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Unit 731 was a secret group within the Japanese Army in WWII that committed unspeakable atrocities a

No one - no one - likes to vomit, but there are some people who would prefer to die rather than vomi

In the exciting conclusion of our two-part episode on Hoover, we come in at the Cold War and end on

By definition hobos are people who travel from town to town taking odd jobs as they go. But some tow

It wouldn’t be an overstatement to say that J. Edgar Hoover was perhaps the most powerful American o

On Halloween 1938 young radio star Orson Welles scared the pants off of America with a fictional new

The idea that we aren’t the first advanced civilization to live on Earth sounds like a fringe theory

Even the dullest hockey game is worth seeing when the Zamboni comes out to resurface the ice.See omn

Taking care of 12,000 tons of residential trash every day is a hard job. But how does that even work

Despite as much as one percent of the adult population having the condition, science doesn't actuall

Sometimes you just have to turn it off for a while – all the thinking, and overthinking, analyzing,

We all know the story of the Titanic and the tragedy of lives lost. So hey, let's talk about the sur

Misophonia is a condition in which certain sounds trigger people in very negative ways that can real

As if being murdering SOBs weren’t enough, the Nazis were also thieving rats. During WWII, they stol

Atomic Clocks, Ahoy!

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The only thing more complicated than an atomic clock is researching how they work and then figuring

Getting the wind knocked out of you is scary, but passes quickly. Learn exactly what's happening wit

The Village People were a smash hit singing group that came and went in under two years. Then other

If you've ever been to an international airport, you've probably seen one of the keenest spotters of

Georgia Tann was a bad human. We feel safe in saying that because she kidnapped babies from poor fam

Not too much is known about Margaret Schilling. She was the kind of person whose memory might have b