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Stranger Things

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Stranger Things is an American television series created by the Duffer Brothers for Netflix. Produced by Monkey Massacre Productions and 21 Laps Entertainment, the first season was released on Netflix on July 15, 2016. The second and third seasons followed in October 2017 and July 2019, respectively, and the fourth sea…

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Fordite, also known as Detroit agate, Motor City agate, paint rock, or paint slag, is a lapidarist term for polished pie…

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xHamster is a pornographic video sharing and streaming website, based in Limassol, Cyprus. It was founded by Oleg Netepe…

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On This Day

10 events
2013
Marmaray
The first phase of the Marmaray project opened with an undersea rail tunnel (train pictured) across the Bosphorus strait.
2012
Hurricane_Sandy
Hurricane Sandy, the largest Atlantic hurricane on record, made landfall in New Jersey and caused nearly $75 billion in damages, becoming the second-most destructive storm in U.S. history.
2007
Dai_Hong_Dan_incident
Somali pirates hijacked a North Korean ship in the Indian Ocean northeast of Mogadishu.
1999
1999_Odisha_cyclone
About 10,000 people died when the most intense tropical cyclone ever recorded in the North Indian Ocean made landfall in the Indian state of Odisha near Bhubaneswar.
1998
John_Glenn
At 77 years old, former astronaut John Glenn (pictured) returned to space aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery on the STS-95 mission.
1991
Galileo_(spacecraft)
Galileo became the first spacecraft to visit an asteroid when it made a flyby of 951 Gaspra.
1986
Margaret_Thatcher
British prime minister Margaret Thatcher officially opened the M25, one of Britain's busiest motorways.
1966
Chia_Thye_Poh
Singaporean leftist opposition leader Chia Thye Poh was detained under the Internal Security Act, which allows for preventive detention, and held for 32 years.
1960
Curtiss_C-46_Commando
A C-46 airliner carrying the Cal Poly Mustangs football team crashed during takeoff from Toledo Express Airport in Ohio, U.S., resulting in 22 deaths.
1956
Israel_Border_Police
Israeli Border Police massacred 48 Arab citizens of Kafr Qasim, among them women and children who were returning from work.

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