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“People have beautiful things to say about you, but you must die first.” The line is often attributed to…

Most wars are remembered for a few famous battles. Some of them dragged on so long that entire generations…

@1x.technologies humanoid robot “NEO” was on Andrew Schulz podcast recently. During the episode the robot…

At eight years old, Christina Santhouse was having as many as 150 seizures a day. She had a rare disease…

Rockstar has revealed a limited $400 Vice City Collection inspired by the world of ‘GTA VI,’ packed with…

Some prehistoric animals sound like they were invented for a monster movie. Every one of these was real, and…

Joseph Merrick was 27 when he entered the London Hospital in 1886 after spending years being exhibited to…

Some of history’s darkest moments stayed hidden because the people responsible worked hard to bury them.…

Some photos feel rare because they catch famous people before the rest of the world caught up. Others show…

Edward Thomas did not start writing poetry until he was 36. Over the next two years, while he trained and…

Last words stick with people because they feel like the final piece of an entire life. Some are calm, some…

Plenty of Wild West stories sound like something a screenwriter made up. A lot of the strangest ones…

Colgan Air Flight 3407 was about five miles from Buffalo Niagara International Airport when it crashed on…

George W. Bush holds the highest number on this list. He reached 90% in 2001, right after 9/11, and his…

Nobody had ever landed on the Moon, so NASA spent most of the 1960s building fake versions of it. At Langley…

Homer ends the story with Troy burning, but the city itself did not end there. One of Troy’s cities was…

@Lovable.dev was used to build a new website making it easier to find the best cafes across New York City…

Most famous people are remembered by one or two photos, and everything around those gets lost. Mark Twain in…

The First World War ended more than a hundred years ago, but parts of France still have not been handed…

Turning 100 is rare enough that people plan around it. These are the ones who got close enough to see it…

Soyuz 11 landed safely in Kazakhstan on June 30, 1971. The recovery team opened the capsule expecting to…

Krystyna Skarbek spent more of the war in the field than almost anyone who started when she did, and she got…

A @tryfomo trader turned $99 into over $300k in under 48 hrs after noticing a low budget Chinese cartoon…

The Bible is usually quoted for the parts that resolve. A lot of it does not, and those passages tend to be…