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Eating a wide variety of nutritious foods, including fruit, vegetables, nuts, seeds, and lean protein can help support your overall health. Many foods are both healthy and tasty. By filling…

Anti-aging-obsessed tech mogul Bryan Johnson has shared one of the shocking key ingredients he uses daily to keep himself looking young. Johnson, 46, says that every day for the past “three years,”…

When a Confederate colonel called John Clem a “damned little Yankee devil” and demanded his surrender at the Battle of Chickamauga, John shot him — and became the youngest noncommissioned…

The head of a 45-member clan in Scotland, Sawney Bean allegedly killed and cannibalized over 1,000 victims in the early 16th century. But did he even exist? The story of…

Titanic director James Cameron commissioned a special study to put the matter to rest — and noted that Jack had to die. Since 1997, a fierce debate has raged between fans…

After allegedly murdering her husband in 1960, Sharon Kinne shot her lover’s pregnant wife. Then, she evaded justice and escaped to Mexico only to kill again — before vanishing without…

Though some bog bodies discovered in northern Europe over the years belonged to people who fell into the bogs and accidentally drowned, researchers suspect that many were deliberately sacrificed. While…

Yoshie Shiratori became known as the “man no prison could hold” after he escaped four different times — once using little more than miso soup. Between 1936 and 1947, Japan’s…

Charles Domery had such a bottomless appetite that he’d devour grass, candles, and sometimes even live cats — making him the subject of numerous science experiments. History is rife with…

The jeans, which may have been made by Levi Strauss, were auctioned off as part of a collection featuring items from the sunken “Ship of Gold,” the S.S. Central America. How…