Today in 1865, newspapers published "Letter From A Freedman To His Old Master," Jordan Anderson's note perfect response to a guy who probably shouldn’t have written to him in the first place.
Today in 1961, a news report in the Santa Cruz Sentinel about a strange bird event along the coast of California that ended up shaping an iconic movie about a strange bird event.
Americans who pay into the system and receive benefits have Social Security Numbers, so who had the first one? The answer is kind of strange.
Sarah Winchester's decades-long renovation project turned an eight-room farmhouse into hundreds of rooms, and sparked endless rumors that at least some of those rooms are haunted.
Andy Warhol made a mark with his paintings of Campbell's Soup cans, though the company wasn’t immediately thrilled with his work.
One of the lions that played MGM's roaring mascot in the movies used up more than a few of its nine lives while traveling for the movie studio.
Cars have changed the world, but not every idea from automakers works out. Like the time Ford tried to reinvent the (steering) wheel.
Researchers have a new way to make one of the most commonly used pain relievers, out of plastic that might otherwise end up in landfills.
A Harvard study finds that the thousands of dams humans have built over the last couple centuries have locked up so much water it's actually affected Earth's poles! We'll try to explain.
This month in 1831, the Mediterranean Sea got a whole new island, one that European powers bickered over for a few months before the debate ended pretty abruptly.
