The Opium Museum is, at the heart, about the t...  ...outlawed. Still, there are pages and pages of the history of opium and its use in countries all over the wo...

Mental_floss is celebrating the 50th anniversary of The Twilight Zone in their own way, by bringing trivia about the show. For example, great acting wasn't exactly a priority during filming of the episodes. Interestin...

In some cases, no one will get behind a wacky...  ...http://www.animationarchive.org/2009/10/animation- history -of-chipmunks.html -via Boing Boing

NASA introduced the idea of female astronauts much earlier than you might realize. After all, the Soviets had launched a female cosmonaut!In the late 1950s, the United States government contemplated training women as ast...

Screenwriter John Cox posted a guest blog at Frankensteinia about his search for the site of the only location shot in the 1931 movie Frankenstein. Where did Universal shoot the famous Maria meets the Monster scene in t...

Max Hirschberg missed the last dogsled out of Dawson, Yukon because he was recovering from tetanus. So he rode a bicycle for two months to get to Nome, Alaska in order to join the Klondike gold rush in 1900. Hirschberg w...

Many religious cults are based on apocalypticism, the belief that the world is going to end. Check out ten such beliefs, their founders, and followers. One such cult is the Panacea Society. In 1792, part-time fortune...

This list, researched by a cheese fan, encompasses...  ...a cheese fan, encompasses a great portion of the history of cheese as well as the different varieties and...

Among the scientists, inventors, engineers, and leaders who left their mark on the world are some who were mentally ill or even downright insane. The ten men in the list showed signs of paranoia, obsessive-compulsive dis...

You think big hair was big in the 1980s? In the 18th century, ladies of a certain station took hairstyling to absurd lengths -or heights, actually. Social critics and caricaturists of the day had fun with the trend, as...