Alex Mitchell Died Laughing at an Episode of ‘The Goodies’ Few outside of Britain are probably familiar with The Goodies, a TV series that combined situation comedy with surreal sketches, and that originally aired 76 episodes on BBC from 1970 to 1980. The…

Black jockeys once dominated the sport of horse racing but now they are few and far between.

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Charlotte Peart told her husband she won £250,000 as a prank, when she really won he did not believe her.

Welcome to Laphroaig Global Site. From a storm-lashed island off the west coast of Scotland. A Gaelic word meaning ‘beautiful hollow by the broad bay’

The BBC has been given access to the airbase where Dutch police are training eagles to take down unauthorised drones.

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This story embodies the absolute best of the American spirit. One can only imagine the relentless, quiet frustration Astronaut Collins felt in watching someone else go to the moon in his place on Apollo 8. All the while, he never really knew if he

Full pun-derstanding relies on both sides of the brain.

"Who Let the Dogs Out" is a song performed by the Bahamian group Baha Men. Originally released by Anslem Douglas (noscriptd "Doggie"), it was covered by producer Jonathan King who sang it under the name Fat Jakk and his Pack of Pets. He brought the song to the…

Go behind the scenes of one of The Twilight Zone's toughest shoots.

THR breaks down the contracts as two studios, Peter Jackson and others reap millions from Middle Earth.

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Nasa's Voyager spacecraft have enthralled everyone with their exploits on the edge of the Solar System, but their launch in 1977 was only possible because of some clever maths and the persistence of a PhD student who worked out how to slingshot probes into…

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During most part of Western classical music history, tempo, the speed of music, was not specified, for it was considered obvious from musical context. Only in 1815, Maelzel patented the metronome. Beethoven immediately embraced it, so much as to add tempo…

Let's take a look at the world's first man-in-the-middle attack that happened way before computers even existed — in 1834.