When something good happens, people want to celebrate. Athletes are no different, and star athletes have a lot to celebrate, including huge contracts that guarantee they'll never have to worry about money again. Here are weird ways that athletes celebrated contract signings.
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When you hear about an extraordinary event, it's worth noting if the event actually happened. There might be hard evidence or flimsy eyewitness testimony. Sometimes eyewitnesses are police officers, soldiers, and other authorities. Here are some stories of strange events documented by authorities.
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In a list of the best US presidents in history, a few dark horses emerge as surprising choices. Perhaps the most surprising is James K. Polk, who served as president from 1845 to 1849. Here's why James Polk was the most underrated president.
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Even though Allen Pinkerton formed the legendary Pinkerton's Detective Agency in 1850, unsolved robberies and murders remained a problem in the American West.
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In his lifetime, Ishi, the last member of the Yahi tribe, watched his people be wiped off the Earth. This is the last member of the Yahi's tragic life story.
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On November 22, 1963, John and Jackie Kennedy visited Dallas where Lee Harvey Oswald shot and killed Kennedy. Jackie became the world's most famous widow. While she was praised for her strength in public, in private she was devastated. Here's what Jackie Kennedy did the year following JFK's death.
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How much do you really know about our Founding Fathers? We're taught a lot in school, and it's often stories like George Washington chopping down the cherry tree. And that's not the only tall tale we've been told. Here are some false things you believe about America's Founding Fathers.
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Whitesnake is 1987 all the way, and the band's megahit "Here I Go Again" is perhaps the catchiest hard rock song of all time. Whitesnake has a complex history that stretches over four decades. Here are a few things you probably don't know about the band.
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The 19th-century photographer Mathew Brady, who went from taking portraits of the rich and famous to taking death portraits on Civil War battlefields, is known for depicting the cost of war. The truth of Civil War photographer Mathew Brady is he funded the photojournalism himself and went into debt.
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Hypatia was born in Alexandria, Egypt. She was a scientist, educator, and intellectual, though many details of her life remain obscured. She was a brilliant woman who was deeply tied to Alexandra's reputation as a center of learning and progress.
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A charity event puts everyone to work toward a common goal and is usually for something that no one can argue about. Every once in a while a charity event occurs that is a disaster unto itself. Here are some of the biggest, grandest, charity disasters.
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As the cohost of the wholesome family show "Wheel of Fortune," Vanessa White has a good sense of humor about her job. Her life has been quite interesting too.
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Before Robert Koch discovered the tubercular bacillus in 1882, the lack of understanding of the bacteria and the disease it caused led to some wild theories and attempts to curb the spread of tuberculosis. Surprisingly, this intersected with vampire legends in an especially curious manner.
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The legend of the Lost Dutchman's gold mine is one of murder, secrets, and a lot of gold. For over a century, treasure hunters have sought the Lost Dutchman's treasures supposedly lost in the Superstition Mountains of Arizona. This is the legend of the Lost Dutchman and his gold.
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Uncharted has occasionally veered into some pretty creepy territory, bringing our dashing hero into contact with genuine monsters and calamities beyond the scope of the natural order of things.
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Nina Simone is known as one of the most prolific vocalists and pianists of 20th-century American music. This is Nina Simone's tragic real-life story.
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These actors have never been in a good movie. In fact, many of them have been in some of the worst movies of all time.
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Geoglyphs are basically designs that someone's made on the surface of the earth, through etchings or piling up elements to create a picture. Geoglyphs can be found throughout the world. These are the most mysterious geoglyphs on the planet, from Peru to Ohio.
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A Quiet Place, the sneakiest horror thriller in a long time, is downright amazing and guaranteed to make you jump more than once. But as amazing as it is, A Quiet Place has more than a few plot holes and inconsistencies. Here are dumb things in A Quiet Place that everyone just ignored.
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IQ tests have been around, in one form or another, for over a century. Sadly, the many occasions in which IQ tests have been used as a justification for racism, eugenics, xenophobia, and executions is ... deeply troubling, to say the least. This is the messed up truth behind IQ tests.
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In the mid-1800s, the United States set its sights on Alaska, now a state rich in oil, fish, minerals, natural wonders, and snow. But not everyone thought it was such a great idea The US went ahead and made the purchase anyway. So what is the real reason Russia sold Alaska to the United States?
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Britain destroyed and withheld evidence of crimes in Africa with the explicit purpose of being kept out of the hands of post-independence governments.
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Jeopardy! viewers haven't seen someone truly dominate the game show since Ken Jennings' infamous run of 74 games. But James Holzhauer changed all that. Here's the untold truth of James Holzhauer.
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Poison was among the most successful "hair metal" rock bands of the 80s. Life outside of the music wasn't always great. Here's the dark tale of Poison.
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The truth of life in the Wild West was rarely easy for the people who actually had to live there. Things like medical care or law enforcement could be hard to find. To be a woman there was even more difficult. These women were some of the toughest to make their mark
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On the baseball field, Joe Dimaggio was a legend, but off the field, he suffered tragedies and made mistakes like anyone else. This is the tragic real-life story of Joe DiMaggio.
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Serial killings had to have started somewhere — they weren't birthed by some mystical demon. This is a very human problem that started somewhere in our history, and the earliest known serial killer may have been the child butcher Gilles de Rais. Was this man history's first recorded serial killer?
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