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Crime sprees and their ensuing manhunts are often stranger than fiction. Here are 5 of history's biggest.

It's no secret that TV has had a great influence on popular culture. Here are 4 ways it has influenced the way people talk.

As far as animals go, humans are pretty swell. Our brilliant brains have taken us across the globe and even into space. But we’re not the only nerdy animals on this rock. Here are 5 of the smartest.

Everyone loves a good ghost story, but the events preceding the hauntings in this episode are very real.

Cannibalism is one of those ultimate human taboos – and rumors of cannibalism are a lot more common than proven cases. Here are a few of the real ones.

Being a human isn’t always easy, but it’s way less complicated than building a human!

Running away from a hazard always seems like a good idea in the movies. But not so much in real life. Here are 4 threats you should not try to outrun.

Ever since Jack the Ripper became famous, lesser-known murderers have sought to follow in the same deadly footsteps. Here are four notorious cases that were copied later on.

The older versions of popular fairy tales often get into some surprisingly mature themes: murder, mutilation, revenge. Learn the gory details in this video.

Most spiders are less dangerous to us than we are to them. Still, lots of people find them creepy. But arachnids are awesome! Here are a few of our favorites.

We would like a word with our fifth-grade teachers...

Before science brought us to this point, even some our most brilliant thinkers had some REALLY weird ideas...

Correlations are ofter bizarre. Learn about some of the most bizarre correlations in this video from HowStuffWorks.

In most cases, if you want your study taken seriously, you should NOT perform the experiment on yourself. Never the less, here are 5 cases of scientists throughout the centuries who – for better or worse – decided to be their own guinea pigs.

For every Newton or Galileo, there’s a Velikovsky and a Horbiger. Check out these 5 completely baseless theories about space.

I wouldn't mess around with these amazing women of the American frontier!

Have you ever heard the Taos Hum, or detected a signal from space? What the heck is that radio tower in Russia doing? Learn more about the world’s most mysterious noises.

Movies can suspend our disbelief with some amazing practical special effects. Here are the artists who impressed us the most with their makeup mastery.

Clever thieves have cleaned out bank vaults, museums and cargo trucks all to steal diamonds!

Human beings can intuitively recognize the physics of music. Check out these basic connections between music and physics that explain what we’re hearing!

Could the LHC really disprove the standard model of physics? What has it taught us about the Big Bang, quarks, and the multiverse theory?

Join Cristen as she dishes out some information on five very important mothers of history!

Some animals that frequently appear on our dinner plates and in our delicacies are smart. Probably smarter than your pets. How smart? Lauren explains.

Turns out that every living thing – men, women, animals, plants, insects, and algae – all have internal "body clocks" determined by a variety of biological rhythms. So why do we have these clocks, and what do they do for us?

Here are 5 films that changed everything we know about movies.