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THAT’S GONNA COST YA ($135,000 – $180,000+)
In September of 2023, a Jetstar flight bound from Perth, Australia was forced to perform an emergency landing due to the actions of an...
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Oct 82 min read
ADA BLACKJACK ($115,000 – $160,000+)
Ada Blackjack was an Iñupiaq woman born in 1898. She was also the sole survivor of a doomed 1920’s Arctic expedition to Wrangel Island....
Oct 72 min read
ICE ICE BABY ($115,000 – $140,000+)
Robert Van Winkle was born in 1967. Better known by his stage name, Vanilla Ice – he rocketed to fame in the early 1990s with his hit...
Sep 242 min read
BUGGIN’ OUT FOR PIZZA (OTE: $84,000 - $117,000)
In 1960, two brothers named Tom and James bought a small pizza shop in Ypsilanti, Michigan for $1,400. They put $500 cash down and took...
Sep 113 min read
RUDE AWAKENING (OTE: $80,500 - $92,000+)
In March 2012, a 22-year-old named Simon Rosenqvist was wheeled into an operating room in Sweden, poised for a routine lung procedure...
Sep 92 min read
800 POUNDS OF DECEPTION ($86,000 – $92,000 + CAR)
In August 2017, a delivery truck driver arrived at a Texas Juvenile Detention Center, expecting to hand over 800 pounds of fajita meat to...
Sep 62 min read
UN-BELIEVE-IT ($175,000 – $200,000+)
Growing up as the child of Croatian immigrants, my life was filled with experiences that set me apart from other kids in my neighborhood....
Sep 33 min read
EXTRA, EXTRA, READ ALL ABOUT IT ($160,000 – $170,000+)
Long before the advent of the internet, television, and radio, newspapers were the primary source of information for most people. The...
Sep 33 min read
SNAKE OIL ($150,000 - $200,000+)
Clark Stanley was born in Abilene, Texas, in 1854. After a decade working as a cowboy, he claimed to have spent two years learning from...
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