At its peak, one in three American prescriptions was for the same pill 💊

Women bought poison to remove unwanted hair. 🧴

Your grandmother's dinner plates were radioactive. ☢️

American parents once mailed children through Parcel Post. 📦

Beauty salons once burned facial hair away with X-rays. 🩻

The Demon Core's Second Victim

Astronauts use a 25-mile eye in the desert to check their bearings. 👁️

This nuclear mass could kill you within five minutes. ☢️

A service-dog dropout became the world's only surf therapist. 🏄‍♀️

A ghost-white whale kept returning to Australia. 🐋

A single tree in Utah weighs 13 million pounds. 🌲

More than 400 bodies were beneath a Cambridge building. 💀

Ben Underwood, a boy from Elk Grove, California who was diagnosed with retinal cancer at age two and had both eyes removed at age three, taught himself to navigate the world by human echolocation — clicking his tongue and interpreting the returning sound — and could ride a bicycle, skateboard, shoot baskets, and identify parked cars by clicking, until his death from the same cancer on January 19, 2009 at age 16.