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Ernest Hemingway Was A Soviet Spy, Ex-CIA Author's New Book Claims

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According to one former Marine and CIA officer, Ernest Hemingway worked for both US and USSR intelligence during and after World War II.Lloyd Arnold/Wikimedia CommonsErnest Hemingway at the Sun Valley Lodge, Idaho, late 1939. He’s perhaps as famous for his adventurous life as he is for his Nobel Prize-winning writing. And now, a new book claims that Ernest Hemingway’s adventures may have included time as a spy for both the United States and the Soviet Union during World War II and into the Cold War. Read More...

Facial Reconstruction Brings Ancient Egyptian Mummy To Life

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Forensic sculptor Jennifer Mann said she came to the "strange realization that I was looking at the face of a real person… She was a human just like me, only we were separated by 2,000 years in time."Jennifer MannThe woman likely lived during Egypt’s Greco-Roman period from 332 B.C.E. to to 395 C.E. For more than a century, Grafton High School in New South Wales, Australia, has had a peculiar object in its library: the head of a 2,000-year-old Egyptian mummy which was kept in a box. Read More...

Footage Reportedly Captures An Octopus Having A Nightmare

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At a lab in New York City, a male octopus named Costello suddenly woke up from his sleep and began flailing his arms and releasing ink. Researchers believe this behavior is evidence that octopuses experience nightmares.Eric Ramos et al/Rockefeller UniversityThe octopus was sleeping in his tank when cameras captured his alleged nightmare. Researchers at a lab in New York believe they may have captured footage of an octopus experiencing a nightmare. Read More...

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