No tornado has ever exceeded the damage done by the 1925 Tri-State Tornado. In the span of several hours, over 600 people died and over 2,000 were injured.
Kidnapping and ransom never seem to go out of style. People will usually be willing to pay enormous amounts of money for the safe return of a kidnapping victim.
Despite their eventual reputation, the Knights Templar weren't formed to fight during the Crusades. They envisioned a different mission when they first started.
If you grew up playing Oregon Trail on your elementary school's one computer, you probably remember shooting buffalo and your characters dying from dysentery.
You would think that people associated with the Star Trek cultural juggernaut would have translated that affiliation into long-lasting riches. Not necessarily.
You can almost say that they're CCR, but they aren't. Creedence Clearwater Revisited is essentially Creedence Clearwater Revival without the Fogerty brothers.
Elizabeth Báthory de Ecsed, a Hungarian noblewoman (1560-1614), may have been the worst serial killer in world history, torturing and killing as many as 650.
Emily Davison collided with Amner, the royal racehorse owned by King George V, and fell under the horse's hooves. Davison died of her injuries four days later.
Since his arrest, Ed Gein has not only become known as the inspiration for some of the movie's darkest characters but he's ended up in a class all his own.
Russell Bufalino may have known as "The Quiet Don," but hitman Frank "The Irishman" Sheeran said he was more powerful than legendary crime boss Al Capone.
Puddle of Mudd singer Wes Scantlin revealed that Durst helped him navigate the byzantine music industry and make connections, the foundation of his career.
A missing woman, Laci Rocha Peterson, eight months pregnant with a son, was last seen by her husband, Scott Peterson, at 9:30 on Christmas Eve morning, 2002.
Maybe it was all the success or the confidence of an athlete in his prime, but swimmer Fran Crippen craved greater challenges than the pool could offer him.
"Mukbang" means eating copious amounts of food in one sitting whilst chatting up a social media audience who get to be enraptured in the gluttonous experience.
Although the strange and seemingly ridiculous Elizabethan laws could be chalked up to tyranny, paranoia, or lust for power, they served a purpose for the time.
Before she was killed in a public hit in her hometown, Medellín Cartel drug lord Griselda Blanco was profiting from the booming '70s and '80s cocaine trade.