A former beauty queen from Puerto Rico, Julianna Farrait fell madly in love with Harlem drug trafficker Frank Lucas in the 1960s — then started dealing drugs herself.

Found in the Pietralata district's Parco delle Acacie, this site was continuously developed and occupied from the 5th century B.C.E. to the 3rd century C.E.

Scientists have long believed that most big cats can't meow, but cameras in Brazil's Iguaçu National Park have now recorded mother jaguars and their cubs making "meow-like" vocalizations.

The legendary "Princess Qajar” is actually a conflation of two 19th-century Persian royals — Fatemeh Khanum "Esmat al-Dowleh" and Zahra Khanum "Taj al-Saltaneh.”

Researchers were able to pick up faint traces of graffiti, love notes, and more along a stretch of wall in Pompeii.

While the remains of Diplodocus and the other prehistoric creatures found here are responsible for the very creation of Dinosaur National Monument, this is actually the first fossil excavation at the site in more than 100 years.

In the 1600s, many Italian housewives had no hope of escaping bad marriages. So hundreds of them turned to poison to kill their husbands — and collect their inheritance.

After Stacey Castor killed her husband David in 2005, she tried to frame her daughter Ashley Wallace — and then murder her too.

After years of playing Buffy Davis on the CBS sitcom "Family Affair," actress Anissa Jones died of a massive overdose at 18-years-old on August 28, 1976.

Before the construction of a Roman aqueduct around 20 B.C.E. the hygienic conditions of baths in Pompeii were "far from ideal."