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Companies can spend years designing the perfect product, complete with instructions explaining exactly how we’re supposed to use it. Then they hand it to actual people. And that’s usually when things get interesting.

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Area 51's workers don't drive there. They fly in on a classified US Government airline known only as "Janet."

PEOPLE

Carly Simon was head over heels for actor Warren Beatty—until she found out his darkest secret.

PEOPLE

New York heiress Dorothy Arnold bought chocolates and a book on Fifth Avenue in 1910, then vanished without a trace, leaving behind one of America’s most enduring unsolved mysteries.

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History's greatest circus performers risked everything to amaze audiences—and many paid a heartbreaking price.

PEOPLE

Conrad Hilton Jr.’s most scandalous affair only came out after his untimely death—and the identity of his lover was the biggest bombshell of all.

PEOPLE

After wrapping The Last of Us, Pedro Pascal wrote co-star Bella Ramsey a note—and its contents were utterly heartbreaking.

PEOPLE

Olive Oatman was the first white American woman to be tattooed. If her name isn’t well known today, maybe that’s because of her disturbing backstory.

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Rediscover 25 bestselling novels from the 1970s that captivated millions of readers but have largely faded from younger generations' bookshelves.

PEOPLE

The Lennox sisters became infamous for their shocking romances, royal connections, and family scandals that rocked Georgian England.

PEOPLE

Doctors thought they understood ulcers. Then two Australian doctors came along with a very different idea. But when much of the medical world still refused to believe them, one of the doctors stopped arguing and did something much, much harder to ignore.

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We may be standing on the shoulders of giants—and, if some legends are believed, that phrase might be shockingly literal.



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