Waggoner Ranch is a ranch in Texas that went up for sale in August 2014 for an amazing asking price of $725 million and sold for an undisclosed amount. It ...
Saffron is considered the rarest and most expensive spice in the world, costing more than $500 an ounce. Why is this tiny spice so expensive? It all has to do ...
The women involved in the American Revolutionary War didn’t just stand on the sidelines when the men went to battle. They were firmly entrenched in the fight for independence and ...
You’ve probably heard this term on weather reports when a meteorologist talks about the jet stream, but what is it exactly? The jet stream, which is considered a “river” of ...
Breaches of the high-security area surrounding the grounds and airspace of the White House in Washington DC are uncommon, but they do happen. On February 17, 1974, one occurrence ended ...
In 1975, the Soviet Union did something that had never been done in space before. They fired a gun from a space station, the one and only time such a ...
Kevin Gill/Flickr CC BY 2.0 A strange planet was discovered in May 2020, 855 light-years from Earth in the Hercules constellation, that is five times larger than Jupiter and has ...
James Buchanan, the 15th President of the United States, isn’t a president you probably have heard much about, but he does have one legacy that another sitting president hasn’t repeated. ...
Canada has a one-dollar coin called the “loonie.” It was introduced in 1987 to replace the country’s paper one-dollar bill. But something strange happened to the loonie on its way ...
In 1992, over 28,000 plastic bath toys took a journey of epic proportions after they were washed off a container ship and into the Pacific Ocean. While the release of ...
Airplane parked at Barra Airport Barra Airport, located on the coast of Western Scotland on the island of Barra, is the only airport in the world with a beach as ...
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