“Waterloo Teeth” and the morbid birth of modern dentures
Nearly 50,000 men lost their lives at Waterloo in 1815. The battle is typically remembered as the definitive defeat of Napoleon and the beginning of a...
Nearly 50,000 men lost their lives at Waterloo in 1815. The battle is typically remembered as the definitive defeat of Napoleon and the beginning of a...
When you think of pasta, you think of Italy. When you think of Italy, you think of pasta. But did you know that once upon a time the Italian...
With Easter now just a week away, we’re revisiting one of our favorite Easter egg stories. Sadly, you can’t eat this kind of Easter egg and you mig...
Is a tomato a fruit or a vegetable? It’s one of the world’s great dilemmas. You’ll have heard it before, you’ll hear it again and you’ll already k...
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Nope, it's 76 parachuting beavers over Idaho. Strap in, this is the remarkable true story of when a fleet of beavers fell...
We now move around the world by train without thinking about it, with hundreds of millions of people traveling on them every single day. Today,...
I arrived late to the beauty of Scots. While I have been steeped in the vocabulary of the Oxford English Dictionary for over three decades, it is only...
The spooky season of Halloween and the long nights surrounding Christmas are now behind us, but that doesn’t mean our fascination with the spooky h...
Have you ever felt grateful to somebody, but not quite been sure how to fully express your gratitude? Well, here's one extreme option: the remarkable...
Officially known as the Khan Khentii Strictly Protected Area, this giant swathe of land is 4,740 square miles (roughly the same size as Connecticut)....
This is the unlikely and remarkable story of Thomas Downing. Born to formerly enslaved parents in Virginia in 1791, he went on to become a pioneering...
Norman Studios is the final silent film studio in Jacksonville, Florida. It hasn’t made films in almost 100 years and nowadays provides a f...