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Civil War veteran Jacob Miller was shot in the forehead at Brock Field at Chikamauga, Georgia in 1863.

“When I came to my senses some time after I found I was in the rear of the confederate line. So not to become a prisoner I made up my mind to make an effort to get around their line and back on my own side. I got up with the help of my gun as a staff, then went back some distance, then started parallel with the line of battle. I suppose I was so covered with blood that those that I met, did not notice that I was a Yank, (at least our Major, my former captain did not recognize me when I met him after passing to our own side).

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Lolita, the World’s Loneliest Orca, Has Lived In This Tank For Over 40 Years

In 1970, when she was just four years old, she was captured from her family, the “L”-pod, from the Salish Sea off the coast of Seattle in the Pacific Northwest and sold to the Miami Seaquarium for about $20,000.

She currently resides in the smallest orca tank in the United States. It measures just 80 feet long, 60 feet wide, and a shallow 20 feet deep. Experts note that her tank is so small that it violates the standards of the Animal Welfare Act, legislation that outlines the bare minimum of acceptable standards of care for animals held for exhibition and research.

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John Burns – The old man at Gettysburg

Most details of Burns early life are unknown, but we know that he was born in Burlington, New Jersey, 1793. He fought in the War of 1812, and was present at the Battle of Lundy’s Lane.

After the war, Burns lived and had several different occupations in Gettysburg. He lived a calm life until the Civil War broke out in 1861.

At the age of 70, Burns once again wanted to take up arms, he tried to enlist in the Union Army but was rejected combat duty due to his age. He was accepted to serve as a teamster for a short while until he was ordered home.

On July 1, 1863, Burns watched from his house as the Battle of Gettysburg began to unfold nearby. He knew exactly what he had to do.

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16-year-old Brenda Spencer leaves court in Santa Ana, California, after pleading guilty to two counts of murder in a sniper attack. She killed two people and wounded nine others. 1979

The Grover Cleveland Elementary School shooting took place on January 29, 1979, at a public elementary school in San Diego, California, United States.

The principal and a custodian were killed; eight children and police officer Robert Robb were injured.

A 16-year-old girl, Brenda Spencer, who lived in a house across the street from the school, was convicted of the shootings.

Charged as an adult, she pleaded guilty to two counts of murder and assault with a deadly weapon, and was sentenced to life in prison with a chance of parole after 25 years.

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lala the penguin

This Japanese Pet Penguin named “La La” walked everyday into Town by himself with a Backpack and collected Fish from the Local Fish Market.

A fisherman accidentally caught this penguin stuck in his fishing net and released him back to the sea. But somehow he kept coming back to the boat, so the fisherman brought him home.

They built him a refrigerated room under their house. He accompanied the man to the fish market daily and eventually began making the trip on his own

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Winning family of the Fittest Family award stands outside of the Eugenics Building, 1925

The American Eugenics Society presented eugenics exhibits at state fairs throughout the USA, and provided information encouraging “high-grade” people to reproduce at a greater rate for the benefit of society. The Society even sponsored Fitter Family contests.

First appearing in 1920 at the Kansas Free Fair, Fitter Family competitions, continued all the way until WWII. There were several different categories that families were judged in: size of the family, overall attractiveness, and health of the family, all of which helped to determine the likelihood of having healthy children. These competitions promoted certain physical and mental qualities.

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You are looking at a parasite called Cymothoa Spingbok – a parasite that severs the blood vessels of a fish’s tongue and becomes a new functional tongue. Only known parasite to replace an entire organ.

Free drifting in the ocean they find a host fish and enter through its gills.

The males attach themselves to the gill arches, until one is old enough to change sex to female.

Thereafter it moves onto the host fishes tongue where it bites on and stops the blood circultion, causing the hosts tongue to disintegrate.

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American Revolutionary War Veteran Nicholas G. Veeder outside his home in 1862. Nicholas was born in Schenectady County, New York on December 25, 1761.

In 1855, Nicholas stated that he enrolled in 1777 at the age of 16, serving in the 2nd Albany County Militia Regiment commanded by Abraham Wemple.

This regiment participated with the Continental Army at the Battle of Saratoga (1777), if Nicholas had join by that time is not known since he lacked documentation for his service and testified that “all witnesses to his service are now deceased”.

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The Tollund Man – A naturally mummified corpse of a man who lived during the 4th century BC. He was found in 1950, perfectly preserved as a bog body, on the Jutland peninsula, in Denmark.

On 6 May 1950, two brothers were cutting pea in the Bjaeldskov bog, when they came upon a body that was so well preserved, thought it was a recent death. Upon closer examination, it was realized that the body was actually a amazingly preserved man from 4th century BC. Now known as Tollund Man, he lived in what is now Silkeborg, Denmark. minute details such as eyelashes, chin stubble, skin, and wrinkles have survived. Tollund man was thought to be around 40 years of age at his time of death, at a height of over 5 feet tall.

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De Beer mine workers are X-rayed at the end of every shift before leaving the diamond mines, Kimberley, South Africa, October 1954

Each day at the end of the shift, the miners would have to go through the x-ray machine for inspection.

Some miners would swallow diamonds, even hide them in self-inflicted incisions in their legs.

According to a Botswana based mine, 36% of the workers smuggle diamonds out of its mines by hiding them in the anus, 30% hide them between their buttocks, 14% use their socks and hair, 5% conceal the gems in their mouths, 2% place the gems under their scrotum, 2% hide them in their clothes, 2% use their underwear and 10% use other means.