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The most dangerous set in cinema history: in 1931, 27 people lost their lives while filming the movie “The Viking”
Eat three eggs per day and no spouse required: the secret to longevity as revealed by one of the world’s oldest humans
Hours before his death, Edgar Allan Poe was found in the gutter, disheveled and raving
Ian Brady, serial killer behind the Moors Murders near Manchester in the mid-1960s, died in prison at age 79
Thanks to new imaging technology, archaeologists discover sophisticated network of Maya settlements, concealed by jungles of Guatemala until now
John F. Kennedy’s mistress was mysteriously murdered only three weeks after the Warren commission report was released
Roald Dahl, the writer of “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” was given a Viking funeral, and was buried with wine, snooker cues, pencils and a power saw
Alice Liddell, inspiration for “Alice in Wonderland,” lost two sons to WWI and as a widow was forced to sell her manuscript of “Alice’s Adventures Under Ground”
Coffin torpedoes were invented to trap and maim body snatchers, who often stole cadavers for medical students
Jazz musician Jack Lesberg smashed his double-bass through a wall to escape the Cocoanut Grove Fire of 1942, the biggest nightclub fire in history
