Throughout history, strange medical practices that we might consider gross or inhumane today have been used to cure the ...

Across the ages, fashion has taken wildly unexpected turns. Some trends dazzled, others verged on painful — and a few were so ...

Kellogg’s Corn Flakes might seem like the simplest breakfast choice, yet their origin story is anything but ordinary. The cereal came from a doctor whose ideas about health shaped an entire food ...

Do you know the name Margaret Abbott? Do you know she's the first woman to win an individual gold medal in the Olympics, and the first-ever woman to a gold medal in golf? It happened in 1900, in Paris ...

Before it was set in November, the Thanksgiving holiday bounced across calendars for years, and was almost entirely forgotten ...

Every year, Americans in snowy states wait with bated breath to see whether Punxsutawney Phil will spot his shadow. And every year, we take Phil’s weather forecast – six more weeks of winter, or an ...