Every generation produces kid geniuses, but in the early 1900s, the public was obsessed with them. By Greg Daugherty. (June 24, 2013)

Holly and Tracy bring you the greatest, strangest, most underappreciated stories from the past in Stuff You Missed In History Class.

Spanning the globe and centuries, we introduce you to the infamous she-pirates of the seven seas. By Kristy Puchko.

It opened its mouth and a murder mystery came out. By Matt Soniak.

In the 18th century, medical students and the general public learned about the insides of the human body through a tool that to 21st-century eyes likely appears shocking or offensive. By Claire Voon.

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Why did this man travel 200 miles to die here? By Jon Manel.

We still believe, we just don’t talk about it anymore. By Linda Rodriguez McRobbie.

How a South Asian immigrant became a Wyoming fast-food legend and received American citizenship—twice. By Kathryn Schulz.

​Plans are underway to fulfil the wishes of the late Gary Robert Dupuis after the mystery man's ashes washed up on the shores of Cape Breton inside a tequila bottle — its apparent first stop on an attempted world tour.

War is fought over many things, it can be about honor, glory, liberating a land that you believe is rightfully yours, the list goes on, but alongside those there have been a number of decidedly unusual wars, fought for trivial or even contemptible reasons...

Sue Taylor first started hearing it at night in 2009. A retired psychiatric nurse, Taylor lives in Roslin, Scotland, a small village seven miles outside of Edinburgh. “A thick, low hum,” is how she described it, something “permeating the entire house,” keeping her awake. At first she thought it was from a nearby factory, or perhaps a generator of some kind. She began spending her evenings looking for the source, listening outside her neighbors’ homes in the early hours of the morning.

Creepiness, the quality ascribed to creeps, has long been demarcated by the same ambiguous parameters as hardcore porn: We know it when we see it. By Christina Cauterucci.

Is the Hum, a mysterious noise heard around the world, science or mass delusion? By Colin Dickey.

A high-tech storytelling gameworld has just opened its doors in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Some of the most incredible breakthroughs in scientific history are the result of dreams, intuition and the mystic side of the brain. Here's six. By Anne Web.

As Yves Meyer was getting ready to publish a detailed mathematical proof that he had spent months working on, he decided do a final search of the existing literature. In the reference list of one of the papers he had just peer-reviewed, he noticed what he describes as a "bizarre" paper published in 1959 by Andrew Paul Guinand... By Lisa Zyga.

In an extraordinary coincidence a mother born on a leap year gives birth on a leap year.

When a caller reported a “unicorn-like” animal galloping down an open Central Valley road, the California Highway Patrol suspected someone was high on hallucinogenic drugs.By Brittny Mejia.

After an ambitious monument went bust, big dreams—and big heads—remain. By Jennifer Billock.