Pedestrian crossings, elevator "close door" buttons and office thermostats often don't do anything -- by design. Here's why that's not necessarily a bad thing.

Wolverine was almost in Spider-Man! Now that would have been cool.

What was thought of a case of rock star excess actually provides a powerful business lesson.

On June 19th, 1905 the nation's first stand-alone movie theater had set up the first commercial cinema enterprise offering patrons a look at "moving pictures" in a small storefront on Smithfield Street.

The tradition of eating small songbirds is widely practiced worldwide but thankfully it is a thing of the past in Ireland.

Helmut Heinrich Waldemar Schmidt (German pronunciation: [ˈhɛlmuːt ˈʃmɪt] (listen); 23 December 1918 – 10 November 2015) was a German politician and member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), who served as the chancellor of West Germany from 1974…

Coca wine and patent medicine of the 1860s

Luke Perry's daughter Sophie disclosed that her father was buried in the Infinity Burial Suit, made from mushrooms.

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"Wonderful Christmastime" is a Christmas song by English musician Paul McCartney. Recorded during the sessions for his solo album McCartney II (1980), it was released in November 1979 following Wings' final album Back to the Egg earlier that year. It was…

Caffeinated drinks usually won't dehydrate you, but water is still your best option.

Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (/ˈkæstroʊ/;American Spanish: [fiˈðel aleˈxandɾo ˈkastɾo ˈrus]; 13 August 1926 – 25 November 2016) was a Cuban revolutionary and politician who was the leader of Cuba from 1959 to 2008, serving as the prime minister of Cuba from…

political scandal that occurred in the United States in the 1970s

Twenty years ago today, angst-ridden Canadian rocker Alanis Morissette released the Grammy-winning album Jagged Little Pill -- proving that a former child actor and bubblegum pop singer can come into her own -- and make a massive mark on the music industry.

In the winter of 1691, two young girls in Salem Massachusetts began what would become the country's largest witch hunt.

The two longtime pals met in 1973 as Juilliard students and were best friends up until Reeve's death in 2004. In his autobiography 'Still Me,' Reeves recounted how Williams helped save his life. It should come as no surprise that, in 1978, two distinctive…

Japan is outlawing the country's only legal high - magic mushrooms - by closing down a legal loophole.