Marina Chapman, by her own account, has had a roller coaster of a life. Hers is the sort of story that one might point a cynical finger towards -- a tale of a woman that really was raised by capuchin monkeys.
Read MoreIn 1969, a meteorite came roaring over the town of Murchison, Australia.Riding atop it was ancient stardust. In a 2020 study, scientists dated one of these grains as being around seven billion years old -- making it the most ancient solid material on the planet.
Read MoreRosalind Franklin's discoveries were essential to establishing the double-helix shape of DNA. This is the life and tragic death of Rosalind Franklin.
Read MoreConsider, for a moment, the Gideon Bible. It's the closest you'll get to something you can find in every hotel room without the use of a blacklight. Here is its story.
Read MoreLosing a body part creates all sorts of obstacles, and that's especially true if you're a rock star.
Read MoreButch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid met during their stint with the Wild Bunch, criminals credited with numerous train and bank robberies.
Read MoreSea-Monkeys smiled at the sight of you, their potential new ruler, and you knew that you were $4.95 plus shipping removed from a magical friendship.
Read MoreAccording to a study published in the February 2020 edition of Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, 2019 was a big year for warming up the oceans, with their temperatures reaching record highs.
Read MoreIn an announcement presumably presided over by a mysterious husky whose sudden appearance nobody could properly explain, scientists are wrestling with the presence of mysterious, physics-defying particles that have been discovered busting up out of the ice in Antarctica.
Read MoreIf you take the stem cells of a frog's skin and the stem cells of its heart and Frankenstein them together, what do you get? Researchers call it a 'xenobot.'
Read MoreWouldn't it be awesome if they could make space food practically from scratch using a few cells as ingredients? Well, in 2019, a Russian cosmonaut on the ISS provided the first semblance of an answer to that question by making 'space beef.'
Read MoreThe Galapagos tortoise was critically endangered, until recently. Enter the San Diego Zoo's resident stud, Diego, who did enough entering to father an estimated 1,700 offspring over the course of a few decades. Luckily, giant tortoises have really long lives.
Read MoreThe Dust Bowl of the 1930s was one of the most devastating natural events in United States history. Here's the messed up truth of the Dust Bowl.
Read MoreChristopher Columbus, as you might have heard, is sort of a big deal in most history books because of the whole "discovered North America thing" -- even if his discovery of the "new" continent was one of those famous events that never actually happened. But you know what did? He saw mermaids.
Read MoreLive TV means things can go wrong in real time, and people get to enjoy the car crash from their couch.
Read MoreThe USPS motto: "Neither rain, nor sleet, nor heat, nor gloom of night will keep carriers from their rounds." Apparently, babies couldn't stop them either.
Read MoreWild Bill Hickok is not just a legendary Old West character -- for many, he's just legendary. Let's take a look at the incredible life of Wild Bill Hickok.
Read MoreOooh yeah! Randy Savage was one of the true greats of the pro wrestling circle -- a talented performer with an arena-sized personality and enough charisma to actually use "Pomp and Circumstance" as his entrance theme and get away with it. Here's how much he was worth when he died.
Read MoreEverybody has a blood type, which indicates what sorts of antibodies in their blood. But they can't all mix. Here's why.
Read MoreOne of the pinnacles of space science came in December 26, 2019, when NASA astronaut Christina Koch reported on Twitter that the ISS team had successfully baked cookies in space.
Read MoreOn Super Bowl Sunday, jubilant humans cheer like chimps and shovel ungodly quantities of calorie-rich deliciousness into their banana holes while watching two NFL teams try to eat each other alive on the gridiron. Here's how much food is consumed.
Read MoreThere are commercial collaborations that make sense, and there are ones that sound like a desperate ad executive brainstormed the whole campaign with Mad Libs five minutes before deadline. Who knows which end of the spectrum the team-up between Dunkin' and Snoop Dogg will end up, but here it is.
Read MoreIn 2013, the Associated Press wrote that "the ideal designer dog" would "never lose its puppy face." Which breed is it?
Read MoreOur actual galaxy has "thousands" of alien stars, just hanging around like it isn't even a thing. The reason behind this is as fascinating as it is weird.
Read MoreAfter hearing a story of an Inuit man who fashioned his poop into a frozen blade, scientists wanted to see for themselves whether it would cut. So they turned their own frozen poop into knives.
Read MorePawn Stars is a History Channel show where the Harrison family buy various items from people, including some creepy historical items.
Read MoreAccording to the University of Sydney, those Australian wildfires have now claimed the lives of a billion or more native animals.
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