Nike’s “Just Do It” slogan was inspired by the last words of a murderer awaiting execution
The Piltdown Man: a notorious archaeological hoax that fooled the scientific community for over 40 years
The death of Boney M’s singer Bobby Farrel has occurred on the same day and in the same city as the death of Rasputin, the “lover of the Russian queen” …
Science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke helped popularize the idea that satellites can be used as means of mass communication
Now a Youth Hostel: Himmler carried out occult rituals in an Ancient German Castle
The Unfinished Castles & Their Fate
Tristan da Cunha is the most remote inhabited archipelago in the world
Teti’aroa: The wondrous atoll in the Pacific widely known for having been purchased by Marlon Brando in the 1960s
Visitors to the Lascaux caves do not see the genuine 17,000-year-old art, but a replica created to help protect the originals
That time when the fountains at the Gardens of Versailles consumed more water per day than the entire city of Paris
