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Cool stories, strange facts, and forgotten moments from history
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The Bear River Massacre: The Deadliest Day for Native Americans That America Forgot
On a frozen January dawn in 1863, U.S. soldiers surrounded a sleeping Shoshone village on the Bear River and killed…
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133 Days at Sea: The Sailor Who Refused to Die on a Wooden Raft
When a torpedo tore his ship apart in the South Atlantic, a young Chinese steward named Poon Lim found himself…
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Speedbird 911: The Sightseeing Detour to Mount Fuji That Ended in the Sky
In March 1966 a British airliner turned toward Mount Fuji so its passengers could admire the mountain. Minutes later, an…
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Thirteen Ships Against an Empire: Admiral Yi and the Miracle at Myeongnyang
Stripped of rank, tortured, and left with only thirteen battered ships, a disgraced Korean admiral turned a narrow strait’s roaring…
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The Good Maharaja Who Saved Hundreds of Polish Orphans
When starving Polish children fled the Soviet labour camps and no nation would take them in, an Indian prince opened…
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The Black Donnellys
An Irish immigrant family, a poisoned old-world grudge, and a barn-lantern night in 1880 when a masked mob rode into…
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“We Are Holding Our Own”: The Last Voyage of the Edmund Fitzgerald
On a storm-lashed November night in 1975, the largest freighter on the Great Lakes vanished from radar without a single…
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From Swedish Gymnastics to the War Wards: The Untold History of Physiotherapy
Long before it was a profession with clinics and degrees, physiotherapy was a fencing master’s idea in Stockholm and, a…
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The Salad Bar Conspiracy: How a Cult Poisoned an Oregon Town to Steal an Election
In the autumn of 1984, hundreds of people in a small Oregon town fell violently ill and no one knew…
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Exercise Tiger: The Secret D-Day Rehearsal That Killed More Men Than the Beach It Practiced For
In April 1944, weeks before D-Day, a rehearsal on a quiet Devon beach turned into a slaughter. At least 749…
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The Boy Who Signed With an X: America’s Oldest John Doe Finally Gets His Name Back
In 1777 a fourteen-year-old orphan made his mark on an enlistment paper because he could not write his own name.…
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The Antikythera Mechanism: The 2,000-Year-Old Computer That Should Not Exist
In 1901, sponge divers hauled a corroded lump of bronze from a Roman shipwreck. It would take a century to…