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Centipedes Have Too Many Damn Legs!!! • They're literally everywhere. • outtakes

The paper confetti we know and love was preceded for centuries by handfuls of foodstuffs - some of which you wouldn't necessarily have wanted to get a face full of.

You could hire them to come to your loved one'a funeral and eat their sins...metaphorically of course. Or was it?

If you're allergic to bees the first time you get stung isn't the most dangerous - the second time is.

At 14, Graham Young was committed to Broadmoor for poisoning his family. Less than a decade later he was released - even after vowing to poison more people. Which, of course, he did.

ICD codes are how medical services get billed and trust me, there's a code for everything (V97.33XD: sucked into a jet engine)

A dead woman's body found in a tree trunk by a group of rascally young boys becomes an unsolved mystery full of intrigue, ominous graffiti and probably some WWII spies.

Accounts of the pioneers' cannibalism are greatly exaggerated.

When he was a 26 year old med student in Germany Werner catheterized his own heart to prove it could be done. He was laughed out of cardiology and didn't get any love for his research for 20 years.

Some people claim they can't stand the taste of "plain water" — are you one of them? Because there's some science that might validate you.

The UN declared access to the internet a human right but not all nations agree. Around the world the conversation about net neutrality continues.

The most successful Cold War espionage mission was basically spies dumpster diving at the Soviet HQ. The military had no toilet paper so were wiping their butts with top secret intel instead.

This under sea volcano in the Caribbean has erupted about a dozen times since we started paying attention to it in 1939. But more importantly: how the hell did it get that name?

Said to be the work of Ernest Hemingway, the shortest of sad short stories predates him by decades and may have been rooted in a very true and very sad story indeed.

Scientists heard a weird sound in the ocean and freaked out thinking it was the biggest sea critter ever. So what was it?