Why Leonardo Da Vinci And Michelangelo Couldn't Stand Each Other
Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo, both of whom lived in the 1400s and 1500s, created works of art that have been studied by many over the centuries.
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This Is How Many Toes North Pole Explorer Robert Peary Lost
The danger that an explorer faces, particularly those who go to the most inhospitable places on Earth, is the loss of one's body parts to the elements.
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The Surprising Way Teeth Were Once Used As Medicine
Knowledge of the human body and how to treat it is always growing, and now we have access to surgeries and procedures that were just dreams centuries ago.
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The Reason New England Once Banned Christmas
The founders of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, who left England because of persecution, thought little of Christmas and opened their shops on December 25.
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The Real Reason Sigmund Freud Hated The United States
Sigmund Freud, pioneer in the then-emerging study of the role the mind plays in one's health, shared his fellow Europeans' love and hatred of the U.S.
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How Lincoln's Son Was Linked To The Assassination Of Three US Presidents
What history forgets to teach is that Lincoln's son, Robert, bore witness to other presidential tragedies, years after the death of his father.
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The 9,000-Year-Old Beer Discovered In China
Ah... beer. What could be finer than a pint of cold, frothy beer after a hard day's work? Stroll into a pub, peruse the taps, make your choice, sit and chill.
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Why Mark Twain Couldn't Stand The Post Office
The strangest of all Twain's clashes came not at the expense of a single person but rather of a vast and faceless organization: the United States Post Office.
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How A Sunken Ship Led To Ed And Lorraine Warren's Marriage
If you've never heard the names Ed and Lorraine Warren, you're sure to have heard of some of the most famous supernatural cases they've investigated.
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Why Ferdinand Magellan Was Considered A Traitor To His Home Country
Ferdinand Magellan approached Portugal's King Manuel repeatedly to ask him to fund a westward voyage to the Spice Islands, to no avail.
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We Could Have Avoided The Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill. Here's How
The BP oil spill was a gargantuan disaster, but it could have been totally avoided if the company had done a better job. Here's what could have happened.
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Why Florida Would Have Never Been A State Without John Quincy Adams
Anyone who has enjoyed the warm, beautiful beaches of Florida owes thanks to John Quincy Adams, as his talks with Spain changed the geography of the U.S.
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The Real Reason Alfred Kinsey Collected Millions Of Wasps
It is almost unthinkable that one person could collect — by hand — seven-and-a-half million of anything without it being the work of a whole lifetime.
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Here Is Why Some Scholars Think God Had A Wife
By "God," researcher Stavrakopoulou means specifically Yahweh, the God of Ancient Israel from whom many modern formulations of the Almighty are derived.
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What The Bible Really Says About Beards
Some of the Bible's teachings about facial hair and head hair are actually rather vague, and in the cases when they're specific.
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Here's What The Bible Really Says About Going To A Psychic
Depending on what Bible you reference, mediums, spiritualists, necromancers, and their ilk are all verboten. Despite that, 1 in 5 Americans have visited one.
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The Real Reason The Segway Was A Failure
The Segway was supposed to change the way we move around cities. Instead, it became the butt of endless jokes and sad ironies. Here's why it was a failure.
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The Oldest Manuscript In The Vatican Archives Might Surprise You
The secretive Vatican Archive is, on the surface at least, a place where the personal records of the pope can be archived and stored.
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The NYC Skyscraper That Almost Demolished Midtown Manhattan
What if we were to tell you that an almost equally bad disaster involving the Citicorp Center building in Midtown Manhattan was averted years earlier?
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Why Charles Lindbergh Was Once Given An Award By The Nazis
Charles Lindbergh is an early hero of aviation, captivating headlines worldwide for his trans-Atlantic flight and becoming one of the first modern celebrities.
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Messed Up Things We Learned From The Facebook Whistleblower
In the last few years, social media giant Facebook has been marred with a lot of controversy, and they're not just minuscule conflicts, either.
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The Ten Commandments Explained
The Ten Commandments are fundamental in Judaism and Christianity. Here's what the commandments mean in a modern context.
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The Mythology Of Odin Explained
Odin was one of the central gods in Norse mythology, and he is also one of the most complex. Here is the mythology of Odin explained.
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Animals That Went Extinct In The Last 100 Years
Extinct animals can be as fascinating and puzzling as extraterrestrials. Here are just a few of the animals believed to have gone extinct in the last century.
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Why Johann Sebastian Bach Once Brawled With His Students
Johanne Sebastian Bach got into a physical altercation with one of his students whose bassoon-playing skills he berated.
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How Much Money Does Facebook Lose Every Hour It's Down?
Social media platform Facebook loses millions of dollars every hour it's down and inaccessible to users.
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This Sport Blinded Teddy Roosevelt In One Eye
Captain Meade didn't know he had caused the injury until President Roosevelt revealed it in his autobiography 12 years later. The extent of it was hidden.
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