HISTORY

A record-setting launch of 1.5 million helium balloons was fun until it wasn’t.

People have been observing faces and figures on the moon for hundreds (if not thousands) of years. There’s a perfectly scientific explanation as to why.

For years, couples have dedicated that finger to romance when any other digit would do.

Today, Amber Valley looks like any number of small, rural communities, but a couple dilapidated log cabins hint at what was once the northernmost all-Black settlement in the world.

In 1866, Kennicott was found dead near the Yukon River. It would be 150 years before anyone knew why.

From a U.S. map with only 38 states to a probable hoax, these maps definitely had geographers buzzing.

Where did this curious expression come from, and what’s so right about rain, anyway?

Tuberculosis may seem like a historic malady, but it’s still the world’s deadliest infectious disease. Here’s what you need to know about its past and current outbreaks.

No aviation schools in America would teach Bessie Coleman how to fly in the 1920s. So, she sailed to France and became the first African American and the first Native American woman to earn a pilot's license.

For an island of only 24 square miles, Manhattan sure has a lot of neighborhoods. Many have distinct monikers that might not seem intuitive to the lay-tourist, or even to a lifelong New Yorker.

Chaco Canyon was once the vibrant religious center of a Native American culture whose collapse long remained a mystery—until pack rat middens revealed an important clue. 

Live from New York … are some surprising facts about ‘Saturday Night Live,’ which made its debut on October 11, 1975.