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Human imagination is potent, being able to weave tales of terror from incomprehensible experiences. This has resulted in some rather exaggerated shadows of everyday fauna.

The haunting mud masks and Sing-Sing rituals of the Asaro people have long captured the imaginations of tourists the world over. But who are these ghostly figures?

Did you know about the antidepressant fish in the Great Lakes? Or about its sunken ships and terrorizing pirates? There is so much to know about Lake Michigan, Superior, Huron, Erie, and Ontario—and you've come to the right place to learn about them.

In North Korea, citizens are strictly trained to obey. Anytime a person becomes “disloyal” to the government, their entire family gets put in horrific concentration camps—and that’s not even the worst of it.

One city has been ranked as the happiest in the world for three years in a row—and the answer surprised even the experts.

In a 2013 book called Who's Bigger?, which ranks historical figures, Napoleon was listed second after Jesus. Let's see how, why, and what made him so powerful.