How The CIA Used Shoelaces To Send Secret Coded Messages
As it was often necessary for CIA operatives to secretly communicate with one another, the agency developed a variety of codes for public information exchange.
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What Life Was Like For Ancient Carthaginians
When Rome was just a growing city, another force was dominating the shores of the Mediterranean: the Phoenicians, with their powerful city-state of Carthage.
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The Wizard Of Oz Scene You Never Got To See Until Now
Just like every other movie, there's a whole lot from "The Wizard of Oz" that ended up on the cutting room floor, including one particularly expensive scene.
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How Heretic Forks Became One Of The Cruelest Punishments Of All Time
In medieval times, various torture devices were used as punishments or to get confessions from prisoners. The heretic's fork is one such device.
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What Really Happens If You Try To Open A Plane Door Mid-Flight?
Passengers have been known to take out their anger on other passengers or on the plane's crew, but sometimes, they take out their anger on the aircraft itself.
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The Tragic Truth About The Nanking Massacre
While the Holocaust and the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are widely discussed and taught in schools, the Nanking Massacre is less well-known.
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The Bible Is Actually A Library. Here's What You'll Find
The books of the Bible range in length from a few paragraphs to dozens of pages and were written in different languages at different times in history.
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Terrifying Historical Examples Of Mass Psychosis
Did you know the human brain is so fragile that entire social structures can collapse, giving way to a phenomenon known as mass psychosis or mass hysteria?
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How Many Olympic Medals Does Caitlyn Jenner Have?
Jenner decided to pursue decathlon athletics -- a competition that includes a variety of track events. This would earn her a chance to compete in the Olympics.
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The Truth About Caitlyn Jenner's Car Racing Career
Long before she was "Keeping Up with the Kardashians" and co-heading the multibillion-dollar Jenner clan, Caitlyn Jenner was one of the world's finest athletes.
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The Truth About Plastic-Eating Fungi
Plastic-eating fungi appear to be a possible solution to the world's pollution problem. But will we all be feeding our trash to fungi in the future?
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What Really Happened During The 1944 Philadelphia Transit Strike?
When workers at the Philadelphia Transportation Company went on strike in 1944, they weren't protesting low wages but the promotion of Black coworkers.
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The Untold Truth Of Jesus
Jesus is both a religious figure and a rea, historical person from the first century. This is the untold truth of Jesus.
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The Untold Truth Of The Death Squad Diary
Though the Guatemalan government denied having any involvement with some people disappearing, the "Death Squad Diary" revealed that this was not true.
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What The Bible Really Says About Adultery
Adultery is a sensitive topic in relationships. Unsurprisingly, it is a recurring topic in the Bible, appearing 52 times in the Old and New Testaments.
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The Messed Up Truth About Joan Crawford
Joan Crawford was not only a self-made Hollywood success story but a mother. Unfortunately, her children have shared very different accounts of their childhood.
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Inside The Paranoid Mind Of King Henry VII
As with all kings who took their thrones through conquest, the reign of Henry VII began, on paper at least, in a blaze of glory.
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Here's What Would Happen If The Oceans Were All Made Of Fresh Water
With one of humanity's most vital resources being so scarce, it begs the question: What if the amounts of salt water and fresh water on Earth were flipped?
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The Truth About Pelorus Jack
In the latter part of the 1880s, sea captains began noticing a dolphin hanging around the entrance of Cook Strait and named him Pelorus Jack.
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Disturbing Details Found In The Heaven's Gate Victims' Autopsy Reports
The Heaven's Gate mass suicide shocked the world in March 1997. The bodies of 39 cult members were found, and the autopsies told a harrowing tale.
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The Truth About The Infamous LA Four
The L.A. Four were caught on helicopter video pulling a white truck driver from his vehicle in broad daylight and beating him within inches of his life.
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What You Might Not Know About The Roman Catholic Secret Society
When Pope Clement XII banned Catholics from joining the Freemasons, Clemens August of Wittelsbach, the Elector of Cologne, created his own secret society.
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Inside The Most Expensive Yacht Ever Sold
Billionaires are seemingly always seeking to top one another (and themselves) when it comes to buying jaw-droppingly expensive and ridiculous objects.
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How Cambodia's Pol Pot Became One Of The World's Worst Dictators
With his Khmer Rouge party, Pol Pot ruled over Cambodia so brutally that up to 2 million people were worked to death or starved to death.
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This Is Joel Osteen's Strict Rule For Women
Regardless of the view you take of controversial preacher Joel Osteen, it seems that, in one particular area of his life, he lives by a moral code.
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Inside The Time The U.S. Lost A Hydrogen Bomb In The Ocean
Considering the immense destructive capabilities of nuclear weapons, particularly hydrogen bombs, you'd think losing said weapons would be unthinkable.
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The Untold Truth Of The AME Church
The "Black Church," collectively, has, over the last century-and-a-half, become a formidable institution in American politics and Black American life.
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