On September 26, 1983, Stanislav Petrov helped prevent the outbreak of nuclear war by simply following his gut.

The face behind the mask originally belonged to a Scythian warrior; a race made up of skilled horsemen and archers.

Trichophagia, a condition similar to pica, causes one to compulsively ingest their own hair.

After surviving all three disasters, Violet Jessop would become known as "Miss Unsinkable."

How Japan sent bombs thousands of miles across the Pacific and brought World War II to the American homefront.

The bat bomb was designed to terrorize the people of Japan in the most unexpected way.

The mother and her calf suffer from a genetic condition called leucism.

The fatberg weighs as much as 11 double decker busses and is longer than the London Tower Bridge.

Sammy Woodhouse is just one of 700 victims denied compensation by CICA.

The brain was boiled, dried, and preserved under sediment for almost 4,000 years.

An Arkansas electrician found a two-headed snake while performing a routine inspection on a house.