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Monkey glands for immortality, hypnotized assassins and a brain-linked cyborg couple; investigating some of the strangest experiments on record.

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Human bones as a "miracle cure" for gout; living mummies buried alive; a truly bizarre Victorian way to lose weight -- with tapeworms; from daily rites to once-in-a-lifetime rituals, the stranger side of human nature is revealed in these rituals.

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A million bats with tiny bombs strapped to their chests, inflatable tanks, robot assassins, bazooka Vespas, and war dolphins; these weapons, and others, pushed the boundaries of "possible" in the weirdest ways ever.

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From a headless chicken that lives over one year, to an out-of-this-world "celestial body" where it rains molten glass, the team explores the most astonishing bodies through these truly unbelievable stories.

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In Boston, a 25-foot tidal wave of molasses; a dancing plague that kills 100 people; a surgery with a 300% mortality rate; searching the globe for the strangest and most bizarre deaths on record.

Bizarre Deaths

Exploring the Lake Michigan Triangle and many other wild and weird places, including a doll-filled island with a dark past, deadly gas-filled explosive lakes, caves that harbor deadly viruses and a haunted place in the United States.

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