Do you even realise you’ve seen this face before? Probably not, and the reason is really creepy. “Resusci Anne, also known as Rescue Anne, Resusci Annie, CPR Annie, Resuscitation Annie, Little Annie, or CPR Doll is a model of medical simulator used for teaching both emergency workers and members of […]
To become an astronaut you need to be at the top of your game – physically and mentally, but not everyone at the top stays at the top. “Lisa Marie Nowak (née Caputo; born May 10, 1963) is an American aeronautical engineer and former NASA astronaut and United States Navy […]
Game shows were different back in the day, in part because the law had to step in. “The 1950s quiz show scandals were a series of scandals involving the producers and contestants of several popular American television quiz shows. These shows’ producers secretly gave assistance to certain contestants in order […]
Never get on the bad side of someone who is willing to dedicate years of their life to the most inane and trivial matters. “The Twenty-seventh Amendment (Amendment XXVII, also known as the Congressional Compensation Act of 1789) to the United States Constitution states that any law that increases or […]
These hitmen turned a contract killing into a pyramid scheme, with hilarious results. “Contract killing is a form of murder or assassination in which one party hires another party to kill a targeted person or persons. It involves an illegal agreement which includes some form of payment, monetary or otherwise. […]
Some had more fun during history’s deadliest conflict than others. “Koivunen was assigned to a ski patrol on 20 April 1944, along with several other men. Three days into their mission, on March 18th, the group was attacked and surrounded by Soviet forces, from which they managed to escape. Koivunen […]
A tale both beautiful and strange emanating from WWII – but lasting for decades afterwards. “The Charlie Brown and Franz Stigler incident occurred on 20 December 1943, when, after a successful bomb run on Bremen, 2nd Lt Charles “Charlie” Brown’s B-17 Flying Fortress (named “Ye Olde Pub”) was severely damaged […]
This hunt for Hitler’s personal diaries broke into an international scandal – but not for the reasons you might think. “The Hitler Diaries (German: Hitler-Tagebücher) were a series of sixty volumes of journals purportedly written by Adolf Hitler, but forged by Konrad Kujau between 1981 and 1983. The diaries were […]
With the official version of events being so strange, do we really know what happened here? “Ursula Eriksson and Sabina Eriksson (born 3 November 1967) are Swedish twin sisters who came to national attention in the United Kingdom in May 2008. The twins had been in Ireland before travelling to […]
It’s the greatest “what if” of our time; what if bin Laden was an elephant? Well, wonder no more. “Osama bin Laden was a rogue bull elephant named after the eponymous designated terrorist of the same name. It was responsible for at least 27 deaths and destruction of property in […]
