These warships from the Battle of Leyte Gulf were found in late November by a team led by billionaire and Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen.

Carl Wilhelm Scheele ranks as one of the greatest chemists of all time, but he paid a terrible price for this distinction.

The Landkreuzer P. 1000 Ratte would have been the largest, heaviest tank ever created.

When asked what he is doing with a teenager in his hotel room, Ralph Shortey said, "We were just hanging out, talking about life and stuff."

The Hermit Kingdom has carefully cultivated their public image: a pastiche of military parades, patriotic songs, and smiling faces. These rare photographs have none of those things; they reveal the harsh realities of life in North Korea.

Praljak was at The Hague along with five other former Bosnian Croat political and military leaders to appeal convictions of war crimes made against them.

The Mawé believe that any boy who wants to become a man must experience the worst pain the jungle has to offer and stick their arm inside the bullet ant glove.

Many of history's most important figures have suffered strange deaths that do not seem to befit their noble legacy.

After the police were called, Edgar Collaguazo attempted to jump down to the ground from his fourth-floor apartment.

''While there are some similarities in the cases, there's also a great number of dissimilarities,'' said an FBI investigator at the time.

From "jumbo" to "namby-pamby" to "nimrod," these interesting words have surprisingly fascinating backstories.

The fattest states also rate as among the worst for high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and type two diabetes.