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Sigourney Weaver made the 'impossible' basketball shot in 'Aliens: Resurrection.'
Bank of America began as the Bank of Italy in 1904.
In 1997, an Air Force pilot mysteriously crashed his A-10 Warthog in Colorado, and the plane's four 500-pound bombs were never recovered.
Rita Crundwell, the treasurer of Dixon, Illinois, embezzled over $53 million over 20 years, severely impacting the town's infrastructure. She was sentenced to 19 years and 7 months in federal prison in 2013, just short of the 20-year maximum.
In 2004, Google used a Dutch auction for its IPO, where investors bid the maximum price they were willing to pay, and all received shares at the lowest price that cleared the available stock, known as the market-clearing price.
During Alice Cooper's 1972 School's Out concert at the Hollywood Bowl, a helicopter flew over the audience and dropped women's panties onto them.
Mars bars contain 60% sugar.
Two scientific journal studies involving over 1,000 participants found that the ability to "bullshit" is linked to higher intelligence. Participants were asked to lie about their expertise in fake fields, and those who did so convincingly scored higher in vocabulary, abstract reasoning, and other cognitive skills.
Peter Hagendorf, a German mercenary during the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648), kept a diary in which he nonchalantly described events such as the deaths of several of his children, being shot, and abducting women.
During World War 2, Polish poet Stanislaw Jerzy Lec was imprisoned in a German concentration camp and made multiple escape attempts. Sentenced to death for his second attempt, he successfully escaped in 1943 by killing his guard with a shovel while being taken to dig his own grave, then fleeing in the guard's uniform.
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