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?

Imagine your hand having a mind of its own, doing whatever it wants whenever it wants. This is real life for some people suffering from Alien Hand Syndrome… and it’s not fun.

Have you ever wondered if robots scream at night? No? We did. Today's question leads us down a rabbit hole on screaming, sleep, robots and pain, and what that strange sound is that some devices make.

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?

Plenty of philosophers have long thought the idea of what reality is. How can we be so sure what we experience everyday is the true version of reality? What about dreams? Dreams have been studied for thousands of years and we still are not too sure what their purpose is.

Sometimes the smallest organisms can make the biggest changes, in this case, can mushrooms make it rain? What about rain? How does rain even... happen? Just how instrumental are mushrooms to rain all over the world?

In 1984 McDonalds would run a marketing promotion they expected to increase traffic, give out free food, and promote the Olympics. But a series of world events stemming from 1979 ended up costing McDonalds millions.

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?

In 1859 a pig wandered into Lyman Cutler's farm and began eating his potatoes. Lyman pull out his rifle and killed the pig, triggering an international incident involving the United States and Britain. One that almost caused a war on the small island of San Juan in the Strait of Georgia.

In 1671, England had endured two civil wars, and Thomas Blood was not entirely happy with the outcome. Not because he cared who won but because a new law took away his land. As revenge, he decided to steal the Crown Jewels and he sort of got away with it.

In February 2003 $100 million in diamonds, jewels, gold, silver, and cash disappeared from the state of the art vault in the Antwerp Diamond Centre in Belgium. It was considered the heist of the century and within days a panic attack, a receipt, and a salami sandwich brought most of the men to justice.

There are a few things every pirate should be, good with his sword, a good tactician, not a betrayer of their captains etc. Calico Jack wasn't any of these. We pick up with Calico Jack after last Friday's article where he betrayed Charles Vane and led a vote to rid him of the ship.

In the 16th century there was a dancing horse that did some pretty awesome tricks. But when Morocco the dancing horse passed by Paris someone yelled "witch" and gathered the wood to get ready the burning stakes... maybe it didn't happen exactly like.

On September 23rd, 2009, a group of criminals broke into one of the G4S Cash Service buildings in Sweden. Within minutes police responded but they also realized they weren't just dealing with any petty criminals, for one they didn't break in through the front, side, or back door... they went in through the roof.

Last week we told you about the skills Charles Vane had and how he used them to evade capture, this week we tell you about how he got lucky a few times and then... when his luck ran out.