The sinking of the Titanic was one of the most traumatic and horrifying events in history. Thousands of people lost their lives in the freezing cold water of the Atlantic Ocean during the early morning hours of April 15, 1912. There are many sad stories about the Titanic, but there are also many heroic stories

The Internet is already awash with lists about ridiculous, strange, and weird laws from across the world. What many of these lists will not tell you is that most of these laws are no longer enforced today. And where’s the fun if you can’t get arrested for frowning in Milan or just naming your pig

Solving crimes was a lot harder before DNA testing. Detectives today have a whole arsenal of crime scene investigation tools and gadgets to help them prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt, but it wasn’t always that easy. Crime investigators have been around for thousands of years. All the way back in ancient Egypt, there were

A head shot is almost always a free pass to the graveyard. So it is intriguing to hear of people surviving these injuries, especially when we realize that the survivors doubled as the shooters. Some of the people on this list deliberately hurt themselves in failed attempts at suicide, while others mistakenly shot themselves. There

The United States of America is crisscrossed with highways. According to the US Department of Transportation, America is covered by over 264,000 kilometers (164,000 mi) of federal roads.[1] Millions of Americans transverse these roads every day, and most worry about very little during their commutes. However, highway accidents remain a concern. Last year, there were

Urinary catheters are used for various medical conditions in order drain urine from the bladder when other means have failed. This medical device is never ideal for any man or woman, to say the least. The use of urinary catheters is painful, not to mention rather unflattering. The following ten entries focus on intriguing facts,

When we first learned about Pangaea in school, it seemed like a mystical world where land went on forever and animals and plants inhabited places we could not even imagine. Just thinking about all the continents fitting together like a puzzle is unbelievable. Also, it’s incredible that earthquakes and tectonic plates could move so much

Water may look placid, but its capacity for strangeness seems unlimited. Unique among Earth’s liquids, water has quirks that make scientists and weathermen love their jobs. It inspires awe with massive and bizarre storms, swirls, clouds, and even stranger molecules and quantum secrets. From the oldest water ever found to the mystery of where H2O