Here's How Northern Lights Get Their Color
What causes the seemingly otherworldly, colorful display known as the Northern Lights, or, more formally, the Aurora borealis in the north and Aurora australis in the south?
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The Trick MythBuster's Jamie Hyneman Uses To Solve Problems
When his body is engaged, his mind does a better job at dismantling puzzles and coming up with new ideas. As Wired described the clip, "It sure sounds Californian, but there must be something to it." Hyneman himself says, "The mind and the body really aren't so separate."
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The Tragic Death Of Dale Earnhardt, Sr
According to initial reports by the Orlando Sentinel, he died of the brain injury, but those reports turned out to be incorrect. According to U.S. Motorsport, Dr. Barry Myers, a professor of biomedical engineering at Duke University, reviewed Earnhardt's autopsy images.
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Why The Smiths Decided To Call It Quits
Any break up is complicated. Such is the case with The Smiths.
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The Famous Singer That Inspired Tom Petty To Make Music
Petty didn't find modern music appealing at all and was disappointed by what he discovered. For him, classical legends were inspirational. The turning point for the singer was meeting musical icon Elvis Presley as a 11-year-old.
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How The Government Helped Make Saturday Morning Cartoons Disappear
Eventually, the near-legendary image of a child plopped before a TV screen with a bowl of cereal on a Saturday morning was no more.
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What Al Capone's Final Days Looked Like
Capone was estimated to have been responsible for the deaths of at least 33 people, according to a contemporary report in the Chicago Herald Tribune. What sort of death does such a figure as Al Capone deserve? Whatever you think, the story of his final days is a deeply unfortunate one.
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The Untold Truth Of The Yorkshire Ripper
When it comes to notorious serial killers, there's probably none higher on the list than Jack the Ripper, but what about the Yorkshire Ripper? This is the the untold truth of the Yorkshire Ripper.
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The American Rock Star Who Inspired Joan Jett
Joan Jett freely admits that her iconic "look of black leather, black eyeliner, and a black shag haircut," as well as her sound, are not entirely original; her inspiration was rocker Suzi Quatro.
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How Jerry Lee Lewis' Marriage Destroyed His Career
Myra Gail attracted plenty of attention from journalists during the couple's trip to England, where a local reporter, Paul Tanfield, engaged in a conversation with Lewis about Myra. How old is she? Lewis promptly revealed that Myra was 15.
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The Truth About Jared Leto's Tragic Childhood
According to Leto, his father went out to get a carton of milk, only to metaphorically end up on a milk carton himself, back in the early 1970s when Leto was only a baby. The story gets a bit darker. Leto's dad remarried, and Leto never heard from the guy again.
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The Tragic Death Of Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers' Thuy Trang
The Vietnamese-born actress Thuy Trang was on her way to a very successful Hollywood career when her life was tragically cut short in 2001.
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The Unsolved Mystery Of The Circleville Letter Writer
The situation around the Circleville poison pen letters eventually turned from terrifying to deadly. What's even scarier, the Circleville letter writer may still be out there. The Circleville letter writer sent poison pen letters to multiple residents of the small town, accusing them of misdeeds.
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The 800-Year-Old Book That Supposedly Contains The Devil's Portrait
The Codex Gigas. No, this isn't the name of a companion piece to the Necronomicon, or the sacred tome for a race of cosmic necromancers from Warhammer 40k.
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The Unique Way That Chief Blackbird Was Buried
Chief Blackbird was a notorious leader who spearheaded the cause of the Omaha Native American Indian tribe in the 18th century. But the way he was buried was timeless.
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What You Need To Know About The Bonus Army
The Bonus Army was a protest held by as many as 25,000 veterans of World War I and their families who descended upon Washington, D.C. in 1932 to demand the bonus checks they'd been promised in order to help them get through the economic turmoil of the Great Depression.
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The Truth About The First Fatality At The X Games
Caleb Moore readied his snowmobile. He was about to begin his run at the 2013 Winter X Games Snowmobile Freestyle event, an event he had earned the Bronze medal for three years running. He didn't know it would be his last.
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The Truth About The Time Elon Musk Went Completely Broke
Clearly, Elon Musk has had a tumultuous career. But the entrepreneur's most unfortunate moment may have been the time he lost all his cash in 2010.
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The Truth About North Korean Internet
If the average North Korean had access to the full internet, they'd be shocked to find that the rest of the world is a lot different than their home country. But of course that is exactly why most of them can't go online.
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Orcas Have Started Ramming Boats, And Scientists Are Worried
Sometimes, animals display behaviors that are weirdly human. Most often, this can be a fluke, such as when a photographer manages to capture animals in an unusual pose, with hilarious results. But what happens when a species displays new behaviors time and time again that aren't necessarily cute?
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Creepy Tales Of School Ghosts
With centuries of student and teacher history, schools are one of the most common places for ghosts to haunt, from Ireland to Oklahoma.
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The Concerning Truth About Moon Shoes
While trampolines have sent over a million people to the emergency room, toy manufacturers in the 90s thought, "Why not strap them to kids' feet?" And thus, the moon shoes were born.
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The Cave That Inspired Pink Floyd And Jules Verne
Known to the Celts as "The Cave of Melody", what is now known as Fingal's Cave has been well-documented in ancient Irish and Scottish Celtic legends for centuries.
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What It's Really Like To Live On The Space Station
Astronauts living onboard the International Space Station 250 miles above Earth experience life a bit differently. On the space station, the effects of microgravity mean astronauts are strapped in while they eat, exercise, and use the toilet. Living on the space station can affect height and aging.
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This Florida City Is Finally Embracing Saggy Pants
A 13-year-old law banning the wearing of "saggy" pants has finally been overturned in the city of Opa-Locka, South Florida.
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The Real Reason Guns N' Roses' Original Guitarist Left The Band
Tracii Guns was hanging around stage before a gig for his band, L.A. Guns, when another young man performed a mic check. "Oh s---," Guns recalled thinking to AL, "who is this guy?"
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Here's How Much Steely Dan's Donald Fagen Is Really Worth
Donald Fagen is the co-founder, lead singer, and keyboardist of Steely Dan, a band noted by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for their "deviously slick music" that made them "the perfect musical antiheros for the Seventies." How much has their musical heroism paid Fagen?
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