Researchers found 12 ancient hepatitis B genomes, including one variation of the virus that's now-extinct.

After 16-year-old Ethan Couch pleaded guilty to four counts of manslaughter in 2013, his attorneys argued that he shouldn't have to go to prison because he grew up so wealthy that he'd never been taught that his actions have consequences.

Have you ever stood on a ledge, mountaintop, or other high perch and experienced an intrusive feeling to jump? It's known as the call of the void, and there's a very logical reason for it.

Juliane Koepcke was aboard LANSA Flight 508 on December 24, 1971 when it was struck by lightning, causing her to plummet 10,000 feet to the Amazon rainforest below.

The Greek historian Herodotus wrote that it took 100,000 men 20 years to construct the Great Pyramid of Giza — but how exactly did they do it?

Peter Sutcliffe claimed to be on a mission from God as he killed 13 women and evaded hapless police on nine separate occasions while committing the Yorkshire Ripper murders.

According to the Project Blue Beam theory posited by Serge Monast, NASA and the United Nations are trying to establish a totalitarian, one-world government — but is there any proof?

Elsa Einstein was Albert Einstein's second wife as well as his first cousin — and she remained married to him despite his frequent affairs.

Russian physicist Anatoli Bugorski is the only person known to have been directly exposed to a nuclear particle accelerator beam — and survive.

Described as the "perfect psychopath," Pedro Rodrigues Filho murdered at least 70 people — 47 of whom were fellow inmates in prison.

Starting in 1791, Alexander Hamilton had a year-long affair with Maria Reynolds. Five years later, he published "The Reynolds Pamphlet," detailing how she and her husband had extorted him.