What Happens To Your Ashes If There's No One To Claim Them?
Roughly 15,000 sets of human remains in the U.S. are unclaimed per yer. Here is what happens to your ashes if there's no one to claim them.
Read MoreRoughly 15,000 sets of human remains in the U.S. are unclaimed per yer. Here is what happens to your ashes if there's no one to claim them.
Read MoreEvery year as the holidays approach, the Christmas soundtrack almost always includes "Feliz Navidad." The song goes on -- but what about the recording artist?
Read MoreSomewhere outside of Berkley, Massachusetts lies a 40-ton boulder that wouldn't seem remarkable at a glance but actually holds a centuries-old mystery.
Read MoreUgly laws were a set of laws that made being disabled, mentally ill, or houseless punishable by fines or jail time. Here is the untold truth of ugly laws.
Read MoreWhat even is a lunar eclipse? Is it the same thing as a blood moon? Is it just a solar eclipse at night?
Read MoreEverybody just assumes that Albert Einstein was smart. Really, really, really smart. But did anybody ever actually measure Einstein's intelligence?
Read MoreWitches have a long history, and they are still a mysterious part of many cultures and lore. Here is the truth about medieval witches.
Read MoreWhere there are laws, there will be lawbreakers. How should society deal with them? Do punishments fit the crimes? As history tells us, not by a long shot.
Read MoreDonna Summer's song "Last Dance" was a huge hit in the late 1970s, even winning a Grammy. Here is the real meaning of the song.
Read MoreThe various Nobel Prizes are intended to honor extraordinary achievement in human endeavor. A medal is involved, of course -- are there other benefits?
Read MoreThough the Mirny diamond mine isn't so infamous, this vast hole in the Earth has some frightening tales attributed to it as well.
Read MoreThe machines rising, self-aware, self-directive, seeking destruction of humanity, is a sci-fi trope. Recent real-world developments might be a first step.
Read MoreThere are plenty of unique stories out there about the ways stars found their path to Hollywood. Betty White not only found a path; she paved it herself.
Read MoreEarly in the 1990s, Dave Grohl, Krist Novoselic, and Kurt Cobain helped usher in the grunge movement with their band, Nirvana.
Read MoreA tragedy of modern life is the situation of people who are homeless -- essentially who have disappeared, been forgotten. That's an entire district in Tokyo.
Read MoreIt's not seen all that often, but a seemingly growing list of more complex animals can also make use of asexual reproduction. Here's just a few of them.
Read MoreDuring the war years, families at home and away all found ways to at least recognize the holiday and remember those that were so very far away, or gone forever.
Read MoreGeorge Carlin was a stand-up comic known for his acerbic rants on religion and American culture. Here is the untold and foul-mouthed truth of George Carlin.
Read MoreCanvases on "Ink Master" do not get compensated for having their tattoos on the show.
Read MoreHugh Hefner died in 2017 at the age of 91 and left his fortune to his four children.
Read MoreCapricorns have many positive traits, including being punctual, hardworking, logical, organized, ambitious, honest, patient, and loyal but also a dark side.
Read MoreEverybody has to start somewhere. Shel Silverstein, author of "Where the Sidewalk Ends" and "The Giving Tree," was a staff cartoonist for Playboy.
Read MoreDecades later, truth is finally beginning to emerge about the assassination of Malcolm X. That doesn't mean there aren't still theories about the murder too.
Read MoreActivist and civil rights leader Malcolm X died 56 years ago on February 21, 1965, at the age of 39. He was giving a speech when he was boldly assassinated.
Read MoreJohn Wayne was one of the biggest movies starts of his time, and he died a wealthy man. Here is who inherited his money after he died.
Read MoreMalcolm X and Louis Farrakhan had a long relationship -- friends, co-workers -- until it fractured, followed by Malcolm's 1965 murder. Was Farrakhan involved?
Read MoreThe question seems simple -- how many chapters in the Bible? -- but as with all things religious and biblical, the answer is a little complicated.
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