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In December 1976, a TV crew filming 'The Six Million Dollar Man' at the Nu-Pike amusement park in Long Beach, California, moved a hanging wax dummy on set and its arm snapped off — revealing bone, then human tissue. It was the mummified corpse of outlaw Elmer McCurdy, shot dead in 1911 and lost in traveling carnivals for 65 years.

As US President, Barack Obama personally read 10 letters from ordinary citizens every night, selected from thousands sent to the White House, and wrote back to many of them by hand — a program organized by Director of Presidential Correspondence Fiona Reeves.

On January 24, 1961, a US Air Force B-52 broke apart over Goldsboro, North Carolina and dropped two 3.8-megaton hydrogen bombs; one bomb went through three of the four arming stages before a single low-voltage switch stopped detonation.

7-Up contained lithium citrate — the same mood-stabilizing drug prescribed today for bipolar disorder — from its launch in 1929 until 1948, when the FDA banned lithium from soft drinks.

In 2001, a bear cub, a tiger cub, and a lion cub were rescued together from a drug dealer's basement in Atlanta and moved to Noah's Ark Animal Sanctuary in Georgia, where the three predators — named Baloo, Shere Khan, and Leo — lived as an inseparable bonded group for 15 years until Leo's death in 2016.