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2 missing hikers are saved by rescue helicopter when they saw a SOS sign, but the sign was not made by the hikers(en.m.wikipedia.org)

posted 1 year ago

jystfact@sh.itjust.works

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Sympathetic alphabet(lemmy.world)

posted 5 months ago

ickplant@lemmy.world

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My Lai massacre - War crime committed by US Army personnel involving the mass murder of unarmed Vietnamese civilians, mostly women and children(en.wikipedia.org)

posted 9 months ago

decadentrebel@lemmy.worldM

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D. B. Cooper - Unidentified man, who hijacked a Boeing 727 in 1971. Parachuted into the night with $200,000 ransom from the plane. Never been found or conclusively identified.(en.wikipedia.org)

posted 11 months ago

infeeeee@lemm.ee

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Robert Durst - American real estate heir who nearly got away with murder until his gleeful participation in an HBO documentary finally did him in(en.wikipedia.org)

posted 9 months ago

decadentrebel@lemmy.worldM

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Mary Kay Letourneau - Teacher who initiated a sexual relationship with her 12-year-old pupil, bore his child, and later married him(en.wikipedia.org)

posted 10 months ago

decadentrebel@lemmy.worldM

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Taylor Mitchell - Canadian country folk singer and songwriter who died at the age of 19 of injuries and blood loss after two eastern coyotes mauled her(en.wikipedia.org)

posted 9 months ago

decadentrebel@lemmy.worldM

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Travis (chimpanzee) - mauled and ate parts of his owner's friend. Wild animals are not pets.(en.wikipedia.org)

posted 3 days ago

Plum@lemmy.world

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Byron Looper - Obsessed with his political career, he legally changed his middle name to "(Low Tax)" and murdered his election opponent(en.wikipedia.org)

posted 4 months ago

decadentrebel@lemmy.worldM

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Don't Hug Me I'm Scared - British web series notable for its blending of surrealism and morbid humour with horror and musical elements(en.wikipedia.org)

posted 1 month ago

decadentrebel@lemmy.worldM

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The scaly-foot gastropod or volcano snail lives on deep-sea volcanoes. It drinks volcano water so it can feed its internal bacteria that sustain it and its shell is made of iron.(en.wikipedia.org)

posted 1 year ago

Flying Squid@lemmy.world

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Thalidomide scandal- the "biggest anthropogenic medical disaster ever"(en.wikipedia.org)

posted 5 days ago

Plum@lemmy.world

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Xin Zhui - Remarkably preserved Chinese mummy from 163 B.C. with all features and soft tissue still intact(en.wikipedia.org)

posted 11 months ago

decadentrebel@lemmy.worldM

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Salema porgy - Fish that causes LSD-esque nightmares for 36 hours when consumed(en.wikipedia.org)

posted 11 months ago

decadentrebel@lemmy.worldM

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The Complete Manual of Suicide - Japanese book first published on July 93 and sold more than 1 million copies, providing matter-of-fact assessment of each method(en.wikipedia.org)

posted 1 year ago

decadentrebel@lemmy.worldM

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Tunguska event - 12 megaton explosion in 1908 over East Siberia, flattened 80 million trees over an area of 2,150 km2 (830 sq mi). Generally attributed to a meteor air burst, no impact crater found.(en.wikipedia.org)

posted 11 months ago

infeeeee@lemm.ee

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Tuskegee Syphilis Study - A 40-year long study conducted by the US PHS & CDC to observe the long term effects of untreated syphilis where they deceived 399 impoverished African-American sharecroppers(en.wikipedia.org)

posted 6 months ago

fᵣₑfᵢ@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Sokushinbutsu- embalming process that begins before death(en.wikipedia.org)

posted 1 month ago

Plum@lemmy.world

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John Allen Chau - American missionary who prepared for his meeting with the Sentinelese by training in a mock village populated by staff pretending to be hostile natives wielding fake spears(en.wikipedia.org)

posted 10 months ago

decadentrebel@lemmy.worldM

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Maman (sculpture) - giant dang 30 foot spider(en.wikipedia.org)

posted 19 days ago

Plum@lemmy.world

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A tree with an excruciating sting that can persist for years.(en.m.wikipedia.org)

posted 2 months ago

Lenny@lemmy.world

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Satanic panic - 80s moral panic about alleged widespread Satanic ritual abuse in the United States and peaking in the early 1990s(en.wikipedia.org)

posted 1 year ago

decadentrebel@lemmy.worldM

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Death of Raymond Zack - 53-year-old man who intentionally drowned at Crown Beach by standing neck deep in water roughly 150 yards offshore while rescuers watched for almost an hour(en.wikipedia.org)

posted 1 year ago

decadentrebel@lemmy.worldM

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Jimmy Savile - Celebrated English media personality that was revealed to be Britain's most prolific predatory sex offender after his death(en.wikipedia.org)

posted 6 months ago

decadentrebel@lemmy.worldM

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Collyer brothers - hoarders killed by their own house(en.wikipedia.org)

posted 17 days ago

Plum@lemmy.world

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