jackpot, instantly becoming a millionaire overnight. But within a few years, he burned through his fortune on drugs, gambling, parties, and luxury. By 2010, Carroll was completely broke and back to working as a garbage man.

 

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On July 3, 1988 an Iranian airliner traveling from Tehran to Dubai was mistaken for a fighter jet and shot down by two RIM-66 Standard MR (SM-2MR) medium-range surface-to-air missiles fired by USS Vincennes (CG-49), a U.S. Navy Ticonderoga-class guided missile cruiser. All 290 civilians died.

 

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The Khmer Rouge leadership were not rural illiterate peasants from nowhere. Most were educated at elite high schools and French universities.

 

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In northern France, a stallion named Peyo—affectionately known as “Doctor Peyo”— visits terminally ill Cancer Patients at the hospital to brighten their day.

 

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Chainsaws were originally invented to assist in childbirth. In the late 18th century, doctors used small, hand-cranked chainsaws to cut through pelvic bones, making room to widen the birth canal during difficult deliveries.

 

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The size of a Liger (a hybrid offspring of a male lion and a tigress) compared to humans.

Ligers grow so large because they inherit growth-promoting genes from both lion and tiger parents but lack the growth-inhibiting genes that each species would normally contribute... resulting in unchecked growth.

Tigons stay smaller because they inherit both the growth-limiting genes from their lion mother and tiger father, which suppress excessive growth, unlike ligers.

 

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Mexico City aerial view. One of the largest cities in the world with a population of more than 21 million people.

 

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Keanu Reeves gave away a huge portion of his Matrix earning, possibly tens of millions to the visual effects and costume teams. He believed they were the real heroes behind the film. “They’re the ones who made the movie,” he reportedly said.

 

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The innovative pedal skates for cycling without sitting (1910)

 

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Coca-Cola Clear is a colorless variant of the Original Coca-Cola without the caramel. The drink is lemon-flavored. It was developed at Coca-Cola Asia Pacific and launched locally in Japan in June of 2018

 

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7-Eleven gave a baby $7,111 for college because she was born at 7:11 on 7/11, weighing 7 lbs 11 oz

 

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World's longest tapeworm - 8,8 metres / 28.9 ft. - is displayed in Meguro Parasitological Museum in Tokyo.

 

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First image on the world wide web, from the CERN website where the first http pages were made available - hypertext linking of pages with embedded images via markup language

Les Horribles Cernettes - Wikipedia

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Dresden Germany in WW2, 25,000 people lost their lives due to the bombings.

 

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The Empire State building in the 1940s

 

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McDonald’s discontinued their coffee stirring spoons in 1979 because people were using them to measure and snort cocaine instead.

 

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The Great Wave off Kanagawa is 140 square inches in size

 

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The Milan cathedral (or duomo di Milano) is the largest church in Italy.

 

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After 3 years of planning and perfect timing, Leonardo Sens captured this photo.

 

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If a male frog or toad finds something that resembles a female during mating season, they'll hold tightly to it

 

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The graphics of GTA 5 vs GTA 6

 

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24 years difference

 

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A photograph of Marilyn Monroe, 1955

 

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Respecting a legend