More than 2,000 years ago, Roman poet and philosopher Marcus Terentius Varro wrote the first farming manual. In it he advised giving farm dogs barley bread soaked in milk, and bones from dead sheep.
Police in San Adreas, a Colombian island in the Caribbean, arrested three women posing as nuns. They had $35,000 worth of cocaine underneath their habits as they entered the country at the San Adreas airport.
Eighty years before the Emancipation Proclamation freed American slaves, a Massachusetts woman helped free the slaves of that state …just by going to court.
What really is the mother of invention? When it comes to the invention of the dishwasher, necessity had nothing to do with it. It was chipped china.
An abandoned house was investigated by police after calls from neighbors. Inside, they found a wasp nest that almost filled a room.
In 1978, George Lucas had an idea for a movie called "Raiders of the Lost Ark," and invited Steven Spielberg and screenwriter Lawrence Kasdan to a brainstorming session to flesh it out.
How did people start using the terms "cheesecake" and "beefcake" to describe hotties?
According to Car China News, a blog about the automotive industry in China, many Chinese drivers hate wearing seat belts. They'll go so far as to wear special t-shirts to fool police officers.
At one point, covering cereal with sugar was considered morally questionable. Oh, how times have changed.
Few people know about the Sultana, despite the fact that it suffered the worst maritime disaster in U.S. history. For some reason, it is almost completely ignored by history books. Here's the tragic story.
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