John D. Rockefeller was the head of the Standard Oil Company and one of the world's richest men. He used his fortune to fund ongoing philanthropic causes.

James Cameron's Best Picture winner nearly set sail with one of country's biggest stars; Now, Reba McEntire has revealed why she turned down a major role.

By the late 1970’s, the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce determined that the Sign required a complete rebuilding – carrying a price tag of a quarter million dollars. Thankfully, some of showbiz’s bigg…

The engineer made the revelation in an interview with Produce Like A Pro’s Warren Huart

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It might sound crazy to some people (maybe even taboo to others), but a pair of identical twins marrying identical twins is called a ‘quaternary marriage.’ Although rare, they do happen. In fact, there are about 250 marriages like this on record (The most…

Aftermath of nuclear catastrophe costs Belarus 20% of its annual budget, according to Chernobyl watchdog organization.

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The murder of Alfred L. Barnes, an employee of Bethlehem Steel, happened on October 18, 1968, in Monroe County, Pennsylvania. Someone shot Mr. Barnes three times in the head, dumped him in a desolate pasture and stole his late-model Thunderbird.

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If you’ve ever eaten candy from a European Union country, you might notice some unusual ingredients. For  instance, Nestlé’s chocolate “Smarties” contain

The Domino Day 2005 house sparrow, generally known as the domino sparrow (Dutch: dominomus) was a house sparrow, Passer domesticus, that was shot and killed by a hunter from the company Duke Faunabeheer in the Frisian Expo Centre in Leeuwarden, Netherlands…

An entrepreneur, advocate, and member of the Blackfoot Nation, Elouise Pepion Cobell (“Yellow Bird Woman”), fought tirelessly for government accountability and for Native Americans to have control over their own financial future.

Jeffrey Dahmer… towards the end right before he got caught, had so many bodies in his apartment that he ran out of room and stored one victim in his bathtub. He proceeded to shower over him e…

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These white-painted bicycles show up in cities and towns all over the world. Here's where they came from, and what they mean.

Facing incredible odds and racial obstacles in 1916, Eugene Jacques Bullard excelled and rose as the world's first black pilot

The human ear is capable of hearing very quiet (low intensity) sounds and extremely loud (high intensity) sounds. The ratio of intensities between silence and ‘ow that hurts my ears’ is…