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Yeah the new MSG Sphere in Vegas is super cool. But have you heard of the Indiana Bell Building? The eight-story, 11,000-ton tower that rotated 90° in 1930... Without anyone ins...
Jean BĂ©del Bokassa was known for many things. Like, feeding dissidents to the alligators. And crowning himself "Emperor of Central Africa." But perhaps less known about Bokassa...
Literally everything Simo Häyhä did as a sniper defied all odds: From his body count... To his method of shooting... To of course: His own improbable, miraculous survival. Sit...
What you see here is ACTUAL footage of a 1954 nuclear explosion you've probably never heard about... And crazily enough? There were sixty-six others just like it. A story: https...
Prince Nico Mbarga’s “Sweet Mother” has sold more copies than “Macarena.” And even The Beatles’ “I Want to Hold Your Hand”. But chances are, especially if you’re not Nigerian, yo...
If you didn’t know any better, the shed in Deke Duncan’s backyard seemed like just that: An ordinary shed. But put your ear to the shed’s door (between the hours of 7pm and midni...
Many of us know Ulysses S. Grant as former President of the United States. And as the face of the $50 bill. But what many of us don’t know about Grant is THIS rollercoaster-of a-...
He impersonated doctors, lawyers, and diplomats. But in 1921, he pretended to be a US Navy Officer and did the unthinkable: He snuck an Afghan Princess into the White House. Her...
The Brooklyn Bridge was "sold" a staggering 4,160 different times between 1883 and 1928. The seller? George C. Parker, a con man of epic proportions. The story: https://t.co/AhY...
There are bad ideas. And then there are REALLY bad ideas… Like the one famous psychologist B.F. Skinner and the US National Research Defense Committee had in 1943 to…get this: S...
You ever win a stuffed animal playing the claw machine game at an arcade? Well in 1974, the CIA played a claw machine game of their own...except it wasn't at an arcade. It was in...
Have you ever heard of William Walker from Nashville, Tennessee? The dude who (successfully) declared himself President of a foreign country not once...but twice? Well if not, bu...