#OTD in 1901 Wilhelm Röntgen became the first person to win the Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of X-rays. The famous image he captured was of his wife's hand. Upon seeing her skeletal fingers, she gasped: "I have seen my death."

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Timothy Ray Brown was the first (and thus for only) person to be cured of HIV. We're still not exactly sure what happened. Or if we could do it again.

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Happy Schrödinger's cat day! ✨

Putting away Grandma's good sterling silver after Thanksgiving? Did you skimp out on cleaning it first? What if I told you that shit disinfects itself?

Here's why cops in Philadelphia in the 1960s started calling the day after Thansksgiving "Black Friday."

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Thanksgiving is upon us and you know what that means: "ragamuffin parades" and a giant, expensive, inflatable Snoopy.

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Do you call this time of year FALL or AUTUMN? Here's why the season has 2 names.

How a deaf little girl from Texas grew up to continuously defy death, do Wonder Woman's stunts, and secure her legacy as "the fastest woman in the world."

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Why do we think it means something to catch the clock at exactly 11:11?

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In 1967 two men shot what became the iconic Bigfoot "footage". It ruined one of their lives forever.

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