Introduction In February 1947, a small canister of fruit flies was loaded into the nose cone of a captured German V-2 rocket at White Sands, New Mexico, and launched 108 kilometers into the sky.... Read More →
Fifty-three years have passed since the last human being stood on the Moon. The total membership of that club – every person in history who has walked on another world – is twelve. Twelve... Read More →
Twelve men who sat in the Oval Office first gave orders on a battlefield. Some commanded armies that changed the course of history. Others held the rank in name only, their “generalship” a political... Read More →
Twelve of the first eighteen American presidents owned enslaved people at some point in their lives. Eight of them owned enslaved people while actively serving as president. They presided over a nation founded on... Read More →
The Vice Presidency has always been a strange job. You’re one heartbeat away from the most powerful office in the world, but nobody voted for you to have it. Nine times in American history,... Read More →
Before joining the United States, four states existed as fully independent nations. One was a kingdom recognized by Europe. One fought a war for independence. One governed itself for 14 years while America refused to acknowledge it. And one declared independence on a Tuesday and was gone before the month ended. Read More →
Before Washington, D.C., America’s capital bounced between nine different cities—fleeing British troops, mutinous soldiers, and deadly yellow fever epidemics. Here’s every city that hosted the U.S. government. Read More →
Eight American presidents died in office—four by assassination, four from illness. From live snake remedies to mistresses at deathbeds, here’s every president who never made it out of the White House alive. Read More →
Ask most Americans who the first president was, and they’ll confidently say George Washington. They’re wrong-sort of. Before Washington took the oath of office in 1789, fourteen men held the title “President of the... Read More →
When Pokemon Red and Green launched in Japan on February 27, 1996, players had no idea how many creatures almost made it into the game. Years of development, hundreds of designs, and countless revisions... Read More →
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