Don’t mess with the IRS: Famed party palace Studio 54 was shuttered after its owner taunted the government and bragged, “Only the mafia makes more money”
In “Dr. No,” Jack Lord won praise as a suave and smart CIA agent, but he bowed out of Bond series because he wanted Felix Leiter and James Bond to be equals
During the Great Depression, Canadian Prime Minister Richard Bennett secretly sent his own money to needy families
Monopoly boards with maps hidden inside helped British POWs escape the Nazis
NASA has released over 10.000 photos from the Apollo moon mission
Heddal stave church is the largest in Norway, and according to a legend it was built in three days by five farmers
Beijing has a 20,000-acre secret underground city, Dìxià Chéng, that was built during the Cold War by 300,000 people digging by hand
The ‘Spockmania’ of the 1960s Surprised Leonard Nimoy
The bad news is the alleged “yeti” remains are those of a bear, but the good news is researchers now understand more about Himalayan bears
In 1980, chemist Glenn Seaborg solved a centuries-old problem in alchemy and turned a non-precious metal into gold
