A waffle breakfast in Oregon in 1971 led to a breakthrough invention for running shoes
Chloroform, arsenic, and suspicious family doctors: Lady poisoners of the Victorian era
Nietzsche’s sister, Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche, edited her brother’s work to fit her own anti-Semitic ideology
Jimi Hendrix chose the U.S. Army over a jail term for auto theft, played his guitar endlessly at Fort Campbell
It took two years to restore Bert Lahr’s 60-pound Cowardly Lion costume, and it sold for $3.1 million
A Kentucky farmer and self-taught electrician invented the wireless phone but few believed in him
Lee Van Cleef, the “Bad” in Leone’s classic Western, was a decorated sonarman on a WWII minesweeper
Building a 309-foot “Bride of Nessie” was one attempt to lure Loch Ness Monster to surface
Women against a woman’s right to vote: The leaders of the anti-suffragette movement
The Sankebetsu brown bear incident of 1915 was the worst bear attack in Japanese history
