Here’s why George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, and the other former heads of state are crumbling in a farmer’s field
A massive windstorm blew so many tumbleweeds into a city in New Mexico that people were trapped in their homes
Creating the character of E.T. for Spielberg’s hit movie required $1.5 million, a young actor born without legs, and a two-pack-a-day smoker
The Beach Boys sang about a California culture of sun and sand in the 1960s but didn’t actually like to surf themselves
Four shark killings in 1916 triggered a tsunami of hysteria that inspired Steven Spielberg’s blockbuster “Jaws”
The sugar industry paid Harvard scientists $50,000 in the 1960s to blame fat for the nation’s heart-disease problems
Italian gangsters kidnapped J. Paul Getty’s grandson in 1973, but the stingy billionaire refused to pay a penny of ransom
Famous for a knee-capping scandal rather than her skating technique, Tonya Harding nailed the first triple axel but never found a place in America’s heart