Josh O'Connor
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Chicago, IL, United States
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When a loud-mouthed DJ tried to kill disco, the homophobic and racist implications were impossible…
Steve Dahl had his dream job as a boisterous disc jockey at Chicago’s WDAI, the city’s longtime rock station. But as midnight struck on New Year’s Day 1979, the station abruptly changed its format to… → Read More
Coca-Cola collaborated with the Nazis in the 1930s, and Fanta is the proof
“The onset of the Second World War confronted the Coca-Cola Company with an acute irony. For all their dogged efforts at building an overseas empire during the past decade and a half, could… → Read More
Experience The World’s Greatest Wonders Without Leaving Your House
Virtual reality is about to change the way you travel. → Read More
Women pioneered computer programming. Then men took their industry over.
Like many women in the 1930s, Jean Jennings Bartik had studied mathematics. During and after World War II, Bartik and other women actually worked as “computers.” They calculated by hand the… → Read More
The Incredible History of Animal Soldiers – OMGFacts
Not all heroes wear brass buttons. Some wear brass collars. → Read More
Prince was the only person who thought ‘Purple Rain’ would be a box-office hit
Many of us will watch Purple Rain on the first anniversary of Prince’s death. It’s a classic. But back in the spring of 1983, only one man thought it was a good idea. Fresh from touring behind the… → Read More
Netflix Knows A Way To Turn Your Mind Into A Remote Control
You can’t lose the remote when the remote is your brain. → Read More
Could ‘The Secret Of NIMH’ Happen In Real Life? – OMGFacts
Our Movie Mythbusters series answers the age-old question, “Okay, but could that actually happen in real life?” With powerful chemicals injected into their brains, the rats and mice became fiercely… → Read More
The World’s Largest Grave Is Home To Paris’ Best Illegal Parties
Bachelor parties and porn shoots in the company of 6 million bodies. → Read More
This Japanese App Wants Your Real Poo
How much do you weigh? Divide that by 100. That’s how many pounds of bacteria are living in your body right now. So if you weigh 150 pounds, you’ve got 1.5 pounds of the stuff living in your nasal… → Read More
Thank TGI Fridays For All Your Bar Hookups
The history of TGI Fridays goes way beyond unlimited apps. → Read More
Will Sitting Too Close To The TV Make You Go Blind?
Our Middle School Mysteries series investigates childhood rumors you never bothered to fact-check yourself. The last time I was home I caught my nephew sitting on a stool about 12 inches away from… → Read More
Rampant Murder Created The Pharmacy Business
The people who fill your prescriptions used to sell poison. → Read More
How Stoned College Kids Invented Modern Anesthesia
It’s all fun and games until someone cuts a tumor off your neck. → Read More
The White Reporter Who Pretended To Be Black During Jim Crow
James R. Crawford had only been on the segregated train headed south for a few hours when he started disliking white people. He resented their “impudent assumption that wanted to mingle with… → Read More
For the Jewish chemist who invented chemical weapons, the consequences were dire
The shimmering yellow-green mist drifted towards the French Algerian troops in their trenches. Thinking it was smoke to mask a German assault, officers commanded the men to stand up and ready their… → Read More
There Is Life After Death, But Not How You Think
Researchers wonder if their findings could someday help raise the dead. → Read More
Britain’s First Female Doctor Posed As A Man
Our Unsung Heroes series brings history’s unknown badasses out of the footnotes and into the spotlight. The pistol weighed heavily in the Irish doctor’s hand, an instrument of death unlike the… → Read More
Meet the woman once called a ‘nitpicker’ who saved thousands of American babies from birth defects
Frances Oldham Kelsey arrived at the Food and Drug Administration in Washington in the summer of 1960. The 46-year-old doctor and mother of two was one of just seven full-time staffers tasked with… → Read More
Could Prehistoric Bugs Thaw And Kill Us All?
‘Jurassic Park’s’ mosquito DNA may pose real-life dangers. → Read More