On this day in 1992, John Thompson of North Dakota lost his arms in a farm accident. He then got himself emergency care in time so that he got his arms back.

I'm fuzzy about the how and why of an aerobics competition. Aren't we ALL winners when we work out?

Thanks to the Schäffer Affair, as it's known, there was a Russian fort on Kauai for part of the 19th Century.

President Taft deserves a fresh look in 2013 - just not for his connection to the Syrian civil war.

Today in 1913, the birthday of President Richard Nixon. In addition to being a politician, Nixon was a capable piano player who once said on tape that he would've gone into music "if there had been a good rap group around in those days."

It's United Nations Global Road Safety Week, so here's the story of a driver in Ireland who seemed to be breaking every traffic law on the books... until the authorities figured out there was something more to their story.

They probably could've convinced the thugs not to ram them if they'd bought one of those little yellow "Drunk Stuart Whitman On Board" signs.

The yo-yo has been around in some forms since ancient times, and there have even been a few occasions when it’s gone into space.

Who knew there were so many dinosaurs during the Vietnam war?