If you're good at lying, the world is an all-you-can-eat buffet respect, fame, and riches.

History is sometimes written by the winners and other times written by coked-out sitcom writers desperate to finish a scene.

One Times Square rakes in $23 million a year, despite having zero tenants.

Tom Cruise very nearly became synonymous with a religion known for worshiping a magical man in the sky and covering up child sex.

Border disputes sometimes barrel past boring ol' war and keep going right on into Crazytown.

Time and time again, small, ridiculously outnumbered forces have gleefully bluffed their way to victory in situations that should have left them as stains on the battlefield.

What, you didn't know that pulling off hilariously childish shenanigans was an integral part of military service?

Things we assume were left in the distant past have a way of lingering on, decades or centuries longer than you'd have thought.

These select groups of gifted individuals, whether they were born better than us or simply became so over time, have abilities that make them stronger, keener, faster ... and probably totally smug about it, too.

More often than you'd think, circumstances conspire to put the fate of the world into the hands of people you wouldn't trust with a Risk board.