Some girls love bad boys. For every man who commits a massacre, there’s a whole crowd of women who go wild for him. More often than not, when serial killers and mass murderers make their way into prison, there’s a truckload of love letters waiting for them. We spend a lot of time trying to

What’s worse than finding a worm in your apple? Finding a decomposing rat at the bottom of a bag of chips you just finished off! For many, such a scenario is the stuff of nightmares. But for a few, this nightmare is a life-altering reality. Whether it is rat attacks in the happiest place on

Everyone loves a good story, and history has experienced its fair share of tall tales. Throughout the centuries, both individuals and groups have developed elaborate works of fiction; the most successful of these pulled the wool over the eyes of not only gullible individuals but the general public as well. Some of these hoaxes were

The fear of lightning, being one of the most common phobias, will have roughly ten percent of people running for the hills during an electrical storm. They’d probably be better off driving for the valleys, but you get the idea. While the fear of being struck by lightning is common, the actual occurrence is far

What kind of person would marry her own father? In 1992, Woody Allen got caught with a stack of naked Polaroid photos of Soon-Yi Previn, the young daughter of his common-law wife, Mia Farrow. Previn was essentially his own daughter, and as Farrow quickly learned, Previn and Allen were sleeping together. Although a lot has

Great Britain is the source of habeas corpus law and the Magna Carta. The British Empire once spanned the world, and it brought with it forces of modernization that did more good than harm. London has long stood as the financial epicenter of the world. Despite this great and powerful history, all signs point toward

When we contemplate ancient times, we tend to imagine backward thinking, wacky science, and probably pyramids. But, on more than a few occasions, the ancients hit the nail right on the proverbial head. From evolution all the way to the big bang, so much of modern science has been precipitated by the thoughts and ideas