The Yankee Stadium Hex.
a construction worker and Boston Red Sox fan buried a Red Sox jersey underneath the stadium with the objective of placing a "hex" on the Yan
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Tried to commit suicide by jumping off the 86th floor but was blown back onto the 85th floor by a gust of wind.
On December 2, 1979, Elvita Adams failed to end it all.
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Squirrels cause electrical disruptions commonly.
A squirrel took out the power to Nasdaq's trading computer and affected Twenty million trades. commentators noted that cyber attacks by human terrorists are rarer than disruption by squirrels.
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Lilian Wyles.
Wyles was a pioneer in the inclusion of women in the Met Police and for the more sensitive treatment of female victims of sexual assaults
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Valentina Tereshkova.
Her humble origins as a textile worker, her enthusiasm for parachuting and the fact that she was the first woman to go into space
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the United States Army had a tactical deception unit called "Ghost Army".
during the WW2, soldiers, their job was to deceive the enemy by inflatable tanks, sound trucks, and fake radio transmissions
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Ernesto Miranda's supreme court case led to the Miranda rights.
Miranda himself was later killed in a bar fight. His killer got away with it... because he chose to remain silent.
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Sun Mingming, the tallest basketball player in the world.
Along with his wife Xu Yan, is recognized by the Guinness World Records as the world's tallest living couple
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Saint Lucia is the only country in the world named after a woman.
certain territories may be named after women such as the Virgin Islands but Saint Lucia is the only sovereign state among them
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