Police ruled George Reeves' death in June 1959 a suicide, but a series of suspicious events surrounding the incident led some people to point a finger at the actor's fiancee — or even the Mafia.Moviestore Collection Ltd / Alamy Stock PhotoGeorge Reeves’ death under suspicious circumstances came just a year after the hit TV series Adventures of Superman ended. On June 16, 1959, actress Phyllis Coates woke up around 4:30 a.

The country's second-richest family has a dark past of forced labor, sexual abuse against those laborers, and inextricable Nazi ties and pledges to Hitler before he even usurped power.Astrid Stawiarz/Getty ImagesReimann family spokesman Peter Harf at the Jimmy Choo x DKMS Charity Cocktail Party In New York City, Oct. 17, 2016. Many of Germany’s wealthiest families and lucrative corporations got their start during the Nazi era. From Volkswagen to Bayer, the most egregious examples comprise people who took advantage of the Holocaust’s conditions and profited off the backs of dying innocents.

The U.S. has detonated more than 1,000 bombs, killing more than 2 million of its own people — and for what? Just after a nuclear bomb was detonated, two soldiers use their hands to frame the mushroom cloud for the camera. Nye County, Nevada. May 1, 1952. Wikimedia Commons A pig is placed into an aluminum barrel before a nuclear test. This pig, and others like it, were placed in barrels in various places around ground zero for various nuclear tests so that researchers could study the effects of radiation on living things.

The U.S. government terrorized, outed, and fired at least 5,000 people suspected of being homosexuals during the Lavender Scare from 1947-1961.National ArchivesSen. Kenneth Wherry (left) and Sen. J. Lister Hill conducted the first congressional investigation into homosexuality in the federal workforce in 1950 as part of what’s become known as the Lavender Scare. “These people are frightened to death,” said George Raines. A professor of psychiatry at Georgetown University, Raines was testifying before a U.

Brazil Wikimedia CommonsThe Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro. Brazil celebrates their Thanksgiving holiday on the same day that Americans do, on the last Thursday in November. The holiday is called Dia de Ação de Graças, and apparently, many of its festivities were inspired by American traditions. The unconfirmed story of how Brazil’s Thanksgiving came to be, says that the country’s ambassador to the U.S. went on a trip to the States in November, sometime in the 1940s.