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50 million television viewers.
The tradition of the White House turkey pardon.
Massive mobilization.
VIDEO: These facts derived from a Quora post are unbelievable, yet absolutely true.
The average Thanksgiving Day dinner this year...
Collectors' items.
The country possesses some of the most powerful weaponry on earth.
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Today is Guy Fawkes Day, a day where the U.K....
The Hubble Space Telescope.
Seventy-six years ago Thursday, millions of...
Somewhere near Kiribati.
It has a single moving "tiltwing".
Human civilisation.
Locksley Hall, originally built in 1904 by...
Dead wood.
Sir Christopher Wren designed 52 churches and hundreds of more buildings after London's Great Fire in 1666.
Sir Christopher Wren designed 52 churches and hundreds of more buildings after London's Great Fire in 1666.
In April, 20th century film house British...
An interdisciplinary approach.
In August 1974, the United States undertook a...
Just opened.
Once upon a time...
When one thinks about the types of people that...
China has seen more than its share .
"My God, what have we done," Enola Gay...
The Pearl of the Orient.
"Anybody who passes this fence will die."
Trickery and subterfuge.
The good old days.
Bill Gates wants to change how students learn...
He really gave it everything.
Before we had computers, refrigerators, and modern medicine, we had people performing tasks that we now take for granted. Jobs like ice cutters and knocker-ups sound ridiculous to us now, but people once relied on these jobs to pay for their homes and food. Some of the jobs, like leech […]
Back in the dreamy pre-cash days of 1999...
Hamburgers invented in Hamburg.
The Turkish government has officially ordered the demolition of new skyscrapers in Istanbul because they marred the city’s historic skyline, according to Turkish newspaperToday’s Zaman (viaDezeen). Istanbul’s Council of State recently rejected a pair of appeals and approved the cancellation of permits and the demolition of new skyscrapers in the […]
When Ebola first arrived in Europe on September...
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born...
Apple is known for its incredible product...
Timeless advice.
Every day is a battle to be won.
Approximately 40% of U.S. citizens have at...
The moral is to the physical as three is to one.
A recent Quora post prompted the question, “What are some of the most mind-blowing facts that sound like “BS”, but are actually true?” They might be hard to believe, but these facts about geography, people and events are in fact true. Produced by Justin Gmoser. Follow BI Video: On YouTube
Capitalism's only existed for 500 years or so...
It's reassuring that even one of history's...
From Napoleon Bonaparte to Alexander the Great.
Most companies today survive for about 15 years. Many of the longest-lasting businesses produce food items, alcohol, or even guns – things people have evidently been interested in for centuries. The oldest company in the world is a hotel called Nisiyama Onsen Keiunkan in Japan, which opened in 705. Visit […]
People sometimes don't believe his accounts of what happened.
When researchers attempt to chronicle the movement of ideas about the Earth’s surface, there are a few ways to go about it. One is to look at the the mass movements of large groups of people. Another is to examine the lives of influential individuals. A new study, published July […]
Constantine Valhouli, the man who brought you a...
With the world caught in a series of potential proxy wars from Ukraine to the Middle East and tensions ratcheting in East Asia and elsewhere, many have compared the present to 1914, when a trigger event in Sarajevo activated military alliances and led to a devastating global war. Especially on […]
Impress your friends, win bets.
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Warren G. Harding, 29th President of the United...
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Once upon a time...
The first officially recognised version of the...
As American cultural heritage goes, there may...
The Declaration Of Independence made the United...
Mathematics is an increasingly central part of...
Forever young.
As red-blooded Americans, we all know the...
If a picture is worth a thousands words, then amateur photographer Cora Drimus’ latest project speaks volumes about the history of New York City. Drimus created the video “Once Upon a Time in New York” after her visit to the city this past April. The video includes photographs taken by […]
Religion strikes again.
"Military engineer. Will assemble catapults, mangonels, trebuckets."
Crossword geek heaven.
The nine-story penthouse at the iconic...
The maths on English.
French apothecary and purported prophet Nostradamus may have his sceptics, but you can’t deny his ideas have staying power. He wrote his first book, “Les Propheties,” in 1555, and publishing companies still roll out copies today. There’s even a “Nostradamus For Dummies.” In the text of his book, each four-line […]
In 1864, a small band of Confederate soldiers...
Immigrants have always come to America, and the...
Time for an update.
I found this 1917 advertisement for swastika...
By noon on May 19, 1780, a mysterious darkness...
In 1904, 110 years ago Thursday, the Olympics...
In 1993, Nelson Mandela and Frederik Willem de...
More than a century before "Her," computers...
Ambitious.
For the sixth year in a row, President Obama...
Amazing before and after.
Fifty years ago yesterday, the...
On Wednesday, April 23, renowned poet...
The Conversable Economist, aka Timothy Taylor...
Is the constant smoking and drinking in Mad Men...
Most people know that the costs of healthcare...
All around the world.
It's the kind of story you'd think could only...
Graphic designer Paul Sahner has been...
Hipster heaven.
In 1995, Disney introduced children everywhere...
The first non-insect animal to evolve powered...
A few months ago, I published a history of how...
Jeremiah Denton, a former Navy rear...
Last week one of Business Insider's...
If you hate driving in your city, the following...
We use it to describe how we're feeling, if we...
The 300-year-old secret club.
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