They were half-right: the man was indeed brazen, but the suspect was Steve Wozniak, the co-founder of Apple, and he was about to lead federal agents down a rabbit hole of technicalities and practical jokes.
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Thousands of spectators held their breath on the boardwalks of Atlantic City as a horse stood motionless on a wooden platform high above the ocean.
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For over two centuries, the most authoritative maps of the world contained a massive geographical error.
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On a Tuesday in July 2021, an eleven-year-old boy named Laurent Simons walked across a stage in Antwerp to accept a diploma.
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Decades before the world recognized the green ogre with the Scottish accent, a completely different creature existed within the archives of DreamWorks.
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A construction crew in Jackson, Mississippi, unearthed more than just dirt while digging a new road in 2012.
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In the spring of 2003, diplomatic tension between the United States and France shifted from the United Nations Security Council to the cafeteria menus of the U.S. House of Representatives.
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In the summer of 1964, a geography graduate student hiked up a mountain in eastern Nevada with a simple academic goal.
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