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Robert Ripley and the 鈥楤elieve It or Not鈥� empire

During the Great Depression, cartoonist Robert Ripley made millions from freaky facts

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Klaus Fuchs: Oppenheimer鈥檚 atomic spy

In 1950, Klaus Fuchs admitted passing top secret nuclear secrets to the Soviet Union

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Creating Alexa

In 2000, two Polish students started creating a smart speaker which sounded human

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Marie Kondo

In 2011, Japanese tidying expert Marie Kondo's first book was published.

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Charlie Hebdo attack

On 7 January 2015, 12 people were shot dead at a satirical magazine in France

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The invention of the hotel key card

In the 1970s, Norwegian Tor Sornes invented the hotel key card

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The mystery of Raoul Wallenberg

The Swedish diplomat saved thousands of Hungarian Jews during World War Two

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The Bosphorus boat spotter tracking Russian military trucks

In 2015, ship spotter Y枚r眉k I艧谋k saw Russian military trucks on a ship going to Syria

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Franklin D Roosevelt鈥檚 New Deal

In 1933, President Roosevelt enacted the New Deal to drag the US out of depression

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Confronting Betty Ford鈥檚 addiction

In 1978, former first lady Betty Ford sought help for addiction

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Kobe earthquake

On 17 January 1995, an earthquake devastated the city of Kobe, in Japan

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'I wrote Schindler's List'

Thomas Keneally stumbled across the story of Oskar Schindler while buying a briefcase

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Drum: Africa鈥檚 revolutionary magazine

The first African lifestyle magazine Drum, was first printed in 1951

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Hunting the Unabomber

In September 1995, US newspapers controversially published a terrorist's manifesto

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Sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway

In 1995, the doomsday cult, Aum Shinrikyo, launched a chemical attack on the Tokyo metro

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The murder of Maurizio Gucci

On 27 March 1995, the former head of the fashion house was shot dead in Milan, Italy

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Replacing the Panchen Lama

On 29 November 1995, China exerted its influence over Tibetan Buddhism's leadership

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The launch of Windows 95

In 1995 Microsoft released a new operating system after a $300 million marketing campaign

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The Milltown Cemetery attack

In 1988, during the Troubles in Northern Ireland, three people were killed at a funeral

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The Baltic chain protest

On 23 August 1989, approximately two million people joined hands to form a human chain

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Lithuania's 'wolf children'

In the aftermath of World War Two, children fled East Prussia in order to survive

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1968 New York City teachers' strike

In 1968, more than 50,000 teachers went on strike in New York City, in the USA

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English TV lessons in China go primetime

An estimated 500 million people in China watched English lessons on television in 1981

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Jacques Derrida: 鈥楻ock star鈥� philosopher

In 1966, the Frenchman upended philosophy with his theory of "deconstruction"

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