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LIGHTNING STRIKES ($100,000 – $125,000 USD)
If you live to 80, your chances of getting struck LIGHTNING STRIKES ($100,000 – $125,000 USD) by lightning at least once are about 1 in...
Feb 32 min read
THE STORY OF ADOLPHE SAX ($100,000 – $125,000 USD)
In early 19th century Belgium, there was a boy named Adolphe Sax, whose life seemed destined for the extraordinary – perhaps because he...
Jan 313 min read
UNSOLVABLE ($90,000 – $150,000)
In 1939, George Bernard Dantzig, a graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley, arrived late to a lecture by his...
Jan 212 min read
HALF A MILLY ($115,000 – $135,000 USD)
The outcome of a casino heist is almost always the same: a one-way ticket to prison. Over the years, countless intricate plans have been...
Jan 173 min read
TWENTY-THREE LARGE ($80,500 - $92,000 + CAR)
In August 2019, a man in Ashland, Oregon made a life-changing decision. He sold his RV $23,000 in cash. He stuffed the money into an old...
Jan 93 min read
GOOD MARIA ($65,000 – $80,000)
Maria Swanenburg was born on September 9, 1839, in Leiden, Netherlands. To those around her, she was ‘Good Maria,’ a kind soul always...
Jan 92 min read
GOD SAVE THE KING ($200,000 – $230,000+)
Born on June 3, 1865, George Frederick Ernest Albert (later King George V) was never expected to rule, standing third in line to the...
Jan 93 min read
PAVAROTTI SHMAVAROTTI ($130,000 – $140,000+)
On April 19, 2016, scientists revealed groundbreaking findings about one of history's most extraordinary voices. A team from Austria, the...
Jan 22 min read
THE KITCHEN MASTERPIECE ($103,500 – $115,000)
For years, it hung barely noticed above a stove in a small French kitchen, accumulating grease and grime. To its 90-year-old owner, the...
Jan 22 min read
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