A reference guide to hoaxes, pranks, practical jokes, frauds, tricks, and other forms of deception.

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The new American horror film "Split", directed by M. Night Shyamalan, recently in theaters, is a psychological thriller which centers on a bizarre

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United States v. Kane, No 11-mj-00001 (D. Nev. filed Jan. 19, 2011), is a court case where a software bug in a video poker machine was exploited to win several hundred thousand dollars. Central to the case was whether a video poker machine constituted a protected…

Until the 19th century, the Tower of London played host to a whole menagerie of exotic animals...

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In January 1960, white jazz pianist Dave Brubeck made headlines for cancelling a twenty-five-date tour of colleges and universities across the American South after twenty-two schools had refused to allow his black bassist, Eugene Wright, to perform. This…

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How did we film that crazy 400kph / 250mph Bugatti Chiron record film? And what was the camera car? And if you want more secrets and behind the scenes please subscribe so we can see the love! If you're a beast and want to skip straight to the secret reveal…

Joseph Paul DiMaggio (November 25, 1914 – March 8, 1999), nicknamed "Joltin' Joe" and "The Yankee Clipper", was an American baseball center fielder who played his entire 13-year career in Major League Baseball for the New York Yankees. Born to Italian immigrants…

Zach Galifianakis told a heartwarming story about Upper Darby's Tina Fey and his very brief stint "Saturday Night Live" in a recent interview on "The Off Camera Show with Sam Jones."

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Actor Peter Billingsley will always be associated with "A Christmas Story," but that's not the only holiday classic in which he appears.

Whether or not Monster Cables are worth it is a war that has raged since home theater immemorial. A poster at Audioholics was put in a room with five fellow audiophiles, and a Martin Logan SL-3 speaker set at 75Db at 1000KHz playing a mix of "smooth, trio…

  When Emperor Claudius died in the year 54, a teenage Nero ascended to the imperial throne. At first, there were very few signs that Nero would become one of the most infamous emperors of Rom…

The heist of the British Bank of the Middle East in Beirut is one of the world's biggest and most mysterious bank heists in history.

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