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The Backstory: Let’s get in bed
We take our beds for granted. But how and where we slept, as well as who we were with and what we did while in bed, has changed dramatically over the…
2 years, 6 months ago
The Backstory: The last thing they saw
Criminal forensics has seen some pretty amazing advances over the past decade. But less than a century ago, investigators were attempting to nab kill…
2 years, 6 months ago
The Backstory: Where did all the dinosaurs go?
Have we really only known about dinosaurs for less than 200 years? They roamed the earth for almost 200 million years and were wiped out in a matter …
2 years, 6 months ago
The Backstory: The concealed Kennedy
The sister of a president and two senators, Rosemary Kennedy was subjected to surgery that destroyed her brain and her life...simply because she didn…
2 years, 6 months ago
The Backstory: He did WHAT while President?!
Being President doesn't mean you don't have some pretty weird personal quirks...everything from what they did in their free time, to some of the odd …
2 years, 6 months ago
The Backstory: The First Female Serial Killer?
Fake news has cost a lot of people their reputations...and even their lives. Was that the case for America's so-called first female serial killer?
See…
2 years, 6 months ago
Celebrities and their world-changing inventions
Mark Twain invented the modern bra strap? A ventriloquist who was a huge star in kids’ television and in Vegas invented the first artificial heart? A…
2 years, 7 months ago
Inventing Thanksgiving
There's lots of tradition when it comes to Thanksgiving. But a lot of how and when we celebrate, what we eat, and what we look forward to about the l…
2 years, 7 months ago
Napoleon’s complicated sex life
Napoleon Bonaparte, legendary general, legendary emperor, legendary lover…or was he? It seems his feelings about sex were all over the map. He was an…
2 years, 7 months ago
ADHD…from Mozart to Musk
Here’s a surprise! It seems lots of our icons have something in common. We’re talking about Albert Einstein, Walt Disney, Mozart, Abe Lincoln, Thomas…
2 years, 7 months ago