Dogs: they're man's best friend. They're our loyal companions. They stand by our sides when times get tough, assuming that we keep feeding them our unfinished jerky sticks and scratching those hard-to-reach places. But which dog has the best sense of smell?
Read MoreYou don't hear much about smallpox today. According to the CDC, nobody has died of smallpox since 1978. And that's thanks to the first vaccine ever created.
Read MoreJeffrey Dahmer said of his first murder victim, "The guy wanted to leave and I didn't want him to leave." But here's how Dahmer himself died.
Read MoreMargaret Tudor was the daughter of King Henry VII and older sister of King Henry VIII. She was promised in marriage to James IV of Scotland, part of the Treaty of Perpetual Peace between England and Scotland in 1502. But there's more to her story.
Read MoreMedellin Cartel founder and Cocaine King of Colombia, Pablo Escobar, was by some accounts the wealthiest criminal in history. But what happened to his money once he died?
Read MoreMany of the kings and queens who once ruled the British empire still supposedly haunt the castles where they lived, loved, and got their heads chopped off.
Read MoreMitten's sleepy zone twitches can be quite expressive, as its paws, tail and/or whiskers can all get in the moving-about game.
Read MoreYou've probably seen some pretty rare eye colors at some point in your life, but what exactly are the rarest in the world? Let's take a look.
Read MoreLet's rip this Band-Aid off up front: Alexander the Great's horse was named Bucephalus, and no, his name didn't mean anything that you're imagining.
Read MoreIf you know one thing about Chernobyl, you probably know that it was the site of the worst nuclear disaster in human history. So it may not come as a surprise that weird, radiation-eating organisms have been discovered there.
Read MoreYou may think Ivan Pavlov discovered Pavlovian responses by conditioning dogs to salivate at the sound of a bell. But that wouldn't ring true to Pavlov, since everyone describes the iconic dog study incorrectly. Here's the fascinating and occasionally ugly truth about Ivan Pavlov and his dogs.
Read MoreBob Seger plugged away at music for more than 50 years. From his athletic background to the real reason he retired, here's the untold truth about Bob Seger.
Read MoreForget curing cancer, of finding a vaccine to prevent coronavirus. Science has finally put its money where its mouth really is by coming up with what must be the greatest discovery since Albert Einstein invented sliced bread. We're talking, of course, about a recipe for better soap bubbles.
Read MoreLate fees, man -- the clawing, creeping, unfortunate fact of the video rental age. But now that the great beast Blockbuster has been bound in the ancient tongue and imprisoned in a strip mall in Bend, Oregon, can we finally rest easy about our late fees?
Read MoreConsidering the theme park's location on the outskirts of a vast Floridian swamp, the Magic Kingdom's bug-free bona fides seems practically, well, magic.
Read MoreThere are many questions people ask themselves about Dan Bilzerian, such as "Why does he act like that all the time?" and "Will that beard eventually reach his eyebrows?" Money comes up a lot too.
Read MoreThe year is 1947. The Allies have slogged through years of bloody warfare, but in the end emerge triumphant over the powers of the Axis. The boys are home. The world is at peace. Nothin' but good times ahead. Right? Not for Elizabeth Short, also known as "The Black Dahlia."
Read MoreNo matter how overbooked a flight might be, one traveler that always lands a spot on the plane is latent regret. One of the times that feeling kicks in is when you realize how utterly dirty and disgusting a commercial aircraft can get.
Read MoreThere's no telling where Poppy might pop up, what she might do, and who she might be working with. But who is she, really? How did she come up with her peculiar character, and what's her endgame with all of this oddness? Let's take a look at the untold truth of Poppy.
Read MoreMarilyn Manson has spent decades crafting his legacy as a shock rocker, complete with all the attention, anger and accusations that come with this choice of profession. He collects weird stuff. He does weird things. But does he collect money?
Read MoreAfter thousands of years of knuckle-popping physical inhumanity to our fellow man, have we found a definitive answer to the question "what's the deadliest martial art in the world?"
Read MoreThere are many things a human body simply can't do without. A lack of food, water or air can easily kill us in awful ways, but there's another, stranger danger that most people don't really think about: Not being able to sleep.
Read MoreIf tales by his contemporaries are to be believed, Grigori Rasputin was a nigh-unkillable villain with lust in his loins, lunacy in his brain, and evil where his heart should have been. Here's the disturbing truth of his death.
Read MoreIt turns out that there's no such thing as clean money. At least not microbially. Here's how dirty your money really is.
Read MoreWhen Janis Joplin performed, she took a little piece of your heart and gave you her whole soul. But how whole was her bank account?
Read MoreWhale shark. Even the name conjures up some kind of Jurassic Park chimera, with Jeff Goldblum stuttering a warning about how teeth will find a way. But what do they eat?
Read MoreOne of the longest-running series on TV, The Simpsons premiered in 1989 and started off strong, but in recent years, it’s lost some of its luster. So today, we’re taking a look at this classic sitcom to find out why The Simpsons has become so repetitive.
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