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Curious Facts

Curious and Unusual Facts

Origins of Things

The Rules That Grounded Thousands of Flight Attendants

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Cybersecurity

The Fish Tank That Hacked a Casino

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Cybersecurity

When Tech Devices Go Rogue

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Cybersecurity

The Hidden Code That Wakes Your Gadgets

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Cybersecurity

How to Stay Private in a World That's Always Listening

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Strange But True

10 Surprising Facts That Sound Made Up (But Aren't)

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Money

Billionaires - Self-Made or Inherited Wealth (2025)

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Trivia

Why Are Psychiatrists Called “Shrinks”?

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Myths

Can Ship Captains Really Marry You at Sea?

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Inventions

How a VW Bus Part Became the World's Favorite Dog Toy

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Strange but True

How Many Killers Have You Walked Past?

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Funny But True

5 Local Laws So Strange You’ll Think They’re Fake (But They’re Real)

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Strange But True

You're More Likely to Die from a Vending Machine Than a Shark

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Geography

How a Tiny Island Is Getting Rich Off the AI Boom

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Strange But True

History's Worst Toothpaste Ingredient?

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Cybersecurity

Power, Water...And a Little Digital Eavesdropping

Print of Roman soldiers from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, evoking the era when crushed mouse brains and ashes were used for dental cleaning.

Strange But True

Toothpaste Ingredients Used to Be...Absolutely Unhinged

Aerial view of ‘Ata Island, where six Tongan boys survived over a year after being shipwrecked in 1965

The Real-Life Lord of the Flies (But Kinder)

When Six Boys Were Stranded—and Built a Mini-Society

Espionage

Top 10 Weird and Wacky Spy Devices

From History

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Strange But True

The Phantom That Helps You Survive:

Third Man Syndrome

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Cabinet of Curiousities

Cabinet of Curiousities

A Historical Tour of the Unbelievable, the Unsettling & the Bizzare

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