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10/28/2024

A man named Dale Schroeder grew up poor in Iowa, never married, had no children, and worked as a carpenter at the same company for 67 years and only owned two jeans. He spent his life savings to send 33 students to college.

Today, the 33 strangers have formed a group and call themselves "Dale's kids." Comprised of doctors, teachers and therapists, they honor Schroeder for changing their lives.

10/27/2024

Safety Standards in 1960s

07/31/2024

Jeff Bezos working late nights, 1999. Would later become the richest man in the world

07/31/2024

Sarah Michelle Gellar & Shannen Doherty, 1999

07/31/2024

In 2000, 19 year old Kevin Hines jumped from the Golden Gate Bridge and fell 220 feet at 75 miles per hour, resulting in his back being broken. He was saved from drowning by a sea lion who kept him afloat until rescuers could reach him. He is now a motivational speaker at 42 years old.

07/30/2024

In 2009 while watching Stewart Little (1999), Hungarian art historian Gergely Barki, saw the painting "𝘚𝘭𝘦𝘦𝘱𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘓𝘢𝘥𝘺 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘉𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘝𝘢𝘴𝘦" by Róbert Berény. It had been missing for 90 years and had been used as a prop. It was the original

07/30/2024

The scene of the last public ex*****on in the United States, August the 14th, 1936. Info in comments.

07/30/2024

A local businessman in Constantinople in 1920. He carried chairs on his back and rented them to tired tourists for 10 cents

07/30/2024

Robert Wadlow is one of the tallest men in history, 1939. When he died, he was 272 cm tall and weighed 199 kg

07/30/2024

A bygone method used to make one grow taller, 1931

07/30/2024

The U.S. aircraft carrier Banker Hill burns as a result of a kamikaze attack. Okinawa. World War II. May 11, 1945

07/30/2024

USS Langley, the U.S. Navy’s first aircraft carrier, 1928

07/30/2024

USS Glacier (AGB-4) USS Atka (AGB-3) and USS Burton Island (AGB-1) push together to move a huge iceberg from the channel to McMurdo Station, Antarctica, 29 December 1965

07/30/2024

Twin Towers under construction, 1971

07/29/2024

The blood-stained chair on which U.S. President Abraham Lincoln sat when he was shot in the back of the head by John Wilkes Booth more than 150 years ago

07/29/2024

In just four years of presidency, Abraham Lincoln seemingly aged a decade

07/29/2024

The skeletal results of selective breeding over the course of decades on Bull Terriers

07/29/2024

An astronauts helmet was found in a farmers field in Texas after the space shuttle Columbia disaster. The space shuttle disintegrated as it reentered the atmosphere on February 1, 2003

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