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The CIA found games such as Final Fantasy, Devil May Cry, and even Animal Crossing on Osama Bin Laden's hard drive. They also found anime like Naruto, Bleach, and Dragon Ball.

Bill Richmond was a black slave who fought alongside the British during the Revolutionary War. He later moved to England where he became one of the world's most famous bare-knuckle boxers. An articulate, respected man, he married a white woman and attended George IV’s coronation.

In the early 1980s, first-generation, or 1G, cell phones sent calls over unencrypted analog radio signals. That meant the conversation traveled through the air in a form that almost anyone could intercept with a receiver tuned to the right frequency.

In 1924, an English mountaineer named George Mallory may have been the first person to reach the summit of Everest. He was last seen 800 feet from the summit but never returned. He carried a picture of his wife with him that he said he would leave at the summit which he did not have when his body was found 75 years later.

President William McKinley wore a red carnation in his lapel at all times as a good luck charm. During a public meeting in his second term, he took out the flower from his lapel and gave it to a 12-year-old girl. Minutes later, he was shot. He died a week later.

The retired CIA operative Grace Mallory in “The Boys” was Greg Mallory in the original comic book series.

In a medical first, a mother who received a uterus transplant in 2016 from a dead donor gave birth to a healthy baby in December 2017. After five months of the transplant, the uterus showed no sign of rejection, ultrasound scans were normal, and the woman was menstruating regularly. The fertilized eggs were implanted.

In May 2018, a Japanese rail company operator apologized to his passengers after his train left a station 25 seconds early. The operator said, “the great inconvenience we placed upon our customers was truly inexcusable.”

In 1991, Marshall Ledbetter (American photographer) blockaded himself in the Florida State Capitol building and demanded, among other things, a large Gumby's pizza, weed, 666 donuts, $100 worth of Chinese food, and a phone call with Ice Cube.

The world's oldest known smiley was on a 1635 Slovakian document, indicating the writer's happiness with the state of the Chamberlain of Trenčín's financial records.