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Here’s the truth behind those stern expressions in early photos.

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Italy, Sweden, and the US lead global tattoo trends. Learn how culture, regret, and health concerns shape tattoo popularity in these countries.

Food Disgust Test, based on the work of Dr. Christina Hartmann, Ph.D.

Between April 1945 and July 1947, eighteen subjects were injected with plutonium, six with uranium, five with polonium, and at least one with americium in order to better understand the effects of radioactive materials on the human body.

Did Facebook shut down two bots speaking to themselves because the company feared for humanity?

America’s most notorious gangster sponsored the charity that served up three hot meals a day to thousands of people in need—no questions asked.

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Learn about how a man became the unluckiest after a major volcanic eruption. In 79 AD, Pompeii was hit and […]

An NIH-supported observational study finds that even when women and men get the same amount of physical activity, the risk of premature death is lower for women.

coronation of Edward VII and his wife Alexandra as king and queen of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions (1902)

It's 200 years since the death of Sarah Baartman. Her terrible treatment remains emblematic of 19th Century racism.

The association of alcohol and drugs with suicidal thinking and behavior is both causal and conductive. The subjective state of hopelessness is key to the disposition to actual suicides. Alcohol and drugs are influential in providing a feeling of hopelessness…

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Colombian drug lord (1949–1993)

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Better late than never...

string of murders in Chicago in 1982 involving poisoned Tylenol medicine

Bezoars are concretions found in the stomachs of animals that were once believed to cure poisoning and plague.