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A New Yorker carried 26 boxes of a lung cancer drug home from Shanghai. The FDA had approved it, yet for 15 months US patients couldn't buy it at home.

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Ruby Bridges really was taunted with a black doll in a coffin in 1960. The famous photo of one, though, was taken 80 miles away, at Louisiana's State Capitol.

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Japanese scientists used cancer cells' own carbon monoxide to build a drug inside them. Real, but only in lab dishes so far, and normal cells weren't spared.

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In 1963 Gordon Cooper's automatic controls died in orbit, so he flew Faith 7 home by hand and landed near the carrier. But not every system had failed.

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Since 2002, poets in Dutch and Belgian cities have written poems for funerals no one else attends. The viral post is right, but the idea began in Groningen.

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The Waorani really did win a landmark Amazon oil case in 2019. But they sued Ecuador, not Big Oil, it covered 500,000 acres, and the land is back on the table.

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In the Great Depression, Midwest farmers packed foreclosure sales, bid pennies, hung nooses as warnings and handed everything back. The story is mostly true.

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Leonardo's 1502 map of Imola looks like a satellite image. It's a landmark, but it wasn't the first of its kind, and he didn't measure every building's corner.

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