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How Hedy Lamarr, a Hollywood beauty of the Golden Age, became a first-class inventor, creating a visionary device that led to Wi-Fi and GPS
The sugar industry paid Harvard scientists $50,000 in the 1960s to blame fat for the nation’s heart-disease problems
Over his lifetime, President John F. Kennedy received last rites four times before his assassination in 1963
Christopher Walken, who once worked as a lion tamer in a circus, said his favorite lion was “very sweet”
A “Super Mercedes” that Hitler used receives a $7 million bid at auction, but that was not enough
Brazilian rock shelter proves humans inhabited Americas 23,000 years ago
One of the strangest geological formations on Earth: the Devil’s Slide in Utah
A man of Ancient Greece proposed to his beloved by throwing an apple at her, a custom inspired by a fateful fight over which goddess was fairest
Prolific composer John Williams of “Star Wars,” “Jaws,” and “Harry Potter” fame has received 51 Oscar nominations so far, more than any living person
Vogelsang, East Germany: How a bucolic village became a Soviet nuclear missile base with warheads pointed at NATO nations
