In 2018, Latvian firefighter Tomas
Jaunzems snatched a woman midair as she jumped from her fourth-story window in an attempt to end her own life. A true hero.

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Police officer pictured distracting a little girl after her dad lost his life in a car accident.

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In Minnesota, October 1962, a wild animal nearly sparked World War Ill. At around midnight, a guard at a Duluth air base saw a figure climbing the security fence.

Assuming a Soviet saboteur, the guard shot at the figure and activated the "sabotage alarm," alerting all bases in the area.

However, at Volk Field in Wisconsin, the alarm was incorrectly wired, and the Klaxon sounded, signaling a nuclear war and ordering nuclear- armed F-106A interceptors to take off.

By the time the error was realized, the aircraft were already starting down the runway.

Luckily, a truck racing from the command center successfully signaled all the aircraft to stop, preventing a potential nuclear war.

The intruder was just a black bear.

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Crazy picture captured during the 2002 flood in eastern Germany.

In August 2002, an extended period of heavy rainfall led to widespread flooding in numerous European countries, including the Czech Republic, Italy, Spain, Austria, Germany, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Ukraine, and Russia.

In total, 232 people lost their lives, and over $27B in damages were caused.

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A photograph from 1906 of a young Filipino girl sitting on a wooden bench in a human zoo enclosure in Coney Island, New York.

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One of the final images of Australian couple Matthew Field and Katie Leadbeater before they and their unborn baby lost their lives crossing a road as a 17-year-old driver ploughed into the couple. The teen driver only received six years in prison.

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An ambulance driver from the Indian army clenches his hands, indicating the intense pain his leg is in which has been almost completely blown off during the Korean War 1951.

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Eliahu Itzkovitz was a Romanian Jew who witnessed a guard end his family’s life in a concentration camp. After the war, he enlisted in the same battalion of the French Foreign Legion as the guard and eliminated him while deployed in present-day Vietnam.

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After learning of her husband's multiple affairs, Helle Crafts went missing in November 1986. A snowplow driver later told police he'd seen Crafts's husband using a woodchipper recently in the woods, and human remains were soon found that confirmed that her body had been frozen and then put through the chipper.

Richard Crafts was found guilty of the crime and sentenced to 50 years in prison. On January 30, 2020, Richard was released from prison and sent to live at a halfway house.

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