In June 1985, Hezbollah hijackers seized TWA Flight 847 and held 153 passengers hostage for 17 days. On board was Greek pop star Demis Roussos. This is the full story.

On 18 June 1815, the Battle of Waterloo ended Napoleon's empire. But one of the strangest stories to come out of that day involves Henry Paget, a cavalry charge, a very calm amputation, and a leg with its own tombstone.

A 2014 study in the Journal of Forensic Sciences had psychiatrists watch 400 films to find cinema's most realistic psychopaths. Hannibal Lecter didn't make the cut. Here's who did.

John Camden Hotten's Slang Dictionary of 1865 documented nearly 10,000 words used by Victorian London's criminals, costermongers, students, and MPs. Here's the story behind it.

Long before Martin Scorsese cast them as screen enemies, Joe Pesci and Frank Vincent were bandmates in a New Jersey lounge act called the Aristocrats. Here's the story.

An optical Illusion that doesn’t want to break even if you know the trick by Lui_Belmont

Steve McQueen wasn't supposed to be in it. Faye Dunaway was the second choice. And the most famous scene had no script. The full story of how The Thomas Crown Affair (1968) got made.

A man created this work called “What I’m Seeing” by cool-kid-2025

Transformers as a voice command activate toys and modernising the toy industry…. by godfather_wanderlust

Toyohiro Akiyama was the first Japanese person sent to space. He was not a trained astronaut, scientist, nor an engineer. He was a TV reporter who smoked four packs of cigarettes a day. When asked what he looked forward to most upon his return to Earth, he said “I can’t wait to have a smoke”. [...]

This curved path helps prevent bullets from hitting each other’s primers during production by fvkinglzy

Homeless guy already living in front of the Ed Sullivan theater after Stephen Colbert’s last show by ProudReaction2204

Incubating a turtle egg outside of the shell. (Don’t unmute) by Debaucherousgeek73

Hugh Nini and Neal Treadwell spent 25 years collecting over 4,000 secret photographs of men in love from the 1850s to 1950s. Their book Loving is one of the most quietly radical history projects in recent memory.

The magic of probability – The Galton board by Firm-Blackberry-9162

To fulfill her final text, ‘I want to go home,’ Yasuo Takamatsu has spent 15 years diving every week looking for his wife lost in the 2011 Japan tsunami. by thepoylanthropist

4 types of tigers in the same photo.This looks like they’re recreating their photo from the 90s. by Ashish_ank

My “Morton’s Sea Salt” is really “Lake Salt” by TheWoodser

The Hotel I’m At Has A Skittles Vending Machine by CSquare43-Work

A crab eating the dead skin from someone’s foot by TechnicianOk967

John Rogan stood 8 feet 9 inches tall, was the son of enslaved sharecroppers, refused every sideshow offer, and died in 1905 with his grave sealed in concrete. Here is the story nobody tells.

Weirdest TV remote I’ve seen so far! by Maxtronic55

In 1986, Jim Henson wrote two letters to be read after his death. Four years later he was gone at 53. Here's the story of the man behind the Muppets, and the words he left for those who loved him.

When you’re in a bird hide in South Africa and this happens.. by cosmic_voyager01

In 1955, Nobel laureate John Steinbeck wrote a witty letter to Marilyn Monroe asking for an autograph for his teenage nephew. The letter sold for $3,520 at auction in 2016 but nobody knows if Monroe ever replied.

The mailbox I bought at Walmart came with someone’s actual mail in it by DUGSMOK

I just bought this table / chest. It’s from 1773 which makes it older than the United States by edditLikesTea

In 1943, a Pennsylvania dentist convinced FDR to fund a secret WWII weapon: bats armed with napalm. The result accidentally burned down a US Army airfield. Here's the full story of Project X-Ray.

I’ve never seen a Scissor-tailed flycatcher, so cool! by Critical-Willow-6270

The “Green Stone” of Hattusa: A 2,200lb block of nephrite that sits alone in the ruins of the 3,000-year-old Hittite capital. Archeologists still have no idea why it’s there. by Ultimate_Thing