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June 19, 2025Uncategorized

Poisoned: 344 Meals and a Miracle

A luxury flight packed with Coca-Cola executives turns into a mid-air disaster when nearly 200 people fall violently ill — and it wasn’t a virus, or turbulence. It was breakfast. […]
June 16, 2025Uncategorized

Orangutan, M.D.: Rakus and the First Wild Animal Wound Treatment

In the depths of the Sumatran rainforest, scientists witnessed something no one had ever seen before—and it might rewrite what we thought we knew about medicine. A wild orangutan got […]
June 16, 2025Uncategorized

Battle of Blair Mountain: The War on American Workers

In 1921, over 10,000 coal miners marched through the mountains of West Virginia with rifles, pistols, and dynamite. They dug trenches, wore uniforms, and exchanged gunfire with machine-gun nests and […]
June 16, 2025Uncategorized

Orangutan, M.D.: Rakus and the First Wild Animal Wound Treatment

In the depths of the Sumatran rainforest, scientists witnessed something no one had ever seen before—and it might rewrite what we thought we knew about medicine. A wild orangutan got […]
May 26, 2025Uncategorized

Peter Conover Hains: From Fife and Drums to Planes and Tanks

Peter Conover Hains was born before the Civil War and still wore a U.S. Army uniform in World War I. He fired one of the Civil War’s first naval shots, […]
May 19, 2025Uncategorized

Measuring Misfortune: The Pirate Who Stole America’s Metric System

In the late 18th century, America was THIS close to adopting the metric system. Washington wanted it. Jefferson wanted it. France was helping by sending a ship with official metric […]
May 12, 2025Uncategorized

Malicious Compliance: The Car Company That Sabotaged the Nazis

Sometimes, the best resistance looks like obedience. During the Nazi occupation of France, the Citroën automobile factory seemed to be cooperating — manufacturing trucks for the German military like any […]
May 5, 2025Uncategorized

The Cincinnati Zoo’s Darkest Exhibit: Native Americans on Display

In 1896, Native Americans were put on public display at the Cincinnati Zoo as part of a fabricated “village” exhibit. It wasn’t just Cincinnati—similar human exhibitions took place around the […]
April 28, 2025Uncategorized

The Lufthansa Heist: Millions Stolen, Millions Missing

In 1978, a group of mobsters pulled off the largest cash robbery in American history — and thought they’d gotten away clean.But almost immediately, the heist started to unravel in […]
April 21, 2025Uncategorized

Painless Parker and the Bucket of Teeth

He pulled teeth in the middle of the street while a marching band played behind him. He claimed to make dentistry painless—and got sued for saying so. But instead of […]