On July 2, 1881, Charles Guiteau shot President James A. Garfield twice at a railroad station in Washington, D.C. — but it took him two months to die of his wounds.

Quentin Roosevelt responded to the call of duty and fought during World War I, but the former president's son was shot down over France on July 14, 1918.

Though this fossil was found in Montana in 1988, no one realized its significance at the time, and it sat in a drawer at the Royal Ontario Museum in Canada for decades.

Harvey Marcelin, who spent decades in prison for murdering two women, is the prime suspect in the murder and dismemberment of 68-year-old Susan Leyden.

Chippendales founder Steve Banerjee was dangerously obsessed with protecting the success of his male stripper troupe — and turned to murder and arson in order to do so.

When Venus, an enslaved woman who worked on the plantation of George Washington's brother, was asked to name the father of her child West Ford, she "identified the old general."

With millions of dollars already in funding, the Thylacine Integrated Genetic Restoration Research Lab in Australia believes they can bring the Tasmanian tiger back from the dead.

Also known as inedia, breatharianism is a pseudoscientific practice promoted by gurus who insist that they can live off "pranic light" — which is contained in the air.

The Viking helmet is usually depicted with horns, but the Norse warriors really never wore them.

On July 15, 1997, Gianni Versace left his Miami mansion to make a trip to a newsstand. When he returned home, a deranged serial killer was waiting for him outside his front door.

Archaeologists found evidence of intricate Roman mining systems but also that the Romans may have lost the mines to a nomadic desert people.