Eminem’s father reading a magazine about his son in 2001. He last saw Eminem in 1974 when he abandoned the family and left Eminem’s mother to raise him in poverty. He died in 2019 in Indiana without meeting his son as an adult.
His mother, Debbie Nelson, wrote in her memoir that she married Bruce Mathers at 15 and had Eminem two years later; the marriage reportedly fell apart after Bruce became physically abusive, and they split soon after Eminem was born. In 2001, Bruce Mathers reportedly published an open letter in The Mirror claiming he wasn’t the villain his ex-wife made him out to be and that frequent moves were why he’d lost touch, expressing a wish to reconcile — but Eminem was unmoved.
Al Capone’s prison cell in eastern state penitentiary. Philadelphia, PA
Article documenting the case of Patient AB, who began hearing voices, but the voices were kind to her instead of harsh. They advised her to seek treatment, and warned her of a brain tumor that the doctors had missed. After she had surgery, the voices happily bid goodbye. She never heard them again
In 1992, a computer glitch made Pepsi accidentally tell 800,000 people in the Philippines they’d won the lottery. It ended in riots, firebombed trucks, and deaths.
In 1992, a computer error turned a Pepsi promotional campaign in the Philippines into one of the country’s most infamous corporate disasters. The company accidentally announced that the winning bottle cap number for its “Number Fever” lottery was 349, causing around 800,000 people to believe they had won the grand prize of 1 million pesos. In reality, only a few dozen caps with that number were supposed to be winners. When Pepsi refused to pay the unexpected billions of dollars in prize money, widespread anger erupted. Protests escalated into riots, delivery trucks were attacked with firebombs, and several people were killed in incidents linked to the unrest. The “349 incident” remains a cautionary example of how a simple technological mistake can spiral into a national crisis.
Friends cast takes one last quiet trip to Vegas, just before the world knew their names. (1994)
Uvalde police officers crying and throwing up outside of Robb Elementary School. They refused to enter the school during the shooting, resulting in 19 students dying, May 24th 2022.
Tommaso Buscetta, on the right, shielded by four policemen as an extraordinary precaution against a possible courtroom assassination, testifies against Mafia “boss of bosses” Totò Riina, 1993.
Christopher Nolan avoided CGI and used 7ft stuntmen to portray Laestrygonians in The Odyssey. The giant leader, King Antiphates, is portrayed by actor Josh Stewart, while Matt Damon’s stunt double is Devyn Dalton, who is just under 5ft.
Salary for Buc-ee’s in Virginia
1666 Great Fire of London superimposed over modern London.
This is a facial reconstruction of Turkana Boy, a 9 year old child who lived in Kenya 1.5 MYA, whose skeleton is the most complete Homo erectus fossil ever found
By law, every Australian must get a tax receipt that shows exactly where each dollar of their tax is spent.
Each tiny bubble in this Antarctic ice core is a sealed sample of Earth’s atmosphere from thousands of years ago
The oldest known light bulb that is still burning was first illuminated in 1901. It is located at 4550 East Avenue, Livermore, California, and is open to public viewing. Its longevity has been attributed to the high quality of its manufacture, it being seldomly turned off, and its low wattage.
Some elevators in Japan have small emergency toilets in the corner
Sergei Krikalev, a Russian cosmonaut who was in space during the dissolution of the Soviet Union and, as a result, was effectively stranded in orbit for over 300 days, twice as long as planned.
The earliest-known recorded name of a person is likely that of the Sumerian accountant Kushim (~3400 BC). It appears on several clay tablets used to record transactions of barley.
Farm herd Casper, who faced off 11 coyotes and killed 8 of them. He was missing for two days right after which was because he was tracking the remaining coyotes and finishing the job. His vet said he was lucky to be alive and his owner said he will have him retire from herding.
Chris Espinosa is currently the longest-serving employee at Apple. He joined in 1976 at the age of 14, writing BASIC code while the company was still based in Steve Jobs’ garage.
After Apple went public in 1980, co-founder Steve Wozniak believed several early employees had been overlooked when company shares were distributed. Wanting to reward the people who had helped build Apple in its earliest days, he created what became known as the “Woz Plan.” Wozniak voluntarily sold thousands of his own Apple shares at a heavily discounted price to dozens of early employees, allowing many to benefit from the company’s success. Among those who received shares was Chris Espinosa, Apple’s longest-serving employee, who received about 2,000 Apple shares through the plan. Thanks to multiple stock splits over the decades, those original shares would be equivalent to roughly 448,000 shares today. If Espinosa had never sold any of them, that stake alone would now be worth well over **$100 million** at recent Apple share prices.
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