Real stories that sound completely made up.
Across the United States, deceased candidates have won elections with alarming regularity — sometimes because voters didn't know, and sometimes because they absolutely did. What does it say about American democracy when a corpse is considered the better option?
In 1958, a U.S. Air Force B-47 dropped a fully armed hydrogen bomb into the ocean near Tybee Island, Georgia, after a mid-air collision. The military searched. They didn't find it. Sixty-plus years later, it's still down there — and Tybee Island is still a popular vacation destination.
Roy Sullivan, a Virginia park ranger, was struck by lightning seven separate times over 35 years — and walked away from every single one. The odds against that happening are so astronomical they barely qualify as numbers, yet the universe apparently had a grudge.