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The Story Of The Harlem Hellfighters – The African-American Regiment That...

The mettle of the Harlem Hellfighters made U.S. military history. Heroically, the black unit fought for their country in the Great War – shamefully, they also fought racism from their own countrymen....

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Scientists Have Discovered A Massive Mineral Deposit That Could Change The...

In the middle of the Pacific ocean, a small island could be about to change the future of the world forever. And it’s all thanks to an awful lot of mud. Image: CMSGT Don Sutherland Unless you’re a...

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This Is What Became Of The Native American Who Helped Hoist The Flag On Iwo Jima

Image: via The National WWII Museum New Orleans / Walden69 It’s widely known that the tiny Pacific island of Iwo Jima, a Japanese territory, became the site of an iconic World War Two battle. On...

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After This Dog Was Found Abandoned In The Jungle, Her Astonishing Exploits...

Image: via Wikipedia / Lt. Robert Fields World War II produced many heroes, but very few of these courageous individuals weighed just four pounds and stood a mere seven inches tall. But those were the...

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The Story Of How This WWII Japanese Diplomat Single-Handedly Saved The Lives...

Image: via Wikimedia Commons It was 1939 when Chiune Sugihara was appointed Japanese vice consul in the Lithuanian city of Kaunas. As the Nazis stepped up their persecution of Jews during WWII,...

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Divers Discovered A 700-Year-Old Shipwreck That Casts New Light On Genghis...

Image: via CNN Off the coast Kyushu, a Japanese island, a team of archaeologists are battling against the changing seas. Beneath the surface, they have discovered an ancient shipwreck that sank more...

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This Submarine Survived WWII Unscathed – But Now It’s Being Plagued By A...

Image: YouTube/NICKTHEHISTORYKID The WWII submarine USS Ling survived the dangers of a world war. However, in 1973, the old sub became the main exhibit of the New Jersey Naval Museum. Moored on the...

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When A Mysterious Ghost Ship Ran Aground Off Burma, The Massive Vessel Left...

Image: Facebook/Yangon Police Fishermen first spotted the hulk of a looming cargo ship on the evening of August 28, 2018. Drifting off the coast of southern Myanmar, once known as Burma, the...

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After This Bear Had Spent 17 Years In A Cage, A Group Of Tourists Looked Into...

Image: Glen Minikin via Daily Mail Kai the bear had spent practically all of his 17 years on Earth confined to a tiny cage inside a museum. However, when a group of tourists noticed his plight, they...

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Two Months After This Aquarium Was Abandoned, Animal Activists Made A...

Image: Dolphin Project After years of declining visitor numbers, Inubosaki Marine Park Aquarium closed its doors in January 2018. At the time, it was not known what had happened to the hundreds of...

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Climbers Were Exploring A Giant Sinkhole When They Discovered A Breathtaking...

Image: YouTube/euronews It’s October in southern China, and a group of explorers are teetering on the edge of a vast sinkhole. Bravely, they descend into the darkness, with just a single rope between...

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Japan’s Princess Ayako Married For Love – But It Meant Making A Life-Changing...

Image: JIJI PRESS/AFP/Getty Images The story of Japan’s Princess Ayako and her husband is one straight out of a fairytale. Like any good fairytale, however, it involves high stakes and a painful...

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6 Years After His Soulmate Was Taken From Him, This Heartbroken Dog...

Image: Twitter/evlyn Paquito the chihuahua shared an unbreakable bond with his owner – the dog even rode around in his pocket as a young pup. Their time together was curtailed when the man died...

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After An 89-Year-Old Went To A Photography Class, She Began Taking These...

Image: Facebook/Kimiko Nishimoto Kimiko Nishimoto didn’t pick up a camera until she was 72 years old, and she quickly fell in love with the art of photography. And although the now-89-year-old has an...

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4 Years After Her Mother Died, A Woman Was Shocked To See A Familiar Figure...

Image: Danny Wu/Facebook via Daily Mail As Danny Wu from Taiwan searches for familiar haunts on Google Street View, she spots something wholly unexpected – and it makes her want to cry. In November...

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This Emperor Thought He’d Live In Luxury Forever, But He Ended Up Dirt Poor...

Image: Sgsg When Emperor Puyi ascended to the Chinese throne in 1908 his life of luxury seemed assured. But history, it seems, has a way of changing even the best laid plans. Within four years, the...

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This Top-Secret Soviet Nuclear Missile Base Remained Hidden – Until It Was...

Image: Charlie Phillips / Linasmm It’s 1978 and American analysts are scanning reconnaissance images of territory in the north of the Soviet-controlled Republic of Lithuania. Suddenly something out of...

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This Secret City Shot Up From Nowhere During WWII. Then Years Later Its...

Image: doe-oakridge Today, Oak Ridge in Tennessee is a seemingly normal city with a population of almost 30,000 people. However, the thriving community didn’t exist at all until 1942, when a...

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This Japanese Experiment Began In 1973 – And Today The Result Is These...

Image: Fnn Prime It’s 1973 and scientists in the prefecture of Miyazak on Kyushu, one of Japan’s four principal islands, are starting an experiment. What they’re doing is planting lots of trees –...

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This Is The Insane Reality Of Living In The Snowiest Place On The Planet

Image: Koichi Kamoshida/Getty Images Lumpy mounds of snow, taller than the mesmerized people who gaze at them, cover long-hidden fir trees. Like fluffy clouds or plumes of smoke frozen in time, the...

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