The actor who portrayed Luca Brasi in ‘The Godfather’ was hired as a bodyguard for a real mafioso on the set, until Francis Ford Coppola “fell in love”
Mystery solved on the resting place of the prolific Ming Dynasty poet and playwright known as the “Chinese Shakespeare”
“Baby airing”: To boost their health, new mothers in the early 1900s put their infants in windowsill baby cages
Seeking a better way to feed his troops, Napoleon launched a contest that changed the way people eat to this day
A secret mid-1950s underground fortress 100 miles west of London was built to house 4,000 government personnel if nuclear disaster struck
Three years in a freezing lake turned a woman’s flesh to soap, but her thug husband didn’t get away with his crime
The buff WWII-era feminist icon Rosie the Riveter was actually a tiny telegraph operator who’d never been near a factory