Is that how you remember that part of world history? Because if it is, you are part of the collective false memory known as “The Mandela Effect.” In reality, the social rights activist spent 27 yea...
When you think of blood, chances are you think of it as being the color red. Animal blood comes in a variety of other colors, however, including yellow, blue, green, and purple. You can trace each...
Built by the Khmer Empire between 802 and 1220 AD, the temples at Angkor Wat, Cambodia — and the great city surrounding them — represent one of humanity's most astonishing and enduring architectura...
The Strange History of Snake Oil
If you are a white Millennial, you probably have a relatively good sense of humor about just how not cool it is to be white - with ping pong, Donny Osmond, Frasier, and ugly sweater parties, you ca...
Have you heard of the Winchester Rifle, “The Gun That Won the West?” Perhaps you have, but have you listened to the weird, discomfiting tale of the heiress of the Winchester gun fortune?
On the evening of August 29th, 1911, near Oroville, California, a 50-year-old Indigenous American man walked out of the forest. He approached a man who was harnessing some horses to ride into Orov...
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