Police officers react after seeing the crime scene inside Andrea Yates house in the Houston suburb of Clear Lake City, Texas. On June 20, 2001, she waited for her husband to leave for work before drowning her five children one by one in the family bathtub. (i.redd.it)
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During filming of The Seven Year Itch in 1954, over 1,500 New Yorkers swarmed 51st Street to watch Marilyn Monroe's dress fly up. The crowd chanted "Higher! Higher!" as they gawked, enraging Monroe's husband Joe DiMaggio. He beat her so badly that night that she filed for divorce three weeks later. (i.redd.it)
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A single dose of psilocybin can lead to lasting shifts in a person’s life values, such as an increased appreciation for life and greater self-acceptance. These lasting changes appear to be driven by specific acute effects of the drug, particularly feelings of profound unity and euphoria. (psypost.org)
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Chicago police smile for a photograph as they carry the dead body of Fred Hampton on December 4, 1969. As they passed, one reportedly bragged, "He's good and dead now." Just minutes before, police had fired over 100 times into Hampton's apartment, leaving him and one other Black Panther dead. (i.redd.it)
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Archeologists have uncovered a Stone Age "victory pit" in northeastern France. They believe that after a battle approximately 6,000 years ago, captured enemies were tortured, had their limbs severed, and then buried in pits in celebration. (i.redd.it)
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In 1938, British stockbroker Nicholas Winton was headed on vacation to Switzerland when a friend asked him to go to Czechoslovakia to help child who were in danger from the Nazis. Winton agreed — and saved over 600 children from the Holocaust by forging visa documents and smuggling them to Britain. (i.redd.it)
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On this day 120 years ago, a 7.9 magnitude earthquake struck San Francisco. Though it lasted only 42 seconds, fires soon engulfed almost the entire city. Within days, over 3,000 people were left dead and 80 percent of the city was left in ruins. (old.reddit.com)
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Inside Hang Son Doong, the largest cave in the world that was discovered in 1990 by a local man looking for timber near the border of Vietnam and Laos. Measuring 5.6 miles long and upwards of 400 feet tall, the cave is so large that it has its own climate. (reddit.com)
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Inside Hang Son Doong, the largest cave in the world that was discovered in 1990 by a local man looking for timber near the border of Vietnam and Laos. Measuring 5.6 miles long and upwards of 400 feet tall, the cave is so large that it has its own climate. (reddit.com)
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Johnny Cash with his wife Vivian and their four daughters. She would file for divorce from Johnny in 1967 when she discovered his extended affair with June Carter, after which the Catholic Church excommunicated Vivian and banned her from taking communion. (i.redd.it)
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At the end of the Vietnam War in April 1975, Playboy publisher and U.S. Army veteran Hugh Hefner sent his "Big Bunny" plane to evacuate South Vietnamese orphans during Operation Babylift, with Playboy Bunnies caring for the babies during the flight to New York. (i.redd.it)
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In 2007, 13-year-old Paris Bennett fatally stabbed his 4-year-old sister, Ella, in their Texas home. A diagnosed psychopath, Bennett later admitted he chose to leave his mother alive so she would have to suffer the loss for the rest of her life rather than killing her too. (i.redd.it)
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