During a game of basketball, Mick Jagger accidentally bit through his tongue, chomping off the tip and swallowing it, affecting his speech and voice.
Failure was not an option for the legendary magician, Harry Houdini—but ironically, this only drove him to his horrifying end.
In 2018, scientists made a discovery of stone tools at Ain Boucherit, Algeria, dated to approximately 2.4 million years ago. The find challenges our previously held notions about the development of early humans.
In 2021, researchers at White Sands National Park in New Mexico uncovered fossilized human footprints estimated at 23,000 years old. That would place humans in North America thousands of years earlier than previously thought. The discovery has spurred excitement as well as doubts among archaeologists.
A Kentucky farmer stumbled on one of the biggest troves of Civil War gold coins ever found, fuelling the dreams of treasure hunters from all across America.
It’s the cradle of Western civilization, but the advancements made in ancient Greece often overshadow its terrifying dark side.
In 1988, during excavations of a sewer beneath a bathhouse in Ashkelon, Israel, archaeologists discovered the remains of nearly 100 infants.
In Thailand, out of respect for their monarchy, it is illegal to step on money.
Hunter S. Thompson's fearless deep dive into the outlaw world of the Hell’s Angels was a wild ride into a culture few outsiders had ever dared to document.
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