Staff at Hatton Country World in Warwickshire couldn't understand why they suddenly had 100 pregnant guinea pigs on their hands - until they released one of the male rodents had managed to escape his enclosure and infiltrate the female-only enclosure.

The number of Nutcracker productions soars as the ballet can bring close to half of a company's annual revenue.

Back in the early 1900s, if you felt a bit sluggish you could reach for a beverage enhanced with radioactive elements to really add some pep to your step. It wouldn't be a healthy choice, though.

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Fifty years ago, Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke set out to make a new kind of sci-fi. How does their future look now that it’s the past?

Who Framed Roger Rabbit was a movie that was well ahead of its time, especially in terms of visual effects, even now the bringing together of cartoon characters and real life actors on screen at the same time has rarely been bettered. In terms of story it…

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Knowing how slowly the trees grow, the Swedish Royal Navy was thinking awfully far ahead.

"It’s up to them to decide if they want to be named after someone like him."

American singer, songwriter, musician, record producer, and filmmaker

Janet, sometimes called Janet Airlines, is the unofficial name given to a highly classified fleet of passenger aircraft operated for the United States Department of the Air Force as an employee shuttle to transport military and contractor employees. The purpose…

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Robert Brownlee told us how he shot an object into space before Sputnik.

In 1977, Led Zeppelin embarked on a run through North America that nearly destroyed them.

1940s Physicist that died of radiation poisoning

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Take a good look at these giraffe nap pics, because you won't often catch a giraffe sleeping. In fact, despite being the tallest animal, giraffes have the shortest sleep requirements of any mammal, sleeping an average of just 30 minutes per day. And when…

We need oxygen to live, yet there's always too much of a good thing. Pure oxygen can be deadly.

MTV was once all about music videos. Slowly, however, the Viacom-owned network began chiseling away at the very foundation with shows like Pimp My Ride and Cribs. But the biggest jackasses at MTV weren't as obnoxious as Xzibit or Mariah Carrey's New York…

Former NFL quarterback Michael Vick made the final $1.5 million payment to creditors on Thursday, paying back more than $17 million in debt owed since his July 2008 bankruptcy.

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