The Witch House of Salem is the only structure still standing with direct ties to the Salem witch trials of 1692
The Antikythera mechanism, an ancient analog “computer”, said to be “more valuable than the Mona Lisa”
When his best buddy Oliver Hardy died, Stan Laurel refused to act in another film
The Great Pyramid of Giza was once covered in highly polished white limestone, before it was removed to build mosques and fortresses
“The Wealthiest Woman in America” was so stingy she took her injured son to a free clinic and so paranoid that she slept holding a gun, a chain of bank-deposit keys around her waist
A massive wall at Cal Orcko in southern Bolivia reveals more than 5,000 dinosaur footsteps
When a dead woman woke up on her way to the graveyard in 1724, the law was rewritten
How scene stealer Steve McQueen tried to make sure all eyes would be on him in “The Magnificent Seven” and not Yul Brynner
In 1980, chemist Glenn Seaborg solved a centuries-old problem in alchemy and turned a non-precious metal into gold
Voyager 1: Our faraway space ambassador reactivates thrusters that were dormant for 37 years
