St. Augustine, Florida is the oldest city in the United States
The House of Wisdom contained so many books that the Tigris River turned black from the ink when all of them were destroyed
Charles Addams: The Father of the Addams Family
The thumbscrew was a notoriously effective torture device used in medieval times to get a prisoner to confess
Ksar Ouled Soltane: 15th century granary used as a slave quarters in Star Wars: The Phantom Menace
The remarkably preserved Kilpeck Church, one of the perfect Norman village churches in England
Disclosed: the snake-infested, mosquito-ridden hell where runaway slaves established sanctuary
John Lennon said the Beatles were more popular than Jesus
The hanging of Black Jack Ketchum didn’t go as planned
Library of Trinity College, Dublin: 300-year-old library that houses 200,000 books
