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No matter where private or government space travel may take us in the future, Neil Armstrong will forever have a place as the first human to ever set foot on solid ground outside of our atmosphere.

She discovered her knack for activism in the fourth grade.

It remains one of the biggest mysteries in Arctic exploration.

With their intricate jaws and ghostly complexions, these fish look like prehistoric monsters—or visitors from another planet.

One of them was a player in Australia’s greatest unsolved murder mystery.

They were beloved by both Charles Darwin and Nikola Tesla.

You can thank two Californian cardiologists from the 1950s.

He sat on his heliocentric theory of the universe for 30-some years, and only published his ideas on his deathbed.

Let’s explore why we wear—or once wore—socks up to our knees, cloth around our neck, and pants down to the floor.

Michael Jackson sits with orphaned and abandoned Ivory Coast children he invited to the Intercontinental Hotel in Abidjan on February 16, 1992.

In 1992, the King of Pop became Michael Jackson Amalaman Anoh, Chief of the Agni and King of the Sanwi.

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

The Roman dodecahedron Brian Campbell found in East London

They've been discovered at Roman-era sites, but no one knows what they're for.

Tongue twisters have had people tripping over words for centuries.

Whether it's selling seashells by the seashore or buying Betty Botter's bitter butter, some of these difficult phrases go way back to when elocution was practiced as routinely as multiplication tables.

No one has vivandière or groom of the stool on their resume these days.

Narayan Khandekar, director of the Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies

The rainbow of jars at the Straus Center can tell us a lot about how art comes into being—and how to save it.

Washington Crossing the Delaware, Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze // Public Domain; Photo illustration by Lucy Quintanilla

Poets and writers are always playing around with words and their meanings—but some take that linguistic jiggery-pokery to the next level.

Leonardo was a polymath, and the very definition of a Renaissance man. He also had beef with Michelangelo.

Laura de Force Gordon (center) and Susan B. Anthony being escorted to the stage.

When she didn't like how men covered her campaign for Senate, she started her own paper.

Wellcome Collection // CC BY 4.0 (cropped)

He was practicing plastic surgery thousands of years before European surgeons were even washing their hands.

Joan of Arc as painted by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

Claude des Armoises earned cash and gifts while fooling the King of France himself—until it all came crashing down.

There are quite a few letters we tossed aside as our language grew, and you probably never even knew they existed.

Some so-called bacon bits are 100-percent vegan. Here's what really goes into the shelf-stable convenience food item.

Some predictions CNN shared about the internet in 1993 turned out to be fairly accurate (and others less so).

Ajwad Creative (speech bubble), AndreyPopov (marker) // iStock via Getty Images Plus

From memorable misprints to fake words to eggcorns to phrases you might be mispronouncing, here are 13 English language mistakes you should know.

11 Things You Might Not Know About Neil Armstrong

11 Facts About Golda Meir

19 Facts About the Franklin Expedition, the Real-Life Inspiration for The Terror

12 Facts About Goblin Sharks

11 Facts About Tiger Sharks

15 Incredible Facts About Pigeons

Why Do We Call Some People 'Type A'?

15 Facts About Nicolaus Copernicus

The Surprising Origins of 12 Popular Fashions

When King of Pop Michael Jackson Was Officially Crowned King of a Small African Nation

The Gruesome Medieval Masquerade That Inspired Edgar Allan Poe

The Mysterious Bronze Objects That Have Baffled Archaeologists for Centuries

The History Behind 8 Famous Tongue Twisters

24 Jobs That No Longer Exist

To Dye For: Inside the Vast Library That Stores the World’s Rarest Pigments

5 Poems With Amazing Wordplay

12 Masterful Facts About Leonardo Da Vinci

Laura de Force Gordon, Pioneering Newspaper Publisher, Lawyer, and Suffragist

Sushruta, Ancient Indian Surgeon and Father of the Nose Job

The Medieval Woman Who Made a Living Pretending to be Joan of Arc

10 Letters That Didn't Make the Alphabet

What Are Bacon Bits Made Of?

See How CNN Reported on the Internet in 1993

13 Fascinating and Funny English Language Mistakes