In 2004, a state-run television broadcast informed an entire nation that growing their hair too long would consume their brain’s nutrition and reduce their intelligence.

In the middle of World War II, American pilots flying dangerous bombing missions over enemy territory created a secretive society.

In April 1815, a mountain in the Dutch East Indies exploded with such devastating force that it altered the global climate and triggered a bizarre year without a summer.

In May 1946, trucks rolled through San Antonio, Texas, blanketing neighborhoods in a thick chemical fog.

In 1788, a wooden keg filled with thousands of copper coins was sealed away in the basement of the Bank of New York.

In 2004, the Paddington Basin area of London saw the completion of an unusual structure across the Grand Union Canal.

When the CEO of a multi-billion-dollar global automaker needed a successor, he did not hand the company over to his biological son.

Most people know the face of Hollywood actor Woody Harrelson, but far fewer know the dark history of his father.

A British soldier captured during World War II accomplished something highly unusual.

An American agronomist credited with saving over a billion people from starvation almost missed college.