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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...

The ZIP Code Only Arrived on July 1, 1963, and Americans Did Not Want It at First

The five-digit ZIP code feels as if it has always been part of an American address, but it only started on July 1, 1963....

Arlington’s Tomb of the Unknown Soldier Has Been Guarded Around the Clock Since 1937

On November 11, 1921, the United States dedicated the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery to honor an unidentified American killed...

A NASA Engineer Invented the Super Soaker, and Over 250 Million Have Sold Since 1990

The Super Soaker, the water gun that ruled American summers in the 1990s, was invented by an actual rocket scientist. Lonnie Johnson came up...

Boston’s 1919 Molasses Flood Sent a 25-Foot Wave Through the North End, Killing 21

On January 15, 1919, a badly built storage tank in Boston's North End burst open and released as many as 2.3 million gallons of...

Tupperware Parties Hit $25 Million in Sales by 1954, Then the Party Slowly Ended

Tupperware did not sell well in stores at first, because shoppers could not work out how to close the lids. Home parties fixed that,...

The First Coast-to-Coast Drive in 1903 Began With a $50 Bet and Took 63 Days

In 1903, a Vermont doctor named H. Nelson Jackson bet $50 that he could drive a car from San Francisco to New York City....

Ceuta Is a Spanish City in Africa, a Leftover of Portugal’s 1415 Conquest

Ceuta is a self governing Spanish city on the coast of North Africa, and its only land neighbor is Morocco. It is Spanish because...

Old Tjikko, a 9,500-Year-Old Spruce in Sweden, Is Not the World’s Oldest Tree

Old Tjikko, a Norway spruce on Fulufjället Mountain in Sweden, is estimated to be more than 9,500 years old. That puts its start around...

Old West Saloons Rarely Relied on Swinging Doors Alone, Whatever Westerns Show

Swinging batwing doors were real in the Old West, but most saloons that had them also had a solid, lockable door right behind or...

Monopoly Began as Lizzie Magie’s 1904 Landlord’s Game, a Warning About Greed

The board game Monopoly grew out of The Landlord's Game, which Elizabeth "Lizzie" Magie patented in 1904. She designed it as an attack on...

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