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The smallest denomination coin ever circulated in the United States was valued at five milles, equivalent to one 200t...
Laßt Froh Uns Sein ("Let Us Be Joyful") is a short musical canon in B-flat major for six voices, written by the celeb...
How a female engineer defied all norms to save England in the Second World War.
One of the most dramatic surgical procedures still performed on human patients is the hemispherectomy, or the removal...
In April 1929 in the town of Naco, Arizona, the Cristero War was raging just over the border in Mexico. Rebels in tha...
Sign languages rely on the use of space (locations, motions, and handshapes) to express meaning or grammatical nuance...
In the European theater of World War 2, as early as 1943, the German Army deployed a small number of special Panther...
In the midst of World War II, the British Air Ministry began publicly extolling the virtues of carrot-eating. The vit...
Announcing the newest entry in our podcast lineup: The Damn Interesting Curio Cabinet.
The true story of the 18th century's greatest femme fatale, and the most unfortunate of her victims.
We made a diverting little browser game to mark the 40th anniversary of the events described in one of our most popular articles.
When an ancient, unexpected imprint is discovered in a stone quarry, scientists endeavor to explain its mysterious origin.
Noor Khan, a pacifist descendant of Indian Royalty became a famed World War II spy for Britain’s Special Operations Executive.
French mathematician Évariste Galois lived a full life. When he wasn't trying to overthrow the government, he was reinventing algebra.
One of Poland’s most beloved and honored World War II veterans was not Polish at all: he was a 500-pound brown bear named Wojtek.
Beards have been banned in a number of military forces in history, from Qing Dynasty China to the modern-day Indian A...
Shortly after the abortive Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba, U.S. President John F. Kennedy summoned his press secretary...
The 18th century misadventures of HMS Wager and her reluctant crew.
The little known story of an age-old scam.
The secret runaway success of Kenneth Gandar-Dower’s racing cheetahs.
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