I have a confession to make. I like hot dogs. I couldn't eat 62, like Matt Stonie the winner of the Nathan's hot dog eating contest on July 4, 2015. But I could pack away one. Maybe two. In these...
Professor Aldini began by swabbing the ears with salt water.聽 Then he attached a metal wire to each ear and proceeded to connect them to a battery.聽 Almost immediately the subject鈥檚 face contorted...
Since World War I, the U.S. Armed Forces have routinely discarded conventional explosives, radiological waste and chemical weapons in the oceans. When this was publicly revealed by the Department...
Cleopatra supposedly took a daily bath in milk supplied by a herd of some 700 lactating donkeys. How she hit upon this idea isn鈥檛 known, but the legendary beauty may have been familiar Hippocrates鈥�...
Sulphuric acid, which has the traditional name, 鈥渙il of vitriol.鈥� It is a nasty, corrosive liquid, making 鈥渧itriolic鈥� an apt term for virulent language. At first it may seem odd that the term ...
Not if it tested for morphine, as long as we let L. Frank Baum get away with a little poetic license. In the 1939 movie classic The Wizard of Oz, the Wicked Witch of the West conjures up a poppy...
In October 2000, while walking along the shores of the "Great Salt Lake" near Salt Lake City, two hunters made a gruesome discovery. In a plastic bag, they found a white sock, a shirt, a few bones...
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