MrBeast spent $3.5 million recreating Squid Game with 456 players in 2021. Five years on, the video has passed 982 million views and remains the template for creator-made television.
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MrBeast spent 50 hours in a coffin underground in March 2021. YouTube named it the year's No. 1 top trending video in the US, and it has since passed 329 million views.
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In August 2020 MrBeast offered a private island to whoever would stay on it longest. The video has passed 300 million views and launched the 'last to leave' format.
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Former NASA engineer Mark Rober built a Ninja Warrior course for the squirrels raiding his bird feeder in 2020. The video has about 148 million views — and inspired a scientific paper.
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London police have opened an investigation into allegations of serious sexual offences against comedian and children's author David Walliams, who denies the claims.
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Edgar Cayce left behind the one thing most prophets avoid: a complete, dated archive of some 14,000 predictions and diagnoses. Believers find miracles in it, from the 1929 crash to Atlantis off Bimini. Skeptics who read the whole file reach a different verdict.
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In 1956 Jeane Dixon wrote that the winner of the 1960 election would 'be assassinated or die in office' — and became America's most famous psychic when Kennedy was shot. The catch: by election day 1960, Dixon was publicly backing Nixon.
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Mother Shipton supposedly predicted cars, iron ships and the end of the world in 1881 — three centuries before any of it. In fact the famous verses were published in 1862 by a Brighton bookseller who later admitted he had invented them.
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She died in 1996 without writing down a single prophecy, yet every year 'Baba Vanga's predictions' fill the headlines. The story of the blind Bulgarian mystic — and of how her legend was built after the fact.
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Five centuries after his death, Nostradamus is still credited with predicting every disaster in the news. A look at the plague doctor behind Les Prophéties, his one famous 'hit', and the industry that keeps fitting his verses to events.
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