Thanks to record keeping, historical documents and word of mouth, there are interesting people from history that everyone knows about, like Galileo, Thomas Jefferson, Rosa Parks, or Henry Ford. Most inventors, dignitaries, and social activists make a lasting impression on history. Their names make it into textbooks, classes and eventually...

From the Stone Age to Ancient Greece to the present, there's been one tool that nearly every civilization has kept handy.

After Guy Fawkes plan to kill King James I was foiled, he was sentenced to the worst kind of execution. One he managed to escape. Well, sort of.

The ocean has always been full of weird marine life. But how do you explain robot arms and disembodied feet?

She told the cops she was innocent. Then they found this selfie that she took with the victim and the murder weapon just hours before the crime.

Whether treating women as sex objects or servants, these sexist beer ads of decades past look positively shocking today.

After the famed sandwich incident, John Young would enjoy the longest career of any astronaut in NASA's history.

The pastor said he was sorry to the victim, but that he was more sorry to God.

Between 1926 and 1930, Elizebeth Friedman decoded 20,000 messages per year in hundreds of different code systems. Even more incredibly, she decoded them all in a time without computers.

The Salema Porgy, a small generic golden striped fish, is known as "the fish that makes dreams."

How Project Chariot came close to detonating thermonuclear weapons in Alaska, and still managed to poison the area's natives with radioactive waste for decades afterward.