Chris Wood, CC BY-SA 4.0/Wikimedia Franklin D. Roosevelt’s special presidential yacht, the Potomac, had an interesting life. It was used by a US president, had various private owners that included ...
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Hildegard Willer/Wikimedia La Rinconada, Peru, is the highest elevated human habitation on earth at 16,732 feet above sea level (5,100 meters). The city has no trees and sits on the ...
A real bunghole Insults can hurt, but these five didn’t start that way. They were harmless and mundane, and then, over the passage of time, they morphed into a whole ...
As many may or may not know, Alfred Nobel was the inventor of dynamite, and he also established the Nobel Prize. That award is given every year to recognize those ...
In 1848, an accident injured a 25-year-old railroad worker named Phineas Gage. It was thought that he was never the same person again. His case became the first time a ...
George Washington monument in front of the National Gallery There is a statue of George Washington in a place you wouldn’t think he would be. The statue of the first ...
You might not see this decorative lawn icon dotting the front yards of suburban homes much anymore, but the plastic pink flamingo used to be a big deal. Now it ...
In 2014, the State of Colorado responded to a repeated problem of people stealing a particular number on a mile marker sign along an interstate. The Colorado Department of Transportation ...
The band finishes up their last song of the night, and they give a wave to the crowd and walk off the stage. The lights don’t come up, and within ...
The Indian Territory in the late 1800s was a dangerous place. Criminals were running rampant in the area that would later become the state of Oklahoma, and the town of ...
The Mona Lisa is one of the most famous and recognizable paintings in the world, but that may never have happened if it weren’t for one particular event. The day ...
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