Andrew Johnson was Abraham Lincoln's vice-president and assumed the United States presidency after John Wilkes Booth assassinated Lincoln on April 15, 1865. Less than three years later, Johnson was facing impeachment. Here's the truth about the first president to be impeached.
Read MoreThis might come as a shock to all the cat lovers out there, but Fluffy isn't actually an adorable demon from hell. He's just smart because his brain is similar to ours.
Read MoreWe gear up for parties to commemorate the two spookiest holidays of the year: Halloween and the Day of the Dead. A lot of people confuse these traditions, thinking they're basically the same holiday by two different names, and that couldn't be further from the truth.
Read MoreLady Eleanor Butler and Miss Sarah Ponsonby met in 1768 in Wicklow, Ireland, and lived together as a couple in Llangollen, Wales in a house known as Plas Newydd. Butler and Ponsonby appear to have considered their partnership a marriage. This is the untold truth of the Ladies of Llangollen.
Read MoreDespite decades of research and investigation into the whereabouts of the Nazis' renowned trove of gold bars, speculation remains about their "true" fate, which would equal billions upon billions of dollars. Even to this day, would-be prospectors and treasure hunters continue to search.
Read MoreThe discovery of phosphine doesn't immediately capture the imagination. It might become more striking, however, when we consider that the gas is closely associated with life on Earth.
Read MoreIt's a story where one person's individual actions endangered thousands of lives and how personal freedom fought against the public's health. Typhoid Mary is the subject of many ethical debates and is the original case study for the asymptomatic spread of disease.
Read MoreOne of the more fascinating things about Nefertiti is the mystery of what happened to her. According to the Ancient History Encyclopedia, Nefertiti disappeared from historical records despite her years as one of Egypt's most important women.
Read MoreBorn Vincenzo Capone, Al's oldest brother took on the American name James after the family immigrated to New York and settled in Brooklyn. The Capone brother who took the side of law and order would go on to garner fame for his own daring exploits.
Read MoreThere's nobody else quite like Rob Zombie, known as much for his horror films as his career as a heavy metal musician. This is the untold truth of Rob Zombie.
Read MoreEveryone knows that cat facts and cat videos make the internet go around. Some of the best revolve around the wacky, bizarre antics that cats get up to after indulging in their version of demon weed: catnip.
Read MoreThese bloopers will make you love wrestling even more than you do already.
Read MoreScott had taken a break for three years before he got back to racing simply because he missed it so much. Scott was driving during the qualifying rounds for the National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) SuperNationals, moving at about 300 miles an hour when his Funny Car's engine exploded into flames.
Read MoreAlthough they were both sad to see it happen, Martin and Lewis knew that, in Jerry's words, "there was no getting around it: The time had come to call it a day."
Read MoreFor a guy who's played some seriously terrifying roles in movies, you'd think Walken would be less scared of the physical world, but as he tells The Guardian, "I don't mind dangerous psychic things, but dangerous physical things are -- I don't even go into crowds. I don't go to the airport."
Read MoreEmperor Alexander III, Nicholas's father, had died at age 49 of kidney disease, says Biography, but apparently had not taken the time (or made the effort) to teach his son a thing or two about governance. Or, at least, how not to upset your entire country to the point of rebellion.
Read MoreTo better understand Helen Keller's fascinating story, it can be helpful to look at the people she chose to befriend. From inventors to authors to actors, Keller was buddies with many unique individuals over her 87-year lifespan. Here's what you don't know about Helen Keller's famous friendships.
Read MoreThe Blue Hole at the edge of the Red Sea, also known as the "underwater cathedral," is a sinkhole around 100 meters deep. It's also known as the deadliest diving spot in the world and, despite the warning, divers continue to enter its water. This is the truth about the world's deadliest diving spot.
Read MoreThe need for a purely American origin of baseball, which in American fashion, needs a singular American inventor, was due to a debate raging about where it was invented, if it was a British creation or American. So some men went looking. This is the wacky truth behind the creator of baseball.
Read MoreWanderers in the Aralkum Desert, a stretch of sand between Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, may find themselves stumbling upon a strange sight: the rusted corpses of boats strewn far away from any apparent sea. But why? Here's how gigantic ships ended up in the middle of the Uzbekistan desert.
Read MoreSome facts about history you just wish you never knew, like that people used to sit in dead whales to cure arthritis or that human fat was an old cure for gout. These upsetting historical facts will make you question everything you knew about Bull Run, Peru, and Ivy League schools.
Read MoreLee actually starred in over 20 films in Hong Kong before he even turned 18, according to Cheat Sheet. Although he was born in San Francisco, California, his family moved back to Hong Kong soon after his birth, and that's where he got his early start as an actor. His first role was as an infant.
Read MoreThe metal rod entered below his left cheekbone, destroyed a molar, slid behind his left eye, through "the underbelly of his brain's left frontal lobe," and through his skull, exiting out of the top of his head.
Read MoreAs reported by The New York Times, Hughes lost consciousness during the game. Medics rushed to his aid and tried to revive him, but he never woke up.
Read MoreWhen Carter found Tut's tomb, he knew from the start that he wasn't the only one to have discovered it. There was evidence that the tomb had been entered at least twice already by grave robbers and raiders in search of the treasure that was usually buried with people as important as pharaohs.
Read Moreat least once per spring or summer (and sometimes more), after "a torrential downpour, thunder and lightning, conditions so intense that nobody dares to go outside," the land-locked city is treated to "hundreds of small, silver-colored fish" all over the ground.
Read MoreThe island's peace and quiet wouldn't last long. Shortly after the Wittmers arrived, a flamboyant European, Eloise Wehrborn de Wagner-Bosquet, arrived on the island, calling herself the Baroness. She brought along her two lovers, Robert Philippson and Rudolf Lorenz, and a worker, Manuel Valdivieso.
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