On Sept. 1, 1878, Emma Nutt of Boston became the first female telephone operator. Until then, most telephone operators were teenage boys, whom customers weren't overly happy with…

The eyes on Michelangelo's statue of David look in different directions. Why is debatable, but some scholars believe the artist wanted to ensure the shepherd's gaze…

No one’s entirely sure where poutine originated. The traditional story is that poutine originated in the 1950s in Warwick, Quebec, at a restaurant called Le Lutin qui rit.

TELEVISION: Ron Swanson is a character on which sitcom?

In Wirral, England, residents are unsettled by someone in a black cat costume who’s been prowling around secluded beach areas, the BBC reported on July 3.

Liposuction, a surgical technique that removes fat deposits from the body, was the most popular plastic surgery procedure last year.

On Aug. 25, 1921, Franklin D. Roosevelt was diagnosed with polio -- also known as infantile paralysis because it usually strikes much younger people -- at the age of 39.

Beef and liver paste, squeezed from a tube, was the first meal eaten in space, consumed by Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin, who chose it because it was space-friendly.

Jason Singer of Portland, Maine, became a “Jeopardy!” champion on July 1, ABC News reported. Four years earlier, Singer’s wife, Susan McMillan, won the title on the show.

On Aug. 9, 1995, legendary Grateful Dead guitarist Jerry Garcia died of a heart attack in a California residential drug-treatment facility at age 53.

Superman flies into the top spot while Jurassic World: Rebirth stomps its way to number two.

The sun emits sound through pressure waves, but their wavelength makes it impossible to be heard by humans.

On June 19 in Silver Creek, Minnesota, a car that was “swerving and weaving” hit a curb and careened into a scissor lift, which workers were using to fix a light.

3. The most expensive pizza in the world is called the Louis XIII Pizza. It takes 72 hours to prepare. How much does a single one cost?

On July 30, 2004, the cult-classic "Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle," starring John Cho and Kal Penn as two burger-craving stoners, debuted.

Jurassic World: Rebirth stomps into the number one spot, kicking F1: The Movie down to number two.

A UC Berkeley study found that people who drove luxury cars, in particular BMWs and Mercedes, were much more likely to cut off other drivers…

The first staplers were invented in the 18th century for King Louis XV of France, though the word "stapler" wasn't commonly used until 1901.

Well, it’s that time of year again, when people with less sense than animals head into the wild and carelessly approach large, dangerous wildlife.

On July 26, 1972, singer Johnny Cash met with President Richard Nixon to lobby for prison reform. Cash was never an inmate himself, though he did spend a few nights in jail…