All kinds of disasters, natural and otherwise, have rocked the American landscape through history. Many of them, like the Great Chicago Fire, are remembered by nearly everyone. Other disasters have faded into oblivion, forgotten by all those except the ones who lived them.
Read MorePretty much everyone who grew up in the '90s knows who Pocahontas is. Disney Princess, love interest of the great explorer John Smith, Native American nobility. Yes, Disney taught us many things about the Powhatan heroine, and they're all wrong. Mostly. Here's the truth about Pocahontas.
Read MoreEveryone wants to leave their mark on history, and there's no better way to do that than having something important named after you. Sometimes, that thing is a medical condition. What do you do to earn that? Here are real-life people who had medical conditions named after them.
Read MoreSometimes, coincidences just kind of ... happen, and don't really mean anything. Other times, they might be signs of a vast global conspiracy, a magic spell, or extraterrestrial surveillance, depending on who sees them. These bizarre coincidences all happened on the same date.
Read MoreA new study published in the journal Physical Review Letters may have the solution to science's most angst-ridden puzzle -- why the universe exists at all.
Read MoreSteven Seagal is a great many things: Actor, blues musician, a reportedly difficult coworker, and possibly useless in an actual fight. Does he have the black belt (or, better yet, belts) to prove his skills, or is he one of those martial arts actors who don't even have a black belt?
Read MoreYou'd think that a beard would be a bacteria sanctuary, and the longer, the better for bacteria. Shaving must be healthy. Not necessarily.
Read MoreIf cats knew they were also mostly tiger inside, would they cease to know who or what they are? And are some cats more lion-like than others? If so, which breed best resembles the king of the jungle?
Read MoreOn February 2nd, 1979, the man born John Simon Ritchie was found dead of a heroin overdose the morning after a Greenwich Village party celebrating his release from Rikers Island prison and a compulsory detoxification program. Here's the truth about Sid Vicious' death.
Read MoreThese kiddie shows can't possibly be good for us past a certain age, so we change them.
Read MoreIn the last few decades we've gotten pretty good at tracking many of these potential doomsday rocks, but scientists remain at odds over what we could actually do to alter our fate if we discovered one on a collision course with Earth. Now we're working on a defense system.
Read MoreToday we refer to leprosy as Hansen's disease, named for the Norwegian physician who first identified the causative agent back in 1873. But the disease itself has been around for millennia -- with indications found in human remains dating back to around 2000 BCE.
Read MoreFrida Kahlo’s work is known for portraying both magical realism and suffering. And speaking of suffering, Kahlo had an incredibly hard life, and while she was a talented artist, she died a pretty tragic death.
Read MoreFew people bother trying to deny that Steve Jobs ushered in a whole new age of information technology. Before his untimely death, he introduced the world to brand new wonders such as iPads, iPhones and iPods, and his company to countless millions of sheer cash revenue.
Read MoreHeir to the Rockefeller fortune, Michael Rockefeller decided to seek adventure in New Guinea ... but he never returned. So what actually happened to him?
Read MoreIn the summer of 2019, archaeologists working at the ancient Turkish settlement of Türkmen-Karahöyük discovered a mysterious stone that might hold the secret of a lost civilization.
Read MoreSmartphones have become a staple of our every waking moment. But we mustn't take them to bed with us. Hitting the mattress with phone in hand is a great way to mess up your whole brain.
Read Morestartup called HB11, which consists of scientists who came together at the University of New South Wales, is in the process of applying patents for a brand new method of fusion, and has so far received them in at least China, Japan and the good, old U.S. of A.
Read MoreGame shows have been around almost as long as TV itself. There have been plenty of game shows and even more game show hosts, but not all of the game show hosts have been really terrible people. Let's dive into the gross world of terrible game show hosts.
Read MoreIn a discovery which undoubtedly turns the zoological sciences upside down, scientists have discovered an animal which does not breathe.
Read MoreWhen it comes to Camelot, King Arthur, Lancelot, and Guinevere are all familiar names, but the main character of The Green Knight is probably less familiar. It's Sir Gawain, and no, he's not the Green Knight. Confused? Read on to understand. This is the true tale of The Green Knight.
Read MoreOn February 23, 2020, former stuntman and noted rocket-themed daredevil "Mad" Mike Hughes perished in an equally rocket-themed accident in Barstow, California.
Read MoreStadiums: they're like houses for sports. And like houses, they're well outside of the price range of basically everyone.
Read MoreIt probably takes a lot to terrify firefighters. They spit in the face of death for a living. Yet when firefighter Matthew Busko arrived at the scene of a reported "animal bite" and found an infernal swarm of bees, he was filled with five-alarm fear.
Read MoreHumans have been trying to outdo and impress one another by building massive structures since the earliest days of civilization. And we don't care how expensive those buildings get.
Read MoreFiends, vermin, cockroaches: lend them your ears! Why would they bury themselves in your earholes?
Read MoreWhile King Henry VIII's infamous series of unhappy couplings often gets the lion's share of the spotlight, he wasn't the only Tudor who was getting into matrimonial trouble. His sister, Margaret Tudor, had quite the track record of her own when it came to scandal at the altar.
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