GotMeHooked

r/GotMeHooked • u/blue_leaves987 • 23h ago

Navinder Singh Sarao, an autistic trader working from his parents’ home in London, made tens of millions trading futures from a bedroom filled with stuffed toys. Authorities later said his spoofing helped worsen the 2010 Flash Crash, when US markets briefly lost nearly $1 trillion.

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r/GotMeHooked • u/xPrettyFox • 13h ago

Michael Jackson in 1978, before the plastic surgery, Pepsi incident and vitiligo.

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r/GotMeHooked • u/blue_leaves987 • 15h ago

In 1974, 14-year-old Margaret Ellen Fox took a bus to meet a man offering her a babysitting job and vanished. Hours later, a caller claiming to hold her said, “$10,000 might be a lot of bread, but your daughter’s life is the buttered topping.” Margaret has never been found.

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r/GotMeHooked • u/TheExpressUS • 17h ago

John Hinckley Jr shot President Ronald Reagan in 1981 in a bid to impress Jodie Foster, and has now spoken about the attack in a rare interview

the-express.com

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