Peter Chiodo was a high-ranking New York gangster in the late 1980s, until he defied his bosses — then survived their attempt on his life because his weight protected him from the bullets.Wikimedia CommonsAn undated FBI surveillance photo shows the rarely-photographed Peter Chiodo, center, at a mob meeting in Brooklyn. Peter Chiodo, a 400-pound mobster better known as “Fat Pete,” was street-smart enough to survive his own crime family’s vicious internal purges in the late 1980s — but it was ultimately his massive weight that saved his life.

The Sundance Kid was already a legend of the Wild West during his lifetime. But the most intriguing part of his story may be that no one really knows how it ended.Wikimedia CommonsThe Sundance kid (seated, far left) and the infamous Wild Bunch. Harry Alonzo Longabaugh, also known as the Sundance Kid, was an outlaw and infamous criminal in the wild west. He was a member of Butch Cassidy’s Wild Bunch, the gang that performed the longest string of successful train and bank robberies in the Wild West.

"The age of the downloadable gun begins."CNNPistol made almost entirely by a 3-D printer. When America’s founders drafted the Second Amendment more than 200 years ago, it’s safe to say that they didn’t have 3-D-printed firearms in mind. Regardless, a court case settled on June 29 has made it legal to share plans for 3-D-printable guns, allowing at least some people to now make guns right at home starting on Aug.

Evidence shows an undeniable link between bacon and cancer.Bacon might bring you joy, but it also might bring you bowel cancer according to the World Health Organization. Image Source: Flickr Creative Commons/Didriks Bad news, bacon lovers, your favorite breakfast meat may just give you cancer. So confirms a comprehensive survey just published by the Guardian, itself following up on the bombshell report on the matter that you may recall from late 2015.

Just weeks after emerging from hibernation, a white grizzly bear known as Nakoda was fatally struck by a vehicle — 12 hours after her cubs were killed in a separate incident.Parks CanadaThe white grizzly bear known as Nakoda with her cubs. Canadian park officials are mourning the loss of a rare white grizzly bear named Nakoda after she and her two cubs were killed in separate vehicle collisions on the same day.