Seattle has always been a city of industry and innovation, something that teenagers Jim Casey and Claude Ryan knew all too well. In 1907 they borrowed $100 from an acquaintance and founded the American Messenger Company, which would eventually become UPS.
Read MoreOn February 2nd, 1979, the man born John Simon Ritchie was found dead of a heroin overdose the morning after a Greenwich Village party celebrating his release from Rikers Island prison and a compulsory detoxification program. Here's the truth about Sid Vicious' death.
Read MoreIn the last few decades we've gotten pretty good at tracking many of these potential doomsday rocks, but scientists remain at odds over what we could actually do to alter our fate if we discovered one on a collision course with Earth. Now we're working on a defense system.
Read MoreLiteral giant of the wrestling industry Andre "the Giant" Roussimoff never married. He did have a daughter. Here's the truth about Robin Christenson-Roussimoff.
Read MoreToday we refer to leprosy as Hansen's disease, named for the Norwegian physician who first identified the causative agent back in 1873. But the disease itself has been around for millennia -- with indications found in human remains dating back to around 2000 BCE.
Read MoreFrida Kahlo’s work is known for portraying both magical realism and suffering. And speaking of suffering, Kahlo had an incredibly hard life, and while she was a talented artist, she died a pretty tragic death.
Read MoreScientists have found nematodes in Siberian permafrost, frozen for 42,000 years... and they've brought them back to life.
Read MoreThere's no question that the ancient Romans contributed some of their own inventions in this, that, and the other thing. So let's start with the other thing.
Read MoreFor athletes preparing to compete in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, the limit might be coronavirus.
Read MoreFew people bother trying to deny that Steve Jobs ushered in a whole new age of information technology. Before his untimely death, he introduced the world to brand new wonders such as iPads, iPhones and iPods, and his company to countless millions of sheer cash revenue.
Read MoreGuns N' Roses has existed since 1985. As one might assume from a group that has rocked for so long, there have been a few lineup changes over the years.
Read MoreHeir to the Rockefeller fortune, Michael Rockefeller decided to seek adventure in New Guinea ... but he never returned. So what actually happened to him?
Read MoreIn the summer of 2019, archaeologists working at the ancient Turkish settlement of Türkmen-Karahöyük discovered a mysterious stone that might hold the secret of a lost civilization.
Read MoreSmartphones have become a staple of our every waking moment. But we mustn't take them to bed with us. Hitting the mattress with phone in hand is a great way to mess up your whole brain.
Read MoreThe Lone Ranger is one of pop culture’s most iconic characters, but who inspired this masked do-gooder? Well, it might have been a Black U.S. marshal.
Read Morestartup called HB11, which consists of scientists who came together at the University of New South Wales, is in the process of applying patents for a brand new method of fusion, and has so far received them in at least China, Japan and the good, old U.S. of A.
Read MoreIn a discovery which undoubtedly turns the zoological sciences upside down, scientists have discovered an animal which does not breathe.
Read MoreWhen it comes to Camelot, King Arthur, Lancelot, and Guinevere are all familiar names, but the main character of The Green Knight is probably less familiar. It's Sir Gawain, and no, he's not the Green Knight. Confused? Read on to understand. This is the true tale of The Green Knight.
Read MoreOn February 23, 2020, former stuntman and noted rocket-themed daredevil "Mad" Mike Hughes perished in an equally rocket-themed accident in Barstow, California.
Read MoreBy the time Hollywood western icon John Wayne died of stomach cancer in 1979, he had been married three times. Here's the truth about Wayne's wives.
Read MoreStadiums: they're like houses for sports. And like houses, they're well outside of the price range of basically everyone.
Read MoreIt probably takes a lot to terrify firefighters. They spit in the face of death for a living. Yet when firefighter Matthew Busko arrived at the scene of a reported "animal bite" and found an infernal swarm of bees, he was filled with five-alarm fear.
Read MoreWhile some relics are the obvious things you might expect, many of them are weirder, grosser, or otherwise more fascinating than you might've guessed.
Read MoreHumans have been trying to outdo and impress one another by building massive structures since the earliest days of civilization. And we don't care how expensive those buildings get.
Read MoreFiends, vermin, cockroaches: lend them your ears! Why would they bury themselves in your earholes?
Read MoreThe history of 9th century Vikings is passed down to us today via Old Norse oral tradition, written down long after the campfires died. Did tales get changed? Quite possibly. Over time, things get added, subtracted, multiplied, and even turned into shows on the History Channel, like Vikings.
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