Edgar Wallace wanted to promote his first novel with more than just traditional ads—but his brilliant idea almost became his downfall.

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If you were a Nickelodeon kid growing up in the 1990s, your gateway to horror was Are You Afraid of the Dark? The anthology show, which featured spooky tales told in classic campfire style by the ...

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On Monday, May 31, in Schenectady, New York, a cat named Bae was finally rescued after spending a week or longer stuck in a park tree. According to Newsweek, part of the reason it took so long to ...

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In 1991, the World Wide Web became open to the public and ushered in a new era of Internet use. In its earlier iterations, the Internet was text-based and boringly simple. It certainly did not feature ...

Exercising on a treadmill often feels like torture, and that’s not exactly a coincidence. In 1818, an English civil engineer named Sir William Cubitt devised a machine called the “tread-wheel” to ...

From tragic factory fires to toxic food scandals, some safety laws we may take for granted today actually have some pretty ...

Regardless of how you feel about the potential for alien life somewhere out there in the universe, UFO sightings are often ...