Bonnie and Clyde are perhaps the most famous crime duo in history, but they're not actually buried together. Here's why the lovers are buried separately.
Cuba is the largest island in the Caribbean, but few actually know how it got its name. The name "Cuba" might date back to the indigenous Taíno people.
U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1973, but the decision was controversial because he played a major role in the Vietnam War.
The name of Denmark might sound like it comes from the Danes who live there, but it might actually be rooted in the 10th century, and in a stone monument.
The Hubble Telescope has sent terabytes of data back to NASA, and interpreting the things it's seen way out in space has yielded some incredible discoveries.
Genghis Kahn is known as one of the most powerful and brutal warlords of all time, but how many people did he actually kill? This is his staggering death toll.
The Secret Service develops code names for every U.S. president and their family members. Here's how the Secret Service chose Jimmy Carter's code name.
President Abraham Lincoln was a man known for his boundless compassion and empathy. No surprise, perhaps, that those qualities extended beyond human beings.
A hundred years ago, scientists were chasing inventive ideas in all sorts of fields. Here are just a few scientific advancements that came out of the year 1922.
The story is told that the city of Portland, Oregon, was so named because of a coin toss. (The other option was Boston." Where does the name Mexico originate?
Norway sits in the Scandinavian region of Northern Europe. It's known for its towering fjords, the Northern Lights, oil production, and Viking folklore.
It's one of the great mysteries of world civilization. A brilliant, universally respected poet produces a large body of work -- and somehow, it disappeared.