Long before smartphones and digital clocks, London business owners paid an annual fee just to look at a woman’s pocket watch.

Look at a globe and pinpoint a specific geographical area spanning just one-tenth of the total surface.

Before his name was bolted to a space telescope, he was an Illinois high jump record holder, an Oxford law student, a combat-injured military major, and a boxer who once knocked out a German heavyweight champion.

Before John Glenn circled the globe, an American spacecraft successfully orbited Earth with a living hominid inside.

Goats are naturally inclined to climb, but they rarely find multi-story brick high-rises built exclusively for their enjoyment.

In a small town in northern New Zealand, busloads of international tourists arrive every day just to photograph a public bathroom.

In July 1917, a stray dog of uncertain breed wandered onto the Yale University campus and found a home with the 102nd Infantry Regiment.

Born on February 5, 1908, in Brighton, England, to an unmarried barmaid named Kate Skinner, the girls were conjoined at the hips and buttocks.

In the 1920s, a man could achieve nationwide fame simply by climbing a tall pole and refusing to come down.

In 1519, the debate over how to teach Latin to English schoolchildren escalated into a severe public conflict known as the Grammarians’ War.