TLC is an American cable television channel owned by Warner Bros. Discovery. First established in 1980 as The Learning Channel, it initially focused on educational and instructional programming. By the late 1990s, after an acquisition by the owners of Discovery…

The Art of Jo Brown, Illustrations and artwork by Jo Brown.

Disability: Most blind people can't read the lettering on the memorial because it is too big and too far off the ground. Designers are called insensitive.

Moroccan serial killer

Before the TV network that defined the childhood of every 90s kid, “nickelodeon” was a word for a motion-picture theater or a jukebox. “Nickelodeon” is composed of the eleme…

when US President vomited into Japanese Prime Minister's lap

The Sleeping Beauty is perhaps the Ugly Duckling of Tchaikovsky’s three ballets. It was the second in the trilogy, completed in 1889, but has neither the dramatic thrust of Swan Lake nor the calorific sugar-coated charm of The Nutcracker in terms of popular…

Rudolf Wolf was a Swiss astronomer and mathematician best known for his research on sunspots.

Vincent Edward "Bo" Jackson (born November 30, 1962) is an American former professional baseball and American football player. He is the only professional athlete in history to be named an All-Star in both baseball and football. Jackson's elite achievements…

You and a friend have ordered drinks at the bar, except yours came with lime and theirs has lemon. Despite the similarities of the citrus, your limes are sinking to the bottom while the lemons are floating. Why?

familicide

2009 song series by Dave Carroll

A banker named Pat Munroe in the small town of Quincy, Florida noticed that even during the depths of the Great Depression, otherwise impoverished people would spend their last nickel to buy a glass of Coca-Cola.

Read about the grisly mass murder inside the architect’s Wisconsin house and studio that took the lives of his mistress and six others.

The sinking of Rainbow Warrior, codenamed Opération Satanique, was a bombing operation by the "action" branch of the French foreign intelligence services, the Direction générale de la sécurité extérieure (DGSE), carried out on 10 July 1985. During the operation…

Margaret Thatcher would have lost the Falklands war in 1982 if America had failed to provide crucial missiles to bolster British air defences, according to an adviser to the former prime minister.

A family from sun-baked South Africa has won an 11-year fight to live permanently in rainy Prince Rupert, B.C.

Feeling a dull or burning pain in your stomach? It could be a peptic ulcer — a common, treatable digestive condition. Find out more.