In 1836 a London sewer worker noticed an old drain – then found that the dank tunnel led right to an incredible stash of loot. It’s 1836, and beneath London’s busy streets a sewer worker is seeing to a checklist of routine repairs when an old drain catches…

American gangster

He was a good mayor, and a very good boy.

condition in which core temperature drops below the required temperature for normal metabolism and body functions as roger banks said

A woman ahead of her time, who pretended to be a man to pursue a career where she was not welcome

The Pyramids of Giza constantly remind us that we've only scratched the surface. What mysteries lie beneath?

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organism living inside a rock

A favorite anecdote about the origins of the vibrator is probably a myth.

After centuries of stability, why are some of them now dying out?

Yabba dabbo do! Your favorite modern stone age family made their TV debut on this day in 1960.

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Have plane seats shrunk? Of course they have - what a ludicrous question. Just take a look at the happy folk on board any passenger aircraft during the so-called “golden age” of flying. What luxury. There’s so much legroom they don’t know what to do with…

Randy Heiss wasn't going to let anything -- not even an international border -- stop him from fulfilling an 8-year-old girl's Christmas wishes.

When one thinks of German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer, one cannot help but conjure up the image of a sombre and misogynistic old man, whose pessimistic outlook on life left little to be desired. While the shortcomings on some of his theories have to be…

He barely managed to survive, but the pills he took to recover pulled him into a drug relapse that would change the course of his life. Read the story here.

A blogger’s latest attempt to confound An Post has been scuppered after a clued-in postman was able to deliver a letter to a Wexford lighthouse using just a map drawn on the envelope.

Palliative-care doctors explain the “existential slap” that many people face at the end.

Gustav III of Sweden's coffee experiment was a twin study ordered by the king to study the health effects of coffee. Although the authenticity of the event has been questioned, the experiment, which was conducted in the second half of the 18th century, failed…

The Perils of Slow Communication If you didn’t know anything about Samuel Morse, but were told he was one of the inventors behind the telegraph, it is likely you’d think he was an engineer or a scientist of some sort. In reality he was an accomplished artist.…