r/BeAmazed • • Nov 30 '25

History Mike Tyson visited Muhammad Ali one last time before his death.

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r/BeAmazed • • Dec 11 '25

History Frank "Cannonball" Richards was a real vaudeville strongman in the 1930s known for taking cannonballs, punches, and sledgehammers to the gut. He performed without reported injuries from these stunts and lived to age 81, dying in 1969.

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r/BeAmazed • • Nov 21 '25

History Flowers brought to princess Diana after her accident

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r/BeAmazed • • Oct 26 '25

History This man found on eBay a 100-year-old scam that was run by his great aunt. She and her husband Elmer made a fortune selling quack medicine to the gullible.

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r/BeAmazed • • Aug 29 '26

History Eight generations of my bizarre family tree

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r/BeAmazed • • Jan 22 '25

History Identical triplet brothers, who were separated and adopted at birth, only learned of each other’s existence when 2 of the brothers met while attending the same college

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r/BeAmazed • • Mar 07 '25

History Child with cancer and 2 weeks left to live watched the Minecraft movie and met the actors

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r/BeAmazed • • Jan 16 '25

History Kicked the racism right out of their big fat heads

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r/BeAmazed • • Mar 04 '26

History Bond of love

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r/BeAmazed • • May 27 '26

History She was revered for a millennia, but we have no idea who she was..

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r/BeAmazed • • Aug 28 '25

History Longest-waiting child in Arkansas foster care system adopted after 15 years.

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After nearly 15 years of being in the foster care system, 19-year-old Cozy was embraced by his new mom and dad, Tim and Anna Dietrich, on Monday.

Anna Dietrich met Cozy through her job at Project Zero, a nonprofit that connects children in foster care to a permanent, loving home.

“Honestly, the Lord made it clear that we were supposed to all-out adopt him. We’re supposed to give him our name, give him our family, and give him our whole hearts,” she said.

Cozy, who is nonverbal, was the longest waiting child in Arkansas’ foster care. But after 5,429 days, the wait is over.

Members from the Arkansas Department of Human Services, Project Zero, and members of other organizations who have gotten to know Cozy over the years squeezed into the packed courtroom.

“Cozy’s getting a whole crew today, and we’re so excited. And that is what we want for every single one of our waiting kids,” Anna Dietrich said.

The family celebrated the day by spending time together, visiting a park, and eating some of Cozy’s favorite things.

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r/BeAmazed • • Jul 31 '26

History The only two known authentic pirate flags

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r/BeAmazed • • Aug 26 '25

History Happy 76th birthday to my mom Linda, the first black woman to complete OCS in the Delaware Army NG, and thank you to Reddit for helping me honor her

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Over the past two months, various Reddit communities have helped me honor my mom and her historic military past. Grateful 🙏🏾 Thank you!

r/BeAmazed • • Jul 23 '26

History Titanic passenger and millionaire Benjamin Guggenheim. During sinking he refused a seat in a life boat with the words: "Tell my family I played straight to the end. No woman should be left aboard this ship because of Ben Guggenheim was a coward."

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r/BeAmazed • • May 20 '26

History Detroit in 1882 and 2017

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r/BeAmazed • • Aug 10 '24

History Did the fear of heights not exist back then?

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r/BeAmazed • • May 19 '25

History Back in 1972, Charlie Chaplin was honored with a 12-minute standing ovation, one of the longest in Oscar history.

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r/BeAmazed • • Jan 19 '25

History Babe Ruth posing with fans 1925. He was a popular figure in the African American community because of his willingness to treat them as he would white fans, along with rumors of him being biracial.

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r/BeAmazed • • Dec 30 '24

History In 2006, researchers uncovered 20,000-year-old fossilized human footprints in Australia, indicating that the hunter who created them was running at roughly 37 km/h (23 mph)—the pace of a modern Olympic sprinter—while barefoot and traversing sandy terrain.

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r/BeAmazed • • Jul 14 '26

History The most generations ever alive at once was 7 in 1989. For reference, this would be the same as Prince William, born 1982, meeting Queen Victoria, born 1819.

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r/BeAmazed • • Jul 08 '26

History A missing lower lip from a sword wound with cowbone teeth held by gold wire would be distinctive and badass!

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Medieval dental work was very sophisticated. They understood gold is biocompatible and didn't cause reactions with gums; if anything, it had good antibiotic effects. Likewise, they had very precise manual cavity cleaning tools, tooth extraction, and tooth filling (wax & cement).

r/BeAmazed • • Feb 12 '25

History same driver, 26 years apart in China

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r/BeAmazed • • Sep 15 '25

History A wooden door from the 1930s with an owl design in Copenhagen, the beak being the door knock 📸Frans de Waal

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r/BeAmazed • • Sep 27 '25

History The worlds greatest hero happens to be almost entirely unknown

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Vasili Arkhipov is, in my opinion, the greatest hero to ever exist. He was 1 of 3 commanding officers on a Soviet nuclear submarine who refused to approve the order to launch their nukes. The other two officers approved, and if he had also approved, world as we know it could very likely not exist. I encourage you all to look into this man because he’s criminally unrecognized for what he did for humanity.

r/BeAmazed • • Aug 05 '24

History Gymnastics in the 1970s was INSANE!

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