WEIRD

On January 15, 1919, Boston suffered one of history’s strangest disasters when the “Great Molasses Flood” tore through the city's North End and deposited so much gooey residue that locals claimed they could still smell the molasses on warm days decades la

Each year, the TSA screens approximately 700 million travelers. There are bound to be some surprises.

It's been called "one of the grisliest events in papal history"—for good reason.

Radiation in everyday objects was once surprisingly common.

Sometimes the treatment is worse than the condition itself.

The Haunted Mansion is the most common final resting place, according to employees.

The Colon Cancer Coalition needs to raise $4000 to replace it.

"The eight corpses swung in their chains, a fetid, blackened, hideous, and indistinguishable mass."

The graceful game was responsible for enough royal deaths to make an executioner jealous.

He was paid 20 cents a day and half a bottle of beer weekly.

As if cemeteries weren't spooky enough.

A shocking number of sloths die while trying to poop—but not for the reason you might think.