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Pol Pot died on April 15, 1998 at the age of 73 — seemingly from heart failure, though rumors of suicide or even murder began to spread in the aftermath. The post Pol Pot’s Death: Inside The Sudden Demise Of The Genocidal Cambodian Dictator appeared first on All That's Interesting....

The dinosaur eggs, mainly classified as Placoolithus tumiaolingensis, are about 85 million years old, meaning they were laid around a time when the global climate was changing. The post Researchers In China Just Directly Dated Dinosaur Eggs For The First Time Ever — And They Could Reveal New Insights About The Cretaceous Period appeared first on All That's Interesting....

The palace, the Villa Regia, was carried off in pieces by invading Swedes in the 17th century, but many of the pieces were inadvertently lost in the Vistula River. The post Remnants Of A 17th-Century Polish Palace Looted By Sweden Were Just Recovered From A River In Warsaw appeared first on All That's Interesting....

For 139 years, many tried in vain to find the F.J. King, eventually earning it a reputation as a "ghost ship." But now, a group including more than a dozen citizen scientists and community historians have succeeded where countless others could not. The post Underwater Archaeologists Just Found A 144-Foot Schooner That Sank In Lake Michigan During A Storm In 1886 appeared first on All That's Interesting....

Between 1986 and 2013, Christopher Thomas Knight lived alone in the woods of Maine, stealing from seasonal cabins and summer camps in order to survive. The post The Astonishing Story Of Christopher Thomas Knight, The Maine ‘Hermit’ Who Lived In Isolation For 27 Years appeared first on All That's Interesting....

John Phillips formed the Mamas & the Papas in 1965 and wrote many of the band's greatest hits, but when the group broke up just three years later, his substance abuse overtook his life. The post Inside The Controversial Life Of John Phillips, The Singer-Songwriter Behind The Mamas & The Papas appeared first on All That's Interesting....

Dating back as far as 14,000 years, these bodies were placed atop enormous fires that slowly smoke-dried them, leaving them deeply blackened yet frozen in time. The post Smoke-Dried Human Remains Uncovered In Southeast Asia May Be The World’s Oldest Known Mummies appeared first on All That's Interesting....

One researcher compared the phenomenon to "a human having chimp babies," and then using those babies as "a source of sperm for giving birth to human-chimp hybrids that would do all their tasks." The post Iberian Harvester Ant Queens Can Give Birth To A Different Ant Species — To Breed Hybrid Ants That They Use As Workers appeared first on All That's Interesting....

The National Archives has since recovered the book, which contains more than 500 pages of daily logs from the Pearl Harbor Navy Yard between March 1941 and June 1942. The post California Man Finds A Long-Lost Logbook From The Pearl Harbor Attacks Sitting In A Box Of Books appeared first on All That's Interesting....