First it was David Carradine, then Ed McMahon, Farah Fawcett and Michael Jackson. Now, infomercial king Billy Mays is dead. Celebrities are dying left and right! The 50-year-old known for his shouting OxiClean ads was p...

Love or hate Michael Jackson, the entire world was stunned by his death yesterday.  Although there have been plenty of celebrity deaths, there aren’t that many that have sent shockwaves of this magnitude across the gl...

Brian Dettmer, an American artist takes a very sha...  ...ican artist takes a very sharp knife and performs autopsies - on books of all things. So far so literary Dam...

Last week marked the anniversary of the date that Napoleon abdicated and was then exiled to the Island of Elba. Thanks to high school history, we know plenty about Napoleon's military campaigns and political dealings, b...

Ah, the Olympics: the intense competition, the thrill of victory, the agony of defeat, and ... a butt pinch by Hitler? If you are sick and tired of the greatest moments in the Olympic Games sort of st...

Today marks the anniversary of the day Prince Charles and Princess Diana got married in a lavish ceremony 27 years ago. As we all know, that didn't turn out so well. But their marriage was only one in a long, Royal lin...

The following is reprinted from The Best of Uncle John's Bathroom Reader.(Image credit: NormanEinstein)The romance of searching for pirate treasure has been celebrated in dozens of stories since Robert Louis Stevenson's...

Venezuelan man Carlos Camejo, 33, was declared dead after a traffic accident and was taken to the morgue. During the autopsy, Carlos woke up!"I woke up because the pain was unbearable," Camejo said, according t...

When Napoleon Bonaparte died in 1821, an autopsy led doctors to believe he died of cancer stemming from a perforated stomach ulcer. 20th century tests on souvenir locks of Napoleon’s hair led researchers to thi...

Reprinted from Uncle John's Bathroom Reader: Fast-Acting Long-Lasting. We couldn't find Uncle John's old Fart Bazooka, but we managed to find some other famous weapons. JOHN WILKES BOOTH'S GUN John Wilkes Booth's...