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One actor can't hold Gar O'Donnell — so Brian Friel used two. Inside the 1964 play that split a man in half on stage.

From Sedan's 104-kiloton crater to a plan for 520 bombs in the Negev — how the atomic age tried to become civil engineering.

Colgate never sold beef lasagna — but it did sell gassy soybeans. Harley made cologne. Bic made "For Her" pens. The stories are stranger than the l...

Andrew Davenport studied speech sciences and performance art — then built Teletubbies on developmental theory, not gibberish.

The work break wasn't handed down on a tablet—it was invented in a 1915 munitions factory by a physiologist who threatened to arrest the manager.

Excellent actors, spectacularly wrong roles — from Dick Van Dyke's cockney to Tom Hanks as a Wall Street snob. Ten mismatches, ranked.

From a Poozeum in Arizona to Tokyo's parasite museum, we explore the world's most oddly specific collections and the obsession behind them.

From the Hyperloop to the Sinclair C5, why do beautiful transit renderings never survive contact with the invoice?