The best way to get rich during the California Gold Rush was by selling mining pans for nearly $250 in today’s dollars and eggs for $92 each
Notable for its perfect circular design, Restormel Castle is one of the oldest and best preserved Norman motte-and-bailey castles in Cornwall
The Lizzie Borden case: Interest surges again in the shocking 1892 axe murder
Divine, John Waters’ raunchy and hilarious muse, served as inspiration for the outrageous sea witch Ursula in “The Little Mermaid”
The Moberly–Jourdain incident: In 1901, two female academics claimed to have experienced a timeslip into pre-revolutionary France
The story of the Unsinkable Molly Brown, who kept looking for survivors after Titanic had sunk
Killed 500 million rabbits in two years: In 1950, a disease called Myxomatosis was introduced to rabbits for population control in Australia and it wiped out
A woman lived on a 55-meter-tall redwood for 738 days in an effort to keep loggers from cutting down the 1500-year-old tree
The Harpe brothers: The first recorded serial killers in the United States
The birthday effect: Famous people who died on their birthday
