Carl M. Brashear, the first black U.S. Navy diver, who was portrayed by Cuba Gooding Jr. in the 2000 film "Men of Honor," died Tuesday. He was 75. Brashear, a native of Sonora, Ky., died at the Naval Medical Center Portsmouth of respiratory and heart failure, the medical center said. Brashear retired from the Navy in 1979 after more than 30 years of service. He was the first Navy diver to be restored to full active duty as an amputee, the result of a leg injury he sustained during a salvage operation.

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What is special about left-handed person? Research shows left–handed people may have a lower risk of developing ulcers and arthritis. They may also recover more quickly from strokes. An older article in the American Journal of Psychology suggests that left–handed people may be better at divergent thinking, a thought process used to generate creative ideas. Do left handers have higher IQ? No differences in mean IQ scores were found between right-handers and non-right-handers as well as between right-handers and mixed-handers.

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Not afraid to clap back! Craig Conover‘s girlfriend, Natalie Hegnauer, defended her reality TV history after coming under fire during the Southern Charm reunion. “I would never usually post this but since I am unable to defend myself since I didn’t really film this season, and people continue to broadcast aspersions on my integrity (which I understand, as reality TV feeds on drama — and I understand, since I am dating a reality TV stars where their life is lived publicly and inadvertently mine is too), I’m just going to leave this here,” Hegnauer, 30, began in a lengthy Instagram Story post on Thursday, January 28, after the drama played out on the season 7 reunion.