US rock band Metallica have achieved a new Guinness World Records noscript after becoming the first musical act to play a concert on all seven of Earth's continents.

Long before you could buy them by the can, only the extremely wealthy could afford pineapples. Monarchs such as Louis XV and Catherine the Great enjoyed eating the sweet fruit, which came to symbolize luxury and opulence.

-Two women were attacked by a tiger at a Beijing safari park, and the entire episode was caught on surveillance camera

YouTube channel History & Intrigue has uploaded a video history of Candy Land, a game created by Eleanor Abbot during the 1940s polio pandemic.

After Mickey Rourke’s stunning work as Randy “The Ram” Robinson in “The Wrestler,” it is hard to imagine anyone else playing the tortured sportsman – but the role was first offered to Nicolas Cage. Access Hollywood caught up with Nicolas at the premiere of…

More than one-third of software programmers say they’ve used marijuana while working, with many finding that it helps promote creativity and get them into the “programming zone,” according to a new study. Researchers at the University of Michigan said that…

John Madden, the Hall of Fame ex-NFL coach and broadcaster, was actually the third choice of the creator of the wildly popular EA Sports video game.

Hundreds of wallets & purses are lost daily containing personal and important articles of personal and professional use. If you find a lost wallet, it becomes your moral and ethical duty to track down the owner and return his or her items safely. But, as…

It's happened to most of us. You plug your iPhone into your car stereo's USB port and you're greeted with the first song listed alphabetically on...

“You’ll starve to death if you only eat rabbit meat” is one of those common refrains you learn when getting into survival. It’s a fun fact you might share over a beer or to show off how woodsy you are to your LARPer friends. And while it’s actually true and…

Ethan Zuckerman, creator of the original pop-up ad, which first appeared on Tripod.com in 1997, has a message for the Internet: "I'm sorry."

Shareholders and executives in some of the US's smallest listed companies believe their share prices have been forced down by illegal naked shorting. This has led to a number of lawsuits, claiming unscrupulous behaviour by brokers and market-makers exploiting…

By 1914, Albert Einstein 's marriage to his wife of 11 years, Mileva Marić , was fast deteriorating. Realising there was no hope for their...

Have you ever wondered how and when the pop-up toaster we know and love came from? Who invented it and why?  The pop-up toaster is…

Sir Daniel Michael Blake Day-Lewis (born 29 April 1957) is a retired English actor with dual British and Irish citizenship. He is the recipient of numerous accolades, including three Academy Awards for Best Actor, making him the first and only actor to have…

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Chart and table of World population from 1950 to 2021. United Nations projections are also included through the year 2100.

These legendary war implements were not much bigger than the vehicles millions of Americans now drive every day.