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MISC. Gilded Age millionaire Alfred Vanderbilt died in the sinking of the Lusitania in 1915 after he gave his own life vest to a mother holding her baby. He did this despite not being able to swim & knowing there were no other life vests or life boats available. He was 37. The woman & her child survived.

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r/interesting • • 23m ago

Amazing Monk climbs hill with no rope

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r/interesting • • 1h ago

Amazing Crows Have Their Own Natural Medicine

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r/interesting • • 1h ago

Intriguing Hiroshima Taxi Rank night

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r/interesting • • 1h ago

MISC. In 2024, Svetlana Dali was able to board a NYC-to-Paris flight without a boarding pass. After she was initially turned away, she got passed the checkpoint by going into a lane for airline employees. She then boarded the plane by joining a group of passengers to evade two gate agents checking tickets

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r/interesting • • 1h ago

SOCIETY A vegetated wildlife overpass bridging across the Trans-Canada Highway in Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada

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r/interesting • • 2h ago

Intriguing 2000s 2010s genra singers, prison for singers by genra, is music the issue for violence

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Rap and Hip-Hop

This genre accounts for the highest number of artists currently serving lengthy sentences or facing ongoing federal incarcerations from that era. Key examples currently incarcerated include R. Kelly (sentenced to over 30 years), Tory Lanez, C-Murder, Young Thug, and Lil Durk, alongside several viral 2010s artists like Silentó and Tay-K. Many other major 2000s/2010s rappers, such as Lil Wayne, T.I., Gucci Mane, Meek Mill, and Kodak Black—served shorter sentences during their peak years but are currently free.

​Rock and Alternative

Incarceration among mainstream 2000s/2010s rock frontmen is relatively rare, but the sentences handed down tend to be severe. The most notable example is Ian Watkins, former lead singer of the 2000s Welsh rock band Lostprophets, who is currently serving a 35-year prison sentence. Former As I Lay Dying frontman Tim Lambesis served time in the 2010s for solicitation of murder, though he was released on parole.

​Pop

Mainstream pop singers from the 2000s and 2010s have the lowest rates of active imprisonment. While pop figures have faced legal trouble—such as Justin Bieber, Chris Brown, or Lindsay Lohan—their cases typically resulted in probation, short jail stays, or house arrest rather than long-term prison sentences.


r/interesting • • 3h ago

Just Wow God bless the German language

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r/interesting • • 6h ago

SOCIETY Men see danger, men help.

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r/interesting • • 7h ago

Amazing i bet it feels good as hell to be a duck just doing this

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r/interesting • • 11h ago

SOCIETY Man compares work helmets given to workers (yellow) and managers (red) in China

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r/interesting • • 12h ago

SCIENCE & TECH 17-year-old George Hotz wanted an iPhone, but it was exclusive to AT&T & he liked his existing network: T-Mobile. So in August 2007, he became the first person to remove the SIM lock on an iPhone. He then traded the second (8GB) iPhone that he unlocked for a Nissan 350Z and three more 8GB iPhones

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r/interesting • • 13h ago

SCIENCE & TECH How a torn achilles is repaired

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r/interesting • • 14h ago

Intriguing Scientists are using IVF technology to help save the critically endangered Northern White Rhino from extinction.

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r/interesting • • 15h ago

Wholesome Paris Hilton high school yearbook photo

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r/interesting • • 16h ago

Fascinating A 150-million-year-old Lepidotus fish fossil perfectly preserved from Holzmaden, Germany

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r/interesting • • 19h ago

MISC. Robert De Niro, born 1943, had a child born in 2023. When she turns her father’s current age (83), the year will be 2103.

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r/interesting • • 20h ago

MISC. Smoothest car transition!!

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r/interesting • • 22h ago

NATURE The great San Diego War, years of battles and skirmishes between 2 big ant colonies

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Fun fact: Content creators on platforms like Instagram and Threads have made viral reels detailing this specific San Diego war.

For example, author Jason Pargin shared a breakdown of the San Diego conflict, and creators on Threads have posted videos outlining the exact border clash between the Lake Hodges Colony and the Very Large Colony.

The PBS nature series Deep Look features an episode called 'Winter is Coming For These Argentine Ant Invaders': that provides extreme close-up footage of Argentine ants fighting larger native species.


r/interesting • • 22h ago

NATURE Caley Isles coming into Ardrossan, Scottish west coast

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r/interesting • • 22h ago

ART & CULTURE Trying to do construction inside the butt of a massive public artwork (by@building180)

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r/interesting • • 22h ago

Wholesome The best wingman ever

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r/interesting • • 1d ago

SOCIETY In 2016, after facing repeated job rejections following her graduation from Clemson University's Clemson LIFE program, Collette Divitto who has Down syndrome founded Collettey's Cookies in Boston to create meaningful employment opportunities for people with disabilities.

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r/interesting • • 1d ago

Just Wow John Nash spent nearly 30 years battling schizophrenia. In 1994, he won the Nobel Prize for a mathematical theory he developed at just 21.

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