On March 24, 2023, Chad Caruso stepped onto a standard skateboard in Venice Beach, California, and pushed his way eastward with a single goal.

In 1991, an entrepreneur named Isaac Wright Jr. received a life sentence in a New Jersey state prison after a wrongful conviction under state drug kingpin laws.

When authorities in Puno, Peru, approached three men drinking in a deserted park on February 25, 2023, they expected a routine public intoxication stop.

Between the 11th and 20th centuries, Japanese monks embarked on a regimen so extreme it altered their biology.

Visiting a doctor who mapped the bumps on a skull to determine if a patient was an honest person, a skilled musician, or a potential criminal was a common occurrence in the 1800s.

When Crown Princess Juliana of the Netherlands announced her pregnancy in 1942, she triggered a strict constitutional dilemma.

When they started their family, an extraordinary genetic anomaly revealed itself. Some of their children were born with skin that was a striking shade of blue.

A British evangelist named Elizabeth Reid Cotton, better known as Lady Hope, claimed she had secured a private interview with Charles Darwin shortly before his death.

He eventually reached a staggering 251 centimeters (8 feet 2.8 inches) tall, earning him the Guinness World Record.