On October 20, 1986, a plane crash in Russia killed 70 people after pilot Alexander Kliuyev allegedly accepted a bet to land ...

Unearthed in 2020, new analysis shows this 900-year-old wild boar tusk was intricately engraved and may have been used as a ...

Ancient historians like Livy and Plutarch wrote of bizarre phenomena in the skies above Italy, from strange discs and phantom ...

Skeletons of ancient Egyptian princesses unearthed at Dahshur were found alongside daggers and arrows suggesting these women ...

In February 2008, a man killed five women and injured a sixth at a Lane Bryant store in Tinley Park, Illinois, and the murder ...

In 1560, a man with one leg entered the French city of Toulouse with an unbelievable claim: Someone had taken over his entire ...

Just after landing on the Moon on July 20, 1969, Buzz Aldrin activated a damaged yet crucial circuit with a pen — which has ...

Archaeologists excavating at Minas de Riotinto found eight sandals made of esparto grass that date as far back as 2,400 years ...

Some historians believe that Revolutionary War officer Friedrich von Steuben was gay, but his actions may have been ...

John Warnock left his job at Xerox in the early 1980s after his bosses shot down his idea for a programming language that ...

Archaeologists exploring Celtic ruins in Allonnes discovered five pairs of shackles alongside other metalwork like spearheads ...

Archaeologists digging at the Vindolanda site in northern England found a 1,600-year-old relief carving of an ancient Roman ...