Walter Freeman, who championed lobotomy in the U.S., toured with his “lobotomobile,” demonstrating the procedure
Modern day ‘ghost’ ships washing ashore in Japan
Saltford Manor: It’s believed to be the oldest continuously inhabited private house in England
Abandoned in space in 1967, a U.S. satellite started transmitting again in 2013
The Wacko Story Behind the Expression “It’s Raining Cats and Dogs”
Violet Jessop: The nurse who survived all three disasters aboard the sister ships: The Titanic, Britannic, and Olympic
For three months in 1964, Vladimir Nabokov wrote down his dreams every morning, pursuing a theory that time flows backward
Barbed wire made possible America’s original social network, when news traveled throughout the countryside on a telephone party line
Kola Superdeep Borehole: The deepest man-made hole in the world
Joseph Pistone, alias Donnie Brasco, infiltrated the Bonanno crime family as undercover FBI agent
