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Humans love to gossip. Whether you’re secretly critiquing the paint color your neighbors chose for their garage door (What were they thinking?) or theorizing about your favorite celebrity’s latest relationship, it can be fun to wonder about what’s going on in someone else’s life.
But when a rumor comes your way, you’re probably used to taking it with a grain of salt. After all, just because someone said it does not mean that it’s true. However, sometimes, the world is shocked to find out that a spicy rumor was actually 100% correct. Redditors have been sharing examples of some juicy gossip that has been confirmed to be factual, so you’ll find the most surprising stories below. Enjoy scrolling through, and be sure to upvote the tea that you just know was piping hot when it was first revealed!
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#1
Harry Markopolos was working for a Boston investment firm when his boss told him a huge hedge fund was producing incredible returns. He wanted Markopolos to reverse-engineer its trading strategy and revenue streams so the firm could duplicate results. Within four hours he mathematically proved the fund was a fraud and reported it to the SEC who ignored him.
10 years later Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC was shut down for being a giant Ponzi scheme.
Yrral Spavit 4 months ago
Just a thought but wonder if the person he reported it to was wrapped up in it?
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The Majestic Opossum 4 months ago
There's a chapter on this in Malcolm Gladwell's book, Talking to Strangers. It's a fantastic read. This guy reported it several times to several different people at the FTC, and all of them were ignored. FTC probably figured he didn't know what he was talking about (he didn't have high rank or a fancy title) and figured there was too much money at stake if he was wrong, they were afraid of looking foolish.
Cpt. Christan "Panda Bombero" 4 months ago (edited)
Unfortunately he ruined so many people's lives, including his own family. At the firm, he employed his brother Peter Madoff as senior managing director and chief compliance officer, Peter's daughter Shana Madoff as the firm's rules and compliance officer and attorney, and his now-deceased sons Mark Madoff and Andrew Madoff. Peter was sentenced to 10 years in prison in 2012, and Mark hanged himself in 2010, exactly two years after his father's arrest. Andrew died of lymphoma on September 3, 2014. Bernard Madoff died of hypertension, atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease, and chronic kidney disease at the age of 82 in Federal Medical Center, Butner, a federal prison for inmates with special health needs near Butner, North Carolina, on April 14, 2021. He was cremated in Durham, North Carolina. His cremation was contrary to traditional Jewish custom and his ashes went unclaimed by his family; his cremains are still in a lawyer's office.
BK BigFish 4 months ago
I know this is a ridiculous oversight by the SEC, but Madoff was chairman of the Nasdaq exchange, a respected stockbroker for decades prior, and of course, a Jew, so he was considered above reproach. It would be like some random woman accusing Bill Cosby of r**e...
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#2
When Courtney Love said if you get invited to a hotel meeting with Harvey Weinstein, “don’t go”.
Cpt. Christan "Panda Bombero" 4 months ago
In an interview from the red carpet of the Comedy's Central's 2005 roast of Pamela Anderson, Courtney Love warned actress to stay way from Harvey Weinstein.
#3
John Lennon's assertion that the US government was spying on him and listening to his phone calls.
He sounded paranoid and full of himself at the time, but turned out to be completely correct.
Max Fox 4 months ago
The FBI under Hoover was spending most of its time spying on any person who supported civil rights, while ignoring organized crime, and even real Soviet spies. Like Agent Orange and his Maga mega-morons, he believed that the REAL ENEMY of the USA were "the Liberals".
Cpt. Christan "Panda Bombero" 4 months ago
COINTELPRO. J. Edgar Hoover hated the USSR, but sure did not mind that he had the FBI acting like the KGB/GRU.
SchadenFreudian Psychology 4 months ago
Anybody progressive is going to be harassed by people who like the status quo.
meeeeeeeeeeee 4 months ago
Maybe people would've believed his paranoid and full-of-himself demeanor if it was odd for him. He was a bad man
Lil be lil 4 months ago
Maybe so ...but if there ever was an American Saint, Martin Luther King, who was not only spied on by the FBI but harassed after it became known of his struggle with depression which made him a very empathic person btw, they actively tried to make him commit s*****e
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Rumours circled about Jimmy Savile being a pedophile for years but most people assumed he was a funny old eccentric and since he raised so many millions for charity no serious investigation was done until after he died.
Turns out he was the tip of a very sordid iceberg.
Eastendbird 4 months ago
It's worth mentioning that Saville was also extremely litigious which put people off making accusations too.
Felicia Baxter 3 months ago
the royal family knew, princess Diana wouldn't let him near her sons and I heard that he once licked her arm, but I don't know how true that part is
Rebecca Ferguson 4 months ago
I can't believe people would have let their children anywhere near him just by his looks
meeeeeeeeeeee 4 months ago
Weird times because if you watch him speaking for two seconds you can see he's a peado
JB 4 months ago
Hindsight is 20/20. Now we know how horrific he was, it’s easy to see the signs. Stop patting yourself on the back for being able to see how horrific he was when you have the information. I can guarantee that if you had grown up with the idea that Jimmy was a philanthropist you would have been shocked.
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Cases of widespread and systemic child s*x ab*se by Roman Catholic priests as portrayed in the movie Spotlight.
Yrral Spavit 4 months ago
Sinead O'Connor was onto the church as well and got blacklisted for it.
Mike F 4 months ago
She got blacklisted for "desecrating" a photo of the precious JP2. That she did it because he KNEW about the abuses and chose to guard the institution rather than the people who were abused. Tearing up that photo was the equivalent of (to the Roman Catholics) burning the flag.
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#6
They really did bury all those unsold ET cartridges in the desert.
#7
The political system of the United States of America has been hacked by a consortium of extremely wealthy businessmen who want to control all of the money, and enslave the general population of the country.
sofacushionfort 4 months ago
How a democracy can transition into an oligarchy, while populism is at its highest level. Not a contradiction
TotallyNOTAFox 4 months ago (edited)
Democracy all over the world seems to be failing currently for different reasons
Lil be lil 4 months ago
I'm thinking People are failing Democracy. Not the other way around. Ukraine among other countries still embrace Democracy.
Rebecca Ferguson 4 months ago
I don't think this is new. The world governments have always run this way.
Steve Riddle 4 months ago
Plus, the never ending Wars & Suffering. All because Lucifer/Enki & his Minions rule this planet. It's in translations of Ancient documents.
#8
In high school, a friend of mine got suspended for a week for spreading a rumor that his cousin was pregnant. She came from a really wealthy family who had a lot of pull in the school, which was catholic of course. She actually almost got him expelled because of it.
Guess what happened five months later? lol
Edit: A baby happened.
Gingersnap In Iowa 4 months ago
The first baby can come anytime, the second always takes 9 months.
UncleJon_TheMadScientist 4 months ago
Another Catholic school abuse of power, my nephew was attacked by 2 students, he was expelled for defending himself due to the strict zero tolerance of violence policy, oh and the 2 who admitted attacking him didn't even get suspended or any other punishment. Yes their parents were major cash contributors to both the school and archbishop
#9
That the president of Korea was taking orders from a secret shaman who was also extorting millions of dollars out of companies like Samsung.
SchadenFreudian Psychology 4 months ago
Nancy Reagan’s astrologer had some pull in the U.S. government in the 80s.
Cpt. Christan "Panda Bombero" 4 months ago
Park Geun-hye the 15th President of South Korea, and the first and only woman so far, to be elected. And, also the first woman to be popularly elected as a head of state in East Asia. She was also the first South Korean president to be born after the founding of South Korea. Her father was the infamous Park Chung-hee, the 3rd President of South Korea, who was more of a military dictator than elected official. He was assassinated by members of the Korean Central Intelligence Agency. Between the two of them, boy did they really demolish their family's name and legacy.
#10
Bill Cosby being a r*pist. When it first "rumored" I was so confused.
🇺🇦 🇵🇸 TribbleThinking 4 months ago
Whoopi Goldberg kept on badmouthing his victims, and has not apologised.
#11
Soylent green was indeed people.
Lil be lil 4 months ago
Well, it could happen in future except now they are manufacturing beef in bio labs. Food availability will be a huge concern in the future if not now already because of geo political reasons .
Forrest Hobbs 4 months ago
That's not how it was in the book. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Make_Room!_Make_Room!
#12
When it was leaked that Britney was being held against her will for refusing to perform. A lawyer or paralegal had left a rambling voicemail about it and it leaked. I thought for sure this was fake, but it turned out to be real.
Lil be lil 4 months ago
Sad story. They and her father wrongly proclaimed her insane for certain behaviors and then put her under conservertorship giving her father total control of her life.
Felicia Baxter 3 months ago
she does have mental problems, but it's not so bad that she needs a conservatorship, especially not with her horrible dad
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Maim 4 months ago
The saddest part for me is that after all those years under a conservatorship, she was so shut off from people and things that she barely knows how to function now. No life skills whatsoever.
Lil be lil 4 months ago
There is trauma and humiliation to deal with. So hard to get over with. She has devoted fans though that helps.
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Plentyofoomph 4 months ago
I dont understand how this works. Can't you just call the police? If you dont have a phone while at home, she had a massive public platform. Donit on stage or during an interview or something?
#13
One of my friends in High School was accused of hacking into the gradebook program and changing his grades and attendance. They dragged him out of class and held him in the office in a little room for the remainder of the day, trying to sweat him out to get him to confess, as they had no actual evidence *at all* that he had done anything. They wouldn't even let him go to the bathroom.
All they had was that one of his teachers takes attendance and does grades on paper, then enters them into gradebook at the end of the day or week, and he noticed that some of his stuff had changed. Aside from that, they had no proof at all that he had actually done anything.
He plead innocent on the whole deal, claiming that maybe it was a database error or whatever, or that the teacher simply forgot they made the change, or that someone had hacked in and made the changes on his stuff as a prank or revenge or something.
After they couldn't get anything out of him the first day, they started holding him in the office all day in the same fashion until the third day when someone called his parents and warned them of what was happening (I think it was one of his friends. Don't quite remember). Within an hour his dad showed up, tore the Principal a new a*****e, threatened to arrest him for abuse (he was some kinda upper-up guy in State Police), and took his son home.
They actually ended up suing the school, over the mistreatment of the kid, as they literally spent days accusing him and threatening him with various punishments if he didn't come clean and such, refusing to let him use the restroom, not letting him have lunch, and basically trying to make him break and admit to a crime they had no evidence he committed. Settled for a pretty large chunk of money, if I remember correctly...
He did do it, though. He totally did hack his grades and attendance. He was just good enough to not leave any evidence behind.
Michael Largey 4 months ago
Well, if he gave himself an A in computer Science, I couldn't begrudge him it.
Anthony Elmore 4 months ago (edited)
Honestly, the kid probably just hopped on an unattended faculty computer and changed them, so there wouldn't be any traces to be found. Hacking is more about social engineering than it is about remotely accessing computers.
Load More Replies... Cpt. Christan "Panda Bombero" 4 months ago
Well, even though he did do it I could care less that he did it. I am not condoning his actions, just have more issues with the school's. Because, I am more concerned about the a*****e totalitarian authority tactics the school used. Especially, not allowing him to use the bathroom or eat and drink. Being sued would have been the least of the principal's worries, if that had been my child. I would made it to where he could never set foot in any school as an educator again. And, if he retired early, I would have gone after his pension and everything else he owned. Seriously, I would have scorched earth his entire life. And that is me being mature. In the 90s, I would have been a lot more direct and expressive with my dismay.
#14
Crash Gate: Nelson Piquet Jr being told by the Renault F1 team to intentionally crash his car into a wall in order to benefit his team mate Fernando Alonso at the 2008 Singapore Grand Prix.
It was a wild speculation at first in 2008, until Piquet was unceremoniously sacked in 2009 and spilled the beans about it. I linked the wiki article to save typing.
Cpt. Christan "Panda Bombero" 4 months ago (edited)
In 2009, Renault's Formula 1 team received a suspended disqualification for two years after an investigation confirmed their role in ordering Nelson Piquet Jr. to deliberately crash during the 2008 Singapore Grand Prix, a scandal dubbed "Crashgate". This meant that if they were to commit a comparable breach of regulations before the end of the 2011 season, they would face permanent expulsion from the sport. Individual penalties were also imposed: Flavio Briatore, the team's managing director, received an indefinite ban from all Formula One and FIA-sanctioned events. This ban was later challenged and overturned in a French court, but a subsequent settlement with the FIA saw him agree to stay out of Formula One until 2013 and other FIA-sanctioned events until the end of 2011. He returned to F1 in 2022 as an ambassador, and in 2024 as an advisor to Team Enstone, and in 2025 as the team principal of Alpine. Pat Symonds, the executive director of engineering, received a five-year ban from all FIA-sanctioned events. This was later reduced in line with Briatore's settlement. Symonds returned to Formula 1 in 2011 as a technical consultant. Nelson Piquet Jr., the driver who intentionally crashed, was granted immunity from individual sanctions in exchange for his cooperation in the investigation. Fernando Alonso, the driver who ultimately won the race due to the orchestrated crash, was cleared of any wrongdoing by the FIA, with no evidence found that he or his mechanics were aware of the plan.
#15
Donald Trump is actually a candidate for president in America. I remember people in my country joking about it when the first rumors came.
Robert T 4 months ago
And I still have trouble believing it! Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a landslide of stupidity!!!!
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Manny 4 months ago
Oh it's funny as hell now. Watching all the snowflakes fall apart
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#16
Justin Timberlake being a tool for yearssss and finally getting the public side eye he deserves.
#17
Mayor Rob Ford smokes (or rather smoked) cr*ck.
#18
There were no WMDs.
Cee Cee 4 months ago
2003 and used as a reason for America and the UK to invade Iraq. Yes Iraq was researching WMD's but did not actually have any. The UK weapons specialist Dr David Kelly killed himself (supposedly) after his report was leaked to the BBC. A shameful period in UK politics and further confirmed my dislike of the then PM Tony Blair.
meeeeeeeeeeee 4 months ago
I doubt he killed himself, he was likely going to whistleblow and they just killed him. A general theme around whistleblowers is that they commit s*****e
Load More Replies... meeeeeeeeeeee 4 months ago
Heard recently it was the israeli war criminal who gave the intel for this...shocking that one war criminal was invovled with other war criminals and they committed war crimes.
General Anaesthesia 4 months ago
GW Bush regime's lies to the United Nations, the US, the world that Iraq had "weapons of mass destruction" because he wanted war to enrich Halliburton.
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*At that time due to prior pressure from UNSCOM leading to the destruction of production facilities and ressources to prevent detection from violations against UN resolutions. They used those inspections and their findings as pretence to march in in 2003
#19
British comedians joke about Jimmy Saville having an interest in young girls, some years before his death.
A 'prolific' s*x offender is an understatement.
#20
That Liberace was gay. Did not see that one coming. I mean women loved him.
Lady Eowyn 4 months ago
My late Cousin Gail and her friend were at a Liberace museum in Vegas run by some sweet little old ladies. Gail and friend got thrown out for saying Liberace was gay.
#21
Lance Armstrong was doping the entire time. You have to be Weapons Grade Stupid to ever have thought he wasnt.
#22
Not "favorite", but most shocking...
Arnold Schwarzenegger had a son with the family housekeeper. The son was a teenager by the time Maria Shriver figured out what was going on.
Cammy Mack 4 months ago
She figured it out because the kid kept going "YAIII YAIII YAIII" in Arnold's voice.
#23
Sony made up a fake critic, and put positive review quotes from him on their movie posters.
#24
The NSA were monitoring us.
Lil be lil 4 months ago
DHS is the agency. NSA only monitors electronic and phone devices for certain words that might indicate threat.
Load More Replies... UncleJon_TheMadScientist 4 months ago
Orwell wrote 1984 as a warning NOT as a how-to guide. NSA, CIA, FBI, HOMELAND SECURITY as have many other countries spy agencies made it a reality...
SchadenFreudian Psychology 4 months ago
There are so many of us, how can they possibly keep up? And if they’re monitoring me, they must be bored.
#25
Osama hiding in Pakistan.
BK BigFish 4 months ago
Bush Jr knew, didn't care - 9/11 saved his Presidency and gave him enormous power and wealth. America had to wait until Obama for justice.
#26
John Edwards, Presidential candidate, has a love child.
General Anaesthesia 4 months ago
Nice, that spouses have children and one-night stands have love children.
Kit Black 4 months ago
Yeah, I never understood that old fashioned phrase, because those dudes clearly didn't love those kids.Nor the women they had them with.
Load More Replies... Lil be lil 4 months ago
But he has a $1000.00 haircut! (While wife deals with the brunt of his actions).
#27
Caitlin Jenner being trans.
I assumed that was total BS that the tabloids made up.
QijianSanek 4 months ago
and yet she supports the orange... she has also said she is against gay marriage
TotallyNOTAFox 4 months ago
It's a misconception that LGBQT+ means that everyone works together - according to my lesbian friend there is actually a lot of conflict going on between the letters
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Chihuahua Mama 4 months ago
Family guy called it early on with Stewie calling her a "beautiful Dutch woman"
Billo66 4 months ago
Yes, before she transitioned she was an olympic gold medal winner. Bruce Jenner. 84210905_1...025b59.jpg 
#28
The media and DNC were in fact colluding to keep Bernie Sanders from the nomination and Hillary Clinton did in fact get debate questions in advance.
Edit: Because I can't reply to all of you. Just so we're clear. Tim Kaine was the DNC chair, then Debbie stepped in just in time to rig the election. Then she was forced out and hired by the Clinton campaign. Tim Kaine is now the VP and Brazile is the interim chair of the Democratic Party after Debbie Wasserman-Schultz was forced to resign. Brazile was just fired by CNN for getting caught red handed for passing debate questions to the Clinton campaign.
Now repeat after me...s**t is rigged. It shouldn't be done this way and it makes me incredibly sad.
Max Fox 4 months ago
They didn't "rig the election". What they did do was rig the fundraising and help Hilary at one of the debates. Those are unfair advantages, but "rigged the election" implies that people are actually changing ballots. The real problem and the reason that I don't think that Bernie would have won even without all of that, is because the majority of the Democratic party felt that it was "Hillary's turn".
Yrral Spavit 4 months ago
Still amazes me that they took a woman who was widely disliked and figured she was the candidate to promote. Political parties can't get beyond looking at their own navels at times.
Cpt. Christan "Panda Bombero" 4 months ago
And... this is why we have the circus we have now. HC for forcing the DNC to finally choose her, and JB for choosing to have a go for a 2nd time, instead of his promise of just the 1st. They , and the DNC are the reason DT won not once, but twice. Oh, and the fact that evidently, some people just do not learn the first time. So that they decide that they have to get hit with an îđîöť hammer twice.
meeeeeeeeeeee 4 months ago
Apparently Bernie won all the states but they made her the nominee because noone with any honesty will become president in a country where elections are bought.
Max Fox 4 months ago
Apparently you spend way too much time on conspiracy theory websites, and not enough time looking at facts. Bernie Sanders was popular among young people, who not only are a small proportion of people with party membership but also are far less likely to vote than older people.
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Apple actually removed the 3.5mm plug.
UncleJon_TheMadScientist 4 months ago
Yes but they have to be "apple approved" usb and bluetooth accessories so apple can get royalties. Usb and bluetooth were supposed to be universal devices,how can apple force a universal standard bow to their "standard(greed)"
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A teacher and a student fell in love in high school. At first I thought it was some exaggerated rumor but it turned out to be very true. The teacher left the school before the end of the semester and the student disappeared as well. Apparently the teacher left his wife and kids in order to pursue a relationship with a high school student.
EDIT: This incident happened in Florida at a school where three other teachers didn't have such a quiet ending: One was charged for possession of child pornography. One was charged with having sexual relations with one of his students. One was charged with sexual harassment of his students. All three of these teachers had families and children.
EDIT 2: I know a lot of people are curious but it's been seven years since I was out of high school and names of the teachers elude me. I'm sure you can find their record on one of those mug shot websites and I know there have been news articles written about them (I just don't know their names).
Mike F 4 months ago
I have news for OP, it's happened before (not just in Floriduh) and it will happen again. One of my most beloved teachers in HS did the same thing. I recently did a lookup and they are still together 50 years later.
Brian Droste 4 months ago (edited)
This happened in my school back in the 70's. I don't think they left the area. This was in Michigan. So this has been happening long before the 2020's
SchadenFreudian Psychology 4 months ago
A teacher in my HS ended up marrying one of his students. The girl lived down the street from me.
Der Kommissar 4 months ago
Mary Kay LeTourneau served years in jail for raping one of her students, a 13 year old boy. When she was done with her sentence, they married and had two children.
#31
I'm copying this from an old comment of mine, but I thought these were pretty interesting. I got these from an InfoWars article titled "33 conspiracy theories that turned out to be true", but added the Wikipedia links myself. I didn't include them all, though, because several of them seemed pretty far-fetched. Most of these I'd heard of before I read the article.
* TL;DR: In the late 1800s in France, Jewish artillery officer Alfred Dreyfus was wrongfully convicted of treason based on false government documents, and sentenced to life in prison.
* TL;DR: In the 1950s to the 1970s, the CIA ran a mind-control project aimed at finding a “truth serum” to use on communist spies. Test subjects were given LSD and other d***s, often without consent, and some were tortured.
* TL;DR: In the 1950s to ’70s, the CIA paid a number of well-known domestic and foreign journalists to publish CIA propaganda.
* TL;DR: The codename for a project conducted during World War II to develop the first atomic b**b. Entire towns were built for short periods of time, employing people, all under secrecy and top national secrecy at that.
* TL;DR: Between 1930 and 1960, manufacturers did all they could to prevent the link between asbestos and respiratory diseases, including cancer, becoming known, so they could avoid prosecution.
* TL;DR: Republican officials spied on the Democratic National Headquarters from the Watergate Hotel in 1972. While conspiracy theories suggested underhanded dealings were taking place, it wasn’t until 1974 that White House tape recordings linked President Nixon to the break-in and forced him to resign.
* TL;DR: The United States Public Health Service carried out this clinical study on 400 poor, African-American men with syphilis from 1932 to 1972. During the study the men were given false and sometimes dangerous treatments, and adequate treatment was intentionally withheld so the agency could learn more about the disease.
* TL;DR: A 15-year-old girl named “Nayirah” testified before the U.S. Congress that she had seen Iraqi soldiers pulling Kuwaiti babies from incubators, causing them to die. The testimony helped gain major public support for the 1991 Gulf War.
* TL;DR: The clandestine NATO “stay-behind” operation in Italy after World War II, intended to continue anti-communist resistance in the event of a Warsaw Pact invasion of Western Europe.
* TL;DR: COINTELPRO (an acronym for Counter Intelligence Program) was a series of covert, and often illegal, projects conducted by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) aimed at investigating and disrupting dissident political organizations within the United States.
* TL;DR: In 1985 and ’86, the White House authorized government officials to secretly give weapons to the Israeli government in exchange for the release of U.S. hostages in Iran, and in hopes that they would use the money to fund the Contras in Nicaragua. The plot was uncovered by Congress in 1987.
* TL;DR: Investigators in the U.S. and the UK revealed that BCCI had been “set up deliberately to avoid centralized regulatory review, and operated extensively in bank secrecy jurisdictions. Its affairs were extraordinarily complex. Its officers were sophisticated international bankers whose apparent objective was to keep their affairs secret, to commit fraud on a massive scale, and to avoid detection.”
* TL;DR: The CIA was pretty naughty.
* TL;DR: This was also the single most important reason for the escalation of the Vietnam War, but looks like it was a false report.
* TL;DR: In 1933, group of wealthy businessmen that allegedly included the heads of Chase Bank, GM, Goodyear, Standard Oil, the DuPont family and Senator Prescott Bush tried to recruit Marine Corps Major General Smedley Butler to lead a military coup against President FDR and install a f*****t dictatorship in the United States.
* TL;DR: The US and Britain overthrew a democratically elected President of Iran and backed a Shah, because they wanted oil.
* TL;DR: The Church of Scientology managed to perform the largest infiltration of the United States government in history. Ever. 5,000 of Scientology’s crack commandos wiretapped and burglarized various agencies. They stole hundreds of documents, mainly from the IRS. No critic was spared, and in the end, 136 organizations, agencies and foreign embassies were infiltrated.
* TL;DR: Eight players from the Chicago White Sox (nicknamed the Black Sox) were accused of throwing the series against the Cincinnati Reds.
* TL;DR: Karen was an American labor union activist and chemical technician at the Kerr-McGee plant near Crescent, Oklahoma, United States. She found numerous health and safety violations at the plant. She became mysteriously contaminated, and died in a car wreck.
* TL:DR: Operation Paperclip was the code name for the 1945 Office of Strategic Services, Joint Intelligence Objectives Agency recruitment of German scientists from N**i Germany to the U.S. after VE Day.
* TL;DR: In the early 1960s, American military leaders drafted plans to create public support for a war against Cuba, to oust Fidel Castro from power. The plans included committing acts of t*******m in U.S. cities, k*****g innocent people and U.S. soldiers, blowing up a U.S. ship, assassinating Cuban émigrés, sinking boats of Cuban refugees, and hijacking planes. The plans were all approved by the Joint Chiefs of Staff, but were rejected by JFK.
Sally Moen 4 months ago
The 1st one, about Dreyfus, is the basis for the conspiracy theory about Jewish bankers having secret control of world banking. Or something like that. There's a book that includes Dreyfus as proof of this, The Protocols of Zion, I think that's the title. N@z1s believed it, used it as the "reason" for their Final Solution, also neo-N@z1s and white nationalists also cite that book as proof of the "evils of J3w5" and such nonsense as their reason to hate
HardBoiledBlonde 4 months ago
I stopped at Info Wars at the beginning of the article and hoped others did too. I don't and won't have anything to do with Info Wars and/or Alex Jones.
BK BigFish 4 months ago
Info Wars and Alex Jones are amoral liars, but this list is legit. This is how they get you - they start with acorns of truth, then convince you the entire forest of oak trees is actually fake. (For general info, this is how all cults operate, they start you off with actual useful info, then once they have your trust they start lying.)
Load More Replies... Cpt. Christan "Panda Bombero" 4 months ago
These are all true. But using Alex Jones' 'InfoWars' as your source? Seriously?! This is the same guy who doxxed grieving families, and falsely accused them of being "Crisis Actors". There is not a dark enough and deep enough hole that he and anyone who believes and/or supports him, should be permanently relocated to.
SchadenFreudian Psychology 4 months ago (edited)
Karen Silkwood was the labour activist who was mùrdērēd. You forgot her last name.
The Majestic Opossum 4 months ago
The CIA is one of the worst and most cunning terrorist organizations ever. For the 2nd point - most of those "test subjects" were soldiers. Who were tortured, left with lifelong disabilities (if they lived), then tossed out and left to rot by their own government they pledged to serve.
Max Fox 4 months ago
Why exactly would the Islamic Government of Iran, a mortal enemy of Israel (officially at least) have released American hostages because the USA gave arms to Israel? This person evidently has only part of each story and is making up what they don't know. The USA was giving arms TO IRAN. Israel, despite official enmity with Iran actually had a large amount of clandestine connections (Israel actually supported Iran militarily during the Iran-Iraq war), and Israel was the go-between for the deal. This was a fact that everybody in Israel knew, because the arms ships were filling up with pistachios and coconuts on the trip back, and these were extremely cheap at that period.
Mike F 4 months ago
They were arming everybody. My guess is that they figured that giving them means to sorting it out themselves, and making a healthy profit at the same time. It may not have been direct, but the White House puppets knew how to get around the UN watchdogs.
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Hitler having Parkinsons was a big one in the 1940s and 50s.
#33
Courtney from algebra 1 had gained a few pounds so we correctly predicted her pregnancy 7 months before her due date.
Zoey Bear 4 months ago (edited)
Courtney. No further questions. Lol ;) I also have no idea what Courtney they are referring to.
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ETA not favourite, I missed that when reading the title. Some of the worst things I've read so I was not happy for it to be true.
Probably more UK specific but stuff about Jimmy Savile being a paedophile, rapist and necrophiliac were out there on the internet for years before he died and everything came out.
Paula Smith 4 months ago
He was beyond evil and the people in the UK are still reeling from the scandal.
Load More Replies... meeeeeeeeeeee 4 months ago
there's always rumours on reddit, etc about certain people, the Philip Scofield one was about for ages...and much worse than what came out. The other one people say is del boy is a peado too
#35
Tom Cruise & Katie Holmes - there were blinds she was plotting her exit and would divorce him basically as soon as 5 years were up (due to their prenup). She did.
Yrral Spavit 4 months ago
I have been interested in a few movies until I learn he is in them and nah, I'm good.
Load More Replies... SchadenFreudian Psychology 4 months ago
I thought at the time they got together, “Katie Holmes is making a big mistake.”
#36
Seriously, the Manhattan Project.
We just take nuclear weapons as a given today. But it was *literally a secret weapon that could destroy the world* that the vast majority of people didn't about for a few years.
The conspiracy extended to the presidency, involved tens of thousands of individuals, top scientists across the country, and so much more.
*And they kept it secret.*
Yrral Spavit 4 months ago
IIRC there more than a few scientists involved who were not sure the reaction caused when the bomb went off would stop - as in totally destroy the planet..
TotallyNOTAFox 4 months ago (edited)
I don't think their existence or development itself was that much of a surprise, Germany invaded Norway specifically for it's access to Deuterium
#37
Rob Schneider pays Mexicans to choke him in the shower.
Nathan Lewis 4 months ago
as long as he pays them the same amount he would a white man then its all good
#39
Cameron f*****g a pig.
Nicole Weymann 4 months ago
I'm not sure about the "just" or whether it's in the right position in the sentence... 🤔😳
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Onan Hag All 4 months ago
Never proved. It was a claim by a disgruntled* ex-tory, there is no evidence, so it's not proved. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piggate * excuse pun.
#40
South Korea was being ruled by cultists.
Nicole Weymann 4 months ago
Copied from (currently) #7: "the president of Korea was taking orders from a secret shaman who was also extorting millions of dollars out of companies like Samsung" AI additiin from Google: "South Korea is currently embroiled in a political crisis and scandal involving President Yoon Suk Yeol. He was impeached by the opposition-dominated parliament and is facing an investigation for treason related to his declaration of martial law. He was also previously embroiled in a controversy involving his wife, Kim Kun-hee, who is accused of accepting a Dior handbag and manipulating stocks [...] President Yoon was impeached by the National Assembly, and is also under investigation for treason related to his attempt to impose martial law" (which, I guess, would have made him unassailable)
Load More Replies... Michael Largey 4 months ago
Well, North Korea is certainly ruled by a personality cult dictatorship.
#41
That the colonies were going to rebel against the crown.
TotallyNOTAFox 4 months ago
After what's going on over there currently I wouldn't be surprised if it's the main country next fighting the government
#42
That Coach Carr was sleeping with a student....
"Don't have s*x, you'll get pregnant and die!".
#43
The nintendo switch actually is a home console and portable hybrid.
Yrral Spavit 4 months ago
a who and a what now? (for those of us who don't do the gaming thing)
Batwench 4 months ago (edited)
You can attach controllers to either side of the screen and use it as a hand held device. Just like in the picture.Or, you can put it in a dock, attach that to the tv and with different controllers use it as a games console that way.
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At the time Jose Canseco made them, the Alex Rodriguez steroid allegations were considered to be pretty careless and baseless.
#45
The American government is actively spying on its citizens - hidden profiles and recorded phone calls. For years, these conspirators were seen as looneys wearing tin foil hats. Hats aside, they were right.
Michael Largey 4 months ago
American business actively spying on citizens much more widely and deeply than the government.
Steve 4 months ago
Then had it over to the government, so the government doesn't need to get a warrant.
Load More Replies... Deeelite 4 months ago
Government would be bored spying on me - what are the rest of you doing to make yall worry about thus?
Michael Largey 4 months ago
Governments don't spy for excitement - they do it for control, bless you heart.
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My highschool sweetheart leaving me to f**k her favorite teacher.
Okay maybe things were a little more complex than that, but I'm 99% certain she did and I'm 100% certain she got the clap.
#48
Ned Fulmer of the Try Guys cheating on his wife with an employee! And so brazenly out in the open!
#49
For years and years and years there were blinds about the Smiths either being in an open relationship or acting as beards for each other.
I always just thought it was the usual bull c**p people spin about anyone in a long-term relationship in Hollywood who gets on well with their coworkers causing cheating rumours.
Turns out Jada cleared that up for us all, although I think like most people I would have preferred it stay in the blinds!
#51
Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey possibly being brothers.
Kit Black 4 months ago
They openly admit that it's likely, but refused to do DNA tests because it would hurt the feelings of the legal father...
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#52
Brangelina breaking up. So many tabloids on it every other month that I really didn’t think it would explode as flagrantly as it did.
#53
Marilyn Manson turning out to be a sexual predator (is that the right phrase?) was not at all surprising.
#54
Gretchen Mol blind item that exposed weinstein back around 2010
Bonus for the red carpet interview with courtney love that did the same.
#55
Jim Harbaugh being forced out by the 49ers (NFL) and going to coach Michigan (CFB). Harbaugh raised the Stanford college team from ashes, and then made his move to the NFL to coach the 49ers in 2011.
The 49ers hadn't had a winning season since 2002. In his first year there, he went 13-3, and made the NFC championship game (playing to go to the superbowl, lost to the Giants who won the SB that year). The next year, he won the NFCCG and went to the superbowl (where he lost to his brother, John). The year after, again to the NFCCG and lost to the Seahawks (who won the SB). His last year he finished 8-8, which for any normal organization would be completely accepted - you just led the team to 3 in a row NFCCG's, and a SB. But the 49er owner had his head up his a*s and essentially forced Harbaugh out that year.
Now the 49ers are the second worst team in the NFL (only ahead of the Browns). Harbaugh went to coach at Michigan, and in year 2 there, they are ranked #2 overall, and probably the only hope to beat Alabama.
At the time there rumors during the 8-8 season he was going to be released and what if he went to Michigan (struggling at the time)? Turns out they were true, and no one in NFL or CFB could believe it.
#56
Bruce Jenner becomes Caitlyn
The dude epitomized masculinity back in the '70s and had that iconic Wheaties box. We haven't even had a star gay player come out in one of the four major sports, let alone a gender change in someone so prominent.
#59
The Springfield Isotopes being moved to Albuquerque.
#60
This is kinda niche maybe but I really did not believe Kailyn Lowry from teen mom was pregnant with twins after keeping baby 5 secret for a year. And then she was! Got pregnant with babies 6 and 7 like 3 months after delivering secret baby 5.
#61
Armie Hammer being a cannibal. I was sure it was made up. Nope.
meeeeeeeeeeee 4 months ago
I don't understand the issue with this...so what if he's kinky? I think he maybe threatened to expose someone who then made sure his career went down the toilet
#62
Little Ahmed Mohammed intentionally created a bomb scare so when the school reacted his family could claim racism then sue the school and benefit the father's political career.
#63
The DNC is rigged against Bernie.
#65
Kylothee (Timothee and Kylie Jenner being together). I thought it’d be just another rumour but nope.
#66
Korrasami.
Caffeinated Ape 4 months ago (edited)
Landmark moment for an animated series. The network was cautiously supportive, apparently, and their standards team helped them push right up against the bounds of what would be considered "acceptable" to air to make it as blatant as they could get away with that the two were in a relationship at the end of the series. It's maybe not as explicit as some would have liked, but it paved the way for more queer representation in later animated series.
#67
Context: There was an artist on a record label called Monstercat, named Ephixa. He was one of the owners. He released a few songs which everyone liked, then he disappeared. Never came back for years.
Fast foward: Monstercat is celebrating their fifth anniversary. They were going to release 10 songs, everyday, for two weeks, and compile them into a free 5 Year Anniversary album. The cover art for the album was teased on the subreddit, and everyone got excited. Then one person, in the comments, suggested something along the lines of "Hey, what if Ephixa were to come back for the album?" As expected, a lot of people disagreed and he was downvoted.
Well, guess who was the first release when they started?
Ephixa, just in time to celebrate the anniversary of his first track on the label.
Even if it's not a very big deal to all of you I thought it was a neat story, mostly because I was there to witness it.
TL;DR: Artist releases on label, doesn't return for years, and makes a surprise comeback when the label is celebrating their anniversary, as someone in the comments section predicted.
#68
My wife made me watch the first episode of Gossip Girl. She had already seen it before. At one point one of the main character said something and I was like, yeah he/she is Gossip Girl, my wife was mad that I was right and turned it off.
#69
Not a Trump fan. Needs to be said because people on this website are quick to wrath.
He absolutely nailed the "Anthony Weiner has Clinton emails" speculation, when pundits everywhere called him a kook and that there was no way he would be given access to classified emails like that.
Well....
michael Chock 4 months ago (edited)
And on the opposite. Trump really did instigate a coup attempt. Trump really did collaborate with Russia to win the election, it just wasn't technically "collusion". Trump really did accept his opponents hacked emails from Russia. Trump really was in contempt of congress, and has been convicted of 14 cases of destruction of evidence. Trump really did grab her by the pus see , and got sued for defimation for what he said about her during the trial. Trump really did send threats to senators during his impeachment hearing. Trump really did (and continues) to break the immoluments clause. Trump really is on the Epstein lists. Trump really did institute a Muslim (country) ban. Trump really did call for beating of reporters at his rallies. Trump did exonerate the people who tried to murr durr the US congress and VP. Trump really did steal Obamas supreme court pick. Trump really did release the 2,000 terrorists who went back and took over Afghanistan. Trump really did mess up the Afghanistan withdrawal and let Biden take the blame. Trump really did accept a jumbo jet form an oil nation. Trump really did hand political power to Musk after Musk "won" him the election. Trump did give military officer ranks to tech Billionaires. Doge did get your most private data. (And so much more)
#70
Fallout 4. When it was confirmed, all hell broke loose.
TotallyNOTAFox 4 months ago
Was honestly expected to happen, it's one of Bethesda's most popular franchises. Half Life 3 on the other hand.... THAT would be news
#71
Spongebob and Ariana. Because I'm a theater kid so I already followed Ethan Slater (I cried when he got cast as Boq lolll) but not really Ari, and I just could not wrap my head around it. Still can't!
#72
When rumours started that Chrishell from Selling Sunset was dating G Flip, a younger, non binary Australian musician, my little queer heart was just SO invested and then it turned out to be TRUE and now they are MARRIED??? Fairytale.
#74
I still find it really funny that fauxmoi were adamant the don’t worry darling blind was NOT real.
Chihuahua Mama 4 months ago (edited)
Again, huh? I thought I had lost the ability to understand English while reading this one
#75
Hillary Clinton's cheating and law-breaking at pretty much every turn.
michael Chock 4 months ago (edited)
They spent 2 years investigating her laptop and Benghazi. Either she is guilty and every Republican conservatives have voted into office has the capability of a tree stump, or she is not a criminal.
Sparky4 4 months ago
The latter. They investigated the hell out of the clintons while bill was president and all they got was an affair.
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michael Chock 4 months ago
My favorite is that the earth actually is round! And people who think diseases are spirits are the witches, while those that practice medicine are not.
Yrral Spavit 4 months ago
That the Illuminati is not about power and money. Nothing so banal. We're in it for the LOLs. Just look at the crazy things we get you people to do!! :P
michael Chock 4 months ago
My favorite is that the earth actually is round! And people who think diseases are spirits are the witches, while those that practice medicine are not.
Yrral Spavit 4 months ago
That the Illuminati is not about power and money. Nothing so banal. We're in it for the LOLs. Just look at the crazy things we get you people to do!! :P
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