Beethoven, so deaf he couldn’t hear the applause for his Ninth Symphony, started every day counting 60 beans for coffee
Prince Harry Needed to get the Queen’s Special Consent to Marry Meghan Markle
Ayrton Senna’s excuse for hitting a brick wall during the Dallas Grand Prix in 1984 was that “the wall must have moved,” and he was right
The other Great Wall of China, in Nanjing, is the world’s longest circular city wall, completed in 1386
Human footprints dated to roughly 85,000 years ago revealed in Saudi Arabia
Tests Performed on Hitler’s Teeth Substantiate his 1945 Demise in a Berlin Bunker
Scientists are now able to track the production of coins in ancient Rome by studying samples of Greenland’s ice
In 1940 two twin-engine airplanes collided mid-air–interlocked, they flew for five miles and landed safely
Sickeningly sweet: The Great Molasses Flood of 1919, moving at 35 mph, toppled buildings and trapped people in Boston’s North End
When a Daughter Found Thousands of Forgotten Photos of Life in the Soviet Union
