The task required hundreds of hours of problem-solving and patience. Musician Mattias Krantz said it was worth it.

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By combining custom engineering with behavioral science, Swedish YouTuber Mattias Krantz taught an octopus named Tako to play the piano.

Mattias Krantz is a YouTuber with a penchant for bonkers engineering and musical projects. A few months ago, he went into a wet market looking not for lunch, but for a potential prodigy. Krantz wanted ...

After Lee Harvey Oswald assassinated John F. Kennedy in November 1963, Jack Ruby murdered Oswald two days later Skyler Trebel is a contributing writer at PEOPLE. He has been working at PEOPLE since ...

On Nov. 24, 1963, Jack Ruby shot and mortally wounded Lee Harvey Oswald, the accused assassin of President John F. Kennedy, in a scene captured on live television. Also on this date: In 1859, British ...

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