The actor who portrayed Luca Brasi in ‘The Godfather’ was hired as a bodyguard for a real mafioso on the set, until Francis Ford Coppola “fell in love” Lifestyle Strangeness Vintage Hollywood
Mystery solved on the resting place of the prolific Ming Dynasty poet and playwright known as the “Chinese Shakespeare” Archeology Lifestyle Strangeness
Samsung: The electronics conglomerate showing $174 billion in sales began as a college dropout’s idea for selling noodles News Glamour
Blockbuster: the origin of the term and the story of “The Birth of a Nation,” a controversial Hollywood hit News Vintage Hollywood
The Cherokee were repeatedly insulted and cheated by Tennessee officials, including the “Capital for a Day” News
Cambodia’s Angkor Wat used far greater amounts of stone than all the Egyptian pyramids combined Strangeness
“Baby airing”: To boost their health, new mothers in the early 1900s put their infants in windowsill baby cages Interiors Lifestyle Strangeness
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