On March 5th, 1953, Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin died in his country home near Kuntsevo. If you were looking for a satisfying explanation of the details surrounding his passing, that's as good a place as any to stop reading, because heads up, the rest of the story just sort of keeps getting weirder.
Read MoreWorld War II combined the height of human ingenuity with the lowest point of human nature. The Allied forces showed a MacGyver-like inventiveness in their attempts to outfox the Axis Powers. In one the craziest operations of all, British spies devised exploding rodents to sabotage Nazi factories.
Read MoreOne's the unhinged dictator of a dystopian nation. The other's a five-time NBA champion and possibly the secret love child of a tattoo gun and a rainbow. Together they're really confusing. Here's Dennis Rodman and Kim Jong Un's relationship explained.
Read MorePut on your helmet and get ready for some football as we explain the longest suspensions in the NFL - a league that forgives but never forgets.
Read MoreIn the oft-mythologized world of Wild West gunslingers, it's not the size of the dog in the gunfight; it's the size of the gunfight in the dog. And in the pantheon of pistol-packing legends, Johnny Ringo is remembered as a pack leader. Here's the truth about Johnny Ringo's death.
Read MoreIf a tree lands in the forest, but no one is around to hear it, does it make noise? That answer might depend on how upset the tree was about falling. In 2019, Live Science reported that at least some species of plant seem to release "scream[s]" at frequencies humans can't hear when under stress.
Read MoreIt's interesting to track the massive inventions of the past 10 years. Here are the greatest inventions of the past decade that changed everything.
Read MorePandas don't do much. At this point, they seem like a natural first choice for next year's fad superfood. Or they did, until Liu Xiaodong helped them pull themselves up by their bootstraps. How? He started harvesting their feces and turning it into stationery.
Read MoreMary I of England wasn't a perfect person, especially in the eyes of those who dubbed her "Bloody Mary." Here's how Bloody Mary really got her name, and why we now have a tomato-vodka breakfast beverage based on her life.
Read MoreThere are disturbing stories of people whose whole lives were upended by their visual similarity to a criminal. Setting aside the notion of a doppelganger who transforms your life into a psychological thriller, is there likely to be someone out there you could confuse with a mirror image?
Read MoreIn November 2019, Milwaukee, Wisconsin police officers discovered an individual living down by the Milwaukee River. They discovered a bunker loaded with weapons, propane tanks, and food. Measuring eight feet deep and 20 feet long, this almost dystopian abode belonged to 41-year-old Geoffrey Graff.
Read MoreKing George III will likely be remembered by this generation for chewing scenery during Hamilton and as the guy who had to go home after work one day and say "honey, I lost America." Here's the truth about the madness of King George III.
Read MoreTrying to imagine a fight between Muhammad Ali and Mike Tyson is kind of like asking, "What would happen if a lightning-fast Dr. Seuss got into a fistfight with an incredibly dexterous Rottweiler?" Who would have won a trash talk war between these two?
Read MoreFrom a few weeks to a couple of minutes, here’s the tragic history of the world’s shortest wars.
Read MoreIt's easy to forget that many saints were flesh and blood people. And sometimes, they faced real dangers when it came to their faith. And sometimes, they were the dangers. From horrific martyrdoms to bizarre lifestyle choices, here's the messed up and tragic truth about these Christian saints.
Read MoreFor 45 years, Queen Elizabeth I reigned over the British empire. Over the course of her life, the last monarch of the house of Tudor survived numerous attempts at assassination. What ill fate befell the woman who, statistically speaking, is responsible for like 20% of Judy Dench's paychecks?
Read MoreThe case of Dr. Death, aka Dr. Christopher Duntsch, is terrifying. From the top of his class to life in prison: Here's the untold truth of Dr. Death.
Read MoreA high-end copy machine nowadays can produce prints with as many as 9600 by 600 dots per inch. With that caliber of printing prowess you might ask yourself "why don't I buy a ream of mint green stationery, shove a few sawbucks in the Xerox, and photocopy me some money?" Read what happens first.
Read MoreHe sees you when you're sleeping. He knows when you're awake. We're talking of course, about the Elf on the Shelf, the most thinly veiled wolf in sheep's clothing that money can buy. But Elf on the Shelf breaks rules too, in ways only adults will understand. Here's proof.
Read MoreFrom baseball games to boxing matches (and even a bit of courtroom drama), keep reading to find out the biggest sports moment in the year you were born.
Read MoreWWE superstar Paige retired from the WWE ring in 2018 because her neck had taken too much punishment to continue her occupation. Never one to be underrated, the WWE star is still very much a name on everyone's lips. Let's take a look at what Paige has been doing since retiring from wrestling.
Read MoreInstead of decongestants and antihistamines, a company is now making a psilocybin nasal spray. Psilocybin is the psychoactive ingredient in magic mushrooms.
Read MoreNobody asked for these inventions, but they got made anyway.That's the beauty of them. The best inventions are ones we didn't even know we needed. It's a fine line, though, and these inventions missed the boat on the "need" part. Here are inventions from this past decade that nobody asked for.
Read MoreWho were these mysterious Swedes? What made their hit-writing pen so unfathomably sharp? And what have they been up to since they stopped ruling the airwaves? There's only one way to find out. Let's take a look at the untold truth of Roxette.
Read MoreWhy the U.S. is about to import sugar at record numbers.
Read MoreA San Francisco man was just handed a six month sentence for the crime of eating a cookie in rehab. Surely this can't be how the cookie crumbles?
Read MoreWhile no single article could possibly contain it all, here are just a few of the details of the truly insane life of Theodore Roosevelt.
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