The farmers wanted to increase the fertility of their own pigs as Danish hogs produce more pigs per litter, but in so doing, they ran the risk of introducing Australian pigs to foreign diseases like pig plague.

Shoshana Ovitz survived Auschwitz, where her mother was handed to Dr. Josef Mengele and never seen again. Once liberated, she met the man who became her husband and started a new life in Israel.

Thailand's in the middle of its worst drought in 10 years. The silver lining? A long-hidden temple has reemerged.

Legend has it that the infamous Roman emperor Caligula was unhinged to the point that he'd sentence people to death for forgetting his birthday. But stories like this may have been more fiction than fact.

Jimmy Aldaoud lived in America legally from the age of six months. Then ICE deported him to Iraq, a place he had never been before — effectively leaving him to die.

The RMS Lusitania had recently departed New York when it was fatally torpedoed by a German U-boat. Unknown to the passengers on board, however, were 173 tons of weaponry bound for war.

The Chernobyl Spirit Company has three goals: utilize the exclusion zone, stimulate local economies, and make safe, delicious vodka.

Spartacus led the biggest slave rebellion Rome had ever seen — but his motivations may not have been so noble.

The Boy Scouts of America has been a U.S. institution since 1910 — and has been hiding sexual predators in its ranks for nearly as long.

The woman's remains, nearly a millennium older than others in the region, were accompanied by several impressive adornments and artifacts.

In the poem, entitled "A Rose Thorn," a woman argues with her vulva over which is more attractive to men: physical beauty or the vulva itself.