Human Interest

Despite being just one country, anyone who lives in the United States knows that no two states are alike. Here are 25 maps that show some of these regional differences.

You never knew these facts even if you eat ramen every single day....

An F-15C crashed earlier this morning in the mountains of western Virginia, and hours later, the pilot seems to have vanished without a trace. Part of the reason offered has been because it's so hard to communicate in that part of the country.

When Marconi first popularized the radio, no one expected it to go far – literally. Radio waves ought to be stopped in their tracks by the curve of the Earth. Marconi proved they weren't, but no one knew why.

Unbelievable. Both how this could happen and how it ended up. (Her Dad Found A Box In The Snow. Nothing Could Prepare Them For What Was In It.

From Coca-Cola's secret syrup to NASCAR's nefarious beginnings, many companies have a past they don't want to talk about.

Anomalocarids are one of the oldest families of animals on Earth, and they looked like nightmarish sea scorpions.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - U.S. customs inspectors at Los Angeles International Airport seized a shipment of several dozen live giant African snails, considered a delicacy in Nigeria but also voracious pests that can eat paint and stucco off houses,...

This Fourth of July put on a tri-cornered hat, pull up your colonial long socks, hum a few bars of “Yankee Doodle Dandy†and eat a hot dog as you read these amazing stories about our Founding Fathers!

Some grossed out fast-food workers filled us in, and now we'll never get these again. So that's what they do with the left-over hot dogs . . . (Just when I thought eating fast food couldn't get any scarier.

During the Middle Ages, torture was considered a legitimate way to extract confessions, punish offenders, and perform executions. Some methods were considerably crueler than others — these 10 being among the most barbaric and brutal.

Over fifty years ago, a group of pranksters founded a satiric religion devoted to creating conspiracy theories so insane that nobody would ever believe uncritically in conspiracies again. They called themselves the Discordians.

This single (and quite colorfully blossoming) tree grows 40 different varieties of peaches, plums, apricots, nectarines, cherries, and even almonds — but just how does it do it?
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From sleeping to eating barbecue, take a look at some of the weirdest occupations people are getting paid to do.

The annual "Wattoluempiade," or Mud Olympics, were held on Sunday in the northern German city of Brunsbuettel.