Columbine shooters Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold were hardly the bullied outcasts bent on revenge that they were made out to be — they were disturbed young men who aspired to be mass murderers.

Eric Harris allegedly shot Columbine victim Rachel Scott because she said yes when he asked her if she believed in God — but the evidence doesn't support this claim.

Cassie Bernall was supposedly killed at Columbine for refusing to renounce God, but she had actually been mistaken for fellow student Valeen Schnurr.

After a fateful accident at Japan’s Tokaimura nuclear power plant in 1999, Hisashi Ouchi lost most of his skin and began crying blood before his agony finally ended.

When the giantess Angrboda bore three monstrous children with the trickster god Loki, Odin banished them, rightfully fearing they'd spark the doomsday event known as Ragnarök.

From Marcellus Gilmore Edson's game-changing peanut paste to John Harvey Kellogg's famous patent, meet the men credited with inventing peanut butter.

Shortly before dawn on November 5, 1989, 41-year-old divorcée Betty Broderick broke into her ex-husband's San Diego mansion. She then crept up to the bedroom he shared with his new wife — and shot them both to death.

After starring in "Deep Throat," Linda Lovelace became a household name — but ended up penniless after being exploited by both the adult film industry and her husband.

While she was busy teaching, Sonia Sutcliffe's husband Peter Sutcliffe was terrorizing British women as the Yorkshire Ripper between 1975 and 1980.

Some 3,600 years ago, the city of Tall el-Hammam in present-day Jordan was suddenly obliterated in a great blaze caused by a meteoric explosion known as a "cosmic airburst."

Dr. David Stahle of the University of Kansas visited the area in the 1980s, convinced these trees were about 1,000 years old. Little did he know they were older than Christianity itself.