How Specific Stars Can Help Sea Travelers Navigate The Ocean
Early Polynesian explorers had an intimate knowledge of the stars — a skill modern mariners would rely on from the Age of Exploration to the rise of GPS.
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How One Wrong Assumption Caused The Three Mile Island Meltdown
The Three Mile Island disaster was one of the worst nuclear meltdowns in history, and it was all avoidable. Here's how human error caused the meltdown.
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The Truth Behind Lucid Dreaming And How It Works
How does lucid dreaming work? Scientists studied techniques to help us understand how to have lucidity in our dreams and the truth behind lucid dreaming.
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The Bizarre Theory That Links SpongeBob To A Nuclear Weapon Experiment
Any time fans who are well-versed in the minutiae of their favorite art start picking them apart, they're bound to start developing their own theories.
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The Truth About Audrey Hepburn's Marriage To Andrea Dotti
Could Hepburn's second marriage help build up the family she so badly wanted? At first, it seemed so: the retired actor settled with Dotti and Sean in Rome.
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Why Researchers Think Some Mushrooms Make Their Own Wind
Mushrooms are ancient and full of various remedies useful to humans. But, how they get their spores to fly was a mystery to scientists until recently.
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How One Jellyfish Is Capable Of Near-Immortality
No creature is capable of immortality, but one species of jellyfish comes pretty close. Here's how one jellyfish is capable of near-immortality.
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What The Life Of A Professional Cornhole Player Is Really Like
Cornhole is one of the most popular bar and beach games, but it's actually a professional sport. Here's what the life of a professional cornhole player is like.
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Disturbing Details Found In The Mississippi Burning Murders Autopsy Reports
The June 1963 assassination of Mississippi civil rights activist Medgar Evers brought national attention to the rising racial tensions throughout the state.
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The Only Casualty Of The Cuban Missile Crisis Actually Prevented Nuclear War
Saber-rattling, brinksmanship, playing chicken with nukes -- all have been applied to the Cuban Missile Crisis. It could have been worse. Why wasn't it?
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How Did Shoeless Joe Jackson Get His Nickname?
Joe Jackson should have gone down in baseball history as a superb batter who worked his way up the league ladder. He even had a catchy nickname.
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What Twitter's Deal With Elon Musk Could Mean For Jack Dorsey's Bank Account
On April 26, 2022, the world's richest man, Elon Musk, offered up $44 billion to buy Twitter, which has around 217 million users browsing the website each day.
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Danny Trejo's Amazing Escape From A Death Sentence
Danny Trejo has built a solid career in Hollywood, playing parts large and small, often a character of violence. Turns out, the acting isn't really acting.
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The Lost Pair Of Pants That Led To A $54 Million Lawsuit
The history of the legal profession in the United States is filled with head-scratching lawsuits filed for the most picayune and trivial of reasons.
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The Bizarre Coin Coca Cola Tried To Influence The US Treasury To Make
President Calvin Coolidge famously suggested that the chief business of the American people was business. But how much sway does business have over government?
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The Surprising History Of How Uranus Was Discovered
Sometimes it feels like astronomy is more art than science. From celestial observation using the naked human eye to orbiting telescopes, it's full of surprises.
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Inside The Tense Relationship Anna Sorokin Of Inventing Anna Has With Her Parents
The dramatized series "Inventing Anna," now streaming on Netflix, tells the story of Anna Sorokin, who faked her way into New York high society.
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Gone With The Wind's Author Had A Secret Eyebrow-Raising Hobby
Margaret Mitchell, the former newspaper reporter who penned "Gone With the Wind," never published another novel in her lifetime. Which left time for hobbies.
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This Octopus Ancestor Actually Predates The Dinosaurs
We often think of dinosaurs as the oldest creatures on Earth, but that's actually not true. An octopus species was just discovered that may predate them.
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How One Of Queen's Most Famous Riffs Was Almost Lost Forever
Here's how Queen nearly lost the riff to one of their most iconic songs, only to remember it during the rest of the recording process.
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What Was The Last Song Kurt Cobain Performed Onstage Before He Died?
Kurt Cobain was the founder of grunge band Nirvana, and died tragically at the age of 27. The last song he ever performed was Heart-Shaped Box.
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The Truth About Cicely Tyson's Relationship With Her Daughter
One of the prices of achievement in the performing arts is privacy. That extends beyond the performer to friends and family. Cicely Tyson understood this.
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The Violent Story Of Alex Band's Kidnapping
Fans of the band The Calling were stunned when the lead singer, Alex Band, was reportedly kidnapped. Here's the violent story behind the incident.
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The Film That Angered The Mexican Mafia And Led To The Murder Of Up To 10 People
A film production led to the murder of 10 people associated with it, as the movie angered Mexican mafia members and prompted unfortunate reprisals.
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The Truth About Andre The Giant's Daughter
Literal giant of the wrestling industry Andre "the Giant" Roussimoff never married. He did have a daughter. Here's the truth about Robin Christenson-Roussimoff.
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The Most Incredible Things Discovered In Sinkholes
Exploring a sinkhole can mean stepping back thousands or even millions of years to where ancient layers of the earth and age-old artifacts are exposed.
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The Time The US Government Prosecuted Over 100 Communist Party Leaders
After World War II, the United States government decided they would wage a domestic battle. For over 20 years, hundreds of American socialists were persecuted.
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