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Superman's first appearance sells for $6 million, making it the most valuable comic ever.

Is your middle name Marie? You could've been born in 1900 or 2015.

In the 2000s, the internet took over, as did social media, streaming, and cell phones that were also cameras and tiny computers. The slang of this era didn’t disappoint, either: From amazeballs to mukbang and beyond, here are some terms you might not have

Grab your tinfoil hats. It’s time to get paranoid about mind control, CIA agents in the media, and other conspiracy theories with small grains of truth behind them.

The origins are often more complicated (and fun) than you’d expect.

Take a look back at the surprising origins of “Carrie,” Stephen King’s first book—and more importantly, discover how his wife Tabitha King played a pivotal role in its creation.

People have spread incorrect information long before the invention of the internet.

These old commercials from the 1980s and '90s will have you "Sweatin' to the Oldies" with Richard Simmons and hanging out with Doublemint Twins.

Deep in London’s historic Brompton Cemetery sits a mausoleum that houses a Victorian heiress, her daughters, and a time-travel story that keeps growing.

Here’s how to be prepared for what to do before, during, and after an earthquake.

The decade of shoulder pads, leg warmers, and piano-keyboard neckties brought with it some ridiculously awesome band names.

If you were a woman in the 19th century, virtually anything could get you committed to a psychiatric hospital—including drinking too much tea.

When you spritz some Febreze into the air, it actually uses compounds called cyclodextrins to trap those odor-causing molecules.

The generation born between 1965 and 1980 loves nostalgia, has a ton of student debt, and hates cooking.

You don't have to be a retro video game fan to find this classic PlayStation restoration oddly satisfying.

We trace the history of popular dog breeds like golden retrievers, German shepherds, French bulldogs, and more.

People are still torn over the belief that the ninth president died of pneumonia after not wearing a coat to his inauguration.

Explorers who vanished off the face of the earth. Conquerors, composers, and scientists who expired from strange illnesses. People tantalizingly close to power who wound up dead. When it comes to these deaths, we might never know what really happened.

For his next and possibly last solar eclipse, Texas resident Laverne Biser won't have to travel farther than his backyard.

'Bridge to Terabithia,' Katherine Paterson’s celebrated 1977 children's book about friendship and loss was, incredibly, based on a true story.