WEIRD

Discover how King Henry VIII and other members of the Tudor nobility handled going to the bathroom in the mid-1500s. (Spoiler: There was velvet involved, but it still wasn’t pretty.)

Almost anything can be put up for auction. Bidding on collectibles is one thing, but these five auctions offered items you won’t find on eBay.

From a bag of human hands to LEGO bricks and rubber duckies, some very weird things have washed up on the world's beaches.

Satisfy your cookie dough and spice cravings at the same time.

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

In the world of politics, nobody is safe from a well-executed smear campaign.

For thousands of years, physiognomy—pseudoscience that purports to divine a person’s character from their physical appearance—was accepted as valid fact. Can you guess which characteristics were linked to which physical feature?

Cut through the half-truths and urban legends to find out more about Friday the 13th, allegedly the unluckiest day on the calendar.

You don’t want to run into these creatures in the woods after dark—or ever.

Get a better sense of how illnesses have shaped history with these gripping reads about history’s most notorious diseases.

The beaches of Newfoundland are a little less pleasant since white blobs have appeared everywhere.

The move, which is intended to speed up drop-offs, has been criticized as ‘tyranny.’