The 1956 Summer Games are sometimes called the “Friendly Games,” although there was also a water polo match between technically allied Hungary and the USSR that was anything but friendly.
In the 1950s, a guy made a baffling choice: he got drunk, started flying an airplane and landed the plane on the streets of Manhattan. Two years later he did the same thing again.
Eadweard Muybridge's photos of a galloping horse essentially led to what we know now as motion pictures. But it wouldn’t have taken nearly as long if Muybridge hadn’t been put on trial for murder (!)
In 1986 a guy mugged one of the most famous people in TV news, all the while shouting “Kenneth, what is the frequency?” And that's only the beginning of the story.
I'm sure you'll be shocked to hear that the movie industry has had more than its share of scandals, like how its very first child megastar made millions, only to watch other people spend it way down before he turned 21.
Back in 1996, Jamaican authorities almost did away with a plane piloted by pop music’s greatest champion of the laid-back life, and a few big-name passengers.
n 1970, Oregon's problem was a whale carcass on the beach, and the solution officials in Oregon came up with literally blew up.
It's our season finale, so we have our most horrific story yet: the time a scandalous Star Wars trading card helped C3PO live up to the nickname "Goldenrod" in the worst way.
July 13, 1855 is the date of the Toronto Circus Riot, an event which sounds baffling and bizarre from the name alone, but the details are even weirder.
In the 1970s some people in the bowling industry thought they’d come up with a clever way to get more people to the lanes, but they chose poorly when it came to the words.
