Though William Joyce was born in America and spent much of his early life in Ireland and England, he moved to Germany during World War II to spread English-language fascist propaganda as "Lord Haw-Haw."

Halley's Comet is named after Edmond Halley, the British astronomer who first identified it as a periodic comet in the 18th century — but new research has revealed that a monk named Eilmer of Malmesbury actually discovered the comet's cyclical appearance 600 years earlier.

Witnesses who've allegedly encountered the Beast of Bray Road describe it as tall and hairy, with glowing eyes, long claws, and the stench of rotting meat.

Owen Hart was a promising WWE superstar throughout the 1990s, but his life and career were cut short when he fell to his death in front of a live audience during a pay-per-view event in 1999.

There are currently six accepted kingdoms of life, such as plants, animals, and fungi — and Prototaxites may have represented a seventh life form that's now extinct.

This mysterious concentration of iron has the mass of Mars and is longer than 463 million Earths lined up in a row.

From John Logie Baird's first-ever transmission of moving images to Philo Farnsworth's first fully electronic television system, the process of inventing television was a complicated one.

Found in Harlow, Essex in 2024, this 1,800-year-old copper figure is believed to have been mounted to the strap that yoked a carriage to the animal that was pulling it.

The weapon, a Colt Model 1908 pistol, was still loaded and stashed away in the wall of a catacomb beneath Thornton Distilling Co. in the Chicago suburb of Thornton, Illinois.

In 1965, Franca Viola was abducted and raped by her ex-boyfriend Filippo Melodia, who expected that she would be forced to marry him to avoid "dishonor." But Viola refused.