New York mayor Fiorello La Guardia jumped onto the back of a vegetable truck at the Bronx Terminal Market and announced that small artichokes were banned.
Sky Brown is the world's youngest professional skateboarder, and she'll be in the 2021 Olympics. Here are some details about the skateboarding Olympian.
Even considering the advances in science and technology, hair restoration still remains a legitimate concern among the various scams that live on the interwebs.
The Tulsa Race Massacre is considered one of the worst massacres in American history. Countless people lost their lives and some remains are still being found.
Bribery, racism, and human rights abuses are just some of problems with the ICO. This is the controversial history of the International Olympic Committee.
Remember your childhood with swarms of bugs all around? Well, scientists believe those days are long gone and we're experiencing the Windshield Effect fallout.
Leonid Rogozov, in a base in Antarctica, had the classic symptoms of acute appendicitis and had to undergo surgery to survive, but he was the only doctor there.
Poison drummer Rikki Rockett announced in July 2021 that he had contracted COVID-19, despite being fully vaccinated. Still, he urged others to get the vaccine.
For over 60 years, immigrants arriving in America through New York were processed at Ellis Island — the last of which was a sailor who overstayed shore leave.
In 1976, as the Olympics were ramping up in Montreal, Quebec -- mere days before the opening ceremonies -- more than 30 teams simply packed up and went home.
For millions of years the ocean has been a refuge for all manner of surprising organisms, resulting in some truly unsettling body types, like the Bobbit worm.
In Glasgow, Scotland, in the 1980s, was a time now known as the ice cream truck wars. That doesn't mean ice cream vendors throwing cold treats at one another.
Allyson Felix has become one of the winningest track and field stars in sports history - but the story of her life off the track is even more compelling.
In some cases in the Bible, individuals get less than a sentence, while in others, they get whole books. Death is often an important part of a person's story.
Even with a lifetime of athletic achievement under Noah Lyles' belt, sports aren't the only thing to make up his person. The Olympian even has a nerdier side.
Killer Peter Tobin is currently serving life in prison for the rape and murders of at least three young women — how did his crimes go unnoticed by his wife?
The story of Frédéric Bourdin and his numerous identities is almost unbelievable, right down to impersonating a missing kid and living with the family.