Katherine Adams, Apple's general counsel, earned an astonishing $27.2 million in total compensation last year, cementing her status as one of the most highly compensated legal executives. Since joining the company in 2017, she has sold approximately $140 million in Apple stock while retaining shares worth more than $42 million.

Actress Anita Ekberg meets paparazzi outside of her house with a bow and arrow after being relentlessly followed by them all night, 1960

Lizzie Magie, showing a prototype in 1936 of Monopoly, which she invented to warn the dangers of land speculation.

HSBC, a global banking giant, was exposed in a 2012 U.S. Senate report for facilitating illicit financial transactions worth over $800 million for notorious entities, including drug cartels and rogue nations. The bank's lax oversight and deliberate actions allowed these groups to launder money through its accounts.

In 1995, a man in France was convicted for murdering a teenage girl, but he avoided prison by fleeing to Germany. In 2009, the victim’s father hired a team to kidnap him and drop him off in front of a French courthouse. It worked and he’s now serving 15 years in prison.

A man got his “Popplio” Pokémon card autographed by Pope Leo

The only surviving full elephant armor in the world was looted from India in 1801. It's now in a British museum.

In 2013, James Howells from Wales accidentally threw away a hard drive that contained 8,000 Bitcoin, now worth over $950 million. He spent more than ten years trying to get permission to search a landfill for it, but in 2025 a court ruled he has no legal right to recover it.

In 2000, Richard Jones was sentenced to 19 years in prison for a robbery in Kansas, based solely on eyewitness identification. He served 17 years before being released in 2017, when it was discovered the real suspect was his near-identical lookalike named Ricky, who lived near the crime scene.

Still frame from WikiLeaks "Collateral M*rder" video, captured moments before U.S. helicopter pilots would go on to k*ll civilians and journalists in Iraq in 2007 while casually joking about it. Whistleblower Chelsea Manning was sentenced to 35 years in prison, none of the perpetrators were charged