In 1952, a group of scientists and the whaling industry began harpooning fin whales off the coast of Norway for a highly unusual business venture.

In October 1959, a 36-year-old man calling himself John Allen Kuchar Zegrus arrived in Japan with his wife.

In 1963, a man in the Turkish region of Cappadocia took a sledgehammer to a wall in his home during a routine renovation.

A snow-white bovine weighing over 1,100 kilograms or 2,425 pounds rests under the watch of security cameras, a veterinarian, and an armed guard.

This structure, known as the Cape Romano Dome House, became a focal point of maritime curiosity as it stood isolated on a shifting coastal landscape

In 1969, a lone man stood outside the Tokyo Imperial Palace and fired metal pachinko pinballs from a slingshot directly at Emperor Shōwa.

In the summer of 2023, an unidentified middle-aged man walked into a charity shop in St Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex, and donated a portrait of a stern-faced child wearing a red dress.

In 1932, the United States government launched a medical experiment involving hundreds of impoverished citizens in Macon County, Alabama, located roughly 64 kilometers (40 miles) east of Montgomery.

On May 5, 1821, the former French Emperor took his final breath while confined to a damp, isolated house on the remote island of St. Helena.

In early 2021, authorities in Osaka, Japan, located approximately 400 kilometers (250 miles) southwest of Tokyo, uncovered a massive romantic scheme.