The Most Baffling Schemes Concocted by the Nazis
Pop culture has done a good job of tempering the real life horror of the…
Weapons That Changed the Way War is Fought
Humanity fought its earliest wars using fists, clubs, and rocks. At some unknown point in…
Foods That Are Banned in Europe, But Not the US
The European Union is as suspicious as ever when it comes to food stuffs containing…
Popular Foods That No Longer Exist
Crowd-pleasing grub often creates a cult-like following only to suddenly disappear faster than you can…
10 Facts You Might Not Know About the Victorians
In 1839 Queen Victoria took the throne and ushered in the Victorian era that bears…
10 More Historic Places That Were Lost to Time
Considering that the existence of modern man dates back 200,000 years, millions of monuments, buildings,…
10 Mysteries of Ancient Civilizations
Archaeology has uncovered many secrets from the ancient world. But the Earth has a bad…
You Should Really Know These Facts About the Electoral College
The 1973 children’s educational program Schoolhouse Rock! featured cartoons and catchy songs explaining the fundamentals of…
Rocket Launches That Went Horribly Wrong
Since rockets were first invented, several thousand of them have been launched into space with…
Incredible True Stories That Should Be Movies (Part 5)
Reading today’s headlines is undertaken at one’s own peril. The increasingly dire news is filled…
Obscure Facts About China Everyone Needs to Know
China is a vast country, and with the diversity of landscapes and historical traditions there…
10 Scary Facts About Solar Storms
Over 99% of the mass in our entire solar system exists just in the sun. It’s over a…
10 Fascinating Biblical Archaeological Discoveries
When it comes to the hotly debated field of Biblical archaeology, the specialists who arduously…
The Weirdest Things People Used to Believe
Humans have believed all kinds of strange things throughout our short time on this planet.…
History’s Strangest Ancient Rulers
The word strange is barely adequate for some of the ancient leaders described here, if…
More Bizarre Mysteries of the Amazon
The Amazon rainforest is an absolutely massive patch of nature that covers 2.1 million square…
10 Places Where People Have Never Been
Through technological advancement and good old-fashioned human stubbornness, much of the Earth has been mapped…
The Dumbest Mistakes That Got Killers Caught
Pop culture has done a lot of work convincing us that serial killers are fiendishly…
The Weirdest Canned Foods in the World
If you’ve spent enough time around the Internet, you’d know that there are a lot…
Celebrity Myths That Just Won’t Go Away
There’s a saying that bad gas travels fast in a small town. But basically that…
Amazing Facts About the Age of Sail
From swashbuckling buccaneers, shrewd British Royal Navy officers, bitter salt pork, to climactic battles and…
10 More Gruesome Crimes That Were Never Solved
Will we ever run out of gruesome, unsolved murders to explore? Probably, but not anytime…
The Largest Battles Ever Fought at Sea
The fate of nations and empires have depended upon control of the high seas throughout…
The Biggest Missteps in Military History
War is – more often than that – a numbers game. Unless something unlikely happens,…