17th century Hungarian serial killer Countess Elizabeth Báthory was as horrifying as mythical Count Dracula
The British pilot whose actions triggered the Spanish Civil War
During WWII, the British Government bought the world’s entire supply of tea
New secret tunnel discovered under the Pyramid of the Moon in Mexico may have been built to replicate the underworld
J.R.R. Tolkien’s other adventure: Courting and marrying Edith Bratt
Female bandit Pearl Hart: “I shall not be tried under a law in which my sex had no voice in making”
Dr. Jacoby from “Twin Peaks” is based on Terence McKenna, the American psychedelic guru
Malham Cove: A Harry Potter location and briefly the highest “single drop” waterfall in England
“For sale, baby shoes, never worn”: Tracing the history of the shortest story ever told
Blanche Blackwell, the Jamaican heiress who was Ian Fleming’s lover, was far more substantial than a Bond Girl
