With the holidays coming up, you might be wondering where the term “white elephant gift” came from. There’s a common origin involving a king who gave out white elephants as gifts but it turns out, it might not be true at all.

Christmas wasn’t always the peaceful and tame holiday it is today. In the 17th century, it was pretty wild and some of the colonists in America weren’t too fond of it, going as far as making it illegal.

Every holiday has its own set of traditions yet we sometimes don’t know why or how we started doing them. So let’s look at the origin of 5 Christmas traditions to find out why.

On the morning of Tuesday May 27th, 1980 in Medford, Massachusetts, bank employees opened the vault to find it completely empty. Unbeknownst to them over the Memorial Day weekend six men had found a way in and taken the bank for everything it had.

Did you know Anna Jarvis, the woman who pushed to create Mother’s Day ended up hating it in the end?

Like many other points in history, the events of Cinco de Mayo created ripples across the world that changed the trajectory of not just Mexico but the U.S and the world beyond.