The fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989, marked not just the dismantling of a barrier, but a victory for freedom itself.

A botfly maggot's entire purpose is to mate, procreate, and infest mammals with its larvae.

One historian traced Queen Charlotte's ancestry to a Moorish mistress through six different bloodlines.

Clocking in at 882 feet long, the Titanic's size was unparalleled — but it might have also hastened its demise.

In the 1960s, the Dixie Mafia emerged as a loose confederation of crooks and con artists based in Biloxi, Mississippi. But years later, it became a terrifying criminal organization.

On November 14, 1960, Ruby Bridges integrated an all-white elementary school in New Orleans — and became a civil rights icon.

In 2014, a photo of Devonte Hart hugging a police officer during a Black Lives Matter protest went instantly viral. Just four years later, he made headlines again — for a tragic reason.

On a fateful night in 1990, an arsonist lit a massive fire at the Happy Land Social Club in the Bronx — damning the 93 young people inside.

Ever since the end of World War II, allegations of Adolf Hitler's Jewish ancestry via his paternal grandfather have been the subject of intense debate. Here's what the actual evidence says.

From ancient Roman ruins overrun with cats to the "cat islands" of Japan, these cat havens are a must-see for cat people.

In March 1981, Marianne Bachmeier opened fire in a crowded courtroom and killed Klaus Grabowski — the man on trial for murdering her 7-year-old daughter.