Hasbro launched the first advertising campaign for Mr. Potato Head on April 30th, 1952. Within its first few months on the market, the toy earned the company more than $4 million.

surgical intervention; drilling a hole in the skull

Levitt’s story is proof that women were in auto racing almost from the start, and she has some ideas for other drivers

1995 film directed by Hayao Miyazaki

They were labelled a waste of time and money, but in 1957 the bulging tips of Windscale Piles saved much of northern England from becoming a nuclear wasteland after a fire broke out in the reactor room. However, soon the last one will be gone.

1865 murder of the 16th President of the United States

NASA's New Horizons probe officially entered Pluto's sphere of gravitational influence last week, and this Tuesday, more than nine years after leaving Earth, the spacecraft will perform a flyby of...

Judith Catchpole, a young maidservant in colonial America, was tried in 1656 for witchcraft and infanticide before one of the earliest all-female juries in the United States. According to popular belief, all-female juries did not occur until much later. The…

The chances of a 154-roll craps game are near-impossible -- "near" being the key word, as New Jersey resident Patricia Demauro showed last Saturday at an Atlantic City casino.

What can one brash dolphin teach us about personality?

In the 1880s, LaMarcus Thompson was troubled by America's slide into hedonism and immorality. Out of that concern, we got the rollercoaster

Soviet catchphrase

Throughout the 1990s, Microsoft developers were in a race of one-upmanship to produce the most elaborate secret “Easter eggs.” These included games of pinball, racing, and even flight simulators, all hidden within Office and Windows. Let’s take a look back…

It’s odd: Questions about the physical weight of data get asked fairly often — I don’t know what’s prompting it. Perhaps the move to SSDs? The most recent iteration phrased …

We'll tell you why your dog follows you into the bathroom and more about the strange behavior of man's best friend.

In 1963, a sixteen-year-old San Diego high school student named Bruce McAllister sent a four-question mimeographed survey to 150 well-known authors of literary, commercial, and science fiction. Did they consciously plant symbols in their work? he asked. Who…

3D test model

Dedicated Japanese monks spent years going through the horrifying process of turning themselves into mummies ... while still alive. Viewing their bodies is now one of the world's creepiest tourist attractions.