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Four Men Survived 119 Days on an Upturned Boat. New Zealand Called Them Liars.
At approximately 6 am on June 4, 1989, somewhere in the southern Pacific Ocean, John Glennie heard a sound he…
How a Stalled Freight Train Killed More Than 500 People in an Italian Tunnel
On the night of March 2, 1944, freight train 8017 crawled toward the mouth of the Galleria delle Armi, a…
How Stalin Ordered a Soviet Biologist to Breed a Human-Ape Army
In November 1926, a 56-year-old Soviet biologist named Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov arrived at the botanical gardens of Conakry, in the…
How Mary Foust Lived a Century in the Same Log Cabin and Became America’s Last Pioneer
On a cold winter morning in 1847, a uniformed stranger rode up the dirt path into Foust Hollow, Tennessee, and…
The Cook Who Became a Public Health Prisoner
Mary Mallon infected at least 50 people across New York without once falling ill herself, then spent 26 years quarantined…
The Tragic Story of Rosemary Kennedy, The ‘Hidden Kennedy’ Who Was Lobotomized by Her Own Father
After a botched 1941 prefrontal lobotomy performed without the knowledge of his wife or children, Joseph Kennedy Sr. reduced his…
