After Umberto Eco was invited to submit a short detective story to a magazine, he instead wrote his first novel, “The Name of the Rose”
In 19th century, Clark Stanley patented snake oil and advertised it as a painkiller, saying he had studied its wonders with the Hopi healers
More than 80 years after she passed away, Marie Curie’s remains and personal items are still dangerously radioactive
Poe Toaster: For 75 years a mysterious man visited Edgar Allan Poe’s grave, poured himself a glass of cognac, and toasted the great writer
The famous Berlin specimen of Archaeopteryx, a transition between dinosaur and bird, was found by a farmer who sold it to buy a cow
In early English common law, suicide was a punishable crime, and the dead were buried not in graveyards but at a crossroads, where the soul would meet “limbo”
During WWII, famous Hollywood director Frank Capra filmed motivational documentaries for American soldiers