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While serving in Vietnam, green beret Carson Walks Over Ice completed three of the four sacred tasks to become War Chief of the Crow when he counted coup on a Viet Cong soldier. His last task was to take an enemy horse. He stole two elephants instead, and was denied the title by the elders.

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While serving in Vietnam, green beret Carson Walks Over Ice completed three of the four sacred tasks to become War Chief of the Crow when he counted coup on a Viet Cong soldier. His last task was to take an enemy horse. He stole two elephants instead, and was denied the title by the elders.

u/Chemical-Elk-1299 — 17 hours ago

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Born in 1673, Julie D’Aubigny was a cross-dressing French opera singer infamous for her many affairs with women. Her first female lover was sent to a convent to keep them apart. Julie then became a nun herself, stole a corpse, and set fire to the nunnery to fake her lover’s death and escape.

u/Chemical-Elk-1299 — 3 days ago

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Josef Menčík was a Czech eccentric who lived alone in a crumbling 13th century castle, styling himself as “Sir Josef” to the delight of local children. When Nazi tanks neared his castle in 1938, Sir Josef donned a suit of full plate, took up his sword and lance, and rode to meet them in battle

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In 2009, Al-Qaeda radical Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab attempted a suicide attack on Northwest Airlines Flight 253 using a bomb concealed in his underwear. The bomb malfunctioned, only succeeding in setting his pants on fire. It injured no one else.

u/Chemical-Elk-1299 — 5 days ago

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[WP] “I’m Officer Demonico from the Federal Bureau of Undeath. I have a warrant for your arrest.” “For what crime?! I’m not a necromancer!” “Wrongful imprisonment of a skeleton.”

u/Chemical-Elk-1299 — 6 days ago

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On 18 May 1980, freelance photographer Robert Landsburg was documenting the ongoing eruption of Mt. St Helens when the mountain exploded. Unable to escape, he then lied down atop his camera, protecting the film with his own body. His remains were found in the ash 17 days later, his photos intact.

u/Chemical-Elk-1299 — 8 days ago

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In 305CE, Diocletian became the first and only Roman Emperor to willingly give up the throne, becoming a vegetable farmer in Croatia. When he was begged to return to Rome and retake power, he refused, saying “If you could see the cabbages I have grown with my own hands, you would not ask me this.”

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