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The Airplane Graveyard
In the Arizona desert near Tucson sprawls a one-of-a-kind retirement community - but it's not for retirees. It's for historic military aircraft that have flown their final missions. This aviation "elephant's graveyard" is called the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group, or AMARG.
Salvator Mundi: The Most Expensive Painting Ever Sold
In November 2017, the art world was stunned when an enigmatic painting of Christ called Salvator Mundi sold for a record-shattering $450 million at auction.
Alan Smithee: The Worst Director in Hollywood
For over 30 years, one name appeared again and again as the director of some of the worst movies ever made - Alan Smithee. But Alan Smithee wasn't a real person. He was a pseudonym used by Hollywood directors who wanted to disavow their finished films.
Emmanuel Nwude: How he pulled off the $242 Million Nigerian airport scam
In the late 1990s, a brazen fraudster named Emmanuel Nwude pulled off one of history's most outrageous cons - selling a fictional airport to a gullible Brazilian bank director for a whopping $242 million.
HAL 9000: This Lens is Cinema’s Most Memorable AI Villain
Stanley Kubrick's 1968 sci-fi epic 2001: A Space Odyssey gave the world one of cinema's most chilling villains - the malevolent AI known as HAL 9000. With his ominous glowing red "eye", HAL has become pop culture iconography for evil artificial intelligence.
Origin of “Eat your heart out!”
When someone tells you to "eat your heart out," they likely aren't speaking literally. This vivid expression dates back thousands of years to ancient Greece.
