Jimi Hendrix chose the U.S. Army over a jail term for auto theft, played his guitar endlessly at Fort Campbell
It took two years to restore Bert Lahr’s 60-pound Cowardly Lion costume, and it sold for $3.1 million
A Kentucky farmer and self-taught electrician invented the wireless phone but few believed in him
Lee Van Cleef, the “Bad” in Leone’s classic Western, was a decorated sonarman on a WWII minesweeper
Building a 309-foot “Bride of Nessie” was one attempt to lure Loch Ness Monster to surface
Women against a woman’s right to vote: The leaders of the anti-suffragette movement
The Sankebetsu brown bear incident of 1915 was the worst bear attack in Japanese history
The Lewis Chessmen: Discovered beneath 15 feet of sand in Scotland, they may have been carved in 12th century
The most senior officer to survive the Titanic also participated in evacuating soldiers off the coast of Dunkirk
An Iron-Age bog corpse was first thought to be a teenager who disappeared in 1969 after going to a German dance club
