Jackie Robinson is best known for breaking Major League Baseball’s color barrier. Less well known, but just as pivotal, is his 1944 court-martial after refusing to move to the back of a military bus.

The Lord of the Rings actor told producers that Aragorn is not in The Hobbit.

A chipotle pepper is a jalapeño that's been left on the vine to ripen, and is then smoked and dried. There are two types of Chipotle - Morita and Meco.

It turns out one state in the union has seven of the ten drunkest cities.

McDonald's, the world's biggest fast-food chain, says it is to stop serving Heinz ketchup in its stores after 40 years.

This is a moment for the history books.

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Elvis Presley's signed high school library check-out card is coming to auction next week at Heritage Auctions' August 14 Elvis memorabilia sale.

The hamburger giant has started phasing out its trademark Supersize fries and drinks in its U.S. restaurants as part of an effort to simplify its menu and give customers choices that support “a balanced lifestyle,” a company spokesman said Tuesday.

Qin Shi Huang (Chinese: 秦始皇; lit. 'First Emperor of Qin', pronunciation (help·info); 259–210 BCE), or Shihuangdi, was the founder of the Qin dynasty, and first emperor of a unified China. Rather than maintain the title of "king" (王 wáng) borne by the previous…

The Black Stuntmen's Association is an organization that was formed in 1967 by CEO and Cofounder Eddie Smith as a result of policies that kept black stuntmen and stuntwomen from getting studio work. Members of the association include CoFounder Eddie Smith…

The average banana produces a particle of antimatter roughly once every 75 minutes.

The Society Pages (TSP) is an open-access social science project headquartered in the Department of Sociology at the University of Minnesota

Low frequency sounds are better transmitted through bone than high frequency sounds. This is why people tend to feel the low bass notes in music more than the higher pitched notes. This is also why your own voice sounds different to you than it does to other…

On a June day in 1763, the commandant of Fort Michilimackinac was invited to watch a game of baggatiway between the Ojibwe and Sauk. Leave it to a Brit to assume it simply would be a polite afternoon on the lawn.

A climbing boy, also known as a chimney sweep, was an occupation some children performed during the 1700 and 1800s. Climbing boys were frequently orphans

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Cold War: Soviet quit the effort, but CIA agent persisted. And a remarkable, nearly fatal, friendship developed.

Confirming a common belief, researchers find that people really do walk in circles when lost

"Blame Canada" is a satirical song from the 1999 animated film South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, written by Trey Parker & Marc Shaiman. In the song, the parents of the fictional South Park, led by Sheila Broflovski (Mary Kay Bergman), decided to blame Canada…