Outlaw Jesse James attained a folkloric air through a series of brutal robberies and gunfights across the midwest. But there's a bullet out there for every cop killing racist bandit from the 1800s, and James found his on April 3rd, 1882, when it came out of the front of his face.
Read MoreEvery name has a meaning, no matter how silly it might be, and dog names — while certainly a lot more fun and varied than human ones — are no exception. Here are the meanings behind the most popular dog names.
Read MoreWhen you're Leonardo da Vinci and one of your inventions is a helicopter, it seems strange that your most enduring creation is a tiny painting. Then again, Mona Lisa is arguably the most famous artwork in history, so maybe he isn't spinning in his grave. The thing is, who exactly is Mona Lisa?
Read MoreRussia's a land of magic, and by far the largest landmass in the world. But within that giant land mass there exists the story of Vladimir Putin's daughters.
Read MoreSometimes a musician's downfall can be traced back to a single, catastrophic incident that burns all of their bridges at once.
Read MoreNo one can predict the future, but there are always new technologies on the horizon that will change things. These inventions will be here sooner than you think, so it's best to get yourself and your wallet ready for the next big thing. These will be some of the greatest inventions of 2020.
Read MoreA Celtic queen named Boudica was a badass warrior. Here is the crazy story of the life and death of the Celtic warrior queen Boudica.
Read MoreOne spider that doesn't seem to freak out arachnophobes is the daddy long-legs. Who couldn't love a critter with a cute name like that? Big Daddy! Despite their towering, spindly legs, there's something about them that's less creepy-crawly than an ordinary spider. Because they aren't spiders at all.
Read MoreFreediving is a competitive sport with different variations on the theme of going dangerously deep underwater without oxygen. "No limits" freediving is the discipline where the record for the deepest free dive ever done by a human was set, and boy was it deep.
Read MoreCornered, outgunned, wounded, and hopeless, it seems likely that two of the last legends of the Old West -- Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid -- refused to be taken alive, opting instead to die on their own terms. Or did they?
Read MoreIn 2019 alone, the California Academy of Sciences announced the discovery of 71 new species. Some of these animals have insane abilities, some are masters of disguise, while others are just plain weirdos. Here are the most bizarre creatures discovered in 2019.
Read MoreAmazon's forthcoming The Lord of the Rings TV Series is seeking "'hairy hairy people" with 'wrinkles and lots of them please' to play orcs in the new show," according to the Independent.
Read MoreTwenty people -- that's how many were executed in the 1692 Salem Witch Trials. Nineteen of them were hanged, per Famous Trials, and the other "was pressed to death under heavy stones for refusing to submit to a trial on witchcraft charges." Here's the real reason the Salem Witch Trials happened.
Read MoreWhile there will never be another Beethoven, a group of musicologists and programmers has been training artificial intelligence to complete his unfinished tenth symphony.
Read MoreWhen Google Earth launched in 2001, it was possible to explore the whole world from a brand new angle. Here are the weirdest things spotted on Google Earth.
Read MoreHere's how Pancho Villa died and became the most famous headless horseman never to haunt Ichabod Crane.
Read MoreGum is generally a one and done piece of entertainment. So it's surprising that a 5,700 year-old form of 'chewing gum' remembers its owner well enough that scientists were able to recreate her entire genome, and also see what she had just eaten. You deserve an explanation.
Read MoreIn the years since "Star Trek's" 1966 debut, many of the actors who brought immortal characters to life have reached the end of their own, all-too-mortal lives.
Read MoreYoung Louis-Charles became heir to the French throne at four years old after the death of his brother.
Read MoreEveryone knows Windows XP is the pinnacle of Bill Gates' operating systems. It all just worked. Perhaps this is why 18 years after it was released, and long after it has stopped being supported, Windows XP is still Vladimir Putin's OS of choice.
Read MoreThere's another painting that looks an awful lot like the Mona Lisa residing in the Louvre. It's known as the 'Isleworth Mona Lisa' to some, and 'Earlier Mona Lisa' to others -- and some experts think that it might be da Vinci's early attempt at what would become the most famous painting in history.
Read MoreAs Macedonia's king and a consummate world-beater, Alexander the Great portrayed himself as an "invincible god," according to Livius, though he might not have believed it himself. Here's how Alexander the Great really died.
Read MoreThis is the tale of how on December 15th, a man went to the bathroom and found eighteen cobras in his toilet.
Read MoreHollywood drops a lot of turds but time and again the viewing public rewards them for it. Here are terrible movies you had no idea were blockbuster hits.
Read MoreKing Herod, a.k.a. Herod the Great, is a figure in the Nativity story and a very interesting character. This is the real story of King Herod.
Read MoreOn March 5th, 1953, Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin died in his country home near Kuntsevo. If you were looking for a satisfying explanation of the details surrounding his passing, that's as good a place as any to stop reading, because heads up, the rest of the story just sort of keeps getting weirder.
Read MoreWorld War II combined the height of human ingenuity with the lowest point of human nature. The Allied forces showed a MacGyver-like inventiveness in their attempts to outfox the Axis Powers. In one the craziest operations of all, British spies devised exploding rodents to sabotage Nazi factories.
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