The Real Reason Why People Are Afraid Of Heights
Phobias "provoke excessive and persistent fear" and affect around 10 percent of people in the United States. Fear of heights is one of the more common phobias.
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The Real Reason The Long Island Serial Killer Murders Remain Unsolved
The mystery of the bodies found around Gilgo Beach continues to haunt Long Island. What's the real reason the Long Island serial killer murders remain unsolved?
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What Happened When Washington D.C. Desegregated Public Pools In 1949
Throughout much of the 20th century, whenever Black Americans tried to go swimming in integrated public pools, white people violently targeted them.
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What Ingredients Make Gorilla Glue Special?
Gorilla Glue is a brand of strong adhesive (they also make a type of super glue) and is absolutely not formulated for hair. Not all glues are created equal.
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The Bizarre True Story Of The Shakespeare Riots
Rioting over Macbeth and William Shakespeare? That's right: The Scottish play once sparked a riot that killed 22 people and lit a class war in New York City.
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The Real Reason You Can't Find The 1890 U.S. Census
Beyond the contemporary functional application of the census, it also offers a phenomenal glimpse into hundreds of millions of lives throughout history.
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How Fidel Castro Survived Over 600 Assassination Attempts
After 638 failures by the CIA, "If surviving assassination attempts were an Olympic event, I would win the gold medal," Castro liked to tell interviewers.
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The Bizarre True Story Of The Russian Vodka Protests
"The teetotalers were flogged into drinking; some who doggedly held out had liquor poured into their mouths through funnels, and were (taken) to prison..."
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The True Story Of La Quintrala, Chile's Aristocratic Serial Killer
The country of Chile remembers to this day the legacy of a brutal serial killer from the 1600s who ruthlessly murdered her slaves, lovers, and her own father.
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The Sad Truth About Jodi Arias' Childhood
Murderers come from all backgrounds, but people will still wonder if Arias' background was any different. Here's the sad truth about her childhood.
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Inside Jodi Arias And Ex-Boyfriend Darryl Brewer's Relationship
Before Jodi Arias killed Travis Alexander, she was in another relationship with another man, a relationship that painted a very different picture of her.
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Inside Jazz Legend Chick Corea's Life Before He Died
Armando Antonio Zacconi Corea, best known to the world as Chick Corea, was without a doubt one of the finest, most virtuosic, penultimate masters of his craft.
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The Original Reason For The World Series Will Surprise You
The World Series restarted after 1900 when the American League was established; the AL won in 1903, proving a worthy rival to the established National League.
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The Truth About Judas Priest And Subliminal Messages
Judas Priest was exonerated in August 1990 of hiding harmful subliminal messaging in their music, with the band themselves finding a way to win the case.
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There's A New Twist In The Dyatlov Pass Hiking Incident
Less than two weeks after researchers presented evidence that the mysterious 1959 Dytlov Pass hiking incident had been solved, history may have repeated itself.
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The Strangest Aphrodisiacs Throughout History
An aphrodisiac is any substance thought to get you in the mood and ready to roll into bed. Over the millennia, humans have tried about everything.
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The Mystery Of Daisy Alexander's Message In A Bottle
Restaurant worker Jack J. Wurm was walking along the beach near San Francisco when he noticed a bottle floating in the surf with a bit of paper tucked inside.
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A Look At The Assassination Attempt Against Andrew Jackson
President Andrew Jackson, especially unpopular, experienced an attempt on his life when an unemployed house painter from England tried to shoot him in 1835.
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The Weird Things That Tony Curtis Is Buried With
When Hollywood legend Tony Curtis died in 2010, the actor was buried with many of the expected things but also some weird things.
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Hundreds Of Women Fought As Men During The Civil War
Victorian ideals of morality and decency ran rampant at the time of the American Civil War, but this did not stop several women from fighting as soldiers.
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This Is The First Known Murder Victim In History
In a mass grave at the bottom of a 43-foot shaft in Spain, scientists found evidence of the first murder victim in history.
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The Most Bizarre Unsolved Mysteries Of World War II
Besides the messed up aftermath of WWII and its complicated legacy, there are several things from this worldwide conflict that remain pretty mysterious.
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This Is How New Popes Are Chosen
It may be a process that is done in secrecy, but the methods of selecting a pope, the leader of the Catholic Church, are no mystery -- not anymore, anyway.
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Whatever Happened To Bill Wyman From The Rolling Stones?
Bassist Bill Wyman decided to leave the Rolling Stones in 1992, and many fans wonder what happened to him and what he is doing now.
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The Inventor Of Motion Pictures Vanished And The Case Remains Unsolved
Another individual should also receive credit for motion pictures: French artist Louis Le Prince, who worked on similar experiments until his disappearance.
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The Messed Up Truth About Jodi Arias
Jodi Arias' murder of Travis Alexander became one of the biggest media frenzies caused by a non-celebrity crime. This is the messed up truth about Jodi Arias.
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The Tragic Death Of Lisa Lopes
The tragic death of rapper Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes of Grammy-winning and chart-topping group TLC in 2002 left R&B fans in disbelief.
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