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While Frances McDormand’s Oscar was taken but soon returned, three other actresses weren’t so lucky
Wall Street earned its name after an actual wall was built by Dutch settlers in the 17th century
Cambodia’s Angkor Wat used far greater amounts of stone than all the Egyptian pyramids combined
The real-life “Rain Man” could recite dates, scores, and turn-by-turn directions, like Google incarnate
Kirk Douglas, 101, a Hollywood icon who plays tough guys but is a soft-hearted philanthropist offscreen
The True Identity Behind the Iconic Face of the Great Depression
When Abraham Lincoln died, his corpse was sent on a controversial two-week funeral tour across America
Clayton Anderson: The NASA engineer who got to be an astronaut–after 15 years and 14 rejections
In 1909, schools were closed after a flurry of sightings of the Jersey Devil: a kangaroo-like creature with wings and a goat’s head
An Italian duke created the Park of Monsters, filled with stone creatures, as a way of coping with his wife’s death
