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Journalist Nellie Bly got bored of writing about fashion and gardening and instead went undercover in a mental asylum to expose abuses and horrible conditions of the 19th-century institutions. She later traveled around the world by balloon in record time.

Even though Johnny Cash's first wife (Vivian Cash) was Italian-American, black and white photos in the 1960s misled some people into believing that she was black, which led to protests, death threats, and canceled shows.

A Frenchwoman name Jeanne de Clisson became a pirate in the 1300s to revenge her husband's death, who was beheaded for treason. She sold her family's land to buy 3 ships and painted them black with red sails. For the next 13 years, she went on a pirating binge, targeting King Philip VI's ships and personally beheaded the French noblemen she captured with an ax.

In Aladdin (1992), in Genie's cave, you can clearly see a Lamassu statue. Agrabah is supposedly located on the ancient Sumerian territory. Maybe Genie's the last master was an Anunnaki giant.

America is home to “Body Farms,” where corpses are just tossed out into nature to rot for scientists to study decomposition and forensics.

During World War 2, Ernest Hemingway used his fishing boat named after his ex-wife (Pilar) to hunt German U-boats in the Caribbean armed only with Thomson machine guns and hand grenades. He was given unlimited gasoline by the US government.

Nazi Germany became the first country to implement a public smoking ban after German doctors identified the link between smoking and lung cancer.

Will Ferrell's jumpy reactions to the jack-in-the-box's in "Elf" were genuine, as director Jon Favreau was controlling them remotely offstage.

When President Roosevelt visited The Pentagon in 1945 before its dedication he ordered them to remove the whites only signs and therefore making The Pentagon the only building in Virginia were segregation laws were not enforced until 1965.

Fourteen years before the Titanic sank, a novel was published about an unsinkable ship called the Titan that strikes an iceberg in the North Atlantic and sinks in April.