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In 1923, jockey Frank Hayes won a race at Belmont Park despite being dead.
Hayes suffered a heart attack mid-race but his body stayed in the saddle while his horse, Sweet Kiss, crossed the finish line first. The 22-year-old jockey's death wasn't discovered until officials came to congratulate him. This remains the only known instance of a dead man winning a horse race.
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The first recorded game of cricket was played in 1550 as a court case.
The earliest documented evidence of cricket comes from a court case in Surrey, England, where a man testified...
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Napoleon was once attacked by thousands of rabbits.
In 1807, Napoleon arranged a rabbit hunt to entertain his guests. His chief of staff collected thousands of...
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The Great Pyramid of Giza had a modern-day equivalent price tag of $1.2 billion.
Ancient records show that building the Great Pyramid required approximately 4 million stone blocks and took 20 years....