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Do you know the true origin of Women’s Day?

In short Women’s Day was not born from a factory fire in 1908, which never happened, but from the political

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In short For centuries Egyptian mummies were treated not as precious relics but as goods. They were ground up and

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In short In May 2008 in Kasuya, Japan, a 57-year-old man noticed food disappearing from his fridge and installed a

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In short In July 2005 Kenneth Pinyan, a 45-year-old Boeing engineer, died from internal injuries sustained during sex with a

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In short Human zoos were exhibitions in which people from other cultures, mostly Africans, Asians and Native Americans, were shown

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In short In December 2015 millionaire Ehsan Abdulaziz, a 46-year-old Saudi property developer living in London, was acquitted of raping

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In short A Nightmare on Elm Street is the 1984 film written and directed by Wes Craven, starring Robert Englund

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Can you use mathematics to find serial killers? It seems so, and there is an equation that can track down

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In Salò, a small village with 10.000 people in the italian provicne of Brescia, there are some italian mummies. They

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In short Who: Sir Harold Delf Gillies (Dunedin, 17 June 1882 – London, 10 September 1960). Why he is famous:

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The Sutherland family, from Lockport, New York, was made up of father Fletcher, mother Mary, a son and seven daughters:

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In short What it is: an “extreme” haunted attraction founded by Russ McKamey. Where: started in San Diego, later moved

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