The real-life “Rain Man” could recite dates, scores, and turn-by-turn directions, like Google incarnate
An Italian duke created the Park of Monsters, filled with stone creatures, as a way of coping with his wife’s death
In 1925, two medical students spent 1,500 hours dissecting a nervous system while keeping it intact, their project today valued at $1 million
In mid-1800s, the terrain and climate of American Southwest posed a daunting challenge, so a solution was found: Buy camels
The buff WWII-era feminist icon Rosie the Riveter was actually a tiny telegraph operator who’d never been near a factory
Laura Ingalls Wilder wrote a happy story of her life in “Little House on the Prairie,” but the truth behind Wilder, her husband, and “Ma and Pa” was complicated