In a shocking scandal, the rebellious creator of Pippi Longstocking bore a child out of wedlock—and her married boss was the father
Elton John’s spectacular spectacles started as a tribute to pioneering pop star Buddy Holly, who died tragically at 22
The mystery of what happened when a drunken mechanic stole a military plane 50 years ago may soon be solved
Once tossed in pigs’ troughs, baby eels, the “caviar of Northern Spain,” today command $550 per pound
Half blind Bob Bell, who faked his vision test to get into the Marines, later became TV’s best loved Bozo the Clown
Three years in a freezing lake turned a dead woman’s flesh to soap, but her thug husband didn’t get away with murder
Millie Dunn Veasey, one of the last members of the only all-black, all-women battalion to serve overseas in WWII, passes away at age 100
A broke, widowed school teacher hoped to earn fame and fortune in 1901 by going over Niagara Falls in a barrel—at age 63