1Valentina Tereshkova
Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman in space on 16 June 1963, where she spent 3 days orbiting the Earth 48 times and is the only woman to have completed a solo space mission.
2. A woman named Alice Pike tried to use a fake million dollar bill to buy $1,675 worth of merchandise at Wal-Mart and expected $998,325 in change
3. Ruth Graves Wakefield, the woman who invented chocolate chip cookies sold the idea to Nestlé in return for a lifetime supply of chocolate.
4. Carolyn Bryant who accused a 14-year-old boy named Emmett Till of flirting with her, admitted that she lied 62 years later. Till was brutally lynched by the woman’s husband and his cousin based on her accusation. Images of his mutilated body are credited with sparking the Civil Rights movement.
5. In 2015, a morbidly obese woman named Jodie Sinclair refused to get free weight-loss surgery offered by the NHS because she didn't want to lose the £75,000 in disability benefits she was receiving.
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6Lori Ruff
In 2010, a woman named Lori Ruff committed suicide. Her husband's family found a box among her possessions that contained name change documents and the birth certificate of a long-dead two-year-old girl. The true identity of Lori Ruff still has not been discovered.
7. The richest woman in Germany, Susanne Klatten, met her future husband while she was working in an apprenticeship at BMW (which she owned 12.5% of) under a fake name. He had no idea who she actually was until they were sure about their relationship.
8. A woman named Chante Mallard hit a homeless man with her car, sending him through her windshield. She drove home, parked her car in her garage and left him stuck there. He died, so she took the body to a park and set fire to the car. She was caught 4 months later when she talked about it at a party.
9. In 2012, a young woman's stomach (Gaby Scanlon) had to be removed after she drank a shot with liquid nitrogen still in it.
10. In 1990, a Florida woman named Sheila Keen Warren opened her door to a clown and was shot. In 2014, a hair was found in the evidence. After a DNA test, the clown was found in Tennessee running a restaurant with the wife's husband. Apparently they were having an affair months before the murder and they were now married.
11Dissociative Identity Disorder
In 2015, a case of a woman with Dissociative Identity Disorder came forward and it was found that some of her personalities were blind. When a blind personality was in control, even with her eyes open, EEG showed that brain activity associated with sight was absent. When a sighted personality assumed control, visual brain activity returned.
12. In 2013, a woman in Miami texted “Driving drunk woo” 3 minutes before crashing her car into a truck which killed her 22-year-old friend who was passenger in her car.
13. In 2011, a woman named Marie Joseph died in a Fall River, Massachusetts public pool and was not discovered until two days later when her body floated to the surface. The pool was visited by state health inspectors during the period the body was in the pool.
14. Lady Astor, the first female British MP, was constantly at odds with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. During a debate, she declared that if married to him, she'd have poisoned his tea. Churchill responded 'Madam, if I was your husband, I would drink it.'
15. In 2014, a woman in Maryland named Shannon Lee presented a forged doctor's note as an excuse for missing her sentencing on forgery and burglary charges.
16Dolores Hart
Dolores Hart made ten films in five years, debuting with Elvis Presley in Loving You. In 1963, as an established leading lady, she stunned Hollywood by announcing that she was leaving her acting career to become a nun. She is currently the only nun to be an Oscar-voting member of the Academy.
17. A woman named Sylvia Driskell in Nebraska tried to sue all gay people. Her appeal had no legal references but quoted Webster's Dictionary and the Bible.
18. Betty Robinson, who won the first Olympic 100 m for women in 1928 at just 16, was later involved in a plane crash. A man who discovered her wrongly thought she was dead and drove her to an undertaker. She awoke from her coma 7 months later, before returning to win a relay gold in 1936.
19. In 1643, Lady Mary Bankes defended a castle from over 200 attackers with only 5 men under her initial command. She would be reinforced by 80 royalists and would hold against a total of 600 men for 3 years before being betrayed and forced to surrender.
20. An old lady named Dorothea Puente ran a halfway house in Sacramento for the down and out. She murdered 7 of the residents and buried them in the front yard.
21Lady knitting sweater
A 96-year old lady from Australia knitted over 1000 tiny sweaters for penguins to protect them from oil spills.
22. In 1860 an 11-year old girl named Grace Bedell wrote to Presidential Nominee Abraham Lincoln, urging him to grow a beard, as "..ladies like whiskers and they would tease their husbands to vote for [you] and then [you] would be President." Lincoln not only wrote back but had a full beard by his Inauguration.
23. A lady named Concepcion Picciotto protested in front of the White House for 35 years, the longest continuous act of political protest in the United States.
24. The Lady in white also known as Perla Siedle Gibson from South Africa would stand at the port and sing for the servicemen as their ships sailed in and out of Durban during World War 2 and beyond. She was a true inspiration and motivation for hundreds of thousands of soldiers and became famous for it.
25. Edith Wilson, the First Lady was a direct descendant of Pocahontas, helped run the presidency after her husband's stroke, and attended JFK's inauguration at the age of 88.
