Strange, True & Totally Unsettling Stories About Amputations
“Losing your head” is a figure of speech; losing a limb is a life split into before and after. Between surgical miracles, human error, and the uncanny places our minds can take us, the history of amputations is stranger than most fiction shelves. Here’s a tour of jaw-dropping cases—equal parts sobering and surreal—that say a… Read More »
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Kotoku Wamura, mayor of Fudai, Japan, was mocked for spending billions on a floodgate. Decades…
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Studies show women are more attracted to men when other women find them desirable; the effect is…
After the last Top Gear studio show, Richard Hammond said he cried all the way home. He didn’t stop…
unbfacts: In 1856, the captain of the clipper Neptune’s Car…
unbfacts: In 1856, the captain of the clipper Neptune’s Car collapsed. His 19-year-old, pregnant wife, Mary Ann Brown Patten, took command for 56 days, faced a mutiny, and navigated the ship around Cape Horn into San Francisco while caring for her husband using medical books. The ship’s insurers later awarded her $1,000, and she wrote… Read More »