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Britain’s R101 Airship Crash Killed 48 in 1930, More Than the Hindenburg Did

Britain's R101 airship crashed in France on October 5, 1930, killing 48 of the 54 people aboard. That is more than died in the...

Audrey Hepburn Danced for the Dutch Resistance at 15, Years Before Roman Holiday

Audrey Hepburn was a starving 15-year-old ballet student in Nazi-occupied Arnhem when she began dancing to raise money for the Dutch Resistance. Less than...

Playground Slides Once Stood 30 Feet Tall, and 4 More Retro Rides That Were Unsafe

Playground slides once stood as tall as 30 feet, and on a sunny day their steel could reach about 150 degrees Fahrenheit. They were...

Sitting Bull, Sequoyah and 9 More Native American Leaders Who Shaped the U.S.

Sitting Bull, Sequoyah and Chief Joseph are three of 11 Native American leaders whose choices shaped the course of the United States. Some led...

The Statue of Liberty Weighs 450,000 Pounds and Was Almost Built for Egypt

The Statue of Liberty weighs about 450,000 pounds, roughly 30 times as much as a T. rex, yet her copper skin is barely 1/16...

Babylon’s Hanging Gardens Left No Trace, and May Have Stood in Another City Entirely

Of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, only the Pyramids of Giza still stand. The rest crumbled long ago, yet visitors can still...

Americans Drive on the Right Thanks to the Conestoga Wagon, Built Around 1750

Americans keep to the right side of the road because of a freight wagon first built in Pennsylvania around 1750. The Conestoga wagon had...

Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade Drew 10,000 in 1924, and a Century of Balloons Followed

The first Macy's parade rolled through Manhattan on November 24, 1924, in front of just 10,000 people. It was not even called a Thanksgiving...

Eggs Cost $15.11 a Dozen in Today’s Money in 1920, and 4 More Grocery Price Records

A dozen eggs in Chicago cost 87 cents in December 1920. Adjusted for inflation, that is about $15.11 in 2026 dollars, the most Americans...

Jimmy Stewart Flew 20 Combat Missions in WWII and Retired as a Brigadier General

Jimmy Stewart had just won an Oscar when he walked away from Hollywood to join the U.S. Army Air Forces. Over the next two...

Skylab Scattered Wreckage Over Australia in 1979, and 9 More Times Space Junk Fell

When America's first space station came down in 1979, pieces landed across Western Australia, and the local shire sent NASA a $400 fine for...

Florida’s Overseas Highway Crosses 42 Bridges, and 11 More Roads Worth the Drive

The Overseas Highway runs 113 miles from Key Largo to Key West and crosses 42 bridges over open water, so for long stretches it...

Oak Island’s Money Pit Has Defied Treasure Hunters for 230 Years, FDR Among Them

Long before he became the 32nd president, a young Franklin D. Roosevelt bought shares in a company digging for buried treasure on a small...

Lincoln Logs Date to 1916, and 6 More Century-Old Gifts Still Made for Christmas

Lincoln Logs went on sale in 1916, invented by architect John Lloyd Wright, son of Frank Lloyd Wright. More than a hundred years later...

The Beekman Arms Has Housed Travelers Since 1766, and 3 More Historic American Inns

George Washington and Alexander Hamilton stayed at the Beekman Arms in Rhinebeck, New York, and Revolutionary War troops drilled on its front lawn. The...

Only 3,878 Amphicars Were Built, and LBJ Used His to Drive Guests Into a Lake

Lyndon B. Johnson had a favorite joke for visitors to his Texas ranch. He would invite a guest for a short drive, steer straight...

Sears Ran More Than 700 Stores by the 1950s, Then the Department Store Lost Its Crown

By the mid-1950s Sears had more than 700 stores across the United States, and JCPenney passed 1,700 by 1959. For a generation of shoppers...

A Movie Ticket Cost 46 Cents and Mortgages Ran 2.5% in 1950s America

In 1950 a seat at the movies cost 46 cents, less than the 60 cents a dozen eggs went for, and a home loan...

A Fish With Red Lipstick, a Glowing Shark and 8 More Real Animals That Look Fake

A fish that seems to wear red lipstick, a 6-foot shark that glows in the dark and a bat whose tongue tucks away beside...

The First Photo Ever Taken Needed 8 Hours of Sunlight on a Pewter Plate in France

The first photograph in history looks more like a smudged charcoal sketch than a picture. Frenchman Joseph Nicéphore Niépce made it in 1826 or...

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