The bones belong to the gomphothere, a distant relative of modern elephants that roamed the earth for millions of years before being hunted to extinction 12,000 years ago.

Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes was the heart of TLC and one of the top rappers of the 1990s before she was tragically killed in a car crash in Honduras.

Before he stormed Hollywood, Arnold Schwarzenegger made his name as a bodybuilder in his native Austria and then in Southern California's vibrant Muscle Beach scene of the 1970s.

The petroglyphs extend across 50 feet of the rock's surface, with some as long as 13 feet and others only a few inches.

The tracks, which were discovered near the southern tip of the African continent, are approximately 153,000 years old.

On May 25, 1996, Kristin Smart was murdered by her classmate Paul Flores at California Polytechnic State University. He walked free for nearly three decades — until a podcast helped solve the case.

Researchers uncovered the infamous parasite Giardia duodenalis in cesspits beneath the ancient latrines.

After he served as a radioman aboard the USS Manville in the Pacific, Fred Gwynne launched an acting career that spanned five decades.

After Japan defeated the U.S. in the Battle of Bataan in April 1942, the Japanese Army forced 75,000 Allied prisoners to march 65 miles through the Philippines.

Disposable diapers and concrete are both damaging to the environment, but Japanese researchers believe that using diapers to create concrete could solve a portion of that problem.

The late fee for this copy of Benson Lossing's “A Family History of the United States” would have been over $1,700 — but the library stopped collecting them in 2019.