We all know the Pythagorean theorem created by philosopher Pythagoras; A squared plus B squared equals C squared. But also maybe he didn’t create it and what if, in reality, he led a cult into a war…

Probability can be a mind-blowing thing. Gather 23 people in a room and chances are two of them will share a birthday. Gather 60 and it's almost a guarantee. But with 365 days in a year, how does that work?

Ponce De Leon never searched for the Fountain of Youth but the search for it extends thousands of years and even multiple countries. What is the true history of the Fountain of Youth?

On April 18th, 1955 Albert Einstein passed away and the world lost a genius and then we lost his brain... Well, it was stolen by pathologist Thomas Harvey… here’s the story

The famous Shakespearean tragedy "Macbeth" is said to be cursed but why? Turns out its origins is full of a lot more witches than I realized... and demons, fairies, and magic too.

In 1938 Orson Welles performed an adaptation of H.G. Wells' 'The War of the Worlds'. Newspapers then reported mass panic, riots, and even deaths, but did that really happen?

In 1897 a bill was introduced in the Indiana House of Representatives that would have changed Pi and Math as we know it, all because one man didn’t like it… It passed.

In 1957 a man ran a 6-week long experiment to see if he could control us. The results caused outrage in congress and a little bit of mass hysteria. What was the experiment? Did it work? What happened next?

Why is it that a picture of yourself can look so different than what you see in the mirror? What happens in your phone or camera that forces a sort of uncanny valley effect on yourself?

One of the oldest thought experiments to exist is the Ship of Theseus, it questions whether an item stays the same even if every part is changed... sounds boring to some, but what if we weren't talking about a ship? What if we were talking about you? At what point are you no longer you?

Fashion faux pas like wearing white after labor day are taken pretty seriously by some people, well in New York City in 1922 a different fashion faux pas and tradition were taken so seriously it caused riots for three days.