When a young Navy dentist engraved “Remember Pearl Harbor” on the dentures of Japan’s most notorious war criminal, he had no idea the prank would still be news 50 years later.

Female turkeys can basically clone themselves, and that's not all.

In his new book, historian Tim Cook has unearthed evidence that Canadian doctors were part of a British program that harvested organs from slain First World War soldiers, without consent.

Where'd the phrase "Snake Oil Salesman" come from? It conjures up images of seedy profiteers trying to exploit an unsuspecting public by selling them fake cures.

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Have you ever looked at a pickup truck and wondered why it has little orange marker lights on the roof?

Fratricide among rival princes was legal and widely practiced until 1603, so confinement to the palace was actually an improvement.

In the midst of production, del Toro's father, Federico del Toro, was kidnapped off the streets in his hometown of Guadalajara.

A tale of angels, devils, gurus, Tijuana whorehouses, buried secrets and redemption after thirty years of rock & roll

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Bioshock: Infinite concept artist Claire Hummel really loves your naughty drawings of quantum physicist Rosalind Lutece. Really, she does. She just wants to give you a hand by explaining just what goes on beneath Rosalind's vest.

Shrimper Ricky Robin rode out Hurricane Katrina on the trawler he built himself nearly 30 years earlier. Over the course of the storm, he helped rescue people from the parish and gave them food and shelter on his boat. Three years after Katrina, Robin's story…

Learn the gruesome details of President George Washington’s final hours on the 215th anniversary of his death. The retired commander-in-chief woke up at 2 a.m. on Dec. 14, 1799, with a sore throat. After a series of medical procedures, including the draining…

Learn about the habitat, population status and behavior of blue whales, the biggest animals on Earth.

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Newsweek reported the story in an article headlined “My God! They’re Killing Us.” Its cover featured what would become the incident’s most iconic image, John Filo’s Pulitzer Prize-winning photo of a 14-year-old runaway’s anguished scream as she knelt over…

Betelgeuse is a red supergiant of spectral type M1-2 and one of the largest stars visible to the naked eye. It is usually the tenth-brightest star in the night sky and, after Rigel, the second-brightest in the constellation of Orion. It is a distinctly reddish…

Learn more about sexsomnia, a parasomnia that can cause involuntary sexual behaviors during sleep. It has a wide range of causes, triggers, and treatments.

It takes a lot to be able to run for President in Singapore. Read on to learn more about these requirements.

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