Curiosities

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Charles Stanley Gifford had a brief affair with Marilyn Monroe's mother, but later declined to establish a relationship with his daughter, even after she became a movie star — despite her many efforts to reach out.Find a GraveCharles Stanley...

The claim that Danish officials played "Send in the Clowns" when U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio arrived at the signing of a U.S.-Denmark-Greenland agreement is unproven. The rumor stems from footage circulating online that social media users claimed showed...

unbfacts:In 1849, Dmitri Mendeleev’s mother took him over 1,000 miles from Siberia to Moscow, hoping he could attend Moscow University. When he was rejected, they travelled to St. Petersburg, where he was accepted into a teacher-training institute in 1850....

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Willie Francis was sentenced to death for the 1944 murder of Andrew Thomas, but his first execution attempt failed, leading to a controversial Supreme Court case before he faced the electric chair a second time in 1947.Public DomainWillie Francis...

Claim: U.S. President Donald Trump's administration is considering two deals that would give pieces of Georgia's Cumberland Island National Seashore land to private owners. Rating: ContextThe proposed deals were voluntary land exchanges, meaning they would require the new owners to hand over...

<!--qv q:id=73 q:key=vcaa:Solving a tricky brain teaser might feel like it's melting your gray matter, but studies show it does pretty much the opposite. In a 2021 study on the effects of puzzle games, researchers found that brain teasers...

Lindsay Hawker was teaching English in Japan in March 2007 when she agreed to give a private lesson to Tatsuya Ichihashi — who then strangled her, buried her body in a tub on his balcony, went on the run,...

The claim that an image shows U.S. President Donald Trump kissing White House aide Natalie Harp on a golf course remains under investigation.  The rumor stems from two versions of the image shared on social media in mid-September 2026. The...