For decades Marie Antoinette wrote secret love letters to Swedish Count Axel von Fersen, revealing she had an intimate and passionate relationship with him.
It's said that Ponce de Leon found himself in Florida, where he fruitlessly searched for the Fountain of Youth before being mortally wounded by a native arrow.
Atop the remains were often masks that covered the faces of the dead, a practice seen from the Middle Kingdom all the way until the 1st century CE in Egypt.
As anyone can say who has played a contact sport, been in an accident, or just happened to take a bad spill, being knocked unconscious is a scary thing.
Bryan Adams is a true musical icon. Songs like the seemingly-double-entendre-heavy "Summer Of '69" continue to be played and enjoyed (or overplayed and hated).
Not every musical act that was big in the summer of 1969 performed at Woodstock, or was even invited. The Rolling Stones skipped out, as did Joni Mitchell.
Lab leaks do happen. Truly heinous pathogens and poxes have escaped from research facilities and government institutions in countries all over the world.
Le Bon auditioned for Duran Duran wearing a white evening jacket and his favorite pink leopard-print jeans, with a notebook full of his poetry under his arm.
St. Louis, Missouri may be the only city in the United States whose skyline is dominated by a 630-foot-tall piece of art. Specifically, the Gateway Arch.
While heroin use affected fellow mid-century jazz greats such as John Coltrane, Parker's use of the drug was especially fervent and especially destructive.
Foo Fighters started as a small creative experiment and become one of the most enduringly popular rock bands ever. This is the untold truth of Foo Fighters.
It's the world's most debunked UFO claim but there are parts that don't add up. Here are some bizarre details about Roswell that still don't make sense.
The duties of the president carry varying degrees of importance, but none is more important than the care of the codes to launch a nuclear missile strike.
Another "fact" about your body that is simply not true is the idea that your ears and nose keep growing throughout your entire life, even into old age.
Despite its focus on the future, many of the fair's buildings didn't last much past the end of the event, as they were designed to be temporary. But not all.
At first glance, Nannie Doss looks like a loving grandmother, with her charming smile and seemingly jolly disposition. The amiable appearance was only a façade.
After the war, friends and relatives called Anne's diary "an important human document" and encouraged her father, Otto Frank, to submit it for publication.
One day in 1951, Bing Crosby attempted to check into the fancy Hotel Vancouver, only to be denied due to his outfit: head-to-toe denim by Levi Strauss & Co.
Around 1828, William Burke and William Hare would work together to become the world's most famous body snatchers and two of Scotland's most notorious killers.