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Betty White, star of The Golden Girls, has died. She was 99 → Read More
These TV shows—and Wiki Wormhole—wrapped up with a series finale → Read More
The "bat bomb" contained live bats, each of which would carry an incendiary device and start fires across Japan. → Read More
The Pig War of 1959 was, sadly, not a war between two rival armies made up of talking pigs. → Read More
The German brewer made it to San Francisco eventually. → Read More
Advergames like Pepsiman and Gatorade's Bolt! were commercials you could play. → Read More
Somehow, the long plunger of the law never managed to catch up with the Mad Pooper, who struck in the summer of 2017. → Read More
The pitcher Charles Radbourn is also the first known person to be photographed giving someone the finger. → Read More
A misprint put a contest-winning number on 800,000 Pepsi bottles, resulting in rioting, lawsuits, and a massive debacle for Pepsi Philippines. → Read More
Back in 1994, Pulp Fiction’s foul language was still shocking, but it’s been surpassed by a fudgeload of movies in the years since. → Read More
For a number of years now, work has been proceeding in order to bring perfection to the crudely conceived idea of the turboencabulator, an engineering prank that counts General Electric, General Motors, and Hank Green among its participants. → Read More
In several parts of the world, at several points in history, there have been trends of incorporating live insects into jewelry (for some reason). → Read More
It isn’t history’s only molasses spill, but the Great Boston Molasses Flood is the worst. → Read More
The syrup thieves and Walter White used the same methods nearly simultaneously. → Read More
Tama the cat inadvertently saved a railway station in Wakayama Prefecture from closing, becoming both a local celebrity and the station master in the process. → Read More
Food shortages and price gouging sparked the deadly Nottingham Cheese Riot, or the Great Cheese Riot, of 1766. → Read More
Kate Warne joined the Pinkerton Detective Agency at the age of 23, thwarting an assassination plot against Abraham Lincoln and serving as a spy during the Civil War. → Read More
The 1990s could have been the decade of the superhero movie, had Raimi had his say. → Read More
Are you ready for some football? Because in 1916, Cumberland College was decidedly not. The Cumberland Bulldogs lost to the Georgia Tech Engineers by a remarkable 222-0, still the most lopsided game in the history of football. → Read More
But like the quiet, mild-mannered Bostonian, the medieval New England may not have actually existed. → Read More