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We know they died in a hail of gunfire, but who set this criminal couple up and how many shots were fired?

Hedwig Kohn left Nazi Germany for the U.S. in 1940 and became a leading physicist. HowStuffWorks looks at her extraordinary life.

Onesimus, a slave in Boston, taught the process known as variolation. HowStuffWorks looks at how he saved countless lives.

Apparently, Kansas is the state whose name is mispronounced.

Hundreds of explorers tried to locate the Northwest Passage. Many of those attempts ended badly. HowStuffWorks looks at five.

Biddy Mason's owner nearly tricked her out of freedom but the cavalry rode to her rescue. She later became a self-made millionaire who helped others.

The saying is really true. Texas is big. And so is everything in it. HowStuffWorks looks at the state and what's so big about it.

Is he a jolly little man in jammies or a monster carrying a sack of eyeballs? European legend says the Sandman is probably both.

HowStuffWorks looks at the extremely short, extremely ineffective border fence diving Russia and Norway.

The guys at Stuff They Don't Want You To Know break down some of the myths behind the Salem witch trials.