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With tax season right around the corner and rumors that the feds may or may not have hired 87,000 new agents to watch our Venmo accounts. The history of the...

This is the truly wild and bizarre story of the Rumble in the Jungle. It was one of heavyweight boxing’s all-time greatest matchups, or was it? Maybe it was all...

The Cocaine Bear, what an ingenious idea for a movie. It’s never been done before, right? Carnivorous, top of the food chain in the animal world, predator going crazy, hunting...

February 14th. It’s a day that most women cherish as a time when tasty chocolates, roses, and love comes their way. All thanks to the harbinger of pure romance himself,...

Colombia has many interesting things. From world-famous coffee beans to the most sparkling emeralds on the planet to, unfortunately, the mass production and export of cocaine. Yes, why they even...

Who would ever suspect that the US government was responsible for all the poisoned booze? It was just shy of the new decade of the 1920s in America. Anti-alcoholic organizations...

Fidel Castro was loathed by the ones he ruled over. He reigned over Cuba for more than 47 years. He was born on August 13, 1926, and died at the...

As a child, he tortured animals for fun. He financed his medical degree with insurance scams, using corpses and fake claims. Later, he admitted to murdering at least 27 people....

There is a strange piece of weird history involving the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and blow-up dolls. During the Cold War, the CIA reportedly developed many unconventional weapons and tools...

When you’ve reached the end of the internet like the staff here at Skillset Magazine, you go down strange rabbit holes in the cyber universe. Today we bring you obscure...

Some people enjoy long walks on a beach, and others like kicking back with a few cold ones. As for myself, I enjoy looking through the history books to try...