If you think planking, condom snorting, the cinnam...  ...bout the stupidity of modern man, then you need a history lesson. Amongst some of the stupidest trends in history are purposefully making teeth look terrible, arse...

History and current events can sometimes be more exciting...

The British TV channel Yesterday commissioned digital artists to alter classic portraits of historical figures and set them in the modern world. Some you wouldn't recognize in their new clothing! See Shakespeare at his m...

[http://youtu.be/OPHRIjI3hXs] (YouTube link)C.G.P. Grey explains Vatican City in just a few minutes -which is a quick overview, because the smallest country in the world is apparently the most complicated. Or at least ve...

Manhattan jeweler William Barthman and employee Fr...  ...orner of Broadway And Maiden Lane. Read about the history

Mentions of toilet paper don't appear in historical archives until the 16th century. However, cleaning one's posterior is a custom that goes back …no one knows how far. And there is documentation of the different...

Cracked has another list of interesting historical figures who did some bizarre things that led to the world as we know it. For example, we assume that the food we eat doesn't have a lot of dangerous additives, but it wa...

Most languages cannot be translated word-by-word because context, shading, and usage vary, and even those change over time. This can give us a laugh when using mechanical translations such as Babelfish, but are oh-so-imp...

"Laconic" means "in few words." Here's how Martin...  ...y running all the various countries’ “ History of ” Wikipedia article through a word clo...  ...ndary. The result is thousands of years of human history oversimplified into 100-some words.Whether this s...  ...about each country or the...

Detail of Judith. Christifano Allori, 1613You migh...  ...and one of the more riveting stories in religious history was born.The account of Judith and Holofernes is...