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In 2016, a man stalking "iCarly" actress Miranda Cosgrove shot at a woman in a car near her home, then set himself on fire and fatally shot himself in her yard. Two years earlier, Cosgrove had obtained a restraining order against a different stalker.
Actor Ving Rhames earned $7.7 million for just 39 seconds of screen time in "Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol" (2011), making him the highest-paid actor for the least time on screen. He spent only two days on set.
Whole chickens and covered pies are prohibited inside the papal conclave, the secretive meeting where cardinals elect a new pope.
In 2013, New Zealand kayaker Ryan Blair was stranded for two weeks on an Australian island, trapped by a massive crocodile. Each attempt to escape in his 8-foot kayak was thwarted by the croc, which was more than twice the size of the kayak. He was eventually rescued when a local man investigated a strange light on the island.
After World War II, Henry Ford II returned to lead the Ford Motor Company and hired 10 young veterans known as "The Whiz Kids." Their new management strategies helped launch the 1949 Ford in just 19 months, resulting in 100,000 orders on the first day.
The Nintendo DS was never intended to replace the Game Boy. Instead, it was designed to be a "third pillar" alongside the Game Boy Advance and GameCube, allowing Nintendo to revert to the Game Boy line if the DS did not succeed.
For centuries, determining the date of Easter was so complex that churches developed intricate algorithms to predict it years in advance. Disagreements over these calculations eventually led to Eastern Orthodox churches celebrating Easter on different dates than Western churches.
In 1525, after defeating the French and capturing King Francis I, Emperor Charles V opted for diplomacy over invasion and released the king in exchange for a treaty. Contemporaries like Machiavelli mocked him as "mad" and "foolish." Francis later broke the treaty once he was freed.
Uday Hussein, son of Saddam Hussein, once punished Iraq's national football team for losing 2–1 to Kazakhstan by caning their feet and brutally beating them.
During World War II, American soldier John R. Fox died when he deliberately called an artillery strike on his own position. Realizing that German troops were overrunning his party's location, the strike delayed the enemy long enough for other American units to organize a counterattack.
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