Everything You've Ever Wondered About The Dead Sea Scrolls
Piecing the Dead Sea Scrolls together has been something of a challenge, so what have we learned? Read on for everything you've ever wondered.
Read MorePiecing the Dead Sea Scrolls together has been something of a challenge, so what have we learned? Read on for everything you've ever wondered.
Read MoreBe grateful, because you didn't have to give up the throne of England to get married.
Read MoreDiscovery's 2017 series Manhunt: Unabomber takes plenty of creative liberties with the truth. Here's how Manhunt: Unabomber lied to you.
Read MoreHumankind has had its fair share of false doomsdays. From perennial favorites like the rapture, predicted with unwavering enthusiasm three times a year, to new, exciting translations of the works of Nostradamus, people can't get enough of those wonderful prognosticated existential threats.
Read MoreMartin Luther King Jr. once said, "One day our society will come to respect the sanitation worker if it is to survive, for the person who picks up our garbage, in the final analysis, is as significant as the physician, for if he doesn't do his job, diseases are rampant. All labor has dignity."
Read MoreIf you were lucid during the weeks that followed 9/11, you'll remember that Nostradamus suddenly started popping up in more conversations than usual. At the center of his newfound popularity was a prophetic quatrain, credited to the enigmatic seer, in emails prefaced with "RE:RE:RE:RE."
Read MoreFleas and kissing. The two might seem unrelated, but in an era of social distancing, the link between might be clearer.
Read MoreThe human species has worked hard to add a layer of organization to the passage of time, and there have been some interesting solutions.
Read MoreJesse Owens and his life story are so much more than the Berlin Olympics in 1936. This is the crazy real-life story of Jesse Owens.
Read MoreThere are tales of a real life vampire... and it's not who you think.
Read MoreThere are a lot of famous places in Paris, but the creepiest might be the bone-filled tunnels beneath. This is the messed up truth about the Paris Catacombs.
Read MoreWhat do Procter and Gamble and Satanism have in common? One fun conspiracy theory.
Read MoreIt's one of the older scams going (and it's still very much going): psychics.
Read MoreYou just don't hear about organizations like the Special Operations Executive anymore. Or their mission to beat the Nazis with exploding rats.
Read MoreJohn F. Kennedy's final year in office is often overshadowed by his assassination, but his work as president continued until his final days.
Read MoreUnless you count the stars of the billion or so reality shows set in New Jersey, the Garden State's strangest and most famous creature is the Jersey Devil.
Read MoreThe Trail of Broken Treaties went smoothly at first, picking up a thousand protesters before entering Washington, D.C. on November 1, 1972.
Read MoreIn 410, Rome fell for the first time in 800 years and for the first time since the establishment of its imperial power. Though today we would date the end of the Western Empire sixty-six years later in 476, its days were now numbered.
Read MoreIn June of 1845, Andrew Jackson was 78 years old -- roughly 248 in 19th century years. Soon he'd be buried -- but not how you might expect.
Read MorePart of the narrative of the 1836 Battle of the Alamo is that the defenders were there to liberate Texas from the tyranny of Mexico. One of the points that often gets lost amid the flag-waving and coonskin caps is that by the time of the Texas Revolution, Mexico had abolished slavery. Texas hadn't.
Read MoreQuicksand is probably more important as a motion picture plot device than as an actual natural phenomenon that's waiting to suck you to your death the next time you stroll in the woods/jungle/cursed mall.
Read MoreYou'll have undoubtedly spent hours wondering what it's like to be a deep sea fisherman. But how would such a job actually pay?
Read More"He saw two black dots he assumed to be Mallory and Irvine near one of the final ridges before the peak before disappearing into the clouds again. It was the last time both of them were seen alive..."
Read MoreEdmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay's unbreakable bond was formed at one of the highest places on Earth — Mt. Everest.
Read MoreAbraham Lincoln was a great many things. And before he was president, he held a very different job dedicated to serving the people: that of bar owner.
Read MoreNative American reservations were built on a messed up history of colonization by an invading government, genocide, and stolen land.
Read MoreWas Herodotus the first Western historian, or "the father of lies?"
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