Some libraries are starting to convert to all-digital, using space once filled by books for e-readers and computers. A new...

The Pledge of Allegiance is a cornerstone of modern America, recited by children across the country and revered by the...

Between 1904 and 1907, the German army conspired to commit genocide against the Herero and Nama people of present-day Namibia,...

Honeybee colonies have been dwindling in number for years, and nobody's sure why. Known as Colony Collapse Disorder, failure to...

Absinthe, the famed green fairy, was once banned for causing hallucinations, convulsions, and tremors. This wasn't actually because of some...

Joseph Bolitho Johns, or Moondyne Joe, was born in Wales sometime around 1820. After committing petty theft, he was sent...

During the 1950s, Borneo was overrun with rats, an unintended consequence of huge DDT sprays that aimed to kill malaria-spreading...

Parrots are known for being brightly colored, often cheerful, fruit and nut eaters. However, there are always exceptions in the...

There are certain isotopes that didn't exist at all in the natural environment, or appeared in lesser proportions, before detonation...

Hemp and marijuana both come from the same species of plant---cannabis. However, hemp is generally harvested from a subspecies of...

In Palermo, Sicily, there is a place that is every bit as spooky as it is fascinating: the Capuchin Catacombs,...

Vastly wealth parents have found a loophole to jump to the front of the line in Disney World's rides by...

On October 24, 1944 one of the most successful, destructive submarines of World War II fired the last torpedo it...

In 1914, celebrated architect Frank Lloyd Wright’s grand estate, Taliesin, was burnt to the ground by a servant named Julian...

Many people assume boomerangs are for throwing directly at animals during hunting, with the assumption that if you missed, the...

While they seem harmless enough, every known species of octopus and cuttlefish, and some species of squid, are venomous.

In April 1942, the Allied forces in Bataan fell to the Japanese after a four-month siege. The following 105-kilometer (65...

Locked away in federal supermax prison, Aryan Brotherhood member Thomas Silverstein has been held in solitary confinement for 30 years....

While Sir John Ross was exploring the arctic in 1818 he happened upon an Inughuit tribe in Greenland. Curiously, the...

During the Korean War, Allied troops murdered over 100,000 civilians and refugees in a sustained campaign of slaughter that was...

Despite executing nearly five times as many prisoners as any other state in America, Texas does not offer a customary...