Actor wanted to keep his memory a part of my memory

Matabele ants nurse each other back to health after battle with a surprisingly high success rate, a new study finds.

The former Harry Potter star says he quit alcohol in 2010 because excessive drinking had been 'unhealthy and damaging'

Spanish explorer

A summarized biography of English chemist and physicist Henry Cavendish; eccentric, bizarre, solitary, rich, ludicrous and bona fide genius of his time.

Was talk radio host Rush Limbaugh disqualified from the Vietnam-era draft due to a pilonidal cyst?

American business magnate, investor, and philanthropist

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British physicist

A Polish man living in Germany spends five years with a bullet in his head after forgetting he was shot because he was drunk.

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American fur trapper and frontiersman

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The death-obsessed and inward-looking Aztec civilisation sowed the seeds of its own destruction, argues Tim Stanley.

Only 60% of the cow is harvested for food, and the rest ends up in some surprising places.

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How did invasive Burmese pythons overrun the Florida Everglades? One of the state's most powerful hurricanes played a key role

“The name Elagabalus is branded in history above all others [because of his] unspeakably disgusting life.” – Barthold Georg Niebuhr Last week, we covered Czar Peter III of Russia, a creepy man-child who liked to play with toy soldiers and who had very little…

Nigerian fraud artist

In the wake of Hugh Hefner's passing, it's been revealed that he will be buried beside Marilyn Monroe after paying over £55,000 for a neighbouring plot.

American rapper, singer, songwriter and record producer from North Carolina