Shrimper Ricky Robin rode out Hurricane Katrina on the trawler he built himself nearly 30 years earlier. Over the course of the storm, he helped rescue people from the parish and gave them food and shelter on his boat. Three years after Katrina, Robin's story…

Learn the gruesome details of President George Washington’s final hours on the 215th anniversary of his death. The retired commander-in-chief woke up at 2 a.m. on Dec. 14, 1799, with a sore throat. After a series of medical procedures, including the draining…

Learn about the habitat, population status and behavior of blue whales, the biggest animals on Earth.

Japanese type 2A freighter

Newsweek reported the story in an article headlined “My God! They’re Killing Us.” Its cover featured what would become the incident’s most iconic image, John Filo’s Pulitzer Prize-winning photo of a 14-year-old runaway’s anguished scream as she knelt over…

Betelgeuse is a red supergiant of spectral type M1-2 and one of the largest stars visible to the naked eye. It is usually the tenth-brightest star in the night sky and, after Rigel, the second-brightest in the constellation of Orion. It is a distinctly reddish…

Learn more about sexsomnia, a parasomnia that can cause involuntary sexual behaviors during sleep. It has a wide range of causes, triggers, and treatments.

It takes a lot to be able to run for President in Singapore. Read on to learn more about these requirements.

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Dan “D.B.” Cooper became legend on the eve of Thanksgiving in 1971. Since that night, police have failed to find him dead or alive after he jumped from an airplane mid-flight. Around 4:00 p.m. on November 24th, a man calling himself Dan Cooper entered Portland…

The sad story of Marie Louise, who became Napoleon's second wife.

Salmon is a staple of sushi now, but it used to be unheard of in Japan to eat raw salmon. The story of how Norway convinced Japan to love salmon sushi.

Alleged largest man in history

Fierce warrior Khutulun lives on in Netflix series, Marco Polo’s writings and the Puccini opera Turandot, plus Mongolia’s Nadaam games.

1987 film directed by Brian De Palma

In November 1930, in Indiana, United States, one of the great feats of modern engineering was executed: a team of architects and engineers moved an...

If you want a workout, go with soccer or field hockey over baseball.

Today, we may not think of Coca-Cola as a “risk-taking” company, being as established as they are, but it was actually a well-timed risk and some good old-fashioned goodwill that made them the international behemoth that they are today. At the time of World…

A short, hilarious story

As it turns out, some Australian birds of prey actively spread bushfires to smoke out their victims and bar...