"I love it when we can apply mathematical models to even the most surprising things."

Hiking Mount Fuji outside of the summer months has been discouraged by authorities, but currently there is no law banning climbers from attempting to scale the famous landmark.

William Still helped some 800 slaves escape to freedom, but his heroism is often overshadowed by Harriet Tubman's.

"During the Crusades, the Knights Templar battle for God, gold, and glory. Somewhere in the modern city of Acre lies their command center, and possibly their treasure."

"I've worked for the Game and Fish Commission for 20 years, and it's one of the stranger things that's happened."

"He chose a spot where the water ran off easily, keeping it cool in the heat of the day, keeping it watered and making sure that squash beetles didn’t overtake it."

"I do believe that rats are smarter than most people perceive them to be, and that most animals are smarter in unique ways than we think."

Archaeologists discovered the pink-tinted pearl inside the room of an ancient structure being dug out on Marawah Island, off the coast of the United Arab Emirates.

"For years, no one believed him... The police, doctors, nurses, and even his family told him he wasn't telling the truth, that he must be a closet-drinker."

Cora Pearl's extravagant personality made her popular among France's 19th-century elite. But that era's legendary debauchery soon went out of style — and so did she.

Archaeologists successfully uncovered the hidden city high in the Cambodian mountains using aerial laser scanning technology.