True stories that sound completely made up.
In 1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt signed an executive order making it illegal for Americans to own gold. The government threatened prison time for non-compliance. And remarkably, the vast majority of citizens simply obeyed.
In 2014, the residents of Cormorant, Minnesota handed their mayoral office to a Great Pyrenees named Duke — and then did it again, and again, and again. This is the completely true story of America's most unlikely elected official, and the tiny community that decided he was exactly what they needed.
Violet Jessop was a stewardess and nurse who worked aboard all three of the White Star Line's sister ships — and managed to be present for the worst disaster each one suffered. The Titanic sank. The Britannic sank. The Olympic collided with a warship. Violet walked away from all of it and kept showing up for work.
Tsutomu Yamaguchi was in Hiroshima on business when the United States dropped the world's first combat nuclear weapon on August 6, 1945. He survived, bandaged his wounds, and traveled home to Nagasaki — arriving just in time for the second bomb three days later. He lived to 93. This is his story.