An Olympic diploma is a paper certificate awarded to the top eight finishers in competitions at the Olympic Games. While the top three finishers have received medals since the 1896 Olympics, in 1949 diplomas for athletes placing fourth, fifth, and sixth were…

Film studios Universal and Paramount started 100 years ago as insurgent “indies” challenging Thomas Edison’s powerful cartel.

Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper, Richie Valens a plane, and a snowy February night. There's much more to the story than the Don McLean song.

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Are you ready for your crazy story of the day? Earlier today the CIA released over half a million [...]

Pamela Gale Malhotra and her husband, Anil Malhotra, own Sai Sanctuary, the only private wildlife sanctuary in India and have been replanting and protecting forests and wildlife since it's foundation in 1991. Today, SAI Sanctuary covers over 300 acres of…

During the Vietnam War the US military deployed a horror movie inspired psychological operation. They used their enemies religious and spiritual beliefs against them in a way that still haunts many who participated.
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event in 1 June 2001 in Kathmandu, Nepal in which Crown Prince Dipendra killed most of the royal family (including King Birendra and himself) with a gun

Every year, around the time the prestigious Nobel prizes are announced, we get the Ig Nobels. There are 10 honorees, but our favorite invention is clear: the wasabi fire alarm.

Failing on "Shark Tank" was a low point for Ring founder Jamie Siminoff -- but it forced him to succeed.

Slash's mother was once David Bowie's costume designer, and one time he saw them both without any costumes.

Almost 50 years ago, fried chicken tycoon David Bamberger used his fortune to purchase 5,500 acres of overgrazed land in the Texas Hill Country. Planting grasses to soak in rains and fill hillside aquifers, Bamberger devoted the rest of his life to restoring…

International spiritual organization based in Varanasi, India, active 1911−27; succeeded by Order of the Star (1927−29)

Never-Ending Man​: Hayao Miyazaki is a fascinating, fly-on-the-wall documentary about one of the greatest living animation directors. It’s a film that asks the tantalizing question, will Hayao

In 1973, Australia's largest computer predicted trends such as pollution levels, population growth, availability of natural resources and quality of life on earth.

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Fewer Americans are learning to drive stick shifts, but Europeans prefer them. These are the reasons why.

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One of the most beloved episodes of South Park involves Cartman kidnapping his classmate Butters in order to nab his spot at a birthday party taking place at a Mexican restaurant called Casa Bonita. The restaurant in question has a haunted cave, mariachi…