In 536 AD, the world plunged into darkness. Long thought to be exaggeration, new evidence suggests it may have been the worst year to be alive.
Studies have shown there is an actual limit to the number of people someone can interact with socially.
Truth is stranger than fiction, and throughout history, pranksters, hucksters, and frauds exploited humanity’s hunger for the extraordinary.
300 million years ago, the conditions on Earth allowed insects and other arthropods to get bigger than they’ve ever been, before or since.
The MahaNakhon in Bangkok was made to appear as though it is pixelated.
Near the end of her life, Alexandra of Denmark’s iconic beauty calcified into monstrosity, yet her death was even more horrific.
Sir Anthony Hopkins originally signed on to play the villain in Goldeneye but walked off the set after only three days, claiming the script was too chaotic to bear.
After accusing his wife of adultery and having her executed, King Herod had her body preserved in honey and continued to perform disturbing acts with it for years afterward.
Toward the end of Psycho, Alfred Hitchcock spliced in a frame of a skull on top of Norman Bates’s smiling face, confounding viewers who caught the split-second clip.
What does "Back in the day" mean to you? If you're older than 30, you likely have a very different recollection of your childhood than those born after the 2000s. Remember not having to waste 5 minutes choosing from options on customer service lines? Appliances that lasted forever? Then you'll probably find many other things that were better back in the day on our list.
Affairs rarely end well, but these historical affairs ended in ways that can only be described as "utterly disastrous".
This 1950s era of rock and roll was defined by artists like Little Richard, Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Chuck Berry, Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and The Big Bopper. But it couldn't last forever.
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