Pope Pius XII, born Eugenio Pacelli, has drawn criticism for his routine failure to condemn the Nazi regime and their atrocities in all but the most roundabout of ways. This has caused many to think that he was a barely closeted Nazi sympathizer. Now, we're going to find out the truth.
Read MoreIt is a well established fact that for nearly 40 years, Pat Sajak and Vanna White have had one job: letting television viewers know that they fell asleep during Jeopardy. In this case, the contestant's performance was alarming enough to wake Rip van Winkle.
Read MoreTalk about a microbrew. We've all had a light beer that tastes like pee, but how about pee that tastes like light beer? According to Science Alert, a woman in Pittsburgh, PA has been identified as the first known human to naturally produce ethyl alcohol in their urine.
Read MoreAbraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter can stake its heart out, because the real-life Lincoln kicked more butt than a bajillion brilliant fight scenes.
Read MoreIn 2014, Flint, Michigan became the poster city for water contamination. But it's not the only offender.
Read More"Alcatraz," said Thomas E. Gaddis, was the federal prison "with a name like the blare of a trombone ... a black molar in the jawbone of the nation's prison system." And he should know, because he's the author who gave us the 1955 book The Birdman of Alcatraz.
Read MoreFor every activist there is an equal and opposite re-activist. In the case of Swedish teen climate activist Greta Thunberg, that opposite is 19-year-old German Naomi Seibt.
Read MoreFreeman Dyson -- physicist, mathematician, but also something of a philosopher, pondering such topics as the origin of life itself -- died February 28, 2020, at the age of 96.
Read MoreThis year's Super Showdown was a pivotal moment for the WWE. With only one more pay-per-view event to go before WrestleMania 36, Vince McMahon and his struggling WWE needed to give fans a triple dose of the high-octane formula that's made this franchise such a titan in sports entertainment.
Read MoreIn World War I, the 3rd South African Infantry Regiment's had an iconic member: Jackie, the lovable Chacma baboon who witnessed more trench warfare savagery than the snowflake, iPhone-loving primates of today could ever fathom. This is the untold truth of Jackie, the baboon who fought in WWI.
Read MoreAfter the conclusion of the 2019 season, and the Patriots' disappointing playoff loss, Tom Brady entered the first unrestricted free agency of his career. For the first time, the franchise player and six-time Super Bowl-winning quarterback's future with the New England Patriots is in question.
Read MoreFew moments in history are as indicative of how strange the Cold War years were as the saga of American chess grandmaster Bobby Fischer and his victory over Soviet grandmaster Boris Spassky in 1972. So why did he never defend his title?
Read MoreAstronomers have spotted a cosmic blast massive enough to make Jerry Bruckheimer blush. The explosion was so big, that researchers are saying it dwarfs every previously observed explosion in size and scale.
Read MoreBilly the Kid was described as slight, cheerful, funny, charming, and witty. He loved to dance and sing and enjoyed a good joke, while fluent in at least two languages. Oh, and he shot people. Shot them dead. Until the night he was shot dead himself. This is the brutal death of Billy the Kid.
Read MoreSinatra invited us to come fly with him, back in the '50s, and later asked us to fly him to the moon. Were those round-trip tickets? He never said. Maybe we assumed he could afford one-way fares, because one-way fares are more expensive than round trips, right?
Read MoreIn February 2020, the British Parliament announced the discovery of a secret 17th-century corridor in the House of Commons, thought to have been sealed off during World War II. Here's everything you need to know about the secret 17th-century corridor discovered in British House of Commons.
Read MoreDecent shoes can set you back a pretty penny, but in June 2019, one collector shelled out a whole lot of cash to buy the most expensive sneakers ever sold.
Read MoreYoung people have always enjoyed pulling crazy stunts, and that’s definitely true for college students back in 1939, who were all about swallowing live goldfish.
Read MoreApocalyptic locust swarms aren't just a plague from biblical antiquity. NPR writes that in 2020, the already poverty-plagued Horn of Africa is under assault from swarms three times the size of New York City. Nothing can stop them... except ducks?
Read MoreHis name was Joseph Merrick, and he had a terrible disease that left him horribly deformed. Nicknamed 'the Elephant Man,' Merrick worked as a sideshow freak, but what caused the disease that gave him so much pain and suffering?
Read MoreThe NASA-funded Catalina Sky Survey is credited for spotting a new orbiter during routine NEO observations on February 15th. Kacper Wierzchos of the Catalina Sky Survey tweeted the announcement, "Earth has a new temporarily captured object/Possible mini-moon called 2020 CD3."
Read MoreNew York City sees an average of six manhole explosions a day, and they are doozies. What causes this cartoon-like phenomena to take place?
Read MoreLike much of Disney's output in the '80s and '90s, the tale of a pauper whose fortunes change thanks to a chance encounter with a genie in a lamp was appropriated from a much older fairytale. In Aladdin's case it's a story that researchers think may have a real historical figure at its heart.
Read MoreHe was the King of Rock n' Roll in life, but his death was anything but distinguished. According to musical legend Leonard Bernstein, Elvis was the "greatest cultural force in the 20th century." But he died too young.
Read MoreAn alternative voting method has been making huge strides in the past few years, which combines the benefits of caucuses and traditional voting in one bright, shiny package: it's called ranked-choice voting. Here's how it works.
Read More"I am Spartacus." It's a rallying cry to this day, people together for a common cause, acting as one. But whether or not the moment actually happened in history, we're still asking: Who was Spartacus?
Read MoreWhat do the richest people in the world have in common, aside from owning suits worth more than your life savings? Are all the richest people geniuses? Were they mostly born rich? Here are the stories of the richest people in the world.
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