How This Famous Cold Case Murder Led to One Man’s True Love

Dance, Dance

Robin was a professional ballet dancer. His mother had taken him as a young boy and he stuck with the lessons. Abbott remembered that the police report noted the Somerton man’s dancer-like leg muscles. Maybe there was a connection between the two…

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The More You Know

  • In 1966 and 1967, soldiers testing Agent Orange in Canada were told the chemical was completely safe and sprayed it on each other to cool off.
  • In 1923, jockey Frank Hayes won a race at Belmont Park in New York despite being dead — he suffered a heart attack mid-race but his body stayed in the saddle until his horse crossed the line for a 20–1 outsider victory.
  • The fastest gust of wind ever recorded on Earth was 253 miles per hour.
  • Scorpions are incredibly resilient: scientists have frozen scorpions overnight, left them in the sun the following day, and when thawed, the arthropod walked away unscathed.
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