Trish Vickers' dying wish was to have the book she spent six years writing in print.

Rob Reiner's beloved—and endlessly quotable—action-packed rom-com was released 30 years ago today.

One of the first things taught in Drinking Alcohol 101 is the definition of the term “proof”: In the U.S., it’s the percentage of alcohol, times two. For example, if a bottle of vodka is 40 percent

When The Shining was in theaters, Stanley Kubrick decided he wanted to make a film that depicted what war was like. Seven years later, he presented Full Metal Jacket to the world.

A NSW man wins a Pacific island resort in a raffle, paying just $65 for the winning ticket.

It's easy to imagine a world where the Beastie Boys took the Louis C.K. route.

Getty Images/Jeff J Mitchell A replica of the cane, containing a petrified mosquito, used by Lord Richard Attenborough in Jurassic Park. There's a glaring

In theory every time you sufficiently shuffle a deck of cards you are making history by creating a new unique order of cards that has..

One of the largest pyramids in the world is a Bass Pro Shops megastore in Memphis, Tennessee, with a hotel, indoor swamp, and bowling alley.

Roza Georgiyevna Shanina (Russian: Ро́за Гео́ргиевна Ша́нина, IPA: [ˈrozə ɡʲɪˈorɡʲɪɪvnəˈʂanʲɪnə]; 3 April 1924 – 28 January 1945) was a Soviet sniper during World War II who was credited with fifty-nine confirmed kills, including twelve soldiers during the…

forest fire

Ancient hunters killed woolly mammoths for their meat. Today in Russia’s Arctic the search is on for their valuable tusks.

archangel in Talmudic and post-Talmudic lore

The Patriot Guard Riders (PGR) is an organization based in the United States whose members attend the funerals of members of the U.S. military, firefighters, and police at the invitation of a decedent's family.They saw a need for their services when it was…

first successful vaccine to be developed

Coordinates: 32°50′48″N 96°51′40″W / 32.8467°N 96.861°W / 32.8467; -96.861 (Southwest Airlines Headquarters)

the supposed tendency of technical equipment to encounter critical failure in the presence of certain people

The Office of Censorship was an emergency wartime agency set up by the United States federal government on December 19, 1941 to aid in the censorship of all communications coming into and going out of the United States, including its territories and the Philippines.…

Keepers say that Calvin Klein perfume is particular hit with all the big cats at the zoo.

Because of soil depletion, crops grown decades ago were much richer in vitamins and minerals than the varieties most of us get today

The CIA's experimentation with LSD led to disastrous results.