Sarah Goode was one of several Black women who received patents in the 1880s. The year after Goode submitted the patent ...

Gary, Indiana was once a mecca for America's steel industry in mid-20th century. But decades later, it has become a desolate ghost town. Its declining population and abandoned buildings have lent it ...

In November 2016, Sherri Papini disappeared while out for a jog in Northern California. She was found three weeks later on a highway about 140 miles away, battered and bruised, and with a story about ...

Park rangers in Australia made a discovery this week that shocked viewers and broke records: a nearly six-pound cane toad now dubbed “Toadzilla.” The toad was found during a routine trail check in ...

The last place one would expect to find a four-centuries-old masterpiece is in the back of a shed. But that’s exactly what part-time art collector Albert B. Roberts found in 2002 when examining a ...

A woman in Delray Beach, Florida was recently rescued from a storm drain — for the third time in just two years. As local station WFLA reported, Delray Beach police responded to a call about a person ...

In May 1861, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln sent out a national call for volunteers to fight for the Union Army. Many eagerly rose to the occasion, including one unlikely soldier: a nine-year-old boy ...

Since the 2000s, photos of Kenny the “tiger with Down syndrome” have made him an online sensation. Countless people have been captivated by his story, in which “the world’s ugliest tiger” was rescued ...

In 1954, a man allegedly arrived at Haneda Airport in Tokyo with a passport from Taured — a country that doesn't exist. Was he a traveler from another dimension, or just a small-time fraudster trying ...

Two of the biggest teenage actors of the 1980s, Corey Feldman and Corey Haim shared the same first name, were lifelong friends, and co-starred together in a number of hit films, including The Lost ...

Three years before Alexander Hamilton died in his infamous duel in 1804, his son Philip Hamilton died in the same way — in nearly the same location. Philip Hamilton seemed destined for great things.

Today, millions of people around the world use Braille to read and write. But before Braille, visually impaired people struggled to learn complicated systems that had major drawbacks. Until a ...