In 1996 Mattel released a new version of the Cabbage Patch Kids dolls called Snacktime Kids. A year later they were off the shelves and since 1996 rumors and myths have spread about what happened. Just how dangerous were the Snacktime Dolls?

Recently I came across a strange “fact” claiming that it’s illegal to die in the town of Longyearbyen located on one of the islands of Svalbard, Norway… except it’s not true. So where did this “fact” come from?

In the 1950s, outside of Italy, not a lot of people knew how spaghetti was made and so, a cameraman for the BBC took the opportunity to create one of the greatest pranks of all time.

During WWII the British military devised a plan to drop anthrax on German cattle but first they tested it out on several dozen sheep… it didn’t end well

In the 19th century there were several reports of exploding teeth but while it’s still a mystery today, what are some theories as to what was going on?

In 1971 Psychologist Philip Zimbardo decided to run an experiment involving a group of students acting like guards and another like prisoners. Within 36 hours there was a riot and Zimbardo himself had lost sight of his goals.

The story of the bat bombs of World War II proves the age-old saying, “it’s not what you know, it’s who you know.”  So when someone said “let’s put bombs on bats” no one batted an eye.

Today there are still things we don’t know about the wonders of space and everything that hangs out there. Now imagine it’s the early 20th century and someone says a comet will wipe out all life on the planet… a lot of people are going to believe it. 

Art is subjective but there are objectively dozens of non-traditional museums that are both weird and interesting. Here are 5 of them and a brief history of how they started.

In 1930 Congo Pictures released a documentary entitled Ingagi that claimed to be of an expedition to Africa and recorded a real group of rare gorillas who took local women as brides. But how real was this documentary and why did the FTC step in?

Have you ever watched a movie and recognized the scream of one of the characters? Turns out that’s because the scream appears in over 200 movies, games, and tv and is known as the Wilhelm scream… what’s up with that?

During World War II, the soviet union decided to train and use dogs for military operations then someone had the idea to use them to carry bombs to deter tanks… it didn’t go well.

In 1954 a vampire with iron teeth is said to have stalked the Gorbals area of Glasgow. For several nights a group of children set out to hunt it, though they didn’t find it, the ensuing panic caused several changed in the law.

Turns out you can be so disappointed with a vacation that you start experiencing serious psychosomatic symptoms like anxiety, depression, derealization, and depersonalization. But why is this extremely rare condition called Paris Syndrome?

Have you ever learned something new, heard a new song, or been taught a new phrase, and then all of sudden it starts popping up everywhere all the time? Like a unnatural amount of times? What’s that about?

They say ideas are a dime a dozen, but only a few act on them by building something, and even fewer actually take the steps to file a patent but this doesn’t mean those ideas are good. Here are 5 (temporarily) patented ideas…

People get spam emails, messages, calls, spam everything. But why is it called spam? Does it have something to do with the food? Technically… kind of

In the mid-20th century, supreme court decisions led to many cities and states having to change their laws on obscene materials. One city in Indiana tried to be as detailed as possible and it backfired hilariously.

With the holidays coming up, you might be wondering where the term “white elephant gift” came from. There’s a common origin involving a king who gave out white elephants as gifts but it turns out, it might not be true at all.

Officially known as Big Major Cay and unofficially known as Pig Beach, this uninhabited island in the Bahamas is full of swimming pigs with their own set of mysteries. How did they get there and what threatened to wipe them out in 2017?