German general

Hungarian chemist

Kevin Hines, who survived a jump off the Golden Gate Bridge, explains how a sea lion saved his life.

Barry Steven Frank Sheene MBE (11 September 1950 – 10 March 2003) was a British professional motorcycle racer. He competed in Grand Prix motorcycle racing and was a two-time world champion, winning consecutive 500cc noscripts in 1976 and 1977.

Ida Wood, who lived for decades as a recluse in a New York City hotel, would have taken her secrets to the grave—if here sister hadn't gotten there first

prison in Canada

The world's largest model of our planetary system.

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The 1969 documentary ‘Royal Family’ which was deemed to be so intrusive The Queen banned it from public consumption, has miraculously reappeared 52 years after broadcast. The full 90 mi…

Last month we brought you five interesting world records set in Antarctica.  Since then we’ve been reminded of another… Eleven babies have been born in Antarctica, and none of them died as infants. Antarctica therefore has the lowest infant mortality rate…

chemical compound

Ultrasound waves applied to particular parts of the brain have been found to be capable of altering a patient's mood

Noodles and Dexter Holland reflect on 25 years of The Offspring's Smash...

American businessman

A safe that proved to be a community mystery has finally been opened at the Civic Museum of Regina.

Original Item: This is an extremely rare U.S. WWII produced Paradummy. A paradummy is a military deception device first used in World War II, intended to imitate a drop of paratroop attackers. This ca

first person killed by a robot, born 1954

The Underground Railroad ran south as well as north. For enslaved people in Texas, refuge in Canada must have seemed impossibly far away. Fortunately, slavery

With his love of Game Of Thrones, Star Trek, and everything else the Internet holds dear, Parks And Recreation’s Ben Wyatt has become something of an icon for America’s nerderati. So it shouldn’t come as much of a surprise that Mayfair Games, the company…

The Justice Department said Friday that British Petroleum has agreed to pay a record-breaking $18.7 billion settlement to resolve claims related to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010, but advocacy groups are warning that the settlement…

The 9/11 advance-knowledge conspiracies center on arguments that certain institutions or individuals had foreknowledge of the September 11 attacks in the United States in 2001.