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“STENDEC”: The mysterious 1947 Star Dust airliner crash and the final bizarre message sent by the crew
Edvard Munch’s famous painting “The Scream” may have been partially inspired by the 1883 volcano on Krakatoa
The Beach Boys sang about a California culture of sun and sand in the 1960s but didn’t actually like to surf themselves
The reason John F. Kennedy kept a battered coconut shell on his desk in the Oval Office
The forgotten “sleepy sickness” epidemic transformed victims into living statues, speechless and motionless, and scientists still don’t understand it
Despite what everyone thinks, bank heists were almost nonexistent in the Wild West
The first vehicle to exceed a speed of 60 mph was a purpose-built electric car
Spy Game: When Soviet schoolchildren presented Ambassador Averell Harriman with a replica of the Great Seal of the U.S. in 1945, there was a listening device inside
Singapore Botanic Gardens houses a fantastic orchid collection, including the tiger orchid, believed to be oldest orchid in the world
Ancient Roman coins discovered by two excited friends with a metal detector turned out to be fakes planted in field by TV show
