There’s a good reason your parents probably freaked out when they found out you took a little joy ride on someone’s Harley.

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Some people made jokes; one person established the Nobel Prize.
Delve into the mystery surrounding the assassination of Grigori Rasputin, and see how the circumstances of his death have taken on a life of their own.
It all began in 1952 when then-Princess Elizabeth was caught without a black outfit when the circumstances called for one.
The cause of death in these mysterious cases has, at one time or another, been reported as spontaneous human combustion—but there was often a more realistic explanation.
February 14 is often celebrates as a day of love—but it has also been marked as a day of tragedy.
Spoiler alert: They’re still around.
On January 30, 1925, Kentucky cave explorer Floyd Collins went underground—and didn’t come out. The epic effort to rescue him gripped national headlines and transformed into a battle between heroism and folly, selflessness and selfishness, life and death.
Catch the blooming of Sydney‘s corpse flower without being exposed to its infamous odor.
The Oregon Trail had 4 to 10 percent death rate, which is lower than you might assume if you’ve played the computer game.
Some New Year’s superstitions and traditions are spookier than others, but these are some of those most memorable from around the world.
The Tower of London inspires awe, fear, and intrigue. Here are seven facts you may not know about the iconic British fortress.
You might want to skip dinner after reading these.
Black Friday shopping may stress you out, but as these tragic shopping stampedes from history show, things could always end up looking a lot worse.
What began as a routine renovation revealed Harvard's history of body snatching.
Research (and lots of dry-heaving) has revealed why the flower reeks of weeks-old road kill.
According to a medieval saga, the Norwegian “Well Man” might have been used as a biological weapon.
Get a better sense of how illnesses have shaped history with these gripping reads about history’s most notorious diseases.
Those evocative scrolls you see on hearses actually have a name—and going back in the 1800s, they actually served an important purpose.