Brigid of Kildare is the patron saint of Ireland, milkmaids, and apparently not giving a damn.
America is an incredibly vast and diverse country. Every town has its own problems, which are often completely incomprehensible to people even the next state over.
Our ancestors believed in weird stuff, and sometimes they were right ...
It was Florida, so it’s not like that wasn’t a possibility.
Today, we're looking at the world's truly nutty leaders, and the sides of them that you'd never expect.
Sometimes your distant ancestors also participated in the same dumb stuff you do.
The entirety of genre fiction couldn’t invent a character as slick as Kate Warne.
James Cameron skipped the best parts ...
Even in death-obsessed Victorian England, they were pretty much immediately a laughingstock.
Why can you play 'Mary Had a Little Lamb' on an instrument that fell out of favor in the Vivaldi era?
In the early '50s, Project ARTICHOKE 'attempted to induce amnesia and highly suggestive states in its subjects' ...
Remember when a surfer robbed the Museum of Natural History?
The thing about history is that it tends to concern people who are no longer at liberty to say “Wait, I can explain.”
That’s right: One of the most well-known poems in the world today is essentially fan fiction.
Why is Oklahoma?