How the Devil came into his dream and inspired Giuseppe Tartini to compose the Violin Sonata in G Minor, “The Devil’s Trill”
Ruth Graves Wakefield invented the chocolate chip cookie, and during WWII, when Massachusetts servicemen received them in care packages, it led to a full-fledged cookie craze
After being lost for 132 years, Steamboat Arabia was unearthed with its cargo remarkably intact, including a jar of edible pickles
Holly Golightly would be “divinely and utterly happy,” because now, finally, it’s possible to have breakfast at Tiffany’s
Child soldiers of the American Civil War
Gary Cooper refused the role in “Gone with the Wind” and thought the film would be a massive failure
Bonnie and Clyde’s bullet riddled “death car” is on display at Whiskey Pete’s Casino in Primm, Nevada
The buff WWII-era feminist icon Rosie the Riveter was actually a tiny telegraph operator who’d never been near a factory
Until 1972, women were prohibited from running the Boston Marathon and the first female to complete race had to hide in the bushes before starting
In 1955, workers installing a Buddha statue discovered the plaster was actually covering a solid gold statue
