Orville Redenbacher’s smiling face is iconic on his boxes of popcorn, but his original company may never have become as popular as it is without a simple suggestion about what ...
History
You’ve probably never wondered what the dot over the letter “i” or “j” is called, but today would be your lucky day. It’s called a “tittle,” better known as a ...
Replica of the Jules Rimet Trophy Ben Sutherland/Wikimedia The FIFA World Cup Trophy is one of the most coveted and expensive trophies in sports. It is made of 18-karat gold ...
The Leaning Tower of Pisa is an architectural oddity and probably the most famous leaning building in the world. Construction of the tower started in 1173 and wasn’t officially finished ...
As we have probably often experienced, memories are not always as exact as we remember them. They can be highly suggestible and influenced by others’ recollections, pictures, the passage of ...
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in the United States has a team that is dedicated solely to art crime. The Art Crime Team is composed of 16 special agents ...
The Mammoth Camera George R. Lawrence was an innovative photographer in the late 1800s who designed the world’s largest camera to take the largest panoramic photograph possible of a new ...
It’s hard to fathom, but the United States once chose 00000000 as the password for its computer controls of nuclear-tipped missiles, and it stayed that way for nearly 20 years. ...
Chuck Yeager, easily the most famed test pilot in human history, broke the sound barrier in the Bell X-1 experimental rocket plane. What’s even more amazing is that he did ...
A disaster occurred in the early 20th century that seemed improbable. The day was January 15, 1919, and just a little after midday, something terrible happened at the Purity Distilling ...
Traveling around the world in the late 1800s was a challenging task, especially when trying to recreate the travels in the famous Jules Verne novel Around the World in Eighty ...
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