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Dark History
On July 6, 1944, the Hartford circus fire under the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey big top in Hartford, Connecticut killed 167 people and injured over 700 when the paraffin-and-gasoline-waterproofed canvas tent ignited during an afternoon performance attended by roughly 7,000 spectators.
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Dark History
The Men Who Broke the Rules and Lived
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Animal Oddities
The Dolphin Who Understood Grammar
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Current World
Wait — betting on the future is now a crime in Minnesota? 🤯
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Ironic Twists
Killed by the Gentlest Animal
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Unbelievable Records
Ben Underwood, a boy from Elk Grove, California who was diagnosed with retinal cancer at age two and had both eyes removed at age three, taught himself to navigate the world by human echolocation — clicking his tongue and interpreting the returning sound — and could ride a bicycle, skateboard, shoot baskets, and identify parked cars by clicking, until his death from the same cancer on January 19, 2009 at age 16.