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Thousands Of ‘Penis Fish’ Wash Up On California Beach

Thousands Of ‘Penis Fish’ Wash Up On California Beach

"I had no idea what they might be...it went on for two miles. I walked for another half hour and they were scattered everywhere."
Americans Are So Poor They’re Selling Their Own Blood At Record Rates

Americans Are So Poor They’re Selling Their Own Blood At Record Rates

Forty percent of Americans can't pay for basic needs like food, housing, or healthcare. And so one industry has stepped in to harvest the most valuable thing they've got: blood.
Archaeologists Discover Hair Dye Bottles Used By Civil War Soldiers Posing For Portraits

Archaeologists Discover Hair Dye Bottles Used By Civil War Soldiers Posing For Portraits

Even soldiers fighting in the deadliest conflict in U.S. history had superficial urges in mind when it was time to take their portraits.
Scientists Measure The Biggest Black Hole In The Local Universe

Scientists Measure The Biggest Black Hole In The Local Universe

At 40 billion times the weight of the Sun, this black hole accounts for 2.5 percent of the mass of the entire Milky Way galaxy.
How Gary Webb Linked The CIA To The Crack Epidemic — And Paid The Ultimate Price

How Gary Webb Linked The CIA To The Crack Epidemic — And Paid The Ultimate Price

Gary Webb's "Dark Alliance" series boldly claimed the CIA knew about a U.S. drug trafficking scheme that ravaged the country's inner cities to fund Nicaragua's Contra rebels. Years later, he shot himself in the head.
106 Years Of Showtime At The Apollo, From Vaudeville To Motown In 33 Vintage Photos

106 Years Of Showtime At The Apollo, From Vaudeville To Motown In 33 Vintage Photos

For more than a century, Harlem's legendary Apollo Theater has launched the careers of black performers from James Brown to Michael Jackson.
How Your Favorite Rock Stars Would Look Today If They Hadn’t Died Young

How Your Favorite Rock Stars Would Look Today If They Hadn’t Died Young

From Jimi Hendrix to Kurt Cobain, some of history's most iconic rock stars left this world far too soon thanks to addiction, suicide, and other tragedies. But these revealing mock-ups give us a glimpse of how they'd look if they'd lived.
The Harsh Truth Behind 11 Of Your Favorite Historical Movies

The Harsh Truth Behind 11 Of Your Favorite Historical Movies

Kenneth Taylor, an American pilot who is portrayed in Michael Bay's Pearl Harbor, allegedly called the movie "a piece of trash; over-sensationalized and completely distorted."
World’s First Male Birth Control Injection Could Be Available In Six Months

World’s First Male Birth Control Injection Could Be Available In Six Months

The contraceptive called RISUG — reversible inhibition of sperm under guidance — is currently pending approval in India. The product is injected near the testicles and lasts up to 13 years.
Adolf Hitler’s Childhood Home Is Being Turned Into A Police Station

Adolf Hitler’s Childhood Home Is Being Turned Into A Police Station

What to do with the property has long been the subject of tense discussion. After decades of uncertainty, the Austrian government has finally made a decision.
Parasitic Worm Crawls Up Man’s Penis, Lays Eggs, And Then Nearly Kills Him

Parasitic Worm Crawls Up Man’s Penis, Lays Eggs, And Then Nearly Kills Him

"It wasn't exactly how I imagined the trip of a lifetime to go. The whole experience was surreal and strange."