HISTORY

On this week's List Show episode, Mike looks back on some of history's not-so-bright ideas. (Remember the flying Ford Pinto?)

“I’m paid less than Robin!”

In 1896, two locomotives traveling more than 50 miles per hour smashed into each other. On purpose.

Photographer Seph Lawless visited New Orleans to document the city, and its people, a full decade after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina.

This eruption—one of the most powerful and devastating eruptions in modern history—had effects worldwide.

Guinness World Records has been taking note of superlative records for 60 years now.

Earth's possible "first flower" doesn't have roots or petals, but it might be able to tell us a myriad of things about our own evolution and the future of pollination.

This historian thinks she can solve one of Britain's most infamous murder cases.

Work driving you crazy? Try telling that to workers at Standard Oil Refinery's TEL facility.

Today the lost and found department of the United States Postal Service is called the Mail Recovery Center, which isn’t a very evocative name. But it used to be called the Dead Letter Office, and at the turn of the last century, a widow named Patti Lyle C

When an author dies with their work unfinished, do we let it molder in vaults, stash it away in archives, or publish it for all the world to see—even if that’s not what the writer wanted?

But they're not revealing its location until the Polish government agrees to hand over a finder's fee.