- newTwo Italian brothers claimed to have recorded dying Soviet cosmonauts that Moscow erased from history
The Lost Cosmonauts theory alleges that the Soviet Union launched humans into space before Yuri Gagarin's 1961 flight — and that the cosmonauts onboard died. The strongest piece of supposed evidence came from Italian brothers Achille and Giovanni B…
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- newJapanese officers cannibalized four American POWs on a Pacific island in 1944
In September 1944, nine American pilots were shot down during bombing raids on Chichijima, the largest island in the Bonin chain. Eight were captured. The ninth, who evaded capture, was 20-year-old George H. W. Bush.The eight captured airmen — Llo…
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- newA cargo cult in Vanuatu has been waiting for an American named John Frum since the 1930s
The John Frum movement arose on the island of Tanna in Vanuatu no later than the late 1930s. Followers believe John Frum — often depicted as an American serviceman — will one day return bringing wealth and prosperity. In some versions, a native m…
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- newEmojli was a social network where the only language allowed was emoji
Emojli launched on August 29, 2014 — a social media app that restricted usernames and messages to emoji only. No letters, no numbers, no punctuation. YouTubers Tom Scott and Matt Gray built it after seeing the success of Yo, an app whose entire fun…
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- newAt a medieval church festival, the priest brayed like a donkey and the congregation brayed back
The Feast of the Ass was a medieval Christian celebration held on January 14, honoring the donkey that carried the Holy Family into Egypt. A girl and a child riding a real donkey would be led through town to the church, where the animal stood beside…
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- The WWII commando who fought with a broadsword, longbow, and bagpipes
John Malcolm Thorpe Fleming Churchill — nicknamed "Fighting Jack" and "Mad Jack" — fought through the entire Second World War armed with a Scottish broadsword, a longbow, and a set of bagpipes. He graduated from Sandhurst in 1926, left the army a…
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- Why are car keys always kept in the visor in movies?
Surely, you've seen the old movie trope where our plucky heroes duck into an abandoned car to flee from some encroaching danger, fold down the visor, and have the keys drop right into their laps. Have you ever seen anyone do that in real life? — Re…
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- I still don't know what Kingdom Hearts is about, but there's a new one coming
Kingdom Hearts is one of those weird franchises I've never understood, and which becomes more obscure every time I've attempted to do so. So it's like Final Fantasy, but there are also a bunch of Disney characters there, along with a bunch of origin…
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- Larry David's new HBO show is basically historical Curb
If it ain't broke, don't fix it. Larry David has been the master of awkward, people-talking-over-each-other comedy since Seinfeld, a talent he later honed on his long-running series Curb Your Enthusiasm.With Curb officially over since 2024, I and ma…
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- Washington Post sued over alleged surveillance pricing
If you were fired or excluded from a job due to your race, age, or other demographics unrelated to the work you're being paid to do, it's called discrimination. But in our late capitalist world, the yacht-owning powers-that-be call it surveillance pr…
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