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Jimmy Carter Announces The 1980 Olympics Boycott
March 21, 2020
The opening ceremony of the 1980 Olympics. (RIA Novosti archive, image #487025 / Sergey Guneev / CC-BY-SA 3.0) This summer's Olympic Games in Tokyo are currently in lim...
The Notorious B.I.G.: Theories And What Really Happened
March 9, 2020
American rapper Notorious B.I.G. attends the 1995 Billboard Music Awards, New York, New York, December 6, 1995. (Larry Busacca/WireImage/Getty Images) In the ear...
Spanish Flu: The Pre-Coronavirus Pandemic That Killed Millions In 1918
March 4, 2020
Long before the coronavirus, the Spanish flu was one of the first recorded pandemics, infecting at least 27% of the Earth's population at the time and...
The First Indoor Hockey Game Took Place In Canada In 1875
March 3, 2020
Ice hockey became the official winter sport of Canada in 1994, but really, it was just a formality. People have been making jokes about Canada and hockey for ...
Grave Robbers Exhumed And Held Charlie Chaplin's Body For Ransom In 1978
March 1, 2020
As a performer and director, Charlie Chaplin revolutionized filmmaking. He was one of the few people who successfully transitioned from vaudeville t...
This 1990s LSD Lab Built Inside An Underground Missile Silo Gave Us The World's Acid
February 28, 2020
From the outside, it's just a slate gray, Cold War–era missile silo, but the inside is a different story. No one can agree on exactly wh...
The Impeachment Of Andrew Johnson: Why His Impeachment Was Not That Different
February 24, 2020
No matter what side of the political aisle you fall on, an impeachment is never good news. In the four instances where impeachment has been lev...
1904 Baltimore Fire: 80 Blocks Burned And Lessons Learned
February 7, 2020
Men hurry on the street as they work to demolish buildings during the Baltimore fire, 1904. The leveling of the buildings by dynamite was a desperate attempt to ...
The Origins Of Groundhog Day: Why Do We Celebrate It Again, Exactly?
February 2, 2020
On February 2, all eyes look to a particular rodent in Pennsylvania to see if he can predict the coming weather better than the television meteorol...
The Assassination Of Mahatma Gandhi: Why, How, And Who
January 30, 2020
After a lifetime of advocating for nonviolence, Mahatma Gandhi was gunned down by Nathuram Godse on January 30, 1948. His assassination ripped through the peace commu...
Ancient Mesoamericans Invented Rubber 3,000 Years Before Goodyear
January 23, 2020
Rubber played a big part in the traditional Mesoamerican ballgame, which was played by many civilizations in Mesoamerica. (Photo by Alex Peña/LatinConten...
Brink's Building Robbery: The Heist That Tore A Gang Apart
January 17, 2020
The Brink's building heist of 1950 is one of the most daring robberies of the 20th century. Like something from a movie, the robbery itself went off without a hit...
The Great Molasses Flood Sounds Like A Joke, But It Killed 21 Bostonians
January 15, 2020
On January 15, 1919, the Boston area found itself in a sticky situation. That afternoon, a tank full of molasses exploded while traveling through B...
Beer In Russia Wasn't Considered Alcohol Until 2011
January 1, 2020
We know you're hungover, barely alive, just hanging in there like a kitten on a motivational poster. That's why, today, we're bringing you a story about what is no doubt...
Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571: The 1972 Plane Crash That Turned Survivors Into Cannibals
December 23, 2019
Life sometimes forces extreme solutions to difficult situations. The crash of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 on October 13, 19...
George Washington Crossing the Delaware: A Brazen Christmas Attack
December 19, 2019
Copy of 'Washington Crossing the Delaware' by Emanuel Leutze, Abbot Hall, Marblehead, Massachusetts. (Photo by: Joe Sohm/Visions of America/Universal Im...
Black December: When Sharks Attacks Compelled The Government To Bomb The Ocean
December 18, 2019
Even the gnarliest, saltiest surfers in the world admit that sharks give them the willies. Thankfully, sharks attacks are so rare that we...
